The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-07-18
ErBS7s Views.


gcther. in bonds OF indissolublc friendship,
ireland and the Republic Of tho West An
hiih Parliament chcorcd the early struggles
of the coloniss and that monument upon
Broadway 10 tho memory OF the Irish Mont
gomory testilios that not for an ungrntctul
people did Irish blood III tho War of lndC-
pcndcncc flow. In America millions of the
persccutcd Irish race have found home,
! wealth, liberty and hor or; and if it be most
| true that Irish labor have contributed great
| ly to the aggraud!ECmcnt OF the republic, it
| is also true that with no niggard hand has
| that labor been rewarded. The defeated
champions of many q European struggle
| even our own refugees, actors in the most
miserable attempt that the annals Of revolu-
ton rccord--havc been received in New
| York aud other capital cities with the hon
! ors due only TO COuqucrors and heroes
| When nur country lay writhing i'll the ago
nics of famine and when tho government
which had produced that calamity refused
| to disarm its idle war ships in order to car
ry food to our perishing people the Ameri-
can Government rushed 20 the rescue, and
in sending the Macedonia frigate to Cork
harhor designed not merely TO administer
relief to EngLud's victim, but to administer
a warming to England herself Ireland has
not forgotten these eycuta: nor does she feel
less warmly toward American to-day than
she did fifteen years ago, when the pcope
Of Dublin, under thc presidency OF the vch-
crablc Richard ONoYmGn, rendered homl9 c
to the American Government 1T the person
of Captain Clarke, Of the Victor. What
Irish heart was there that did not then
thrill with emotion on hcdolding the Stars
aud Stripes of the United States flying from
the masthead of many gallant ship in the
harbors and rivers OF Ireland? And what
Irish heart ia there can now contemplate
unmovcl the spectacle Of that glorious
Union dismembcrcd, and those Stars and
Stripes become general again, except in Ire
land, where ii is prevented by English law
We have alluded 10 foreign Influences
we wish 10 bo precise. Before Europe aul
America, solcmnly and deliberately we lay
the tremendous crime at the door of Eng
land. The South is but her agent in Tia,
business, British intrigue, backed by Brit
ish gold, has accomplished that which Brit
ish arms could not effect in1Sl2, dcstroyct
at one blow the American navy, crushed {
rival manufacturing power, and regaincC
for herself her olden maritime supremacy
Yes, we say it cmphatcaliy, the disrup tioi
of the American Union (suppo5ing il to b
effected, which may God avert gives Eng
land new lease OF power, throws into he
hands the carrying tradc Of the world, leave
her without rival in every colonial market
gives her the command Of California and III
golden treasures, for the country that ha
the iron will obtain the golI,) opens to he
enterprise every highway Of the New
World, and hunblcs to the dust the onl,
power on earth that for half n century ha
4, had the courage to stand up and singly f
confront her. The disruption Of the Ameri
| can Union is worth more to England tha
, twenty Walcrloos. Well does the old hypc
, critic know this; and long, therefore, am
! earnestly has she lQhorcd to effect the ru
, over which she now rcio.ccs. She began b.
sending missionaries into the Norther
, States to excite tho popular mind there o
\ the subject Of slavery, with thc Yicw of eS
aspcrsting tho South Having succcede
to a certain extent in that, she next goes t
|, the South, and makes her an otior OF lre
:. trade. nIhrow open" she said, your port
;, to British manufacturers. and we will TAX
E in exchange your cotton and import tn
: same direct in british bottoms.' The Sout
o is caught by the bait. and seeing not the fat
" which inevitably awaits her. should the cd
. Gus conspiracy succccl.-a British protectC
'. rato--thTows Off he allegiance. and make
war upon tho government. What now doe
: England do? Bul short whloago and he
- horror Of slavery was only eQualed by he
= hatred of popery; she now openly cspousc
" tho side of siaycry. and makes the Southo:,
= cause her own.
= Mr.. ". H. Gregory. Member of Parlii
: mcut 1--WE reCor to him in his public capac
: ty soieiy,) is gentleman of gooI address