Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-18
" Ireland an AceIdama-A Field OF
Blood l,,-NO. 8.

suppression OF the continued ravages of the Irish,
the Papal Nuncio prominently figures exciting the
Irish to acts Of violence and of war, and opposing
every project off paci6cation which did not rem
der Ireland virtually Papal province. This Nun
clio, one Giovanni Battista Rnuccini, Archbishop
of Fermo, and noble Florentine, was expressly
delegated to Ireland, after the massacre, not 10
proclaim the Popes adherence Of the awful slaugh-
ter enacted in the of the Papal religion, nor
to publish his accommodation Of the inhuman
perpetrators, but to take advantage of that horri
BILE event to extend the Pope's dominion over that
murderous nation~ Commencing with intrigue,
then proceeding to violence, he soon, however dis
gustcd even the Irish, who finally compelled him
to vacate their territories.t pacifcation was
by his departure rendered less difficult than pre-
viousy particularly as the military operations Of
the English in the field had in many cases severely
punished the murders of their people! Indeed,
peaces occur in extraordinary and rather amusing
frequency--as the peaces Of l64a, '46, 49,t &C.,
for no treaty, no act of pacifcation, could long
bind the wild Irish" to peace, and hostilities, ac-
companed by all the circumstantial cruelties and
horrors Of Irish war, necessarily continued.
CromwelIs campaign, however and the cruel
punshments which his policy and numerous victo-
ries inflicted, at length subdued their halGcivlzed
and bloody natures into obedience and quiet, under
which their dreadful passions, not extinct, but
merely dissembled, nursing and feeding their VEN
ON and malgnity, eagerly watched for a safe and
propitious opportunity to again renew the commits
sion of all their brutal and sanguinary atrocities
Under the stern military rule Of Cromwell, Ire
land enjoyed tranquility and prosperity previ-
ously unknown within Its State but with the resto-
ration Of the Stuarts the ferocious brutality of "wd
Irish" rule gradually enlarged ITSELF until, under
James III, it had regained earfal excess and i'm
punty, and the cold Irish once more revealed,
with an unquestioned license, in all their ancient
barbarities Outrages "of a character too horrible
to repeat" and "rspe, mutilation, and murder,
when committed by an Irish Papist on Protest
wretched condition Of the Protestant population,
the constant terror of massacre in which they
lived, and the consequent absence in their life of
all its pleasures and recreations, may be feebly
imagined from the following extract:
cit is not easy" says one who was present in
Ireland, to set forth the strange effects and con-
sequences which attended that sudden alarm in
the city of an intended universal massacre. There
you might see thousands Of people deserving their
houses and all their substance in the world, and
running to the ships with scarce any clothes upon
their backs Never there such scene of conster-
nation as at this time; never such confusion and
distraction. All the bloody massacres in the for
mer rebellions were now reflected upon under the
most ghastly and dismal representations, and those
scenes of barbarity and cruelty seemed to threaten
the same or worse usage, which produced the
greatest horror and amazement, grief and despair,
that human nature could be capable Of This fatal
news, which had 80 terrified the Protestants Of
Dublin, as IL the dissolution of all things had been
at hand, arrived not to several parts Of the king
dom till the very day twas to be put in execu-
ton, which being Sunday 1t was brought to the
people in the time of divine service In some places
~ thap, Nth etrch undda,,
sions of immediate destruction, that the doors not
allowing quick passage enough, by reason Of the
crowd, abundance OF persons made their escapes
out of the windows and in the greatest fright and
disorder that can be represented, the men leaving
their hats and periwigs behind them, some OF them
had their cloaks torn TO pieces, others were tram
pied under foot, and the women in worse condi-
ton than the men. And this disturbance did not
only continue for this day, but for several Sundays
after, the Pedestrians were In such CONSERVATION
and terror that all or most of them carried fire.
arms and other weapons to church with them, and
the very ministers went armed into the pulpit and
scntineis stood at the church doors all the while
that they were in the church"
The victorious campaigns Of William Of Orange
and his generals, exercised an Influence over their
murderous natures similar to that Of Cromwell,
and the peace of Limerick, in 1891, was joyously
hailed by many of the Protestants as the advent
of permanent period of repose for Ireland.
Alasl their happy anticipstions proved most illu-
sorry and transitory! Peace there was none for
Irelandl Neither the energy nor the policy Of
Ormand, neither the iron-rule and ability OF Cro-
well. nor the rigor and moderation Of William,
could eradicate that inconquerable appetite for
slaughter and crime inherent In the "wild Irish"
soul; nor any consideration, however powerful or
favorable, could induce them 10 adopt the decen-
cies and humanity of Christian and civilized ifei
Early 10 the eighteenth century the Rapparees,
the aJacobites,n the " Houghers" brutal gangs oil
maraudine ruiians, swept over the country, per-
petrating every atrocity--rape, mutilation, muir
der, &c. The "Kelamount gangs" OF equally
ferocious and fendish character spread terror and
horror throughout the regions which they infested
while the 'oak boys and steel boys" contributed
their proportion Of disquiet TO the general mise.
ryl The atrocities Of the defenders" and
the retaliatory outrages Of the "peep-o'-day boys
were of the most inhuman nature, and were prob
ably only eoualled In fiendish cruelty by the ap.
paliing outrages Of the "white boysW
These % White bows demons incarnate In hui
man form, seized people who made themselves
obnoxious BY resisting their ORDERS or refusing to
Join them, and tore out their tongues, or cut
of their noses or esrsl Some they placed naked
on the bare backs of horses, and made them ride
with them several miles in the night others they
Duried up 10 tne enn, uhkeu, III graves hheu VIII
furze that II, with "branbles and thornsl" *
The demon-lke atrocities Of the defender" may
be inferred from the following Characteristic trans
actions
An outrage committed at the end OF the JAN
uary Of 1871, affords striking example Of their
ferocity. a Protestant gentleman Of Forkhill,
near Dundslk, dying Of The beginning Of 1887, had
left an estate Of about four thousand year in
that parish for charitable purposes, ordering that
the land consisting OF about three thousand ocres
should bc colonized by Protestants, and that
schoomasters should DO established on It TO in
struct gratuitously children Of the poor without
regard to their religious persuasion.
1.-THE Catholic peasaniry OF the surrounding
districts were melted to hinder the establishment
Of this colony, and they held out violent threats
against the Protestants who might come to reside
upon II. Mr.. Hudson, as the managing agent,
was twice shot at. An assassin on one occasion
went from among the congregation assembled in a
neighboring Popish chapel, 10 intercept Mr. Hud-
son, who was passing By on horseback and conceal