The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-11-14

> AeDERs history furnishes US with a fact
which we. may find it pr ofitable and instructive
to ponder well at the present juncture. In 1901,
the Irish Parliament was induced to accept an
ingenious scheme, devised by the English Min
istry, for the union Of Great Britain and Ireland
BY one of the articles of union, it was stipulated
that Ireland should be represented in the Par
Lament of the United Kingdom by % peers,
in Che Heuse-Of-Loris sad by 100 members, in
the House of Commons. Under this arrange
ment the Irish were assured, that in effect, they
would make their own laws through their rep
resentatiyes in the Imperial Parliament; where
as, when we consider that the House Of Com
mons then consisted of 5f3 English and As
Scotch members, 1t may readily be perceived
that the 100 Irish members could really have
nothing, in fact, to do with the enactment of
laws for Ireland It's almost needless to re-
mark that the IS Irish peers were also in hope
less minority in the House of Lords. ireland,
at the date Of the Act Of Union, was a conquer
ed country lying under the English yoke and
England resorted to this expedient Of ''union, |"
in order that by amusing the Irish people with
the delusive idea that they were making their
ownlaws, she might make their laws for them,
and cheat them, upon that ground, into an ODE
dience which She had found it so difficult to en-
force at the point Of the bayonet as to regula-
tons of undisguisedly English origin. Ireland,
under the Act of Union, has remained in her
former condition. To-day, as she was sixt
years ago, she is conquered province, whose
laws are made by strangers and whose own
sons have been bribed with place to aid the con.
querors in the task of expressing Ireland.
There is no hope for that unhappy country In
the future, except in casting off the letters Of
the Union, or in pcrsuading O England to do
her justice.
The proposal that the South, without any
amendment Of the Constitution, shall submit to
be governed by the Black Republicans, seems,
to us, to be not unlike the proposal made by
England to the Irish Parliament, under the arti
cles of union The North, with lS States
soon to be largely increased in number-has 30
Senators. The South, with 10 States, has only
80 Senators; and this number, before many
years pass by, will be diminished. The North
has $40 Representatives and the South has on
lys0. In the matter Of the folly committed by
the Irish, the principle is precisely the same a,
in the matter Of the folly contemplated by III,
ultra "Union men" of The South The dispro
portionis greater, as between the English ant
Irish votes in Parliament than il is between III,
Northern and Southern votes in Congress but
after all, this utter and incurablc foolishnes
peryades both systcms-that the Irish, in tn,
one case, and the South, in the other, is in a mi
nority, and is uttcrly unable rithih tie system
to protect itself against the majority. IIowcvc
it may be in point Of form. or of constitutions
right, ''submission," in point Of fact, involve
sntjection. FIVE submit, care conquered, an,
five are not conquered by force of arms, il vii
only be because we were so frightened by threat
/. thatth employment Of arms against us was un
necessary.