Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-06-28

condition where it prevails. 1t would have
taken Ireland thousands of years to estab-
lish permanent civil institutions, such as
trials by jury, the writ of habeas corpus,
&c, those great conservators of Individual
right, of her own free volition Without
English Law, Ireland would have been as
Naples, or Portugal, or Spain are, the
homes of bandits of the deepest depravity.
where property would have beeL insecure,
and life an accident Every free and noble
impulse Of humanity would have been
smothered by the incubus Of "a corrupt,
| bigoted, ecclesiastical despotism.
People may say and write what they
please of the tyranny of the Engl>h C;:urch
in Ireland. No one denies that it is an nn-
popular institution there, and that large
majority of the Irish population detest it,
but there is respectable minority who pre-
| fer it to the Catholic, and that to them,
and for them, it is a SAVIOUR of life unto life.
! But it is not to them that It's good influence
is manifested. There is not bog-trotter
in Ireland who is not, to-day, in a better
condition than he would have been without
| it. 1t does exert an influence for good
and that influence is diffused over the length
and breadth of the whole country If it
does not confer positive benefit on ALL it
restraints positive evil from crushing all -
1t is shield and protection, the sum of
which may be made apparent to any one
who will consider for moment the haplesS
condition of those countries subject to the
exclusive sway of the Roman Priesthood.
| 1t is not our intention to apologize for
the wrongs which have ground all ardent
generous, whole souled race, in the dust -
By nature an Irishman is "a prince In his
native character he is brave, generous, pa
triotic, sincere, gentle and noble in his as
pirations and impulses, but these qualities
have too often rendered him the dupe of
artful men, and he has been the victim of
more duplicity and chicanery, than all 9TH
er men, and it this fault of his nature which
is, even now, leading him with his eyes and
ears wide open, into the tolls from which
he cannot escape scatheless. He may be-
leauger Canada over every rod of its su.
pericial area, and Ireland is still in bonds
He may cast every dollar of his earnings
into pile, and every dollar may be honest
ly expended (Which it will not be- in this
mad attempt, and is the sum total of this
war fund the thousandth part of the sum
the British Ministry can easily command
to secure Ireland as appendage to the Brit
| ish Crown?
1t is acknowledged that Ireland mas le-
gltimate cause for complaint, fully and
! freely. In sorrow do we write, that the
statesmen of Great Britain have always
treated the Irish as conquered people,
without, for long time, granting them the
right of representation in Parliament or
any other right they were bound to respect.
Through the whole period of their union,
subjugatiOn rather, their hard earnings
have been carried to England in the shape
OF tlthes and rents, and there they have
tostered the interests of their hated enc.
mics, and have been bestowed upon the
hired service Of English shopmen, English
milliners, and English boot blacks. No
portion has ever come back to bless the
humble hand that earned it, and so far has
the drain been carried as to impoverish the
native population, and to crown the horrors
of famine unpreceden ted in the history of
modern times for severity, when men,
strong men at its commencement. and fee
BILE women, and helpless children, have
cried in agony and starved for the bread
they had earned in tears, but which at that
moment was filling the mouths of bloated
pampered service abroad
And still this attempt to conquer Ireland
III America, can not, will not, succeed
| Where are your munitions of war,-vour
guns, and powder, and cannon, and ships
to carry you across the water ? How are
you to be fed and clothed while absent at
war, and how are your wives and little ones
to suDsist while you are away? 1t is well
known that even here, there are those who
| contemplate iCdFlHS uOme III IllS Wlld
goose chase,--this most egregious folly.
Think we'll of it before you go You have
given money, and it is understood so have
those even who find it hard to subsist with
out extra calls upon your good nature, and
kindly feeling toward the land of your
birth your sons and daughters out at SER
vice. We say again, give no more--no
more--not another cent. 1t will be either
spent or wasted, or go to enrich some ras-
calls who will laugh at your credulity, and
mock at your bitter disappointment. You
love the green isle where you first saw the
light, but be assured, this effort to do her |
good, will work her ruin rather.
sea~ A Georgia journal says: " We hold
that there is absolutely no obligation on
any State i'll the Federal Union to be what