New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-31

MT John Mitchell has addressed a second epistle
to the 0pini0ne Rationale on Ireland. His former
letter, he says Tas commented upon in leading
article of the Times but no one disputed the facts
ses forth III it, and the Times deduGed from them
an argument in favor of the coereiye system in
Ireland He hopes that no one in France will ever
again declare that ireland is administered BY the
same laws or that she enjoys the same liberties
MS England. The grievances which Mr. Mitchell
now complains Of may be summed up thus The
existence IN ireland Of code to which England,
Scotland and Wales are strangers. Exceptional
laws. by which the Irish people are prohibited
rom deliberatng among themselves on their own
Stairs hy means OF committee of delegates elect
ed for that object
The right oil possessing arms restricted to few
favored persons. The teaching or learning drill
q Any military manmuFre whatever, even without
arms, IS prohibited under penalty of tfansporta-
ton, with hard labor. The Irish cannot organize
themselves as volunteers for the defense of their
country. And, finally, the shefiffs of the large
cities, instead Of being elected by their feow-eit
1zens, as 10 England, are named by the crown in
order 70 secure the jnries. Everybody must admit
chat such system is well adapted for crushing in
Ireland ali free action and all political and civil
life. 1t is true that the rigorous violence of the
English in preventing the Irish from procuring
arns ana learning the use Of them may be con
aidered as q sort Of compliment To Us.
England does us the honor of believing that if
We had arms We should know how to make o
proper use 0f them, and they will have nothing OF
me klnu- II Is compliment badly turned but in
The matter of compliment between England and
ireland We must not be nice. Let us, then, accept
i for the moment until we got better. We shall
doubtless be told that ireland hds access through
her representatives, to the London Parliament and
las thus legal certain, and sufficient means to OBJ
tain al reforms and liberties necessary and aoces
sorry. Bat in reality in that Parliament ireland has
bHt q derisiye semblance Of representation, and
that representation, such as it is, is completely
controlled by the British government Tie Irish
people do not believe that they are represented in
ahe English Parliament
They do not desire to be so. They have not the
right to be So. They hope for nothing good
nothing just, from that Parliament; and they have
never reaped anything from its legislation but
5anlines and system Of corruption and coercion
without parallel. Those very laws which pufported
10 be reforms, have done nothing but evil TO Ire
land. 1t is by the law of municipal reform thai
4he British government has found the means d
Aiways picking and choosing its juries. It is b.
Ire Catholic emancipation act that the government
has been enabled to bay up the richest and most
influential Catholics who, but for it, would never
AaVe dared to sell themselves.
In word, the London Parliament, to which we
are referred for the redress OF all our grievances
Is itself the greatest and the most fatal Of all the
Ireland, then, in the Judgment Of the majority Of
its population, has no legal and constitutional
means Of obtaining Justice. Hence we have Feni--
aAism the deliberate and organized uegation of all
English laws and of that Constitution which the
English call the wonder and envy of the nations Of
the universe.a
Dir, Mitchell intimates that he proposes, in fu-
tuTe letter, to explain clearly what Fenianism is
and. above all, what it is not.