East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-11-22
ireland and Fenian Inv asions.

No one whose mind is generously
imbucd with the principles Of human
ity, who has regard for the rights
Of individuals and Of nations, can ia
miliarize himself with the history of
the British rule in Ireland, without
entertaining profound sympathy for
the Irish people and for their efforts
to right their wrongs and free them
selves from that CALLING yoke Of OPP
preston which the English Govern
mcnt has kept upon them with ma
lignant constancy for these four centu-
ries past. English domination has
elsewhere ever been severe and heart
less, but in Ireland it has ever been
cruel, tyrannical, despotic. Whatever
Irishmcn have loved and yenerated
in their native land, British hostility
has trampled upon and destroyed.
1t has kept the National faith under
the ban. 1t has compelled that peo-
to sustain, with their hard learned pit
tances, a church which characterized
7 their own faith as false and herctical.
1t con6scatcd and apl ortioned among
the English aristocracy, every inch OF
Irish soil, 1t established system of
tenancy in which tho English land
lord is little less than master and
the tenant little better than a slave.
1t inaugurated and sustained such
principles of trade, that Irish indus
tries become almost impossible, and
tho manufactures of that Island have
to a great extent, ceased to exist. 1t
never has done anything to foster, but
everything to blight the prosperity
of that land. No wonder that under
such an iron sway, Irishmen have
grown heart sick and tired Of life in
their native Isle, and have wandered
elsewhere, the world over, to seek for
tune and a home. No wonder, too, that
they cherish an eternal hostility
against the power that has thus OPP
pressed and crushed them. Such hos
tility becomes them. 1t is their birth
right. And it is their honor that they
have kept Ireland in a chronic state of
instruction for generations past. 1t
i, the evidence of thor cont INT and
earnest protest against the destruction
of their rights and liberties asa peo-
pie. 1t shows the world at least, that
they are deserving of freedom. So too,
the motives which impel them to the
efforts they are making in this country
at the present hour, cannot fail OF en-
listing the sympathy of all men who
appreciate the wrongs to which they
a. nation have over been S, b ected.
But at the same time, candor compels
us to say that we have no confidence in
the success of any attempt to over
throw British authority in Canada,
through tho Fenian organization.
/ The enforcement Of our neutrality
laws, which is obligatory upon the
government must forever preclude the
possibility Of well organized army
such as is essential to win battles
leaving the United States soil for the
invasion Of the Canadas. If Fonians
enter those provinces, they must do
so in detachments, without means oil
transportation, destitute of supplies
and supply trains, without heavy ord
nance, and in such disorganized par
ties as to render their defeat almost
certain in the first and decisive con-
tests. War in these latter days is an
art, and those who would successfully
practice it, must have both great re.
sources and great .ph;litias E-n-le-,J
be no doubt but that she will use her
whole power to defend her Provinces
against Fenian arms, if it should be-
como necessary. Is it not then, mere
madness, for Irishmen, under all the
circumstances Of the case, to attempt
to strike down the English authority
in Canada? We believe the best and
wisest of that nationality in America,
are clearly Of this opinion, and that
those who persist in making Canadian
invasions are-perhaps unwittingly--
inviting defeat and imprisonment, if
not death, to many of their country
mon. 50 ~. rter,
EFrTcrs or EMANCIPATION IN Russia.
"A ST. Petersburg correspondent of
Tic PaN Nal Gazette writes as follows:
,s IT, conformation of tho old desnot;c