Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-27
Spirit Of the Morning Press.


The Republic Of this date gives us an
article headed g Ireland the Cuba of Eng
land"
The Republic asks:
elias it occurred to England that she
has Cuba of her own!
"Ireland has been now the property Of
England since it's final subjugation by
Cromwell. 1t was subdued by the sword.
It has been held by the tenure of superior
physical power. Its manufactures and
agriculture were Systematically discour-
aged. 1t was governed by English vice
roys. Its offices of trust were filled with
English placemen. Its representation
was a mere tolerance of the right of petit
ton. Its laws were municipal regulations
permitted by the Parliament of England.
The act of union was but an exacerbation
of those fatter-sores which CALLING bond
age had produced. That act superadded
domestic dissension to the hatred of for
eign rule.
Ireland had been made by-word
amongst nation for the hopeless bondage
of her condition. She was now their
scoff because of her unhappy intirmaties,
rthe offspring of ardent and generous ma
rture.
"Her daughter and sons began to dread
the contamination of their nativity: ther
disguised their pronunciations in the patios
of the continent, or concealed it by the
sedulous culture of English slang the
wasteful expenditure of money wrung
from an unhappy tenantry, was the only
passport to the society of their superiors,
and they could only atone for the crime
of having been born an Irishman by the
absolute remuneration of all his virtues.
"If to this picture Of political and
social degradation we add system of
taxation regulated by the endurance of
the subjects, and only relaxed when ex-
haution threatened release from torture,
we will have completed our description
of her British Cuba"
The Republic gives the Alexandria dge
a dig under the fifth rib. Hit him back,
Mr.. Age,
The Inteligeneer comes to us in eight
pages freighted with news from all parts
eof the world, and we'll filled with selec-
lions fromits exchanges. Italso contains
the speeches of Senator'S Borland, of Ar
kansas. and Cooper, of Pennsylvania.
The Union Of yesterday in an article
about I" Tennessee Politics. says:
g Tennessee is one of the few States in
which whigism has strength enough to
stand up and make fight. What there
is of whigism left to fight for it is no very
easy matter to discover. We have taken
some pains to investigate this abstrusc
question by looking carefully through
several ponderous articles in the Nashville
Banner, in which the points made by the
wing candidate for governor. Mr.. Henry,
are elongated and dilated with an almost
interminable diffuseness. By the way,
the editor of the Nashville Banner figured
in this city brief time as an office-hold-
er under General Taylor, and as the edi-
tor of the Republic when it's original edi-
tors refused to sustain General Taylor's
opposition to the compromise measures.
he is now the organ grinder, singing a
funeral dirge over the remains of Tennes-
See whigism. and is most rampant foe
to all men who ever were foes to the COM
promise measures It strikes us with
some force that whigism must be on it's
last legs, even in Tennessee, when it's
preservation is intrusted to the organ
grinder for the Galphin administration.
But the wings of Tennessee have right
to choose their own organ, and we only
allude to his former position by way of
showing how fit representative he is of
what remains of whigism. ;"
The Clipper gives us an article about
Gavazzi and the freedom of speech from
the New York Tribune. The Clipper also
records the following outrageous case.
which occurred at Fort McHenry:
1--WE mentioned few days since case
of oppression in the punishment inflicted
upon one of the soldiers at Fort McHenry,
named Peter Corderig, who had for a
trivial offence been sentenced to walk six
hours day, in this exhausting weather,
with q load of cannon balls in bag upon
his back. On the the third day of this
cruel punishment, the man broke down,
and had to be sent to the Hospital, where