Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-10-25

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"Ireiand an Aceldama--A Field OF
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70 Hc Editor ef tie 44maerican Organ ~
In this somewhat lengthy review Of Irish histo-
ny, the savage and sanguinary malignity OF the
Irish Papist, his barbar0us and brutal intolerance
and consequent incapacity for the exercise Of the
high and responsible functions Of political self
government are exposed and demonstrated through
the bloody and revolving atrocities with which he
has awiully dsigured every period of the Irish
annals. Whnt,man of humane and Christian SEN
timents and feelings rises from the perusaI of the
awful enormties OF Irish history with mind not
outraged with the horrible reflections which its
denion-like atrocities naturally and inevitably ex-
cite, and heart not sorely oppressed with the
most fearful and gloomy impressionsg His mind
invsuntarily retrospects through Its dreadful ages
of slaughter and torture and crime and he i'm
AGNES he hears the heartpiercing shrieks of moth
ers nnd their hapless babes pierced by the came
stroke of the cruel and death-dcaling pike, or
writhing in the frightfal tortures Of the furious
flames the appalling cries Of men mingling with
the hopeless prayers and agonizing shrieks Of wo-
men and children-husbands and fathers and sons,
mothers and wives and daughters--horribly writh-
ing and vainy struggling amid the awful torlnents
of their burning and roasting bodies! 'a'tta
He sees the wretched babe struggling for free
DOM at length escaping, whired aloft in deyilish
triumph upon tho pike OF It's fendish captor and
hurled again remorselessy into the burning mass OF
human victims; those burning victims, battling
for escape with the desperation and fury Of de-
spair at the doors and windows of their flaming
prison, driven mutilated, and with awful crcunl-
stances of cruelty and horrors again into their
burning graves n But above the horfii roar of
the human flames and unearthly shrieks and cries
and groans of the miserable and burning wretches,
fearfuly wiithing in their mutilation and agony,
he hears the exutant yells Of diabolical rejoicing
and triumph OF the human fends--male and fe
male--in their hellsh orgies over the anguish and
torments Of their bapless and expiring victims!
Inyoluntarily he exclairns, almost sbrieks:
"0i horror horror horror tongue nor heart,
Cannot conceive nor name theein
and his blood, freezing in bis shrinking VEINS he
shudders covers, and recois "a asts
Notwithstanding however this historical con-
catenation Of awful and unparalleled atrocities OF
the Papal Irish, the Boston Pilot man. upon the
failure ofthe Irish Catholic conspiracy for The dia
bolical murder Of American citizens In the inoffen.
sive exercise Of the American franchise, and the
| consequent punishment Of the murderous and con
spring Irish assassins, nsoenty, in his low and
vulgar vitupefation bels the high and native faith
| Of the American character, the Inherent and un-
changeabe inanlinees of the American freeman
and mendaciously endeavors TO aifx the cruel and
demonlike designs of his sanguinary countrymen
as the predetermined intentions Of American ma
| lives What is there in the American character,
in the history Of the American people, either du-
ring the periods Of cruel British tyranny, or sub
sequently, during the happy days CT our gotious
Confederpcy, to warrant or justify so violent and
| unnatural an impntation upon an American asso
citation But what is there not in the envenomed
nature Of the Papal Irish, in Papal Irish history
which, does not proclaim such atrocities as the
natural and immemorial cbaracteristicsofih the Pspal
Irish? The contrast Of the two most prominent
events OF modern American and Irish history--tbc
American rebellion Of l77G and the Irish rebellion
Of ofl79sfurnishes Illustrative and pregnant replies
to these pertinent inquiries. @
Says the Declaration OF Independence, in its
cnumerption Of the tyrannical outrases Of tbs
British depot s...
ale has abdicated government here BY declar.
ing us out Of his protection, and waging war
against ils. .i .t...-.f HeI.,..s. III
"He has plundered our seas, rayaged our coasts,
burnt our towns and destroyed the lives of our
people. . 81.
He Is at this time transporting large armi . Of
foreign mereenaries to complete the work Of death,
dcsolation, and tyranny, already begun with cir
cunstances OF cruelty and peridy scarcely paral-
leled In the most barbarous ages and totally nm
worthy The head Of n civilized nation.
"Ilc has constrained our feIow-citzens, taken
country, TO become the executioners OF their
friends and brethren, to fall themselves by their
hands.
lie has excited domestic insurrection amongst
us. and has endeavored TO bring ON the inhabitants
OF our frontiers the merciless Indian savsges
whose known rule Of warfare is an undstingushed
destruction Of all ages, sexes, and conditions" &C.
Such was the manly language Of our Reyolu-
tionary fathers in their bold and fearless enuncia-
ton Of the hideous causes" which determined
them TO "solemnly publish and declare that these
colonies are, and Of right ought to he, free and
independent States.p What nation or people ever
suffered greater accumulation Of tyranny, out
rage or oppression, or had more or greater causes
or exctcmcnts TO the most cruel and bloody re-
venge? And what was the character Of the sirug-
gle Of American independence Honorable
chivalrous! glorious! Neither treachcry nor crime,
neither massacre nor confagraton indiscriminately
Of men, women aud children neither murder nor
rapine mak nor sully either the grandeur or glory
Of our political independence; but magnanimity
and greatness of soul, humanity and nobleness
of nature distinguished throughout the truly great
and patriotic heroes Of the American Revolution,
under The most frgbtfl difficulties, the most awful
privations and miseries
Such was the American Rebellion, aud such
were the Americans, Of 1776. How honorably,
how magnifcently, does their moderation and
courage, their patriotism aud virtues, contrast
with, the diabolcal excesses and atrocities OF The
Irish Rebellion Of 1898 --iis merciless massacres
and fcndish assassinatons; its plundering and
conAagratons its outrages upon Protestant men,
] women, and children--even upon the cattle and