New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-29
THE ENGLISH PRESS on IRELAND.


The tone Of the British press on the reported dis.
turbance5 in Ireland is simply horrible. Mere rumor
Of another outbreak, Of which England has had
years warning, and to meet which she has made
ample preparation eKctes an undisguised ferocity.
That Tory passion the world well knows, 1t some.
times Turks covert in fine language and learned sneers,
with its kennel among books magazines, court
journals, and noble saloons II rushes like blood to
the face of England, and like bloodhound to its
front, whenever people debauched, down-trodden,
and famished by the most complicated system Of
wrong which the ingenuity of centuries could inhct
must in very desperation Of nature, dare assert their
manhood: and whenever a national crime is TO
be committed and q nation hunted down 70
its death, suddenly, cruelty, and remorseessy
Are we unjustl Witness India; witness Jamaica;
witness that most piteous story Of Ireland
written in martyrdom, and illustrated by famine
"a tragedy too wholesale to be acted again.
but TO be remembered as wildly as any with which
the genius of man has moved the world to tears
Recollectng the Irishmans inheritance OF wrong, it
is the least to expect that Englishmen and English
Government should studously incline TO be mercifu
and to manifest justice The prayer Of Ireland, and
of Engsnmen in its behalf, has for many day re-
manned unobserved If, in despite Of every oppres-
sion, Ireland still exists, aud is measuraby in
sentiment and intelligence with the civilization
of the world, il is 10 pursuance Of law of growth
by which no principle is permitted 10 die and no
murderer 10 stamp out the seed Of his victimj by
which John Brown and Robert Emmett still live, and
are surely marching with regenerated and regeneraye
hosts, to the ballOt-box-be it in Amenca, where
"A tbosr ,yhte 10, nrfta
where Irishmen and Englishmen alike have their
wrongs. Praise, all who will, the England which
pets its scholars. We dare not applaud the mother
who devours her children.
Counseled, armed prepared, the nation whose
power is feeby represented by millions Of men and
hundreds of millions Of money, is terribly frightened
at what it was pleased TO regard mendicant rebel
lion Such shouts as now pursue the Irish "rebels
from the columns of the London press sound very like
those which must have followed the Jamaica negroes
before they were killed by mob of uniformed
butchers and ominously like the cries with which the
titled victims of revolution were bounded TO the
guillotine. Captured robbers should be hung"
cries The Standard. Leave no loophoe Of escape"
shrieks The Herald. "Stamp them out with an iron
heel, cries The Telegraph a" Stamp them out
as ps stamped out the catleplGgW" shouts
The Times, with ferocity for which there
can DO no pardon. Even The Ntp' expresses o
cruel fatalism, and says ENGLAND must put down
relsntsssy the sedton which her misrule has stirred
up" Why, indeed, must England be rslsntlsuI Be-
cause she has prosecuted Der sister country for humid
reds Of years on the Same improbable plant BE.
cause tho Rebellion, actual or threatened promises
more than an outbreak Whatever be the prete1t,
the sentiment Of this free country should warn the
common sense Of England against adding another
scandal Of crime to the political bunders by which
her Government has deIuged lands where good crop