The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-04-19
The Irish Exodus.

the statements Of the English journals respect the
rapidly increasing emigration OF the Irish people These
were always accompanied by reflections TO
the and probable consequences Of the wonderful
social phenomenon which they reveal. The philosophy
Of English journalism displayed its ingenuity ia imagn
ing fictitious agencies and content TO rest the great
fact OF the Irish exodus secondary superficial and in
part accidental causes The visitatons of famine and
OF peslence-he of religious and political dis
pules-the hopeless ignorance Incidence, and supers
ton OF the Irish people-were adduced in explanation OF
that wide spread and precipitate emigration which
threatens leave Ireland deserted by the Cet and in the
undsputed possession OF the Saxon. Physical suffering and
social degradaton--the assigned by the English
politician for the gradual depopulaton of Ireand-are
always attributed the radical defects Of Irish character
and the evil influences Of the Irish religion.
The force OF this reasoning and the suficency Of
these may be ascertaned by satisfactory test If
poverty ard social radaton be The which i'm
pei the Irish from their country. then will the alienation
OF the evils OF their condition and the prospect of better
times arrest the tide of emigration And this is precisely
the result ors,od by the English press. Is only
sary said they that the jus, relations Of capital and labor
should be restoedthat emigration should far reduce
the redundant population OF Ireland adjust the sup
should be enabled to procure competency at home. and
then he woald TO desert his native land Now the
two millions OF vigorous and industrious and women
who have deserted Ireland within the last decade with
drew amount OF labor whose loss sensiby felt
In Great Britain the apprehension is not OF super.
abundance but Of deficiency of labor, and the working
class of the Irish people have sufficient guarantee of
competent support Still the tide of does ebb
The improved and comparatively prosperous condition of
the Irish people does manifest itself in disposition to
cling their native soil On the contrary they are rush.
ing TO the seashore and crowdng the emgran ship with
unparalleled activity And they who exhibit, such eager
anxiety to abandon their country not those exclu-
sivey upon whom the evils Of poverty would fall. and
whom desperate fortune might drive 10 the sad ex-
pedent of exile. Irish emigration is the consequence Of
some deeper, more permanent, and more pervacing
than any assigned by British wters-a cause in
dependent of social suffering, and confined TO no
class The direction of Irish emigration indicates the
impulse in which IL originates. Its course is not
towards Canada, or Australia. any part OF the
British empire, but htherward-lo the shores of
this free republic The in,oerable evils OF misgovern
men adherence OF British authority, and deesaiion of
the British race. the which give impulse and
from poverty. bu, poverty produced by the ex,or-
lions OF tyranny de may dread the recurrence OF fam
ine but is because his energies chilled and para
lyzed by oppression unit he shrnks from courageous
srapple with difficulty and misfortune The calauities
which he endures not the Consequence OF his own
character for under better auspices he deveopes heroic
qualities, and achieves the most splendid success He
labors under disability OF nalurehis degradation is
the work OF mans I'M istice burning OF wrong
and despair of redress drive the rshman from his ma.
tive land He tolerate the presence Of the oppes
sor he longs TO shake of The heavy hand OF power.
I, would be strange re,ribuion indeed, if Ireland
were avenge her wrongs England BY means Of the
emigration OF her children Yet il is not impossible
retrbution. Already is the loss OF labor beginning be
tel, AMI depored in the branches Of British indus
try 1t by her hitherto exbausless supply of pauper
labor that England has been enibled to maintain her
mercia and her political ascendency butihs supply is
longer nexhaustbe Her very existence depended on
her ability TO uaders,N all other competitors. and for
that advantage she indebted to her abundant supply
OF cheap labor The abjec, subsection OF labor to CAPT
tai il the basis OF British power The emigration of
portion OF the Irish people lberaes those who remain from
their bondage and labor to throw of the
watch degrades and impovershes it, In Great Britain Ia
Dor strikes for higher wages II knows It's posos and
feels its power The capitalists alarmed and their cal
citations OF profit disturbed by visions Of deficient,
supply of labor Much is said in Eogand OF the abol-
ton OF American slavery, but we hear nothing Of The
emancipation of British saverylhe slavery OF labor to
capital And why Because England knows lhs, the
day watch witnesses the emancipation of her laboring
population the spell of her rover brokenthe basis
of her greatness overhrown. Bat this is all. No,
only !. the emigration OF the Irish Engands loss, but il
IL Americas gain. The energy and industry which she
lo.es-the hearts and strong Of Irelsnd-are
ira nsferred her great rival, build up its power and
contribute it's pr ospery This dosble process OF sub
traction and adjion will tell upon the relative for
tunes of England and America The Irish .mgrant comes
here with his little gold and his willing labor. He scarcely
sets his foot American coil before he begins TO aid
IN developing the OF the country In the fac
tory or in the field, digging The canal building the rail-
way, he is busv engaged in rearing the fabric Of Amer
can power II the energy OF genius anj ambition npels
MIN into political life, he brings to the councils OF the
country heart burning With hatred OF England, and
mind fertile in sxpedeo,s by which to ba its nirgaes