New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-08

,s,,iotic funds and sound the recruiting life TO
swell that power and strengthen that ailiaace Il
Louis Nspnleop-sps consider ng as strahge Career
,o,bing can be coosdered out ofthe range OF post
bty-were 10 land and lift the standard OF volt in
Ireland 20 morrow. priest aud people would rally
hepeath bis flag Or the other bend. were the
"Irish Emigration Society to embark for lrelaad.
ami escaping the West Isdsu Squadron or
wrtckipg on Cape Race. to reach the Bsj OF Ban
try or ia, c.nd on Castlebar, their first conf OF
would be that OF which the Convention itself gsTs
such torewarnibg with their own couatr!men,
a, their frs, vc.ory would have to be over Irish
N. themselves.
But What can p esent more lrdicrous picture
than to see number Of citizens Of the United
States conspiring for the independence Of cOuu-
Try in which they or some ancestor happened to
be born, when lrishmen st home are pourisg odt
their blood with lavish loyalty to mainta;u the
prestiee of that power which is said to be the OBJ
iect Of their hat ed and wbics they are all ready
20 STRIFE down. Were it net we'll at least TO
visit ioms invitation from the other eide AT
present We can descry no symptom of any special
desire for that free dom which the scatter brains Of
the Astor House would ssve so many of our cit.
liens risk their lives and fortunes to secure. But
other dby, end one whose .uhericgs for Irelsnd
entitle bis voice to weight declared that from one
end TO the other De bad felt the vein of Ireland
and could find no rebel pulse and left in sorrow
for B healthier sDd more rigorous country. We
even find that the Roman Catholic priesthood
who hitherto have Offered the Irish people ia all
tbei. political conHicts-sre recommended by
their Roman Sovereign 70 the practice of all
obedience charity, and meekuess," aud are or.
dertd from the hustiDgs to tie nursery aud
begdoir Wheu such gentle Irish pastine is pre-
cuded what hope is there that they will enter on
tbs rough game Of war
At the present moment tie Roman Catholic
Church claims the glory, End presses the claim
perpetualiy On the itish Government. Of having
crutbed the only national combin alton IN which
the miserable feuds that distract all Irish efforts
were lost snd some hope held Of obtaining national
independence. From the year lS42 to 1916, at
the period of the monster meetings, one big, burn
ing PASSION, to which nationality. interest, aod
religion Gil lent Inspiration, seized upon the Irish
kesrt; AID had it been allowed to set freely
might, in It's torrent, have swept British rale into
tbs tea But O'COnnell saw q movement by
which be merely intended to overthrow British
party grow into one to overthrow British power
The Roman Catholic Chsrch saw 8 movement it
chiefly intended to overthrow Professionalism grow
into one TO establish religious FREE dom. They fal-
tered, and the tide was allowed 70 break its ebb
ana pass away O'CoHne and the Roman Cath
Ole Church together grew terrified ct the bold
and noble sentiments which found expression from
lips like Mitchel's. Meaghsr's, and the chivslry
and devotion of the gallant troops of young
men who inherited the faith Of Thomas
Davis OConnell AMI the priests started the
pe,cs principle, screamed out "Atheists!' and
subdu,d the movement In our time that fire will
never be lighted again
Since then it has been to many who warmly
symua,hized with that effort subject Of redeos zion
whether such disposition of events were Mt for
Ireland happier and wiser, and whether British
rule, vita all its faults, temperate in these tunes
be not better than that native despOtism and reli
cious iD,ol, rance which would sssuredly follow
the attainment OF Ish independence But be this
s. ituay we tlust that III thtit nstions zeal those
gentlemen who met at the Astor House will not
forget that white as individuals they are at liberty
to extend their sympathy snt assistance to further
sny felusiOn they please they are Lot st liberty
ss citizens If this countr! to hatch plots or enter
into conspiracies against any Power with which
We arc on friendly relations.
Indeed, we're they to heed our words, they
would abandon the pursuit Of so absurd phan-
tom Such gatherings as that at ms Astor House
go f.T t. justify those enemies Of the Iei'h race
Who assert that Iuishmen are ever lri.hmenr aud
can never either develop Oommon.sense in their
OWL heads. or genuine patriotism toward an
adopted country in their hearts. By an honorable
discharge of their DUTY citizens by industrious.
aid, above all. by temperate haeits, and by the
acquisition of honorable wsalth and distinction,
they will rest serve their country by showing th,t
lrishmen deserve freedom aud know how to use
IT, One Emmett. ono 'COnor or one Brady il
worth q sh,p.lOsd of Conventions, for they COM
msnd respect, While the latter are bat a occasion
for ridinule to tho enemies Of the Irish and to
their frispds e such home truths as We hays now
fel. ourselves obliged to administer.
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