Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-03-31

lIcm SINGLE port but grants departing at tbt
rate of 200 weekly from Queenstown, and of coo
fortnghtly from Galway Two three thousand
have departed from Kingstown, and double that mum
Der from Belfast In Ireland the number of emgrants
10 the United States 10 1868 ia calculated at l80 00C
souls. 1t is noted that the emigrants now chiefly
able-bodied males and that comparatively few females
accompany them that they well clothed, we'll fed
and furnished with good outfits Either they have en-
dured no hardship, they have been we'll cared for
during time lot only is emigration on the in
crease but there appear new agencies for the
ton of "mners "navvies' "coal whippers" 'carpen-
ters, "smithe &c, for railways which have exis-
tence, and mines nowhere to be found The men leave
Ireland with the idea that they to be employed in
manual abour but they soon hnd themselves IN the
hands OF the army crmEs on landing at New I York--
Deducting the nuLcDer OF aud children, and
those who have gone "up country" we believe that
Mr. Lincoln obtained from Ireland 10000 recruits in
the year 1868.
II you inquire OF Irish political agitator the cause
of this exodus, be will not say it is the exis
tence of the Protestant Church establishment" or
" the oppression OF the landlord the inequality
of the law" He will g'avely inform you that the ab
sesce OF tenan right" is driving the Irish from home
and friends. Here Englishman is puzzled tor he
does not know what tenant right" " means. No po
htlcal agitator has yet given definition of tenant
right. 1t is impalpaole the British Constitution
ia according to MIR. Brig ght If compensation for per-
manent improvements meant, then Mr. Cardwe's
bl amended last session. secures that to the tenant
oy the smples machinery possible. Ii the power of
retaining lard without lease 10 defiance OF the land
lord be intended, Engshmen could understand that
peasant might desire that power, but he would neither
claim it Oc himself concede it to Othere, could
he discover how the want tf SO extraordinary prvi-
ege drives thousands to the slaughter pen 10 Ireland
as In England,s tenant may procure permanent pos
session of mis- land by obtaining lease but few tenants
desire leases, and few landlords will give them univer
sally The s because the lsase-hoder, becom-
ing independent OF Lis landlord s then the creature of
the priest and must vote be Directs even against
his landlord The tenant, much he dislikes the in
teIf of his landlord disikes still the dica
tion OF the priest and thus the tenant does not seek
and the landlord does not cfer, document which
would destroy the influence of the and the liberty
OF the other.
But "a Lease is term very well understood, and it
is not "tenant right" If analyse this principle,
which told lies at the root of all the wrongs Of
Ireland, we find it to this-"the power OF re-
tanning land in defiance of the owner without payment
OF rent. very comfortable principle indeed and one
which might keep the tenants from emigrating. By
this description of tenant right the tenant BECOMES the
ndlord, and the landlord has nothing. 1t happens
that this is the principle adopted by the Fenal Bro
therhood, of which We have heard SO much This ex.
tenve organization demands "Ireand for the Irish in
a different from that which the words usually
bear. The Shibboleth means for them the appropria
of the property of the landlords Gnd its division
among the peasantry in fee simple.
There not Irish emigrant who takes serv ce In
the American armies who does not hope when the war
is over, to return to Ireland in company with hun
dred thousand comrades, under the "green flag hutter
ing lhem,' and led by Meagher of the sword,
Luat COrCoran dead The New York crimp exhibits
the shining dollars to the emgrant the moment he sets
foot the quays. He invites him to iquor up, talks
OF the Stars and Stripes the end OF the rebellion in
ninety days, and then lowering his voice. he whispers
something about the Fenian brotherhood, and return
to the home be loved, and the fields he knew, when Ire
land shall be redvided among her exiled children The
emgrant is readily deuded by these tales and they add
considerably to the persuasive effect of 375 chnkiDg
dollars, which exchanged for greenbacks and liquor
before the day is over.
The proceedings In Congress prove that sum of
"a 100000 has been granted "to extend" and "encour
age immigration into the States" Mr.. Lincoln in his
message advised the establishment of organised
tenn OF immigration from foreign countries where the
emgrants "besiege" the doors Of American consuls-
We may therefore expect that in spring vast impetus
will be giveBto emigration, and that dort will be
spared to empty Ireland, specially of it's able bodied
males If We assured that we had done with the
emgrants once they landed at New York. perhaps the
exodus need not be regretted but when the war is
oves the illconcealed dislike of the Yankees to the
Irish will break ont. The surviving Irish will be gath
cred together and if only to get rid OF them, wl be
armed and let loose upon Ireland We may be assur-
ed that in the army the Irish recruit hears nothing
expressions of haired and OF vengeance against
the British Government.
Under these circumstances the interference of the
Legislature is required not much to prevent emgra
tion that the emgrants not to become
belgerans Our Cabinet seiZes ships suspected OF be-
ing intended to act against the Federal States why
should not emgrants suspected OF intention OF tight
ing against the South be liable to similar supervision
ould not the Cohfederates at least, be iuy justified
10 sezing ships crowded with emgrants destined to
cruit The exhausted armies of the North?