American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-12-13
irish wisdom.

We U the ioHoWing graPhio sAese" "
Irish Wisdom from the Daily Cincinnati
Columbian. We commend It's perusal to
our neighbors Of the Pope's Organ. It
may furnish them some food for reflection
ir their nsxt s'grsat rejoicing" over "a
mother brilliant victory in Chicago"
"There is among us a body Of people
for W, dare not say. a nation-the uniyer-
sal sagaeity of whose proceedings is the
very natural result of the habitual moder-
alton aud GOODNESS OF their counsels. And
since it is our happiness to have them
hers. as a light and a comfort TO the land
it would be nothing less than a sin against
knowledge. a shutting up of the public
eyes against illumination, were we to keep
our readers in ignorance Of the mighty
plans which the double patriotism OF SOM
Of our foreign-born citizens are devising,
f.r the common psace and happiness OF
ireland and Of the United States.
Irishmen. it should. in the first place, be
remarked, are the most fsrvid patriots in
the world. Lass than twice as patriotic as
Americans, noboly can, conceive them to
b.; for do not they love two countries, while
W. Iowa but onsP To be sure. it is a little
diff cult to say wherein, consists the patri-
otism ola population that never did any
thing for ireland but to break each others
heads, to drink whisky, curse the En-
glish, come way to America, and then
repeat in this country for its benefit, the
same entire course Of patriotic actions.
save and except one-that Of showing
their attachment to their adopted as they
did to their native land, by leaving it,
Now, il leaving Ireland proves a man to
bo an Irish patriot, surrey it is necessary
that he .hoald lave this country also, in
order to prove HIMSELF true American pa
triot. Certainly they should be willing to
serve this country just as they serve their
own, by quitting it. |. is, moreover. a
little extraordinary that it should never
have occurred to them that they them
selves stand in Just the same relation to US
as the Saxon strangers, whom they sc
much hate, do to them. namely: they are
foreigners to our language, to our faith. t.
our feelings. to our habits; they hav'
brought upon uslawless practices and pas
sions which are deeply injuring the coun
try; they have introduced rufianism ant
blood-shed, as our elections; they have at
tempted to lord it over us, upon our owl
soil. and treat us like a conquered people
Can they wonder then if they shouldFb
looked upon in the same light here. as tn
Eaglishman is in Ireland?
But Wa turn to our starting point-th,
late wise proceedings of this sagacious ma
ton. Every body knows the late ado s
.~ridiculously kicked up in England, at tn
report Of an invasion Of Ireland. by tn
Irish of this country. 1t is equally notO
rious that thsre had been SONS cause 70
this alarm, so far as either Irish or Amer
lean gasconades could warrant alarm. S.
Sieties are in existence, all about the cour
try, for the pretended purpose Of liberal
ing Ireland. Mr., John Mitchell propose
in his Citizen that they should seize tn
moment Of the present war in the East I
strike q blow at Ireland or at Canada
With these two notions the discreet brain
OF our Irish seem to have been full eve
since. Alternate projects Of the eonque'
of Canada, and Of the re-couquest Of Ir'
land, have been-on foot, ever since the
were first proposed by the military GENT
who never shed anything for freedom. .,
cept ink; who solemnly proposed to fgl
tbs English in Dublin, by throwing uitr
acid upon them; whose exploits at Sliey,
CANNON and at Sidney equally c~onsiste
in a d~ishonorable fight. One would thir
that the history of Irish patriotism and
Irish sense, was not such as need inspi
IN England any very great dread Of the
threats. as far away as this.
We cannot believe that tho serious i'd
o. Invading ireland from this country ev
entered even that place of blunders. /
Irishman's skull. There may have be,
people who thought that other Irishm,
would 20 on such an expedition; but the.
never was yet the particular Paddy wi
did not know that he himself whould new
make one in any such party Of pleasure.
Nor is the Canadian scheme much mo
feasible. The Canadians are quite able
take care Of themselves against any SUI
rabble. II would almost be as easy to di