Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-22


ameliorstion and improvement As a people and
nation, seem TO have occupied even the remotest
or smallest niche Of their murderous breasts but
all, benefactor and stranger, as "accursed here
tics" were alike remorselessly doomed TO outrage,
torture, and death! Mr.. Brewer, an Engishman,
"well known for his humanity and benevolence,"
|" and for his extensive manufactures at Prosper
GUS, where he had maintained numbers Of people
who had previously lived in poverty, remained
alone at his own house, yanly thinking his active
beuevolence and charitable disposition would be
his best shield against the inhabitants Of Prosper
GUS, whom he had fed and clothed by employing
them ia useful industry |" But "holy band" of
Romanists, having finished the cruel massacre, by
fame and pike, Of the garrison, which they had
mastered through troachery and surprise, turned
in horrible exultaton, while yet their burning and
mutated victims were still writing in their tor
ture and agony, to assault the dwelling OF their
benefactor
When the mob had obtained admission into
the house, james Tobin, tailor of Prosperous,
rushed into his apartment, and made lunge at
lin with pike so vehemently that he perforated
his body, and turned the edge of the weapon
against the wall Having then drawn scimitar,
lie cleft his skull from the ear TO the forehead, and
aided by one Patrick Farrell another native of the
town, carried the body to the front door, when
Audrew Farrell, who was leader at the party,
cried out aloud, Behold tho body Of hereto
tyrantn which was repeated by the whole party
With three cheers. When Hugh M'Evoy returned
and learned what had occurred, he exclaimed,
oh, you villains, have you murdered the good
man who kept US all from starving? II knew the
man that did SO, would shoot him, though we're
to lose my own life by it,
Mr. Spencer, Of Rathangan, an aged and veneer
able man. " distinguished for his generosity aud
humanity to all around him, and tpwhom the town
owed much of its prosperity" suffered even more
horrible fate: Ell a
The family were at breakfast, when band of
infuriate ruians entered the lawn in front Of the
house. Mr.. Spencer lose from the table, went to the
hall door, and kindly asked them what he could do
for them pretending to suppose that they came 10
require his services as magistrate They Instant
ly seized him, saying that they were now come to
do for him, threw him down upon the steps of the
door, and sawed off his head with cross-cut saw.
They then went into the parlor, laid the head upon
the breakfast table, helped themselves 10 what
they pleased in the house, and going away, took
the head and kicked it like a football about the
lawn till II was torn and broken to pieces. Mr..
Spencer was upwards Of 10 years Of age; he had
almost entirely built the town of Rathangan, and
had rendered it and its ncighborhood more wealthy
and Independent than any other district Of the
county 1t was observed that several of those
most active in this outrage were persons indebted
to him and his family for continual acts of kind
ness" tE
Wherever the Protestants, rendered desperate
in their utter and hopeless despair at the awful
butcheries enacting around them, and in expecta-
ton of the dreadful fate as that of their tor
tured and slaughtered friends and relations, threw
themselves in small numbers into house or barn,
determining not to yield their lives without a
bloody retaliation upon their savage prosecutors,
the assembling friends after inducing them TO sur
render through the most solemn asseverations
and oaths that their lives should be spared, would
bruta'ly murder them in cold blood, and amidst
the most cxultant demonstrations Of joy and tri-
-umph.
Even the cattle and domestic brutes did not es.
cape the intense Inalgnity of Papal Irish iatred,
but we're hung and shot because they were guilty
of heresyi "a faithful dog, says Wright, speak
king of the horrible murder Of Mr.. Crawford, n
gray haired old veteran, aud his granddaughter,
fought bravely for his master, and shared his
fite In plundering the house Of another Protest
ant they found favorits dog, which had been &C.
cdentaliy left behind, and they Immediately hanged
it, and fred several shots at it. because it was the
dog Of hereticw Another Papst was observed
stabbing dead horse repeatedly with bayonet
and he acclaimed Mt Zach hlar = To- .i.-A ~. =
"Such were the scenes enacted upon every side
during the first days of the insurrectionins aud
this fearful human buchery was the last grand act
Of the terrible Irish tragedy of the eighteenth
century NHati the esyHiccTtHF century! I'M
possiblel IT'S truly almost beyond the credulity
Of human reason to believe in the preparation Of
slaughter and cruelty, more fcnd.lile than human.
in an age Of such enlightened civilization as that
OF the eighteenth century, were, they not demon
by the most unequivocaf and unmpeach-
able evidence, and even within the recollections
of many now living who then were sufferers, and
of others who were perpetrators Of those devilish
atrocitiesi To enlarge, however, upon those
dreadful transactions further than Is necessary for
the exposure OF the murdsrous and dangerous
character OF the Irish Papist Is not my intention,
and would be TOO revolving, too repugnanf, very
Of the American public! Hence, turn, truly In
loathing and adherence from their disgusting rela.
ton to-but 10 whats--to encounter similar afro.
cities, though not upon the same extensive scale,
at the very next turn Of Irish history-in the
ninstecnih century,
Sincerely yours, WEN