The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-05


England; so did Cardinal Wolsey The
cardinal fell and never regained again
his foothold.
DEFENSE OF IRELAND AND TIE IRISH.
Tho two features Of to-nighfs debate
are Misrepresentation Of America and
abuse Of Ireland. l have spoken for
Americans; / intend 70 say a word for
the Irish. 10 chills my senses 10 hear you
jeer, and sneer, and throw contempt up
ON that gallant race. Two millions Of
lrishmen are countrymen of mine (cheers)
and ! will not sit quietly and hear, in an
English audience, Ireland trod down and
abused, like the Irish race Ireland
has done much for England; but what
has England done for America? What
a record Of crime, despotism and tyran-
ny What a page Of violence, injustice
and blOOdshed Mr.. --- says no,
show me, then, an oasis in the desert Of
her history; show me a ray of sunshine
in the darkness Of her horizon. Poor
Ireland rich in nature; IN mountains and
in rivers; with fruit in her gardens and
fish in her streams; the unhappy mother
Of brave people made humble by des-
poiic and corrupt government. Poor Ire
land the land Of Curran, and Grattan,
and Shiel where Power acted and Moore
sung his sweet melodies, aud Sheridan
Knowles wrote some of the finest dramas
in our laneuage--who last week, in his
seventy eighth year, made a beautiful
speech, full Of affection aud tears for his
native mountains.
WHAT IRELAND HAS DONE ron ENGLAND
Poor Ireland what has she done that
| England should have treated her so? The
| land that furnishes England with 80
many brave armies; whose sons O-day
are leaders in the world-premiers Of two
nations, and generals in them all You
produced but one great man in your Ma
| poleonic wars; his pictures are in your
galleries, his monuments in your squares
that man was Arthur Wellesley, the
Irish Duke of Wellington. Who rules
to-day ia Spain? An lrishman-Mar-
shall O'Donnell. Who won the battle of
Winchester, but the twice senator, the
shot-proof Irishman, Gen. James Shields2
And who rules supreme in England, be-
loved by his people? Have you forgot
ten that Lord Palmerston is son of ire
| land? Poor Ireland How sad is the
story of thy wrongs; every page Of thy
| history is record of robbery, pillage
and conquest ooh, boshD The gentle
man has twice interrupted me; let me say
TO him that when he applies that word
to my remarks it signifies talent, brain
and intellectual power, neither of which
will any one accuse him of possessing.
SECESSION APPLIED TO IRELAND.
All the speakers here tonight have
been arguing that the Southern Confed-
eracy ought TO be Acknowledged. OBJ
serving this, | am disposed, for argu-
ments sake to agree with you, and apply
the rule to Ireland, Ireland would be
better by herself-more independent
more free, more happy, less slavery, and
would open her ports TO all the world
You have no right to interfere with her
customs, her laws or her religion. When
the Romans made war, they adopted the
habits Of the conquered people. Eng
land on the contrary, tries to make them
English. She is not happy, not content
ed; vegetation grows in her streets ;
misery broods in the faces Of her people.
Let Ireland go; let America acknowledge
the Irish Confederacy.
HISTORY OF IRELAND.
As Woods was historian to the Prince
Of Wales, so Giraldus Cambrensis re-
corded the incidents Of Prince John in
his Irish tour, calling the peasants goats
and sheep, which would become capital
game for English spOrtsmen. Cambren-
sis Eyersus was more caustic, yet equally
ungenerous, One was Trollope the First,
yillifying the Irish people. The other
was Trollope the Second, piling on the
agony.
Centuries have gone since the armies
Of that old coquette, Elizabeth, cut
through your peasantry Long is the
time since that old idiot, King James,
overran that unhappy land with his per-
ambulating scaiIolds and his ready made
exccutioners. Poor Ireland! what a life
Of conquest Then Charles came, with
his packed juries and confscation, fol-
lowed by Cromwell, expatriating eighty
thousand of thy sons, and knocking
down all thy churches, followed by the
second James and his excuses and the
Treaty of Limerick; and then comes the
destruction of thy individuality. The
parliament houses turned into barracks
thy custom houses into stables for the
king; thy squares filed with monuments
20 illustrate the overthrow Of thy religion
end your eyes blinded by giving you
eight millions hundred Representatives
to parliament while England's eighteen
millions have over thousand. And thi,
is the land where Robert Emmett tolC
Lord Norbury his country's wrongs, anC
. Daniel OConnell stood boldly up, anC
Smith OBrien banished, aud The 0Don,
oghue threatened, il he dared TO speak o.
the wrongs of his native land.
AMERICA THE FRIEND or IRELAND
, You say, let the south 60. | say le
Ireland go. Cheers, aud a voice; " Ire
+ land is now prosperous.O Yes, said Mr.
Train, but what has made her so Amer.
, icel Who have added wealth TO our land
the Irish. Who build our factories our ca
mails and railways? the Irish. And in thei
5 wcll-paid labor because we'll earned
; lIthey find large sums of money, which
, llthey have been sending back TO thei
r people for many years Ten million
e isterling since the famine. A noble trai
b of the Irish character. like Irish PEG
s pie, and your attacks on Ireland on &C
a count Of the recent agrarian OutTagos, ar
I most unfair Look over your orimina
2 record and you will end more bruta
;. murders in England during the last yea
, than ia Ireland. Have You forgotten
] the StepneV murder, and the Road muir