The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-06
[From the New York world.l
CAUSE OF IRELAND.
Pleaded by the Bishop OF Orleans,
Bishop Berkeley, Edmund Burke,
DR.. Doyle, Leland the Historian,
Lord Mncaulay and Sidney Smith.

Lord Mncaulay and Sidney Smith.
~ come here" said the Bishop of Or
leans, ito plead the cause of the un-
fortunate, and not to embitter your
thoughts ,..
This cause is SO just, that would
plead it before my adversaries them
selves, if l could have any adversaries
in such cause. have none. -
''It is not political cause; it is not
even the cause of religion which l am
here to defend"
eternal thanks be to God, and to
the dignity of our nature, there is here
below n region more elevated than that
of human politics; it is the region In
which every one, with the heart OF a
man, respects loftiness and purity, mis-
fortune, and the victims of unmerited
outrage"
, "There are here below causes, if not
greater, still more pressing and impera-
tive in their day, than even the most
important religious controversies.
Such is the cause come to plead before YOU y
Therefore you will perceive that even
the Indifferent interest themselves pro-
foundly in this question, and that is the
explanation of the present pious ardor
and the motive-power of this immense
concourse. 1t is the mOtive-pOwer also,
to-day, of Fenianism and of all the yarl-
GUS forms of agitation in regard to Ire
land.-U0M1 ] Yes, dear Ireland, and
| will repeat it with your great poet:
The stranger shall hear thy lament on his
plains;
The sigh Of thy harp shall be sent DER the deep,
Till thy masters themselves, as they rivct thy
Shall panse at the song of their captive, and
weep"
"I will not commence without asking
of God the help of His grace, and OF
Christian souls the aid of their prayers,
in order that from my lips may not fall
one expression that would pain those
whom / wish to enlighten, as in my
speech l harbor no feeling which would
give them pain. All! | feel well assured
of it; there is not a man, whoever he
may be, if n spark of humanity still
slumbers in his heart, and, if my heart
can inflame his. with whom | am not
here to agree"
TESTIMONY OF BURKE.
Speaking of the sanguinary proscrip-
tions, wholesale confiscations, and va
rious other laws inflicted upon Ireland,
the celebrated Burke said: "It was a
machine of wise and elaborate combi-
nations, and as well fitted for the op-
preston, impoverishment and degrade
tion of the people, and the debasement
in them of human nature itself, as ever
proceeded from the perverted ingenuity
of man.
INDUSTRY AND GENEROSITY OF THE
IRISH.
The Bishop of Orleans, drawing at
tention to facts which are in the main
well known to all in this country, says /:
"There are some who have dared to
say, and to repeat of this race, energetic
and strong, but oppressed and condemn
ed to sterile and unproductive soil, that
its poverty, and the miseries of its ma
tive country, were due to itself and the
idleness of the people"
"Look ut the Irishman in America,
where his land is his own, where his
cottage is his own, where there is no
threat of eviction to paralyze his efforts,
where he is sure of the fruits of his
toll. What courage! What constancy.
What energy. A laborer leaving Gal
way year ago. was asked why he went
into exile. Galway Press, April, 1862
oh replied he, there is no chance for
a poor man in this country But when
beyond the reach of their prosecutors,
when their arms are no longer laShed,
what courage and fruitful toll is theirs! !!
They are the best labOrcrs of the New
World and the irrctragable proof it is
all the amount of their earnings. But
here again what nobleness! Yes, what
becomes of what they earni o! gcner-
ous people, Their earnings, etc, thoy
send yearly to Ireland, to an aged father,
to poor mother to brothers left be-
hind them, whom they have parted with
in order to work in distant lands, so as
to be able to provide for their neccSsi-
ties better than they could have done
had they remained with them at home !!
And are You aware what an amount
these poor cmigrants yearly transmit to
Ireland? You will scarcely believe it.
and it is scarcely credible. But our in
formation we derive from an official
,OO0,0 of francs. 1t is pro-
digious. (See Parliamentary Report
For my part l know nothing on earth
equal to it.
"Wcll, brethren, these are the men
who die of hnnger~
TESTIMONY OF BISHOP BERKELEY.
So long ago as 1874, the celebrated
English Bishop Berkeley, one of the
best informed and most logical of the
writer's of his country, wrote:
II ask whether there be upon earth
any Christian or civilized people so beg
carly. wrctchcd and destitute, as the
the common Irish: and if, nevertheless,
there is any other people whose wants
may be more easily supplied from
home 7"
An illustrious warrior, the Duke of
with that accent of general
which, as the Bishop of Or
leans remarks, is the inheritance of
their valor. proclaimed in our own age
in the English House of Commons, that
''there never was country in which
poverty existed to so great degree as
in Ireland
OF THE RI. REV. DE. DOYLE.
DR.. Doyle, the Catholic Bishop of
Kildare, as witness in an investiga-
ton ordered by the House of Commons,
said
1T is frightful state of society; aud
when it is considered, it fills one with
so much pain and horror that l have
prayed to God, if it were His
will. rather to take me out of life than
to leave ME to witness such evils
OF THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
This great organ of intelligent public
opinion in the metropolis of Scotland,
commenting on the words we have quot
ed from DR.. Doyle, said:
"a thousand statements to the same
effect might be produced; but, unfortun-
ately, they are not necessary. The pow
erty and wretchedneSs of the Irish peo
pie are too glaring and obvious to he
called in question. They are admitted
by every one who has ever been in Ire
land. or conversed with an Irish gentle
man, or read any book having any refer
ence TO that country"
LELAND, THE ENGLISH HISTORIAN,
avows that in his time the extermina-
ton of the Irish race was the avowed
end of the legislation of his country to-
wards Ireland.