Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-24
THE WRONGS OF IRELAND.
The Tour and Speeches of John Bright
The Troubling or the Waters-Res-
1OratiOn by a NeWssPartftiOn.

From the New York journal Of Commerce.
Mr.. Bright's tour in ireland is the subject
of severe animadversiOns on the part Of the
friends of the Administration now in power
IN the British Government, the "Tories," So
called. The exciting air Of Ireland and the
exuberance Of an Hibernian audience are
spoken of as highly favorable to his style of
oratory His purpose is to show by what
means can be brought about contentment
and tranquility and a solid union between
Ireland and the rest of Great Britain, and for
this purpose he makes use of the best argu-
ments known to the advocates of reform. he
contends that Ireland is a field in which all
the principles of the Tory party have been
completely experimental upon and devel-
Oped, and that, after all, land in which
'desolating famines and other indescribable
evils prevail, a condition Of things out Of
which has grown a Estate of chronic insur-
rection." This situation is attributed not to
the peculiarities Of the Celtic race, but TO the
conditions to which they have been sub
jeeted, till at length, as the followers of Mo-
manned turned their face to Mecca, so ''the
Irish peasant, when he asks for food and
freedom and blessings, his eyes follow the
setting SUM-" The aspiration of the Irish
heart is to grasp hands with the great re-
public Ol Tue w est TOT lutst IcdoOfi5 MI
Bright believes the disease is not only seri-
our but desperate Nor is the mischief con-
fined to the United Kingdom since the gov
ernment at this moment is sending troops
across the Atlantic to fight Irishmen who
are bitter enemies of England on the Ameri-
can continent" The remedy prescribed is
to improve the condition of the cultivator Of
the soil In his speech delivered in Dublin
Fho Qnfh milf tho eubJact ,F
much comment, Mr.. Bright said
The grand evil in Ireland is this-that
the Irish people-the nation, are dispos-
sessed of the soil What we ought to do is
to provide for and aid their restoration to
it BY all means of justice. Should YOU toll
crate in Ireland the law of primogenitUre
Why should you tolerate the system of en-
tails and long settlements? Why should
the object Of the law be to accumulate land
In great masses in few hands, and to make
IL almost impossible for persons of small
means and tenant farmers to become pos
sOrs Of land If you go to other countries
for example, to Norway, to Denmark, to
Holland, to Belgium, to France, TO Ger
many, to Italy, or to the United States, you
will find that in all those countries those
laws Of which | complain have been abol-
ished. (Cheers.) No doubt your Landed
Estates Court and your Court of Titles Act
we're good measures, but they were good be-
cause they were in the direction that | want
to travel further in. / would 90 further
than that l would deal with the question
of absenteeism. (Cheers) | am not going
10 propose to tax absentees; but if my adj
vice were taken, we should have a Parlia-
mentary Commission empowered to buy up
the large estates in Ireland belonging to the
English nobility, for the purpose of selling
them on proper terms to the occupiers OF
the farms and to the tenantry of Ireland
Cheers Now let me be fairly understood.
/ am not proposing to take any of their
property from them, but l propose this
that a Parliamentary Commission should be
empowered to treat for the purchase of these
large estates with view of selling them out
70 the tenantry of Ireland. Here are some
of them. The present Prime Minister, Lord
Derby; the Marquis Of Lansdowne, Lord
Fitzwilliam. the Marquis of Hartford, the
Marquis of Bath, the Duke of Bedford, the
Duke of Devonshire and many others, have
large estates in ireland. Many of them,
daresay, are Just as well managed as any
estates in the country; but what you
Tant is to restore to Ireland a middle
proprietary of the soil, and | venture
lte say that if these estates could be
purchased, and could be sold out farm bv
farm to the tenant occnpier in Ireland, it
would be infinitely better to a conservative
sense than that they should belong 10 great
BToprietors living out of the country. have
said thatthe disease is desperate, and that the
remedy must be searching. | assert that the
present system of government with regard
TO the Church and with regard to the land
has failed disastrously in Irelend. l have
often asked myself whether patriotism is
dead in Ireland. Cannot all the people Of
Ireland see that the calamities of their coun-
try are the creations of the law; and if that
be so, just laws can move those calumnies.
The supporters of the Derby TORY Adj |
ADMINISTRATION professtO understand MIR. Bright |
20 propose that the Government buy up all |
the large estates of Ireland and partition |
them among the occupants of the soil; but |
suggested as an objection, that the latter |
could not avail themselves Of the offer pro-
posed without money, and how to put money |
IN the pockets of the needy peasantry might !
prove a difficult problem. And the remedy !
relating to the removal of the church estab- |
lishment is considered no less embarrassing |
Sc that Mr.. Bright, and the class Of re-
formers he represents, are given little credit |
for political sagacity. On the contrary, the |
effect of such appeals as that to which the |
Irish people have listened, is declared TO be |
simply the evaporation of passions already |
heated enough. The Irish have certainly |
heard glowing exposition Of their wrongs, |
and perhaps like the client who heard his
case ably presented at the BAR will be more
Sstonished than any body else to learn how
much they havesutiered. Inthe present. state |
of the reform question, Mr.. B. is liable to
earn for himself the reputation of a danger
Gus sgitator.
In Cleveland, Ohio, on the 18th instant,
Mrs. Patrick Moran, the wife of drayman,
locked up her children, two little boys, re-