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should acquire additional territory in the south
srn part of this continent. The mutual condi-
tons of the CLAYToN-BULwER treaty prohibit
us from colOnizing or fortifying any part of
Central America. The tripartite pledge pro
posed similar remuneration with regard to
Cuba.
The proposals reported to have been made
by England to Spain to commute the institu-
ton of slavery for free importation of African
apprentices, leads us to suspect that England is
DESTROYS to interpose some additional obstacle
to our acquisition of that island, upon the idea
that if it shall be made another Jamaica or
Hayti it will be of no value. Spain has also
entertained the idea of protecting Cuba from
American invasion, by cutting the dyke of
slavery and inundating the island with the
waves of abolition.
We will digress so far as to express the
opinion that neither of these schemes will
avail much. The power which can conquer
Cuba can subjugate the slaves, and any sover-
eighty that shall be established can adopt such
institutions as it may think proper.
We therefore deprecats diplomacy which
promises not only to be futile, but pernicious.
# is, however, fair inference that England
wishes to prevent the United States from &C
curing Cuba.
Has it occurred to England that she has a
Cuba Of her own?
Ireland has been now the property of Engla
since its final subjugation by CROMWELL. TWAS
.,hI,ol ~, he ey,crd II hos baap bo1d hv III o
tenure of superior physical power. Its manu-
features and agriculture were Systematically
discouraged. 1t was governed by English
viceroys It's offices of trust were filled with
English placemen. Its representation was a
mere tolerance Of the right of petition. Its
laws were municipal regulations permitted by
the Parliament Of England. The act Of union
was but an exacerbation of those fetter sores
which CALLING bondage had produced. That
act superadded domestic dissension to the ha-
tired of foreign rule.
The flame of liberty lighted by EMMETT and
FITzGERALD was quenehed in their blood, and
the CONSUMPTION of those soldiers who bore the
British flag at Talavera and Waterloo, who
built up the Anglo-Indian Empire, and garrison
ed every foreign possession, from Gibraltar to
Table Bay, with the substitution of English
troops to maintain the police of Ireland, re-
duced that unhappy dependency to a state Of
AFFECT and unreasoning obedience. The peace
ful agitation of O'CoNNELL could have re
suited in nothing practical. He only taught
the people of Ireland their wrongs. He did
not teach them how to become more intellI
gent, more industrious, and more powerful.
He founded no schOos-he opened no farms
he bestowed no employment. The Napoleon
of discomfort, he survived but short time his
confinement as a prisoner of State The latest
movement has been the desperate throe of ex-
piring freedom. 1t resulted in the expatria
ton of the patriots who perilled their lives in
the desperate endeaVor.
Then God sent the famine upon the op
pressed as he had before sent the plague upon
the oppressor, and the people of Ireland crossed
the seas by millions TO worship liberty in the
wilderness. England was now supreme. Fla
mine had lent it's aid to despotism. Ireland
was subdued by the division, dispersion, and
oppression of her children.
During the same period, however, religious
intolerance had increased the trials of that I'M
happy people. Parliamentary and newspaper
wits marked with the scars of sarcasm their
prominent peculiarities. The novelist and the
playwright deemed their works incomplete with
out a specimen of Irish brogue and blunder, be-
liev.d indispensable to delight the taste of Eng
land.
Ireland had been made by-word amongst
nations for the hopeless bondage of her condi-
ton. She was now their scott because of her
unhappy inhrmities, the offspring of an ardent
and generous nature.
Her daughters and sons began to dread the
contamination of their nativity; they disguised
their pronunciation in the patois of the CONT
nent, 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 suPe-
riors, and they could only atone for the crime
of having been born an Irishman by the abso-
Lutte remuneration of all his virtues.
If to this pisture of political and social de
gra0aLOn we duu Sy otohh Va boAobtOh ics u
lated by the endurance of the subjects, and only
relaxed when exhaustion threatened release
from torture, we will have completed our de
scription Of her British Cuba.
God has, in HIS own inscrutable wisdom
prepared this medicinal cup of bitterness for
Ireland. He will take care that its healing
effects shall in due time be apparent.
We quote FROM the Democratic Rsuis,0 the
significant announcement that the Irish refu-
gees are organizing power for the deliveranct
of their fellow sufferers. Ihey avGw the
intention to avail themselves of the first op
portunity which shall present itself. We
quote the Rerse,c:
.'There is a spirit abroad anon this mass Of opi
citizeus which has latterly been aroused to de
gree of resolution that must Lead to successful
is.p. in due course Of time. This spirit is rapidly
extending TO every town, city, and viliags; and
the alacrity with which it progresses shows de
GREE of earnestness which has been made the SUD
iect of much comment by many leading fFlend
of Ireland at present sojourning in America Inc
spirit of military organization among irishmer
cannot have escaped the notice Of our citizens
within the last few years, particularly since the
Irish failure of lSts There many OF the bone