Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1864-03-05
A PLEA FOR IRELAND.

Under this tile the following letter is ad
dressed to the London Morning News:
SR-Your remarks on the Irish Industrial
Exhibition are animated by so kindly and
right feeling spirit that one cannot peruse
them without pleasure, you will, l hope, per-
nit me, nevertheless, to make few comments
on those remarks: In the first place, then,
why speak of ireland at all as Ireland, that
is, of Ireland as distinct from England Ire
land, politically, is as much a part of Eng
| land as Yorkshire. You tell Ireland to be
her own regeneration. Irish Yalor, industry,
talent, are all created in England; but Irish
barbariSm and Irish restitution are handed
over to the keeping of Ireland. You have
made us whatwe are. Make us better if you
please. You do not apparently try much.
You tell us, indeed, to put our shoulder to
the wheel. Live horse and you will get grass.
You suffer our gentry to live away from the
land that feeds them, whereas, they should !
spend their incomes where they are derived. /
You absorb our national revenues, You Law |
US under the burden of your public debt.
We have no iron, no coal--at least all too
little of both, and the soil is taken out Of the
hands Of the people. The manufactures we
had, you Systematically discouraged that of
linen excepted, which the climate gave us.
and which you could not well take away You
suffer our people to spread themselves over
the Americas and Australia. If you want to
attach them to the soil, invest the peasants
with, if but fragment, Of the soil they TILL
A short time since was in the county of ]
Clare. saw there men and women working
Tor pittance quite inadequate for the decent
3ustenence of soul and body. I saw them +
dwelling in houses unfit for the lairs of wild t
1rutes. The Irishman is influenced by the il
iame motives as other men are. You tie his 5
lands, then ask him why he does not work. i
Does he not work in America, tell ne Does e
le not work in Australia? Look at the mag d
lifcent contributions from whilom poor men b
o men yet poor and miserable, unDsrs Ii
eled in any country or time. A poor man 6
vho could not read showed me an order for Il
Zoo sent by his son from America. This CT
on went away With only his loving heart and
7illing arms. l was few days since in Tip A,
eraTy. 1t was at the station. A group on N
be platform took leave of others in the train. o,
he men kissed each others mouths. Tears :.
III from their eyes. They pressed each 9TH Ii
rs hands; they we're 10th to part and when g,
he train did move a simultaneous wall burst IN
nth thst made the station ring again, and n
hich, think, no living soul could have heard ~
nmoyed. Englishmen are not all fools or
rutes. They do not all.rail at Ireland and tn
shmen.. Let them begassured. if any hum ca
O assurance of mine might move them to III
,tion, that if they will only take Ireland and ga
ishmen to their hearts, and deal by them as ian
ey would wish to be dealtby, lrishmen must re,
I'd will flourish. But SO long as they shirk pa
is great duty-their duty by Ireland-so m,
ng will Ireland remain a curse and re- t
zach, weakness to England, and an igno- an
my before the whole world. sex
Il am, sir, with respect, fac
r. NJ. CORMAC. dis