Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-08-02

tori is philosophy. teaching By example, The
American people, and especially the copper
bead" portion Of the Republican party. should
consider how far these acts Of persecution are
likely to restore aud build up the great Union
which se al love.
The history Of British injustice. plumber and
robbery 10 ireland. which the editor of the Com
msrcisl 30 faithfully potrays. has long attracted
the attention Of good men in every civilized
land. The eonhsea,ion acts. the penal laws. and
the petty tyranny Of military men. TT only for
jailors and turnkeys, have made that beautiful
land red with the blood OF The oppressed and the
oppressor These acts have secured for The Eng
lish name hatred as undyiDg to-day as IL was
two centuries sgo That hatred 10 echoed from
the lips Of childhood add the pslsied tongue OF
age, and the lapse Of three hundred years inten-
sifes the recollection Of treasured wrong.
And shall we, in this young nation. insugurate
q system which has upon its brow the curses oil
centuriesf Shall VIC. to appesse the fsna,ieism
and ID. hate Of the bad. forfeit the good opinion
Of the generations which may follow usf Shall
We copy this worst and most infamous example oil
British injustice toward Irelsndi Bad aud fool
ish, and short-sehted msn are the same 10 al
ages and In every land The dishonest, the cruei.
and the unforgiving are the same. and when
nation fall, under their government aud control,
IL bodies no good to the prosperity. the peace and
the glory Of the people The radical Republi-
cans who cry for more blood, more vengeance,
more confiscations, and more pains and penalties
to the vanauished citizens Of the South. are just
as much to be execrated az the creatures who.
three centuries ago. robbed the lrshmsn OF his
life, his lands. and his Inheritance II was ava
rice and greed that turned the Irish
from their homes and secured them TO
the strangers We have the same class Of
men in this day Who long for the plantations
OF the Southern widows and orphans. and who,
under the plea Of loyalty, would eject the old
inhabitants Of the South under the promise OF
outstanding. humanizing, and ciyilizing (Hsa-
ven save the mark y the people OF the late rebel
States. Impudence, let the reader remember,
goes great way. aud when some men take up
that weapon, il can be used without shame or
modesty New England is full Of that class OF
persons. They are in full possession of the VIZ
tues which lent grace to the saints OF Old Eng
land. and which made the Anglo Sa1ons the rob-
bers Of the nations which surround them. They
were never at loss for grouse to depredate
upon their neighbors. and if the pretense of 70 :
ligious liberty failed. they plundered and robbed
under the plea that Ireland aud Scotland owed
fealty to the British crown They come the
"a loyal " dodge over their weak neghbors, and
confscated TO enforce obedience TO the
laws and rulers which took property from
the Irish and gave il to themselves These
Englishmen were shoddv patriots of the first
water, such as now sloat, with burning eyes, on
the cotton and rice fields of the vanqusbed South.
If Old England gave birth to a WENTWORTH. a
SraoxGssw and CRonwELL. has not New Eng
land produced n SUMNER, WILsoN and JoHg
BBows! These cousins over the water, ia the
olden time. must have been strikngy like the
"latter day saints" who seek to con6scate all
the property of the South for their own advan-
tsge. Every century or two, such people rise to
surface, and then disappear other monsters
For the sake of permanent peace aud good fel
lowship, these disturbers should be keeps out of
public life
We urgently commend the article from the
Commercial to the attention of our readers Ii
;s the best answer that We have yet seen to those
who howl for Confscaction Acts and Penal
Laws. These acts and laws have been effectu-
ally tried in Ireland and the Emerald Isle is to-
day, after three hundred years Of crushing" as
rebellious she was when Cromwell went over
the channel to "exterminate Ireland" May she
long stand up defantIy against those who plum
dered her, and show to the world that Confsca.
ton Acts and Penal Laws not the surest
means to secure the loyalty of gallant people