Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-11
THE BITTER FRUITS.


The English Government now have the
prospect Of soon reaping the bitter fruits
of misrule and selfish policy. The grasp
ing, selfish manner in which they have con-
Quoted affairs in Ireland for the past half
century has driven thousands of the native
born sons Of the Emerald Isle to seek an
and a home in distant lands and
rendered the condition of the remaining
portion so miserable that they have been
compelled to cry out in their very grief.
That cry was heard in the thunder tones
of their Daniel O'Connor and his compa-
triots and was answered often by sentence
from the Court; rarely by an ~aleviatlns
concession of law. Although the British
have long been the rulers of Ireland, they
are hated and despised by her people, and
though their aim has been to seize all
power, they have the apparent fact staring
them in. the face at present, that the real
power of the country still rests with the
people. They were too greedy. They
drove too many Irish from their homes to
grasp their lands, and they forgot that the
lrishmen never can forget his wrongs or
the land that gave him birth. If England
had understood the Irish character she
never would have encouraged, promoted
and prolonged the struggle in this coun-
try which was furnishing so good u school
to the ambitions of the oppressed, to pre-"
pare themselves to lead their fellow u
trymen to a fierce if not successful en-
counter with the destroyers Of their private
peace and public prosperity. By accord
ing belligerens rights to the rebels. furnish
ing them with armed ships to prey upon
our commerce, and by supplying them
with sustenance and arms to carry
on a long war against legitimate
authority the English Government did
sow a wind which swept over the land
like a simoom of death, but the mutterings
which are heard from q hundred "Cen-
tiers" in Ireland. show that they have yet
to reap a furious whirlwind. The Fe1ian
movement grew out Of the American war.
1t would not have sprung from a short
contest. 1t was the result of four long
years of death struggle; and England,
and Englishmen, above all others, are re-
sponsible for the length Of the conflict
Previous to the wal of this rebellion, Irish
men knew little of arms. The great mum.
bers whom British tyranny had driven to
our shores formed a working class whose
chief aim seemed to be to procure money
to bring their friends and kindred Of
the house of bondage" and "out of the
land of Egypt" Since the war, all that
is changed. The Irish Of the Eastern
States are no longer a class of laborers
they IRE a class Of soldiers, and Their
names s-e found on every muster roll,
while no Grms de corps is considered com
plete without its Irish Regiment or Irish
Brigade. The same spirit is rapidly dis
seminating throughout the Emerald Isle,
The people there have become military
They are drilling all over the country,
and that is the very last thing the British
Government would permit them to do il
they could prevent it. The sudden pres,
ence of large quantities of arms in the
island, the advent Of men well skilled in
their use, ard the alacrity with which peo-
pie gather to receive military instruction,
are indications of u torn which cannot
be mistaken. There will evidently soon
be an uprising against English rule. What
the result will be, time only can tell. The
movement may be choked down before
enough arms are distributed among the
people, or enough of the followers Of Null
ligan and Corcoran have returned to their
native hamlets to teach the companions Of
their childhood the tricks they used to
play the rebels. But it is more than prob
able that it will result in scenes of blood,
and possibly end in the re-establishmen'
of Irish independence. Whatever may
be the result, it will weaken faith in the
English Government, injure her standing
in the society of nations, and be the bitter
but legitimate fruit Of her narrow dealing
and selfish, grasping policy.