Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-03
Tho FomjDe In ireland.

We have examined attentively the ac-
counts published in the foreign newspapers,
relative to failure in the potato crop of
Ireland, and while we do not see cause for
the apprehension and alarm felt among the
people, there is still enough to fear that the
condition Of that country may be very un-
fortunate during the coming months. 1t is
singular 10 think but it seems that misery
and famine cling to the beautiful shores of
this important province. Its people are a
dependent people, in all the relations Of
life. The Irish character possesses many
noble traits--a generosity that knows no
bounds-a sense of honor which nothing can
coDtrol-a geniality of spirit above all other
nations on the earth, and bravery on the
field which has immortalized their warriors
in every battle from Fontenoy TO Manassas.
They are daring, wild, thoughtless, proud,
gallant and dependent race. Splendid ora
tors, fine poets, and possessing, perhaps,
more of what we call genius, than any
other nation in the world they want en-
ergy, prudence, aud forethought. When an
evil like this falls upon Ireland our sorrow
is something more than the sorrow of SYM
pathy. 1t can hardly be attributed to the
improvidence of this people-for improvi-
dent as the Irish are, they cling to their
for their happiness with strange energy.
The policy of the English Government to-
ward the people of Ireland only attains its
legitimate fruits in troubles like those now
threatening them. 1t seems to be part of
the English creed to disparage the Irish
character, and to cramp the resources of its
people, and to-day more care is given by the
Cabinet of her Majesty the Queen to the
for rbsIao IN, Mopoboo-
ter and Birmingham, than to the sustenance
and comfort of one of their most magnificent
| dominions.
We have said that in the many accounts
before us there is a great deal of exaggera-
tion in relation to the distress which is so
feared for Ireland. The Irish newspapers
themselves are certainly not the best au-
| thorities-particularly when it is their in
| terest as partisans to annoy and condemn
the Government. The anarchists and revo-
! lutionists in some of the lower counties are
| evidently making this pretext for bring
ing upon the people Of Ireland the woes of
international war. The correspondent of
the Dublin Freeman says that "Agrarian
disputes have already commenced" and
another correspondent from Kilkenny
writes about "small farmers being on the
verge of bankruptcy" and "imminent star
vation being the fate of the people" a
more poetic journalist, not satisfied with
one cause of distress, gravely tells his read
ers Fever will walk on with the Famine
as usual" while other newspapers, in the
radical interest, write about "impending
dangers" consequential horrors" "inevi-
table famine" and recall the time when
"the young man grew older under priva-
tions, and within short time was bowed
down, almost into the very earth, into which
the fever or the famine-plague hurried the
aged of his kindred"
These radical gentlemen, who have no in
terest in any thing which looks to the peace
of society and the stability Of the Govern
ment, will take every occasion to impress
upon the minds Of the people the fear of fever,
pestilence, and death. With them we have
no sympathy from their conclusions our
judgment compels us to dissent. Beneath
all the flimsy rhetoric and fantastical ad-
jectives of these imaginative writers, we
can easily see the existence of a serious evil
for the people of Ireland. We trust that the
horrors of the last famine will be evaded by
the kind and paternal action of the British
Government. That Government has now
another opportunity for doing much to make
Ireland loyal and happy British province.
DHe luS1 IL III IOf' WuOh Sho eilhOu WIN
the woes of the people simply to avenge the
agitation of few of their leading men, and
the annoyance she received from the young
orators and thoughtess revolutionists was
visited upon the mass of the unoffending
people. We trust if the fears of an agri-
cultural failure should prove true we may
not be called upon to chronicle the heart
rending scenes of the last famine. But we
surely know that, in the event of such q
visitation, ireland may appeal to the sym.
pathy of her American friends, as she ap-
Ielled in the day of her former trial, and
receive as large measure of relief as it il
in the power of our people to give.-PhL
adelphaPreS'.