Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-06-16
0EngIand's Difficulty Ireland's Op.
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The Dublin Irishman Of May 18th has a sig.
nifcant article on the rebellion in this country
and the relations of the British Government to
it, and indicates very plainly the feelings with
which Irisbmen view the field. 1t says:
Many sacred and peculiar ties bind together,
in bonds of lndissouble friendship, Ireland and
the Republic Of the West. An Irish Parlia-
ment cheered the early struggles Of the cOlonsts;
and that monument upon adway to the mem
ory of the Irish Montgomery testl6es that not
for an upgrateful people did Irish blood in the
War OF Independence how. In America mil
lions Of the pereecuted Irish race have found q
home, wealth, liberty and honor; and II it be
most true that Irish labor has contributed great.
lJ TO the aggrandizement Of the Republic 10 IL
also most true that with no niggard hand has
that labor been rewarded. The defeated cham
pions of many European struggle-even our
own refugees, acting In the most miserable at
tempt that the annals of revolution record
have received In New York and other capital
cities with the honers due only to conquerors
and heroes.
When our country lay writhingin the agonies
of famine, and when the Government which
had produced that calamity refused TO disarm
Its idle war ships in order TO carry food TO our
perishing people, the American Government
rushed to the rescue, and In sending the Mace
donian frigate to Cork harbor, designed not
merely to administer RELIEF TO England's victim,
but TO administer warning to EOgland herself.
Ireland has not forgotten these events; nor does
she feel less warmly towards America to day
than she did fifteen years ago, when the people
of Dublin, under the presidency of the vener-
able Richard O'Gorman, rendered homage to
the American Government, in the person of
Captain Clarke, of the Victor. What Irish
heart was there that did not then thrill with
emotion on beholding the Stars aud Stripes Of
the United States fying from the masthead of
many gallant ship In the harbors and rivers of
Irelandl And what Irish heart is there that
can now contemplate unmoved the spectacle Of
that glorious Union dismembered, and those
Stars and Stripes become general again-except
In Ireland, where IL Is prevented by English law
We have alluded to foreign inAuence--we
wish to be precise. Before Europe and Ameri
ca, solemnly and deliberately we lay the tre
mendous crime at the door of England. The
South is but her agent in the business. British
intrigue. backed by British gold, has accom-
plished that which British arms could not effect
in 1912; destroyed at one blow the American
payy, crushed rival manufacturing power, and
regaiped for herself her old maritime suprema-
cy. Yes, we say IL emphatically, the disruption
Of the American Union (supposing IL to be eff
fected. which may God averD gives Eugland a
new lease of power, throws into her hands the
carrying trade of the world, leaves her without
rival in every colonial market gives aer the
command of California and It's golden treas
ures (ior the country that has the iron will OBJ
tain the gold), opens to her enterprise every
highway Of the New World, and humbles to
the dust the only power on earth that for half
q century has had the courage to stand up and
sipgly to confront her.
The disruption Of the American Union is
worth more 10 England than twenty Waterloos.
Well does the old hypocrite know this; and
long, therefore, and earnestly has she labored to
effect this ruin over which she now rejoices.
She began by sending missionaries into the
Northern. States to excite the popular mind
there on the subject Of slavery, with the view
of exaspersting the South. Having succeeded
to o certain extent In that, she next goes to the
South, ami makes her an offer Of free trade.
" Throw open" she said, ''your ports TO British
manufactures, and we will take In exchange
your cotton, and import the same direct In Brit.
ish bottomsn The South is caught BY the
bait, and seeing not the fate which inevitably