The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-20
ADVTCE 10 THE IRIsII.


SENSIBLE ADVICE TO THE IRISH.
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John nBrtGhfas Speech at DublIn...The
Present COnditiOn OF Ireland Dis
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~ wy 4tAeS gwen y. Sonn oE4BhtI
the English reformer, at Dublin, Ire
land, he pointed ont to the irish ,1eonla
tba so,,rca ~ tlio;i - ~
llte p :. ~ sllsAE ana the true
Eetneoy. II tney would but turn away
from the knaveS and blatherskites who
are delrdine, thar, ,,,itt, blv,sIs...., NJ
,,.s,, 7fisiS'.
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the English reform party, they might
soon win equal rights for Ireland in
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- =. AotA' NUN tHouA0 pe
Llucn oeGGef 6han the Independence OF
Ireland, If such a thing yyere 'possible.
as it ia pot %. ir,,r. Ss, CIi,o,t {
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eAAstS l,S us d power 'Ihe IolAoWlng pas
sages from Mr.. Brigh5s speech emboGiy
the facts which Irishmen most mead tn
cor,,,.aI,a,,l1. .fi-'7T t7FGi>-aa'
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shall ask Won oElly to turn votlr
eyes to two points-the7 first is the es-
tabIishad church, and the second Is the
land. The church may be snid to a afFect
the soul and sentiment of the country,
and the land the means of living and
the com fort Of the people. rCbeers. II
shall not blame, the bishops and Clergy
OF the established church. there II19v
be, I doubt not, many among them
pious and devoted men who labor to
the utmost of their power to do good in
the districts which are committed to
their charge; but venture to saw that
il all were good and all were pious, it
would not, in a national point OF view,
compensate for the one fatal error OF
their existence as ministers of an es-
tablished Protestant church in Ireland.
ECheers.l Every man of them Is necessa-
rily in his district a symbol Of the sII-
premacy of the few and Of su bfection to
the MANY Of the the psonie r , and m aitRonST the
amount of the revenue Of the estab-
lished church as a, sum PAYABLE as a
tribute by a whole nation NAV MT be
considerable, vet bear in mind that IT
is often the CALLING of the chain that ia
more tormentine than the weight Of IL.
I believe that the removal. of the estab-
lished church would create n new polit-
ical and social atmosphere in ireland.
that it would be felt by the people that
the old things had passed AWAY. and
that all things had become new that
the Irishman and his faith were no
longer tofbe condemned in his own
country, and that for the first time
4EAhALu5H "Oulu DGlleVe9 EIlAE Eng
lish people and the English parliament
intended to do Justice to their country,
[Cheers.1 Now leave the church and
come to the question of the land, Ihaye
seid that the ownership of the land
originally came from CONQUEST and con-
fiscation. AS matter of course there
was created a great gulf between the
owners and the occu5fers. and Il has
come to this, that there has been want
ing that sympathy which existed 10 n
great extent in Great Britain, and
ought to exist in every country. be-
tween them. / am told. and YOU can
answer if 1 am wrong. that IL rs no
common in Ireland to give leases to
tenants, especially to Roman Catholic
tenants. [Cheers.1 II this be SO. then
the security of the property Of the fen-
ant rests on the good feeling or fair.
ness of the owner of the land. The
law, as we know, has been made bv the
land owners fortheir own behoofI While
the tenants have unfortunateIY been
and the result is that vou have had
farming, bad feeling. bad temper and
everything that IL had instead oP CrIti
walton of land. You have aiso n TesIiit
the most appalling of ALA T1onniSfion
who are fleeing from their. 'c6nnt1.v ana
seeking a refuge in distant lands.
2 I wish to refer to a letter which i re-
teilieent citizsn 5f Dnblin inn HetoIS q SSS ins ln
ton Of what he called s sI HIeI te laage n9g PS6-
pie among the Irishrlen syn1pathfzed
with any scheme or anv pr6n0sitfon
which was adverse to the imperisI ,Iov-
ernment Tcheers,1 ana he said fijFfher,
that the people here are rather in the
country than Of II. and that thew are
looking more to America than thev are
looking to England. GCheers. / Well
I think there is good ClealI in that
[Hear, hear.1 When we consider how
many Irfshnleu have foundl n rtfIlGeg gii,
America, / do NOT know how we 81 =, n
wonder at that statement. Yori viii
recollect that the ancient Hebrew in
his captivity had his windows omen to-
wards Jerusalem when 'he 1FayeS Yo,,
know that the Follower az Nj eI
when he uraVs tTrns I1fs face toy,t5 III,
Mecca, and the Irish peasant. when he
asks for food, and freedom. and bless,
ings, his eye follows the setfii1oc sT1I,
[Eoud and continued cieerihr.I, tFhe-
aspiration of his heart ireacIies 7havFnEI
the wide Atlantic, and IN snirft he
grasps hands with the great republic Of
the West. Loud cheers.1 III that I1e
SO, L say then that the disasst ;s ltsS Mt
only serious, but that It is even Glesner-
ate, [cheefsls but desperate AZ Il Is. I.
believe therei n certain renefIv for H. r.
the people and the narIianisnt,
of the United Kingdom are will,
ing to apnly ft. Now ~ ICit
were possible, would it NOT be worth
while to change the sentiment anGilt0.
improve the condition of the irish Icul-
tivator of the soil3 (Hear. heaT.l . >
1 have said that the disease ia
desperate, and that the remedy