Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-12-12

the Orange aristoeracy-tiH then they have
the clear power of depopulating Ireland and
killing the Queens subjects As proof of
the logical accuracy of these statements, 1
appeal to the history of laodern nations, and
| fearlessly challenge even one instance. where
two millions of human beings have been un-
housed, banished. and killed, in any one
country, within the period of seven years:
and all this massacre planned, carried on,
| and executed by steady machinery, which
has reduced to powder the obnoxious race
with the same mechanical and unerring result
as mill grinds corn The tenancy Of other
countries, under their landlords, as compared
with this country, bear the same resemblance
to each other as flock of sheep under the
care of the shepherd and in the slaughter
| house of the wolf Oh, Sir, it is idle to talk
of the duties of property towards Catholic
population, while a perse cutting aristocracy
own the land and therefore any minister of
the crown who quietly looks on, while the
people are decimated, is willing accomplice
in this legal massacre.
But wait awhile. my Lord China cocks,
Durham pigs, Kent rams. and short-horned
bulls. are now the fashion in all our towns
special trains, courteous directors, dejenuers
a la fourchette, viceregal rhetonic, balls, and
mangelworzel, have with skllful variety ta-
ken the place of the poor honest population,
the old piper, and the merry dance. But
wait awhile, and England and Lord Lieuten-
ants, and noble graziers may soon learn the
approaching paralyzing fact-that pigs can
not handle rifle, that rams cannot discharge
the cannon, that bullocks cannot man a ram
part, and that the modern scheme of herds
and focks, and men. is mistake which,
in the just ways cf divine vengeance, may
yet humble England TO the dust, and make
her lick the ground in slavery under the op-
pressive sway of a foreign master. Wait
awhile, nous rerroas.
At each annual reunion Of those agricultu-
raj spectacles. it means. Ireland, that the
scheme of determination is successfully ad-
vaneimg-that large grazing farms are pro-
gressing-that the people are disappearing.
! 1t is now the rage to convert the soil of Ire
| land into immense bullock and sheep parks.
and as proof of her steady advance of the
system, we must recollect the facts-viz,
that one hundred and ninety-six thousand Irish
| left Ireland In '52-one hundred and fifty
thousand in '53-and one hundred and eleven
thousand in 81 And, therefore, where the
population of pigs and bullocks is recorded by
the secretaries of these societies impo-
sing aud triumphant proof of the rapidly lm-
proving condition of ireland, it stands pre-
cisely as an evidence of equal value to demon
strate the frightful depopulation of the coun-
try. The entire and sole aim of these socie-
ties in ireland is to advance the landlords and
to expel the tenantry-it is to encourage the
growth of black cattle and live stock, and to
diminish in the same ratio the census of the
people There is no aristocratic annual meet
/ ing to work the mines of Ireland, to encour-
| age labor, to advance commerce, or to foster
J i.b al
make the people happy is cruelty omitted,
and plan which has the appearance of ma
tional advantage adroitly and perseveringly
introduced, in order to cover the withering
expulsion of the whole Irish population.
Ancient history furnishes one instance of
national insane recklessness, which can be
compared with the sanguinary English frolic
of first exterminating and then attempting to
enlist the expelled Irish. Previously to the
subjugation of Greece to the Roman power,
/ the Greek legislature ESQ like England) fear
! ing that their numerous slaves would join the
Romans, put all their farm slaves to death,
and never recovered the famine, which resulted
from their massacre. And, without urging
the facts of history beyond the legitimate de-
ductions of logic, there can be no doubt that
England already feels. and shall soon, very
soon, feel in her very hearts core that the ex-
pulsion of one million and half of the Irish
peasantry is freak of Protestant policy which
denudes her empire cf the necessary military
force, which reduces her to a mere auxiliary
force in the Crimea. and which humbles her
to state of acknowledged and slavish depen-
dence and subserviency, to the supreme and
arbitrary will of France. Oh, God what an
army lies On the bottom of the Atlantic, and
| in the Irish gravepits, where the most infa-
nous persecution has buried at least three hun
dred thousand Of the finest that ever the
world saw. If there be justice in Heaven,
and if there be revenge for incredible crime,
there must be a fate reserved for England
commensurate with the multitudinousness OF
her national crimes, and which the full chalice
of her iniquities to Ireland, must soon call
forth in the palpable catastrophe of national
, chastisement.
My Lord, will yeu kindly inform the faith
ers and mothers of Ireland how many of their
banished children you have recruited for Eng
land in America do, Lord Palmerston, do
tell Us, the success of your officer, Mr. Crafnp-
ton ? Do, Sir. tell US, how many men from
Glare, from Mayo, from Meath, from Skib.
bereen, have joined your ambassador? But
if the ambassador fail in his sceme why de
you not employ your former friends and com.
panions, Gavazzi, Achilli, Astrazzi, Mazzini
Kossuth, and Cicerouecchio? You canno
fail, my lord, in your scheme, as you can be
! by your former associates in European ane
English policy. Why not enlist refreshing
battalion from your quondam correspondents
the e free corps" of Switzerland-who sacked
: the converts, robbed Mount st. Bernard
banlshed priests, and killed nuns. Verify
my lord YOU are the man IN recr,Iif for Eng