Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-04-18
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INDEPENDENCE OF IRELAND.

INDEPENDENCE OF IRELAND.
We hold it to be one of the future events
of history that Ireland will be independent
of Great Britain. There are influences at
work to secure this great aud good result,
which it is impossible for England to gain
say or resist.
1t is said that Ireland is not ready for
independence. The same was said OF our
own country, when it was composed of
colonial dependencies on the British crown.
Give Ireland her common schools, the thor
ough education of her people, free press
and public opinion of her own, and her
independence is as sure and as glorious as
the rising and setting of the SUM-
We are we'll aware that there is much
ignorance prevailing at this moment among
q large portion of the inhabitants of Ireland.
But the latent causes which produce and
continue this ignorance can and will be re-
moved. The same influences which in
duced the people of this country to EDUCATE
themselves in order that they might be free,
will eventually influence in like manner the
struggling masses of the Irish nation.
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow"
When the hour arrives in which Irishmen,
as people, shall be well educated, and
have burst the thraldom of their appetite
for strong drink, that moment Ireland is
free and independent. The school book is
the fulcrum, and the temperance pledge is
the lever of Archimides, to overthrow for
ever the last vestige of English tyranny on
Irish soil.
There is day coming when the hand of
the Almighty will rinse up to Ireland her fu-
ture Washingtons and Franklins, her CAROLS
and Montgomerys. 1t was not in vain that
Daniel OConnel exclaimed, in full view of
the future redemption of his oppressed
native land: eternal hostility to tyranny
in every form and degree!''
The spirit of O'Connel still lives. 1t
walks abroad among the green fields and by
the sunny waters of the fair Emerald Isle.
1t breathed in the manly bosom of Mitchell
and bis compatriots. 1t has come to US here
in the person of the silver tongued Mea CHER.
That spirit can never be silepced until Ire
land is free
Sir Phillip Sydney once said to Queen
Elizabeth, when the oppressed Netherlands
were in arms against their oppressors -
"1he spirit of God is uih them, and then uW
be mviacible!'
And invincible they were. The yoke of
oppression mehed before them, like frost
work before the full blaze of q noonday's
sun.
So will it be, In the end, with down trod-
den and bleeding Ireland Before her
aching eyes, in spite of besotted ignorance,
blind superstition and ecclesiastical power,
In the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar
Of fire by night. High above the groans
and shrieks Of her furnishing children, is
heard the voice of the Almighty Jehovah,
cheering her on to patience, to endurance,
and to victory! That victory will, surely,
surely, surely come.
"For Freedoms battle once begun,
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son,
Tho bafaei oft, shall yet be won"
Ireland is yet to be redeemed. He who
led forth Israel of old, from the lash and
yoke of Egypt, will lead forth Ireland from
the bondage of Great Britain, into the light
and JOY Of Republican liberty.
eyes, it has been, and it again shall be,
A nations pride-thy temple, Literty
A nations Senate-house-that dome which rupg
With freedoms accents from Grattan's tongue
Proclaiming, to his country and mankind,
That Irish laws alone could Ireland biudl
Searching, when in indignant wrath he rose,
With moral lightning bis loved couutry's foes
The sacreis ious miscresnts, who for god,
The soul and body Of nation sold
While joyous millions grateful blessings shed
On these who reused their country that dead. :"