Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-24

bound Themselves BY an oath 10 enforce the ddop-
tion Of their plans BY Ptundcr, tort1e, and MUIR
dor r.
In 1922, the outrages were not only alarming,
but constant. No4amily went to bed with the So
curity that they should awake in safety In the
morningn y " The resident gentry were
almost made prisoners In their own houses. They
dared not 90 out after dusk from the fear Of assas
sination. They were obliged TO keep regular guards
for their protection and indeed, to convert their
houses into so many fortresses," Not
a day passed in which some horrible crime was not
committed AssasSirations apparently the most
unprovoked were constantly perpetrated Men Of
the highest respectahility, and not only they but
persons in the lower grades OF life were frequent
ly placed upon their knees on the public roads, in
the broad daylight or in their own houses, in the
darkness of midnight, and shot to death Conda-
grations of the houses of persons marked for de.
struction by the rioters occurred nightly. A gen.
tleman could hardly ride to his home without the
certainty OF bullet piercing his body"
In 1928, coEflagraiiona, punderings, and muir
ders, upon every hand occurred daily and nightly.
In April, the Irish newspapers were filed with
the particulars OF many frocous outrages in Cork,
Limerick Galway, Meath, Glare, and Dublin. At
the spring assizes nearly hundred petitions,
claiming compensations for damages sustained by
the destruction Of machinery, injury to cattle by
stabbing and houghing, firing Of premises, and
other inju,ies and, after patient investigation,
there were found no more than four or five of the
claimants who were not entdcd to relief from the
county. Many of them had been turned naked
ont of their houses Mt midnight, and had only to
wait few minutes to SEQ them being reduced to
ashes! Others had been terrified into an abandon
ment Of their lands" &c, 5a8
Such was the truly awful state in which Ireland
r. "a O.. n
East to West, the country in one wild state of
excitement" In Tipperary, es-
pecally, the violence of feeling was 50 extreme
that it was hardly safe for any TO declare him
aelf a Protestant" One Lawless, an agent of tho
furious organizations Of the South, was despatched
North, ito spread their influence there as far as
possible" Immense mobs attended him in his
progress, and their lotteries were Of the most
diabolical character" Every word they uttered,
breathed ofmenace, defiance, and malevolence to
the Protestants," tortured with the utmost
alarm and sense Of their Imminent peril"
"Catholic emancipation, !" in 1929, did not APP
rease the fierce passions of the " wild Irish; nor
did it eInancipate their country from the fendish
rule of the "bloody hand !" because 1t did not ban
ish the accursed hcretics and their heresy from
Ireland. The country consequently, continued in
the most unquet and turbulent state. In 1881,
ribbon societies existed in every quarter. MUIR
der, house breaking, personal injuries inflicted with
the gros4est barbarty dwelling Of walls, firing of
dwellings, and new kind of outrage-th that Of dig
gng whole fields and destroying whole crops, by
bands Of ruffians, comprising even women and
boys, in the open day--were of daily, nay, of al
most hourly occurrence throughout the whole of
the southern countries Large bodies of men, some
armed with warke weapons, and others with
scythes, pitchforks and other agricultural imple-
ments, paradcd the country at all hours The
"Isrry Ats, White Feet, "Biack Feet, /" Mol
" Moguircs,n &C., revelled in their fendish and
bloody outragcs, by day and night, in perfect and
contemptuous defiance of all law, human and d;.
vine.
either in violence or character The investigation
into the brutal murder OF Lord Norbury, discover
Cd conspiracy, regularly organized, and all IFS
members Oere bound by an oath of secrecy, ard
kae,O each other BY secret signs Every district
had its committee" y "every COM
mittee it's central office in each county," and, 'no
persons life was safe from the attempts Of these
atrocious murderers;" while the system they
pursued was, in every why, diabolical!" Even in
1915, AS, Al, amid the cruel ravages of pestence
and funne, Irish atrocities abounded in all their
fearful horrors Neither life nor property was
aGe y and, "the bitterness of animosty" =
"was spent with the most cruel relcntessness by
the peasantry and small farmers upon one
another" In ls48, the number OF crimes
az inst property had increased from l495 to 462;
and against both person and property, from 3,l02
- 1921, fearful aggregate of crimnality !" And
so on, through " the rebellion of 1884, to the
end Of the chapter. 81
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