The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-02-20

whereby the English were comfcrtcd by
the confiscation of six northern counties,
amount 1g to five hundred thousand
acres, and half million more during the
same reign. That exemplary monarch
also made an attempt upon the whole
property of the province of Connousht,
which would have succeeded if he had
not been bought up by sum greater
than he hoped to gain. A great rebellion
in the reign Of Charles First was followed
by another scene Of blood, cruelty and
confiscation. Then Cromwell came in j;
but a change Of rulers made no change in
the fate Of Ireland still less when, in the
place Of Charles, came the head Of that
peculiar people whose descendants now
occupy New England and direct the coun-
sells of the United States. Cromwell
began his career in Ireland by promising
quarter to the garrison of Drogheda, and
then massacring them for FIVE days.
Two millions and a half Of acres were
confiscated Whole towns were put up
in lots. The Catholics were banished
from three fourths of the kingdom. One
Of the Puritans Of that day complains
that the people do not transport readi-
y";; but adds, SIT is, doubtless, rora
IN uhich tie LorA wW oppear'-
Ten thousand Irish were sent to recruit
the Spanish army.
"Nothins," says an English and Pro-
testant author, "can show more
strongly the light in which the Irish
were held by Cromwell than the CORE
spondence with Henry Cromwell re-
specting the peopling Of Jamaica from
Ireland. Secretary Thurloe sends to
Henry, the Lord-Deputy in Ireland
to inform him that a stock of Irish Girls
and Irish Young men are wanted for the
peoplinc Of jamaica"
The answer of Henry Cromwell is
as follows; Concerning the supply Of
young men, although We must use fo~ca
in taking them up, get It being 50 mach
.J0r their osoH goat, and likely to be Of
SO great all advantage to the public, it is
not the least doubted but that you may
have such number of them as you may
think fit to make use Of on this account.
81 shall not need repeat anything re-
specting the girls, not doubling to an
sWsr sgs yenr eXpectatlons- to the tas!r r.sc sS
advantage to your affairs there, and over
here, if you should think fit to send
fifteen hundred or two thousand boys to
the place above mentioned. We tan reIl
snare item : and who knows tina. it may
be the means Of making them English-
men-I mean, rather, Christians. AS icr
the girls, suppose you will make pro
,, visions Of clothes and other accommoda
tons for them" Upon this, IhurIot
informs Henry Cromwell that the Coun
Gil have voted four thousand girls, ant
, as many boys, to go to Jamaica"
I Every. Catholic priest found in relan'
h was hanged, and five pounds paid to tn
G informer.
!. about the year 1862: and 1908,
o saws Colonel Lawrence in his IAteresi
o of ireland, "the plague and famine ha
1t so swept away whole counties that
ie man might travel twenty or thirty mile
t. and not see living creature, either NAL
l. or beast, or bird,-they being all dea
d. or had Quilted those desolated region
III Our soldiers would tell stories OF tt
" places where they saw smoke-lt was
as rare to see either smoke by day or ii
re or candle by night In this mann
e, did the Irish live and die under Crol
h. we'll, suffering by the sword, famine, p
no thence and persecution, beholdlng t
tn contiscation Of kingdom and the banl'
nd mant Of a race. $50 there pershet
ed says S. W. Poetry, in the year To-
ey six hundred and fifty thousand hum
ith beings, whose blood somebody MI
ity atone for to God aid the king
er- In the reign of Charles H.: by the
'ief Of Settlement, four millions and hal
to acres were forever taken from the In
we "This country" says the Earl OF Ess
. Lord Lieutenant in 1875, has been ?
to petually rent and torn since His Ma)es'
nod restoration. can compare it to notf'