, 1855-07-06
English Prescriptions the Model Of American
pr0SeriDiiOnS.


Of English history, that after the revolution
Of 1858, and down TO the commencement
of the revolutionary troubles in the Amer
lean colonies, the freest constitution, and
the most perfect liberty, and the most gen
Cral content, in the whole range Of civilized
nations, were those enjoyed by the English
people. Our great historian, Bancroft,
says Of their condition in I163:
''They were happy in their form Of gov
ernment, and were justly proud of it, for
they enjoyed more perfect freedom than the
world, up to that time, had known"
If we turn, however, to that portion Of
history which discloscs the condition Of
ireland, then os now an English dependen.
cy, we shall find that E"gland, when so
generally tolerant, happy, and compare
, lively free, extended none Of the blessings
which fell so unsparingly to her lot to the
people Of ireland. God, in His inscruta-
BILE, wisdom, seems to have ordained that,
while England was preparing TO lay the
strong and the iron hand upon our fore
fathers in this hemisphere, she should also
raise up for US sympathizers and friends by
the prosecutions and the Affections which
she heaped during course of long and
weary years upon the people Of ireland /;
for in proportion as both suffered at the
hands of the same power, both became
finally knitted together as allies and as
brothers and when the one went to war
to protect her political institutions against
rapdcious and a blood-thirsty ministry,
the other, reused by her sufferiugs for her
religion, furnished forth large numbers Of
men for the long and dubious conflict.
Its by no means gratifying or prof
liable subject for contemplation that after
the lapse of nearly one hundred years, and
when the people of the United States are
enjoying the utmost perfection Of political
equality, individual comfort, religious toll
Grafton, and general Improvement, a large
portion Of those people should conceive it
to be their duty 10 initiate the disgracefdl
prescriptions and almost the fatal excesses
which dishonored England in her heartless
war upon the people Of ireland. As il TO
complete the shameful coincidence which, as
It has been commenced, is also sought to
be completed, by q reckless secret conspi-
racy in our midst, the American people arc
now called to select their victims more par
ticularly from The ranks of the Irish citi
zens. The Irish had served England faith.
fnlly, as we'll before as after the revolutiot
Of 1858, as truly and as bravely as theJ
are serving her now. B6N> this did mo-
rescue them from the scandalSus and per
sistent exactions, penalties, and snfferingI
imposed by their English masters for relig
ions sake. And have not these same Irisl
also served the American people gallantlS
and wellG The scourge and the scaffold o
England drove thousands to these shore
before and during our revolutionary war
They stood by Us through that seven-year'
conflict; thousands have fought aud dice
for our flag from that day to the present
they have proved themselves no less admi
fable and useful ia peace than they were
steady md trustful Ia war And now, a.
ifto show how submissively we worship thu
English example, the American people ARK
invited to fall upon and -disfranchise thest
citizens because Caiholicity is the creed o
the majority '
= The class Of men in this country who
declare that Americans must rule Ameri
ca" do not know, we presume, how faith
fully theiS present creed Of persecution il
copied from foreign example. In oFdeI
to 0show them the truth of this observation
it may be well to point out some of tn,
means fesorted to by& British proto
types to extirpate and destroy the inde
Pendence Of the Irish Catholics. Tht
reader has already seen how close the re
semblance is between tho intolerants anC
lnaIguants Of the present day and thei
English know-nothing originals more thai
ahundred years ago. This is made still
more striking by the following summary
and comparison 4a.i7 nl ..1 f3sl
Irish Roman Catholics were exeludel
from seats in both branches of the legisla
ture, aud finally excluded from voting 70
members to serve in Parliament
=. We are told by Edmund Burke IAN Irisl
friend Of AmeFica), that the Catholic Irisl
beng DISTINGUISHED, one enactment pursuei
them after another; till they suffered unde