Washington telegraph., 1854-05-10

Waterloo the British army half of it Irish
to our shame and sorrow,) laid PROSTATE not
only the French Empire, but the Irish ma
ton. Since that disgraceful and disastrous
day. [ say that ireland has lain more pitia-
bic and hopelessly low beneath the feet of
her foes than ever before and lastly. we
know that within the last forty years. while
England's aristocracy was in bieh triumph,
and firmly seated in its place of pride :;
while prosperity and success shone brightest
upon our "sister country, while peace.
progress. commerce, reform, philanthropy
and other such fine things reached their
/ highest development, and the pirate Union
Jack faunted resistless over all seas-du-
ring those same halcyon years Ireland was
sinking low and lower, in means and in
heart, until the crowning curse of British
civilization came upon her in rs and 40
There is 10 need to tell what befel us in
those years think those who saw and
survived, will not soon forget, OR forgive it.
And, Irishmen, you know well at this
moment you have no Government or law in
that island You know that if any of you
/ dare to say openly and advisedly, or to write
or print what am now writing, you would
be placed before mack judge and packed
jury, and transported literally without law,
without trial, without judge or jury No
thing is so bad as this. Not, the famine, not
the plague, not pauperism, or cannibalisn,
nothing is so desperate an evil and disgrace
to country as to live without law. There
fore I deem it right to remind you of it
now, and to repeat it, and to taunt YOU and
sting you with the thought of it-you have
no law in your land but are ruled simply
by fixed bayonets. the point of them draped
with Magma Cha7ta. Think Of this and
then if you can, excite yourself with mill
tary enthusiasm-against Russia.
But further. you can be at no loss to per-
ceive wnat degree Of respect and considera-
tion you enjoy in the ''sister country
There has never been time within my
memory when all public newspapers, public
speakers and organs Of opinion in England,
talked OF ireland and IriShmen with such
bitter contempt az now-when Irish claims
and complaints were 50 completely and cool
ly ignored. There never was time, in
the history of the world when it was 50 Sc
rious a disadvantage to be an Irshman as
it is now. To dwell upon this is not very
agreeable; and for that reason dwell upon t.
| entreat all young Irishmen to ponder it
well, until ''the thought thereof doth like
poisonous mineral gnaw his inwards.''
But England, it is said wants the services
of our countrymen now, in war OF justice,
for national right, for hbe1y, Isany man,
woman or child in ireland, so idiotic as to
believe it? From the Bramahpootra to the
Mississippi, from Cadiz to Copenhagen,
her cause has always been the cause of ty-
rants and robbers, and cotton manufacturers
| No considerations of justice. no stpulations
/ of treaty have ever stood one moment in
her way when the great gospel of the legiti-
mate sovereignty and cotton-fabric urged her
! on.
And hor interest, as our countrymen,
well know, is our ruin. 1t is her vast man.
ufacturing and commercial system that
keeps Ireland store-farm it is her proud
and prosperous oligarchy that starves and
extermlnates our peasantry the seccess of
! England is our disaster; the happy ''Homes
Of England eat US out of house and home
in Ireland
In short the present critical position of Eu-
rope cannot but suggest to the minds Of
thousands of lrishmen that Ireland's con-
cern in the matter is comprised in the state
ment of one single fact, and the solution Of
a single problem
The fact is that our ancient enemy is ON
the verge of serious difficulties. political,
military and fnancial-the problem to be
solved is, how best to make these dificnl-
ties critical and fatal TO her power.
If there were now in Ireland national
organization of the Volunteers. or even like
the Irish Confederation, the problem might
be solved soon and esily. Itwould soon be-
come disgraceful, or even dangerous, for any
man to enter the enemy's service. and the
flies and drums of recruiting-sergeants
would discourse their eloquent music in vain
| know it is hard to expect such passive,
but decisive action now. The people are
starving again they are starving forever !;
they are made to starve. for this express
purpose amongst others. that they may be
always ready to sell themselves, for bread
and clothing, to make raw material for the
British service. Yet, surely, any way of
making living is better than this. If
they enter England's army they will be
fighting for famine, that it may pinch the
vitals Of their children. and their children's s
children. They will be fighting to make
typhus fever, and ejectments, and poor-house
Cruel, permanent institutions of their coun-
try. Yes, they biting their cartridges on
the Danube bank, will be ejecting whole
villages on the shannon, helpless old people
and infants Of their own kith and kin; on
the strength of their victories in Turkey,
Gf they are unhappily victo-s,) juries will
be packed in Dublin for generations to
come.