The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-04
The English Press ON On j Ireland +


The tone of the British press on
the reported disturbances in ireland
is simply horrible. Mere rumor of
another outbreak, of which England
has had a years warning, and to meet
which she has made ample prepare
ton, excites an undisguised ferocity.
That Tory passion the world well
knows. 1t sometimes Turks covert In
fine language and learned sneers, with
its kennel among books, magazines,
court journals, and noble saloons. 1t
rushes like blood to the face of Eng
land, and like a bloodhound to its
'front.' whenever a. people debauched,
down-trodden, and famished by the
most complicated system of wrong
which the ingenuity of centuries
could inhict, must, in very despera-
ton of nature, dare assert their man
hood; and whenever nat1onai crime
g is to be committed, and nation
hunted down to its death, suddenly,
cruelty, and remorselessly. Are we
unjust? Witness India; witness ia
maica witness that most plteOus
story Of Ireland, written in martyrdom
and illustrated by famine tragedy
foo wholesale to be acted again,
Int TO be remembered as yividly as
any. with which the genius of man has
moved the world to tears Recollect-
ing the Irishman's inheritance of
wrong, it is the least to expect that
Englishmen and English Government
should studiously incline to be merci-
full, and to manifest justice The
prayer of Ireland, and Of Englishmen
In its behalf, has for many a day re-
manned unobserved. IF, in despite of
every oppression, ireland still exists,
and is measurably in sentiment and
intelligence with the civilization of
the world it is in pursuance of law
of growth by which no principle is
permitted to die and no murderer to
stamp out the seed of his victim; by
which John Brown and Robert EN-
met still live, and are surely marching
with regenerated and regenerative
hosts, to the ballot box-be it in
America, where black men are de-
MED their rights, or in Great Britain,
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.
b Counseled, armed, prepared, the ma
tion whose power is feebly represent
ed by millions of men and hundreds
of millions of money, is terribly
frightened at what it was pleased to
regard mendicant rebellion. Such
shouts as now pursue the Irish
/" rebels " from the columns of the
London press sound very like those
which must have followed the Jamai-
ca negroes, before they were killed by
a mob of uniformed butchers, and
ominously like the cries with which
the titled victims of revolution were
bounded to the guilletine. "Captur-
ed robbers should be hung" cries the
Standard. Leave no loopholes of
escape shrieks the Herald. STAMP
them out with an iron heel" cries the
Telegraph. Stamp them out as zoe
stamped out tie cattle plague" shouts
the Times, with a feroeity for which
there can be no pardon Even the
NeaCs expresses cruel fatalism, and
says England mast put down relent-
sessly the sedition which her misrule
has stirred up.e Why, indeed must
England be relentless? Because She
has prosecuted her sister country for
hundreds of years on the same I'M
profitable plan? Because the rebel
bon, actual or threatened, promises
more than an outbreak? Whatever
be the pretext, the sentiment Of this
free country should warn the common
sense of England against adding an
other scandal of crime to the
political & blunders q by which
her Government has deluged
lands where no good crop
has subsequently grown. Indian
slaughtered by thousands, and more
lately, starved by millions, bears no
good tribute to this horrible and hide
GUS policy. Jamaica, with its hun
dreds, logged and killed to appease
one mans tyrant and reckless fear, is
. caution which we beg the new
apostles of butchery, to heed in the
name of the crime for which the wo-
man whlpper, and the stamper- out,
Ex-Governor Eyre, is to be tried. and
let us hope, convicted. The stamping
out process as thus applied to men has
proved the most wretched and costly
of failures. 1t is the device of brute
fear and ignorance; and the progress
of humane knowledge, let us trust,
will render it at last unnecessary to
deal out that sinister mercy even to
the brute. But to treat a nation in
arms as cattle. is worse than brutal.
Six millions of Irish cattle oppressed
as no human cattle ever were, have
asked for food and justice. Food,
pasture and justice being denied, the
plague of rebellion breaks out among
them. What shall be done? as Con-
servatives.s What should be done?
ask. the Liberals. Stamp them outi
shouts the Times. May generous
nnnrloi y,ownrloSs A. dav hIIf mighty