The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-10-22
From III" D"him Ti'gr"ih.

'"''"S 'hc nohln ending April OF tl(
present year, the unprecedented number o
27,S5G cmigrants landed in New York anC
the returns, too, from tie Canadas, and
from Australia, present an unaLatcL currcn,
OF population leaving Ireland for tho Bri
tlSil colonies. Some idea may bc formed
Of the extent to which this desire TO .,uit
the country is carried, when one learns that
during the last two weeks of the last Lent,
upwards OF one thousand persons princi
| pally OF the small comfortable farmino
class, left the railway station at I.incricl,
Tor Liverpool. The scenes of heart rcnlnr
distress Which take place Oh those occasions
OF the parting Of mothers and fathers from
Their children can never be forgotten by
those who have once witnessed this indis-
cr'bable separation; the heart Of the great
est enemy Of these classes of the Irish
sometimes melts with pity, perhaps with
sorrow, when the wild cry of the arcd pa
rent Is heard, rs, standing on the platform.
the engine begins to move, carrying away
forever the children in whom their very
lives are centred. Each packet that leaves
our shores, crowded with the Irish youth, is
an additional proof of the anomalous con-
d!tlon of Ireland, and Of the partial lcris-
lat'on Of England. Each year that wit
ncsscs this continued Exolc, is a demon
strat'on that the insecurity of the tenure of
land, the terrors Of the landlord, and the
eternal lash of national bi.",ry, overcome
the lrl>llnans innate love Of home, and
force him TO burst a,un,ler al, the ties of
nature herself to escape from q country,
his own country, where the law Of tho
State, tie Gospel Of the established Church.
and the hatred Of q large section Of the
aristocracy arc lcagucd against his con-
science, against his social advancement. and
in fact, against his very existence.
There is no use i'll the case before us, to
appeal to the sympathy Of the Legislature :;
they have always replied to such an appeal
by laws written in the blood of the Irish :;
and they have ever silcnccd our national
murmurs by the drummcr's lash, by convict
letters, or 10y the rope. In the present i'll
stance, tho Government, before many years
capse, will be made to feel that all partcis
engaged in producing this Exode of the
people will lose more than they cain bv
this anti-national combination. Each Young
man who leaves Ireland for the United
> atcs is n loss (arror,lns sn tho valno act
on an ablc-bodicd man in this country of
LAO, to the army and the navy; he is a
great loss to properly developed system
OF national agricultnrc; and when one takes
into consideration the cxcisaLIe articles
which he buys, the English cloth which he
wears, l think it may be safely assumed
that fifty thousand such individuals produce
loss of some several million pounds ster.
ling to the State. We have given upwards
of two millions Of money to Sardinia to
help us i'll the Crimea; and we have pur
chased the services of a German Legion at
an enormous expense, which might be saved
by keeping at home the thousands and tens
Of thousands of faithful, invinciJlc poor Irsl,
hearts, whom our rulers have starved or ban.
isllcd. But, perhaps, the greatest misfor-
tune in this anomalous legislation is, that
England not only substracts from her own
poor all these expelled and lost resources,
but, again, she adds them all to the Amcri-
can Republic. She weakcns herself in Or
der to give strength. to America; she sends
youth, muscle, and a full grown army to
America and still more she sends hundreds
Of thousands Of aggrcivcd hearts breathing
revenge and vengeance against the laws.
the name, the very existence of the Euclish
Constitutions. And if England shall choose
her hatred Of the Irish Catholic to continue
this scheme of forced emigration, she will
soon learn to her cost that she will perhaps
lose more millions of money in one war with
America, than would support all her ex
PEELED cmigarnts at home; and she may
yet be compelled to feel that honor, Justice,
equity, and liberty of conscience, woul
have cost her less money than her past sec
tartan code of bigotry, injustice, and class
legislation. The fate of Carthage, which
Juno once dreaded from the future power
Of Rome, may with truth be feared Ly
britannia from the rising dominion Of
America; and an American Virgil might,
with an apt propriety and slight change of
the names Of nations say
Progenjem, sed enim Trojano sanguinc duel
Audlerat, Tyrias olim quiz verteret arccs;
llnc populum, late regem, beloque superbum
Eenturum excidio libye sic VoIverc Parcos.
But although the causes which have de-
tcrmined the Irish laboring and small far
mer classes to leave Ireland arc the same in
the year 1857 as in the year ls4s, their
condition, however, on the other side of be
Atlantic and in Australia are widely diff. r.
cnt. In the commencement of their han.
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