The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-11-24

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C0ElO5k AND LINEN RAGS, N hsgs q small
TAs Irlsh, Poles. Gernaas, &c.
when come English diploma&ist-we d
not recolleet who Il was>-after the suppress
sion Of the Polish rebellion In 1881, endea
voeed 70 intercede with the Emperor Nicho
IL In favor Of that unhappy people, whon
he W. drgging from their homes BY thou
sanAs. 20 people his frightful deserts In ..
beria. he Ms cut short by the despot, ant
toA 20 turn his attention tothe irish II N
viahed 20 ameliorate the condition Of an op
ureeaed nation. 1.-THE Poles," added thu
autocsaa, 'Are ny Irish" He spoke thu
Truth. since the world began there never
~, % lAr - We can recollect, such long
continued oppression As that under which
the Poles have labored. The Turks estao
l,ahed their dominion over the Byzantine
ampire only about four hundred years ago
the descendAnts Qf Tamerlane had occupied
the throne of India only about two hundred
and my years, when the Empire OF the
Great Mogul WAS broken to pieces by thu
agent OF an English trading company-tht
Moons held disputed empire in Spain moi
moro than Ave hundred years. But for sever
long and weary centuries-from the reign
tho second Henry to the time Of Victoria
from the lieutenancy of Salisbury Common
~ called Longsword, not strongbow as We
said Yesterday to that Of the present occu-
rant of the vice-regal palace in Dublin
through all the mighty changes, social and
politicsl. which England has undergone
her hand has been heavy upon Ireland. 1t
mattered little who was on the throne
whether Plantagenet or Tudor, York
or Lancaster, . Stuart or Guelf 1t mat
tered little whether the form of Government
Syas . Monarchy or a Commonwealth, Ire
land was still TO- suffer persecution under
them all. The Plantagenets and the Tudors
exterminated the ancient families, as far as
they could-Cromwell slaughtered the PEG
ple and transported them to Jamaica Pitt
gave up the island to spies and informers, to
the torch, the sword, and the gallows. All
that all these agents of the Internal powers
did,. however, was mercy in comparison
with what successive Parliaments did, be
ginning with the reign of William the Sd, in
the passage of acts designed to abridge the
Irishman's rights, to surround him with all
manner of disabilities, to torture him to
death by systems of espionage and domicil-
iary interference. Let any man who can, in
the face Of all this, wonder that Ireland
hates England, and would be glad to sec her
sunk in the bottom of the sea- AS Nicholas
filed up the places his Siberian exiles had
left vacant, SO Great Britain seems to be
steadily pursuing plan which will end by
depopulating Ireland, and leaving it to be
filed up by an English population. 1t has
been found thst emigration can effect this
object better than the wholesale murders of
Cromwell and Pitt, and therefore emigration
Is encouraged to the utmost.
When a third people arc struggling for
their liberty one would hardly expect to zee
Ireland and Poland banding against them.
Yet that is precisely what VIC do see at the
present moment. The Irish and the Pole .
are the foremost in the Yankee ranks-seek
ing to subject Us to despotism infinitely
worse than that from which they have then.
selves escaped. The Poles, like the Germans,
are all Red Republicans. Liberty, equality,
and determination with all mankind, are the
main articles of their political creed They
hate everything which looks like fcudal arts
tocracy, and they take the Southern Govern
ments to be such, because of negro slavery.
They are as willing to fraternize with the
negro as with anybody else. They abhor
every conservative element in every form of
Government. They object, indeed, to all
Government. They prefer anarchy and the
rule of the mob. 1t is not surprising, there
fore, that they should forget their obliga-
lions to the Southern people in their desire
to establish the reign of indiscriminate plum
der and the supremacy of disorder.
But the Irish are not Red Republicans
they are, Of all the world, the least affected
with the negro naania-they are in general
decidedly conservative. That they have, al
most to o men, or appear to have, passion
for arms, is true. But that they shoald take
uparms to deprive of their liberty men who,
like themselves, are conservative; like them
selves, are unaffected by Red Republicanism.
like Themselves. enemies to negropholists
and their abominable tenots and who,
moreover, when there was question Of dis
franchising them and prescribing their re
ligion, and this, too, III defiance of their
native priests, whose hold upon them is pro-
verbally strong, and, as it is said, even of
the Pope himself, who, like the priests in
question, is believed to DC opposed to the
emigration which has filed the Yankee
ranks with Irish soldiers-all this appears to
us marvellous, or rather, perhaps we ought
TO say, 1t did appear marvellous, until the
revelations OF the hast few days. II now seems
that there has all along been in existence
in Yankeedom society called the Femian
Brotherhood, the object of the associa ton
being to entice Irishmen into the ranks, un
der the promise that as soon as the Confed.
eracy shall have been subdued, the Union
win then exert it's whole power to effect the
alteration OF Ireland by force Of arms. About
three hundred members Of this association
lately met at Chicago in Convention. They
came from Ireland, Canada, and the United
States. The Yankee papers are very careful
TO disclaim for their Government all part or
participation in this conspiracy to dismem
her the British empire. 1t is nevertheless
ed that Seward not only knew of it,