The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-17

whether success failure, the Americans ID event
uay withdraw their force from Ireland and leave its
cited population TO tender mercies. We trust
that In that dark hour the cOunses of mercy would pre
vail and that England would interfere to assuaee the
fury OF factions and TO soften the avenger 0 blood
But there Is such tisg martial taso and there hare
been commanders apt TO eiue free cent to their
II 0indiG0tioN and their hatred Of treason There
in this country should be sorry indeed let loose
upon Ireland, should Ireland itself lack at
loyalty and Orange predictions The only result
of the comparative handful America from her great
distance would be able 10 throw upon Ireland woud
DC most dangerous encouragement TO the dsafecfc,
and something more than ene0uragementa fatal nee~
city to show themselves Thousands Of poor fellows wAo
now only talk OF repeal would lind themselves Obliged
to declare themselves enemies Of this country. Thsy
could not possibly receive such backing from Amerra
TO give them even days security In any part of e
island and they would shortly find themselves compeId
TO sue for peace in manner most repulsive TO their fed
inas of self respect submit to humiliation As ,r
America II she had succeeded In divertng some twenty
or thirty thousand British soldiers from critical
points and giving some extra trouble and expens
ne would not shed many tears over the fate OF the Inn
dupes. 'r
There isa another risk in tins amusement, which IS
already incurred and does not wait for We c tel
the Fonians for their comfort that at least one In ten
waiting of The first opportunity TO sell bis nine com
radss g i always has been, and so It always will be
AT present the information not worth having aud teF
really is not much reason why nightly d should os in
tcrrupted II pleases the and cannot possibly hurs
bgt as soon ss there snythng 70 tell there are plenty
will be glad to tell 1t all for ring consideration !ndesd
many Of these compeliedt join these ridiculous
naturally think that they allowed voice Of then
on they are free 10 revenge themselves by reachery
may state the universal fact that reign Of terror always
produces spies The local bully drags the quiet and va
lating after him, and compels them to do what be
chooses They submit but they pay him ont for 1t by
sneaking on to policeman and telling him all about It.
II tho bully makes them his slaves he expect the
much mistaken We can detect the agency Of inorners
already, for unless they had the given them can
mot see Why the spectators should have been out at sxcA
md in ouchn utnftho af kat
be as may, the instant bit Of information s really
worth having will be in the market, and there will be
SELF competing for the exclusive privilege treachery
It has frequently happened that fellow has made known
his readiness to tell anything that was going on and has
found that the police knew much hedM excepting
perhaps the single feet that he traitor too Nor
are the police at all likely TO be mistaken Disclosures
OF this sort checked by many successive
and IT is very soon found whether informant is telling
the truth or not.
But in. the name Of common sense, what is it these
Fenians want? Whom do they profess to hate, and
whom do they wish to expel from the islandY The
SaxonG That would be very Irish proceeding. They
is the Norman they ought expel they can that s il
they have atom Of chance. Their supposed enemies
are the successors Of stroDgbow and his Norman col
leagues who were in truth nothing more than the wave
OF Norman conquest passing over this island into Ire
land Very little more than century interviewed be-
tween the two conquests England with quite much
provocation at last came to- and submitted with good
grace The result was great fusion Of the two races
nsomuch that while the difference of classes still
lists, and the relation Of master and servant s found
here in a very intense and absolute form, Normans
and saxons are now indistngushable, except in
which i requires sn some dscernment 70 recosnise
The nobility OF this country including the roya family,
is as Saxon as 1t is Norman Indeed presume this TO
benefit Of their abuse TO tho Gaxons and never say
word about the NoTmans But, 1t happene their own
great landowners stand more immediately in the shoes
Of the irst Norman conqusrors than ours Il Il CON
guest anda Norman conquest, that is painfully I'm
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