Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-12-12
REV. DR.. CAHILL's LETTER.
TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD yISC0UNT
PALMERSTON.

PALMERSTON.
Judge Kane, of Philadelphia, had been hear
ing evidence in regard to the alleged recruiting
for the British army in the United States. One
of the chief witnesses was Mr. Sirobel, whose
evidence contains some extraordinary, if true, dis
closures This man Strobe, whose social stand
ing appears to have been such. that Sir Gaspard
Lc Marchant asked him TO dinner, and the officers
of the 18th regiment associated with him on
terms of equality, swears psoitively that plan
for the enlistment of in the United States Tor
the British service was concocted by Mr- Cfamp-
ton, tho Governors of the British Provinces, and
himself and that a commencement OF enllstments
was made under it.
RATuFARsHAM Oct. IS, 1855.
Ny LoRp The American papers of last
Saturday week have brought to this country
the astounding intelligence contained in the
extract Just quoted and two mails have since
arrived from New York. while the facts re-
ferred TO remain up to this day uncomfortable
tod So, my lord, you have advised your
ambassador. Mr.. Champion to enlist the Irish
In America You want them now in order
10 recruit your wasted army IN the Crimca,
or to garrison the growing weakness of your
distant colonies. Glory be to God that the
insztiable cruelty Of English law. in extermi-
nating and banshing the poor, faithful Irish
is now forced to acknowledge the national
crime, by employing your ambassador TO seek
their return Heaven be for ever praised
that the perfdy of Lord John Russclls ad-
ministration (your former chief in the perse-
cution of Ireland) is now exposed before the
whitening scorn of all the nations of the civil
lied world So, you now offer bounty. and
nav. and the Queens uniform, to the despised
exiles, whom within the last seven years your
administration starved, and jibcd, and ban
I it.t,tiv cffe in
the present instance, in thus compelling the
public execu;ioner of my country to confess
with his own mouth lis cruelty TO Ireland. |
an grateful to tho unerring laws of the Su-
prome Arbiter of nations that the conspirator
against the religion and the prosperity of Ire
land stands at this moment jbbetted by his
own confession the pillar of public scorn.
But. Sir, besides the cruelty, there is
irreclaimabe indccency in your ordering tho
enlistment of the Irish in America. You
held Office under Lord John RUSSELL during
the years of the cholera, the famine, the ex-
termination, and the expulsion Of the hated
race In those days of national woe, when
heart of steel would be melted in seeing wall
ing thousands swerm all the shores of your
country in mournful or wild despair, you
would not pay an inspector to examine the
leaking ship. nor would you appoint sur
Reon TO stay the ravages of disease, and save
the lives Of these iHfatcd and unhappy chill
dren of Ireland. No; you would not-you
certainly would not. And now, when you
want the aid OF their faithful hearts and their
inyincible courage, you rncanly fatter the
warm bosoms which you lately despiscd and
you pcrfiaiously seek the service of the noble
nature which you cruelty banished Beyond
all doubt you permitted the savage extermina-
tor. the ruthless ship captain the sinking
vessel, and the terrors of the tempest. to ban
ish, drown, and kill more than one million
and half of my friendess couutrymen
The graves in Gross Island where ten thous-
and abandoned victims lie-Ihc abysses of the
Atlantic, where many broken-hearted faith
.er, mother. and child mingle their whirened
bones, amid the foundations of the deep, bear
melancholy testimony of the reckless hatred
and the ferocious bigotry which depopulated
Ireland during the years of your former sub
ordinate office: You are decidedly an accom-
plice In this Irish calamity and with such
delinquency on your head, where can human
tongue or pencil find language or coloring
sufficiently descriptive of the shamelessness of
the man who could now stand at the corner of
the streets of New Orleans and Philadelphia
Offering bribe to the survivors of your ex-
Pulsion. pressing by perfdious promises into
England's service the living remnant of mis-
rule and shipwreck, and arming with the
sword of England the very men on whose
necks, but few years ago, your laws would
prefer to tie the hangman's s rope? Conceal
palliate, explain this conduct as you will, il
places England and yourself in position Of
political indecency which is discreditable tc
the nation 1t Is crime which your greatest
enemy can never exaggerate by calumny, moi
your most malignant libeiler ever exceed in
slander -
The apologists of the government and vour
friends may arrest that the lands of Ireland
are held by lease, as in some ether countries
and hence that the extermination complained
OF is the legitimate result of property and land
tenure. deny the parallel between ireland
and any other country on the face Of ths
globe; because the landlords of ireland. in !
majority of instances, are Orange men or big
OTIS, sworn to exterminate the Catholic popu
laiion, if they can !; while the landlords o
ssner nations sustain, aid, and protect thei,
tsay tssn1y therefore the comparison of th.
sn1of uSfe Of land in other countries cannot b
pp''sa 70 irelanil til you make the landlords