Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-10-14
NUMBER 40.
ANY American with tolerably well-balanced
head can appreciate tie following clever and we'll
timed editorial from the Sacramento Union on
The Irish Question.
The Irish Question.

neaO can appreCiate tHe lOloWlng cleVer anu we'll
timed editorial from the Sacramento Union on
The Irish Question.
AS we have furnished a somewhat animated
/" American question for the discussion of the
John Bull family of journalists during the past
four years, the law of compensation, to say
nothing of retrbutive justice, requires the calam-
ity of our censors to begin where ours ends.
/ We pass not exactly with smile, but with a
countenance of wonderful complacency, from
the last bulletin from the battle-ields of the
South to the latest war-tak from Tpperary
Our large and indefatigable corps of army corre-
spondents who are prepared to supply, at mo-
ment's notice, the strategy for campaign or the
tactics for pitched battle, with illustrations
drawn from every writer the art of glorious
destruction, are sharpening their pens and stud
wing the maps of the Green Isle, under the spur
of hope that they will be sent to chronicle the
exploits of Fenian hosts. Our political orators,
whose Indifference to the voting power of the
Irish element is proverbia, are sharing in Fenan
demonstrations, dwelling upon the wrongs of the
Celtic race, painting in glowing coors the future
of the = Irish Republic, magnifying the army
of liberation which is to respond to the clarion
call of a Fenian hero, denouncing the tyranny of
Victoria. proving beyond controversy the impos-
sibility of subjugating the Hibernian patriots,
and taunting the London Government with
sneers its panic and mbecility. Monarchy is
failure. Aristocracy is system that may
frame empire, but cannot hold it together
against the shock OF civil war. We can under
stand why England will not let Ireland secede
without Il fight-one of those horrible wars in
which one side is contendng for empire and the
other for independence. We prepared to
make a Napoleon, Christian and patriot out
of any Irish leader who may appear in arms,
and to brand as bungler, brute and drunk
ard the most skillfu, pure-minded and temperate
General England may put in the field. We are
ready to follow the course of the war in the true
British spirit, to exalt Fenan successes into
Marathons and Waterloos, convert British victo-
ries into defeats, and when the last Fenian bat
TALON shall have surrendered, to offer any amount
of magnanmous advice as to the disposal of the
leaders, show the folly of treating the bellger-
ent Irish as mere rebels, and demonstrate to the
satisfaction of the London Cabinet that " its
difficulties have only commenced" Visions of
wholesale blockade-running, priyateering profits
and the rapid transfer of merchant ships to their
former American owners float over our ship
yards, dazzle the adventurous and console the
sufferers by the burning and plundering raids of
the Aia5ama and the Shenandoah Daily quota
tions of Fenian loan, based the confscated
estates of the adherents of the Saxon invader,
are considered probable reading for our English
friends.
Secretary Seward has happily chosen this par
tcular juncture for pressing upon Earl Russell's
attention our little bills for the damages done to
American commerce by the pirate vessels built,
equipped and manned by Engshmen with the
brave and generous purpose of crippling rival
when involved in the direst difficulty, and there
by securing monopoly of the carrying trade of
the world. The prayer of the Fenian is, that
John Bull may exhibit that pride which goeth
before fall, repudiate our claims and provoke
declaration of The hope and belief of
Americans, who think the burden of taxation is
already heavy enough, is that Stewards demands
Will be met in a different spirit. The alarming
condition of the Irish question is calculated to
expose the weak side Of the British realm, to
exhibit in a clear light the elements of rebellion
which can scarcely wait for the opportunity of
foreign war, and to convince Palmerston and
Russell of the propriety of instructing those
celebrated, consistent and convenient - crown
lawyers to find the authority for concessions
which must be made. The resources of the
- law will doubtless be equal to the emergency
when it is understood that military necessity
quires that the Fenians shall be deprived of all
hope of efficient support from the great republic.
In thus taking advantage of England's difficulty,
Secretary Seward may seem unkind, unchval-
rous, lacking that generous forbearance which
Englishmen have right to expect under such
circumstances from their kindred beyond the
Atlantic ETC., but his action shows the sagacitv
of IL statesman, and, in these days of interna-
tiona selfshness, that is the main consideration
with us. Our claims are just. We have, be-
sides, abundant reason for calling England to a
bloody account for the material aid she extended
to projects for our destruction. We press the
claims, but seek no war and, with proper de-
gree of regard for our own interests, well as
the peace of the world seize that opportunity to
urge our demands when circumstances argue
most potently for pacific concession Of such
use is the Fenian movement to the Government
of the United States.
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