Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-22
NUMBER 299.
!" Ireland an Aceldama-A Field Of
l%a-a Blood l,,-.N0. q. AN
3 Me Editor. efMe Americon Organ

10 he Editor If the Americon Organ
The battle Of the Diamond" fought by the as
saultng Defenders" and the Protestants, col
ected for the defence Of their lives, their homes
| and everything near and dear to them, originated
the Orange Societies, the first Of which it il
said was instituted by the Protestants on the day
on which the battle was fought II and then ens,cd
those retaatory acts Of the "Ora,gcne7s,n left by
| Government to their own defence, which subs-
quently furnished Grattan with the material Of hs
severe philippe against the organization! Otl.er
furious communi les the Patriots y "44ggrc-
gate ,Bodfes 6" Catholic Co,pnittees,r "7sar end
Fsathering Comnittees,n "1ssass;ns. y aLynifcg
hishmen," cum multis aliisi-rvallcd one an
other in theiracts OF turbulence and crime
" The newspaper press, too, boldly melted these
ieroclous gangs to deeds Of assassination and yio-
lence ~" There Is one paper" said Grattan, In tie
irish House Of Commons, (which teens with eS-
noItations and indictments to assassination which
daily publishes such atrocious matters ais would
not be suffered in any country existing. :, nNo
country said General LuttrelI, "was ever dls-
graced ~ the manner in which this has lately
peen--n0thing less than essays in praise Of mus
der, investigating the different means by whichit
may pc perpetrated, and giving preference TO tho
ponlard as the most certain and least dangerous
TO the assassnl There is-no place in the world
where Gxcitements to murder would bo permitted
and II the mob here commit murders, they must
be attributed to the news printers, who. not con-
tent with assassnating characters, now proceed to
the shedding Of blood!' w N. .9'. "A III
These devilish people also attempted to con.
troll the action of the Irish Parliament through tho
intimidation Of the representatives by uncaualed
acts Of demonlike violencei 8a gl
" In March, 1874, an armed mob broke into ,ha
liouse OF Commons, in consequences OF the reec
uon OF Dill and previously, Sin 1893 the Uo,Iso
oi commons was set on fire while the member,
were sitting, and amidst tho shouts Of an imn,enso
a.! ana ierocious multitude the representatives he'd
Just Tune TO escape, when, the vast dome became
enveloped in fames, and, falling in, crushed eyety
thing beneath il This internal deed was causcd
BY chemical preparation which lit before lis II.
tended timer 3F-'' - I,
Ihese were the Characteristic acts and achiey,
mcnts Of the enthusiastic sons Of " Erin 40 5raol
during and up to Iear the close of the eirhteen,b
century, when, in slTS8, the grand catastroplc
q tne centurys tragedy was enacted IN tle
second general butchery of the Protestant poplla
ton In this second massacre the Same revoltir,
ontrages, the same inhuman atrocities. which d,.'
tinguishcd the fearful slaughter of I64I were NJ
produced in all their appalling circumstances Of
horror aud cruelty, though the victims of l79s
were not 80 numerous as those of I64Il 8g
Snii general massacre was unrelentingly pros
ecutea, as u the actors were real fends newly
diseEipoweied from the internal regions expressly
Tor the hellish acts Of murder and torture: and no
age nor SEX no condition nor quality was es-
cepted IN the general doom Eliminated against
All ahereticsl' The aged and infirm and the
Ind f8Bsf fit1, dsbands anu ratncrs, wis
and mothers, children and parents, were indis-
criminately slaughtered, burned, impaled No
appeal TO pity, TO any feeling Of humanity, by the
wretched and mutlated victims, could unnerve or
relax the unparng cruelty Of their mcrciless exc
cutioners, dead alike to all the gentler sentiments
of the human breast, TO every feeling but the f,ll
and murderous passion for human slaughter, and
the Papists unsuitable thirst OF Protestant bioodl
At SculIabogue Father Murphy, :" the stoutest
priest in Ireland" ordered the massacre of the
Protestant prisoners; s.ts
Having thus the sanction OF apriest the rob
els infuriatcd by the defeat at Ross, could be 10
longer restrained They are described as stripping
to their shirts TO perform the work Of execution
with more speed and tho prisoners were led out of
the dwelling house, four at time, 10 be shot or
piked to death. When thirty-scyen persons hal
persisted in this manner, the remainder, whose
number, according to the best accounts, amounted
to hundred and eightyfour including consider
allie number of women and children; were taken
out and forced into neighboring barn, thirty-four
feet long and fifteen feet wide, so that they were
almost sufocated for want of room. Having closed
the door Of the barn. the insurgents, regardless of
the screams of women and children, set FIRE 10 the
roof which was low and Of thatch. The prisoners,
rendered desperate, rushed to the back door Of
the barn, which. they forced open, but the rebels
drove them back with their pixies, or put them to
DEATH For some time they continued to hold Tie
door, as shield against their asaaiants who were
piking or shooting them, and while holding it some
of them had their hands and fingers cut on They
we're at length driven In, and the rebels CONTINUED
TO throw in bundles Of straw and faggots until all
inside were dead. A child was seen to creep under
the door, and, though much bruised and hut, it
would have escaped, butone of the Ravage guards
observed IL, and sticking his pike into Il tossed il
over the wall into the flames While this dreadful
scene was going on, the insurgents looked on with
shouts of savage exultation and declared that an
heretics should experience the same fate Ii Is
right, however, TO state, that few Roman Catho-
lies, partly by mistake and partly because for some
reason or other they were personally obnoxious,
had been thrust into the barn with the Protestant.
and shared their fite.n
The atrocities and massacres at Vinegar Hill,
the 6endish slaughter at Wexford Bridge, and tIc
appalling exultation manifested by the 6cnds in
the savage execution OF their diabolical work, ex-
poses, in a fearful manner, the gentle and inof-
fensive nathres" Of the "poor Irish" men and wo-
Inenl The following at Wexford
"At length, on the 10th Of June, Dixon and his
wife proceeded deliberately to carry their sanrui-
nary design into effect. The main body Of the
rebel garrison having been ordered to march 10
the assistance Of their friends against whom tho
Kings army was now moving, Dixon, having pre-
pared his followers for the work with whiskey, OBJ
tanned possession Of the town and gaol. The vic.
tins we're conducted from the latter in successive
parcels Of fom ten to twenty, with horrible solein-
nifty, preceded by black flag, marked with
white cross, to the place Of execution, where they
were one by one piked to DEATH often with circum-
stances of revolving cruelty. Some we're slauph-
tered at the gaol, and some at the market place;
but the principal place Of execution the bridge,
a very handsome wooden structure, where a null
titude Of people, the meiority Of whom were wo-
men, had assembled to behold the horrible specia-
Gle, and raised savage shouts Of exultation the
arrival Of each fresh parcel Of victims The slaugb-