Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-15
Queen yIctorla and 1he IrIsh, ,

The London Saturday ReVisV dwels upon
Queen Victorias recent visit to Ireland, as
an occasion which marks signal victory of
the good over the evil genius of the Irish
people. 1t adds:
Irish history has been long tragedy in
three acts. The first act was that of the
wars between the native Irish and the Anglo
Norman settlers of the Pale. The second
was that of the Instructions and civil wars
which filled the reigns of the Tudors and
the Stuarts. The third was that of the
Orange escendancy, extending from the time
of William III nearly to the present day.
But the curtain has now at last fallen on the
dark and bloody scene. The administration
of the late Chief Secretary was marked by
two unostentatious but signal victories of the
better spirit over the worse. The national
interest obtained complete triumph over that
of ascendancy in the matter of national edu-
| cation; and the overt manifestations of civil
hatred and OF the rivalry Of race, in the
| shape of party flags and professions, were,
to all appearances, finally put down. Nor
must the Landlord and Tenant Bill be for
gotten, winding up, as it did, the long
agrarian struggle which forms throughout
the annals of Ireland an element at least as
dark and malignant as those of national
antipathy and religious hatred.
81 have firm conviction" said Peel,
when struggling against that last relic of
the old Irish civil wars, the repeal agitation,
that if there were q period of calm and
| tranquility in Ireland, there is no part of the
| British empire that would make such rapid
| progress in improvement. There are facili-
| ties for improvement and opportunities for it,
| which will make the advance of Ireland more
rapid than the advance of any other country.
l will conclude, then, by expressing my sim
cere and earnest hope that this agitation,
| and all the evil consequences of it, may be
permitted to subside, and hereafter, in what
ever capacity l may be, | should consider
that the happiest day of my life when could
see the beloved sovereign of these realms full
filling the fOndest wishes of her heart-pos-
sessing feeling of affection for all her peo-
pie, but mingling that affection with SYM
| Dathy and tenderness towards Ireland.
Il should hail the dawning of that aus
picious day when she could alight, like some
benignant spirit, on the shores of Ireland
and lay the foundations OF temple of peace
when she could, in accents from the heart
spoken to the heart rather than to the ear
call upon her Irish subjects, of all classes and
of all denominations, Protestants and Roman
Catholics, Saxon and Celt, to forget the DIFF
ference of creed and of race, and to halloW
that temple of peace which she would ther
found, with sacrifices still holier than those
by which the temples of old were halloWed-
by the sacrifice of those evil passions thai
dishonor our common faith, and prevent thC
union of heart and hand in defense of ouI
common country
Peel did not live to see the fulhlment o
his wish; but 1t is now fulfilled, and the Irisl
Secretary who prepared its fulflment was hi
friend and colleague, while the Irish Secre
tary who will witness its fulflment is his son