Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-17

less, and passiyely resigned to their inhuman foes
No age, no sex, no condition was spared. The
wife weeping for her bnichered husband, and EN-
bracing her helpless children, was pierced with
them, and persisted by the same stroke. The old,
the young, the vigorous, the infrm, underwent a
like fate. and were eonfounded in one common
ruin. In vain did flight save from the first assault ;
destruction was everywhere Jet loose, and met the
hunted victims ut every turn. IN vain was re-
course had To relations, companions, 10 friends
all connexions were dissolved, aud death was dealt
by that hand from which protection was implored
and expected Without proyocation, without OPP
position, the astonished English, living in profound
peace and full security, were massacred by their
nearest neighb0n, with whom they had long upheld
acontnued intercourse of kindness and good Offices
"But death was the lightest punishment nfct-
ed by those rebels. All the tortures which wanton
cruelty could devise, all the lingering pains Of
body the anguish of mind, the agonies Of despair,
could not satiate revenge excited without Injury,
and cruelty derived from no cause. To enter into
particulars would shock the least delicate humani-
ty. Such enormities though attested by nndoubt-
cd evidence, appear almost Incredible. Depraved
nature, even perverted religion, encouraged by the
utmost license reach not to such pitch of feroci-
ty, unless the pity inherent in human breasts be
destroyed by that contagion of example which
transports men beyond all the usual motives Of
conduct and behavior.
"The weaker sex themselves, naturally tender
to their own suferngs, and compassionate to those
Of others, here emulated their more robust COM
panions in the practice of every cruelty. Even
children, taught by the example and encouraged
by the exhortation of their parents essayed their
feeble blows on the dead carcasses or defenceless
children Of the English. The very avarice Of the
Irish was not sufficient restraint to their cruelty
Such was their frenzy, that the cattle which they
I.1 hx,r dox -. ~
cause they bore the name Of English, were wan
tonly slaughtered. or when covered with wounds,
turned loose into the woods or deserts.
"The stately buildings or commodious habta-
tons of the planters if upbradng the sloth and
ignorance Of the natives, were consumed with fire,
or laid level with the ground. And where the
miserable owners, shut up in their houses, and
preparing for defence, persisted in the flames, to-
gether with their wives and children, double tri-
umph was afforded to their insulting foes.
If anywhere q number assembled together,
and, assuming courage from despair, were resolved
to sweeten death by revenge on their assassins,
they were disarmed by capitulations and promises
of safety, confirmed by the most solemn oaths.
But no sooner had they surrendered, than the
rebels, with peridy equal to their cruelty, made
them share the fate of their unhappy countrymen.
.Others, more ingenious still in their barbarity,
tempted their prisoners, by the fond love Of life,
to imbrue their hands in the blood of friends, bro
theirs, parents; and having thus rendered them
accomplices in guilt, gave them that death which
they sought to shun by deserving it.
Amidst all these enormities, the sacred name
of religion resounded on every side; not to stop
the hands of these murderers but to enforce their
blows and to steel their hearts against every
of human or social sympathy. The
English, as heretcs abhorred Of God, and detest-
able to all holy men, were marked out by the
priests for slaughter and Of all actions to rid the
world of these declared enemies to Catholic faith
and piety was represented as the most meritori-
GUS. Nature which in that rude people was sufi-
GENTLY inclined to atrocious deeds, Vas further
stimulated by precept; and national prejudices
empoisoned by those aversions, moro deadly and
incurable, which arose from an enraged supersti-
ton. While death finished tie sufferings Of each
VICTIM the bigoted assassins, with JOY and e1uta-
ton, still echoed in his expiring ears that these
agonies were but the commencement of torrents
infinite and eternal" ~ e
"From Ulster the flames of rebellion difused
themselves in an instant over the other three pro-
vinces of Ireland. In all places death and saught-
or were not uncommon though the Irish in these
and humanity. But cruel and barbarous was their
humanity Not content with expelling the Eng
fish their houses, with despoiling them of their
goodly manors with wasting their cultivated fields
they stripped them OF their very clothes, and
turned them on, naked and defenceless, to all the
seventies of the season. The heavens themselves,
as II conspirng against that unhappy people, were
armed with coldand tempest unusual to the climate,
and executed what the mercess sword had left
unfinished. The roads were covered with crowds
Of naked English, Fastening towards Dublin and
the other cities which yet remained in the hands
Of their countrymen. The feeble age of children,
the tender sex of women, soon sunk under the
rigors of cold and hunger Here the
husband bidding final adieu to his expiring fam
lily, cnvied them that fate which he himself ex- |
pected SO soon to share; there the son, having |
long supported his aged parent, with reluctance |
obeyed his last commands, and, abandoning him |
in this uttermost Distress reserved himself to the
hopes of avenging that death which all his efforts
could not prevent nor delay. The astonishing |
greatness Of the calamity deprived the sufferers Of
any relief from the view of companions In Attic
ton With silent tears, or lamentable cries, they
hurried on through the hostile territories and |
barbarty, guarded by the more implacable fures |
Of mistaken piety and religion"
" The gates Of that city, Dublin, though tim |
prously opened received the wretcbed applicants
and presented 10 the view a scene of human mise |
~ beyond what any eye had ever before beheld |
Compassion seized the amazed inhabitants, agra |
vated with the fear Of like calamities while they
observed the numerous foes, without and within. |
which everywhere environed them, and reflected |
on the weak resources by which they were them.
selves supported. The mole vigorous of the un-
happy fugitives, to the number OF three thousand,
we're enlisted into three regiments the rest were |
distributed into the houses and all care was taken,
by diet and warmth, to recruit their feeble and |
torpid limbs. Diseases Of unknown name and spe-
cies derived from these multiplied distresses seized
many Of them, and put speedy period to their
lives; others, having now leisure 10 reflect on their
mighty loss Of friends and fortune, cursed that be-
ing which they had saved. Abandoning themselves
10 despair, refusing all succor, they expired; with
put other consolation than that of receiving among
their countrymen the honors of grave, which, TO |