The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-08-11

race or In their fury ct other times been swollen
with the voices of woe and malediction
which the remembrance of the .oppressor In
darker moods provoked. Instead OF being the
saddest, believe that Ireland would have been
the happiest0f nations, had she won and for
titled her right to the freedom she struck for,
and risen to the sovereign control Of her re-
sources. the acquisition of her fortune, and
the decision of her destiny. But thus far
it has been the win of Heaven that the
renowned instructor and evangelist of Europe
IN the DAYS of barbarian, with all her material
means to be rich and all her intellectual capa-
city to be great should remain despoled, and
in rags aud ruins be chained among the mar
tyrs, instead of being enthroned among the
potentates of liberty. To this will we must
submit, until in its own good time Heaven
sees fit to cancel the decree, and, for all that
has been manfully and with religious heroism
accepted with it, substitutes ap equivalent re-
ward in the restoration Of our ancient Island
to its ancestral eminence, and the restitution
in full of it's commercial, political, and mill
tary powers. In the meantime it becomes us,
and It is our sacred duty, so to act that the Wis
itations of Ireland may be turned to her advan.
tage, her fortunes improved, her good char
acter maintained, her relations with friendly
and favoring enations strengthened, and the
augmented in her favor. Of these visitations
the reduction of the population of Ireland by
emigration has been Of late years, and is at
this moment, considered to be the most Sc
rious. That it Is considered so justly shall
not dispute, for should have to renounce my
faith In the ability Of Ireland to be prosper
Gus nation, and the equal of the foremost so
far a. intellectual vigor and military spirit of
the highest order can andvance nation, were
to regard the depletion Of Ireland BY the emf
grant ship otherwise than as an almost fatal Ca
lamity. But It is . calamity which for the time
being cannot be averted, and since It will have
its own way like the wind the torrent, the
burning mountain, war or pestilence, It Is no
disgrace to succumb to it, nor can 1t be ac-
counted the capitulation Of poltroon or trail
tor, to acknowledge its validity and make the
of Ireland to rise in arms to-day, seize the
ports, overwhelm the garrisons, blockade the
ports, defy the sea-dogs as well as the land
forces of England, and with all the securities
which international jurisprudence and comfy
require, declare their nationality to be in full
force and operation, for one would say, let
not man Of You quit the country-there is
and food and happiness yoG syog
mines, your fisheries, your fields, your seas
Ireland is your own, 1t has been remanded to
you after q heightened sequestration, the JUS
tice of God restores it to you, and In the name
of God hold 1t for yourselves, your children,
and their posterity to the latest day. against
the world, for the honor and glory OF God, the
credit of humanity, and the practical benefit
of mankind. Since, however, an adjuration
like this cannot be made to-day, and that soil
tary ship have spoken of has multiplied into
fleet of thousand sail before my vision, and the
bone and sinew, the heart and brain of Ireland
has, for the most part, been transplanted here,
and to protest against the emigration of our race
would be to protest against its disenthralment
from beggary, physical suffering and incapacity,
social bondage and the letters of an alien made
have animated, to direct that emigration into
salutary channels, and transform it from
curse, which it seems at first, into a benedic-
ton, as it must ultimately prove to be, to the
people of Ireland. What then-since his COM
ing here is as sure and irresistible the fall of
the Mississippi from the rocks of st. Anthony,
what then, ask, should be the relationship
of the Irish emigrant to the United States, its
people, government and history? 1t is alrea-
DIV declared-already written-set forth in q
splendid illumination in the records of the
benificent, chivalrous and noble relationship
that has already existed between the people Of
Ireland and the people Of America, for nearly
ment of Rhode Island, beleaguered by King
Phillip and his savages, was in the spasms of
starvation, a ship arrived at Fall River, from
Dublin, freighted with corn and other supplies.
This was the salvation of the settlement; and
to the Irish heart is the American nation this
day indebted for the preservation, in its peril
Gus infancy, ola State that has proved itself to
be one of the staunchest and bravest of the
Union. A little later, when Ireland was
in the zenith of her political splendOr, and the
bayonets of her volunteers caught the fire of
her independent parliament, and flashed across
the island the lightnings of its patriotism and
the calmer glories of its great orators and
statesmen, the demand of the British Minister
for an Irish vote of 10000 seamen to make
war upon the American colonies, was vehe-
mently spurned. In the conservation of their
conflict, in the rapturous recognition of their
Independence, no voice was more anthorita.
tive, for no eloquence was more commanding,
than that of Henry Grattan, to whose brave
heart, incorruptible spirit, and superb head
Ireland Is indebted for the only spell of polt-
ical respectability and power she has had since
herstatute books. agrarian robberies, evangelical
reformations, and all the other rascaities of her
propagandism and kingship in ireland. The
words that Henry Grattan spoke were the
words for the Irish heart and as he declared
himself the friend of the American colonies.
encouraged them in their contest and exulted
in their triumph, there was not a mountain
from the pillars of the Giants Causeway to the
reeks of Kerry that did not echo him
in full chorus, thanking God that in
the new world the stupidites and
tyranny of the old had found it their grave,
and praying that the magistracy of the people
and the empire of liberty might endure for
ever. But these were the thanksgiving and
implorations of people whose subsection was
at hand. Hardly had the American Colonies
been hailed as the United States and recognized
as a national power, when England, relieved
by irretrievable defeat from her military labors
in this quarter OF the world-which an Irish
man would call the bigger half of it and no
mistake-than she determined to fortify herself
at home and to this end decreed the absorp-
ton of Ireland, and as Sir Jonah Darlington,
in his mastery way has written, her extinction
as a nation. The relative conditions of the
two countries-the old friends and allies-were
speedily and violently reversed, Ireland was
down-America was up. The one was precipi.
tated into provincialism and vassalage-the
other, having quenched the blazing sword of
CORVALLIS and torn thirteen of the richest
jewels from the sceptre of George the Third,
and set them as stars in the omnipotent banner
OF democracy, sprang from her colonial inferi-
ority into national authority, and over an i'm
measurable domain and future proclaimed her
sovereignty. Their political conditions reversed
the one crippled and cast down-the other
set free and soaring-did their relations
change and the liberated and victorious dis
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