The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-17
The irish RcvOlutionists.

LORD PALMERSTONS OPINION OF THE PHOENIX
SOCIETY.
[From the London Post, Dec. 80
We are not among the number of those who arc dis
posed to regard lightly, e to be laughed at
out Of court the proceedings Of the Phoenix Society The
very Of the society suggests reflections which will
occur to any one at all acquainted with the history of the
sister country One of the old charter toasts Of the
United rishmen Of 1893 and 1898 used 10 Beforehand
she ought to be: free and independent" Another was
"May Ireland, like the phGn rise from her ashesn
These oass have for the last sixty years been gven with
all the honors by exparated rebel rishmen in New York.
Baltimore, Boston, Pennsylvania and other American
cities, and the descendants of rishmcn in which
their fathers dead and gonc continue the good old
Christian and charitable habit Of perpetuatng in tho
second generation those feelings Of hatred, anosy and
rebellion which their foreathcrs, for five and fifty sixty
years. cherished against everything Saxon In all the
States of American Union The most bitter revilers of
everything British tho Papst Irish who have left
their country for their good When II
considered that during the twelve or thirteen years
more than a million and half of able bodied
young Papist lrshmen, with religious superadded
to political hatred have emlgrated from the out
ports OF the sister kingdom 10 the United States, ono
may form idea Of the largo deposits of scditon
beon and treason which are stored up beyond the At
lanc, TO find vent whenever opporin oilers. This mil
lion and half of rebrands arc ought 10 state neither
reshed respected by genuine Yankees They are for
the most part narrow minded bgotei men, IN the cond
ton of small cotor farmers agricultural aborers the
like. Now and again there may be field or house
penter among thcm or tailor harness maker, brick
layer mason, vegetable gardener; but the
mass Of them frieZe coated peasants who, If
they get agricultural work to do, become
house street or ticket roters docrcn wharf
lnborers night wntchmen hodrnep &c In these capa.
cities they in America great deal of
money somc OF which is cent to relatives in Ireland,
of which goes TO the Popsh priests (ofen IN America
scholars Of Maynooh OF st. Jara,h's, of Carlow Col
epc) and some Of which is dedicated to the support
aomc demagoguo, lay clerical, who edits New York
or Kentucky Journal teeming with lying abuse OF the
English government of Ireland Thus is kept up a
ranking and running sore between two great coun.
tries for which neither Americans nor Engishmen are
IN the least accountable, but only iberno Americans OF
doubtful character and repute and rebeous OF Erin
ut home who have never left their own country Both
Of these classes are intensely Papist and priest ridden
and we verify believe that in nine out of ten they
tame priests OF course IL the consprators are found
out or anything goes III, tho priests Ireland will
tnc ist 10 abandon, II not 10 den0unce, their dupes as
was the case In 1919. But per coiid II the treason
prospers, their rcvcronces would be prepared 10 enjoy
any and all OF tho advantages that might from
transferring the property of the establishment to his Holt
ness the F0pc and his delegates Cncn and Wscmon and
The property OF the gentry to The universal people Of the