Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-08

the brightest gem In her crown. She lev
led and collected taxes and refused the coll
onists voice in the imposition thereof
she denied the common rights and privil-
edges of English subjects. The mulish
Lord North would hear to no eoncessiona d
The petitions of the colonists for redress
OF grievances were spurned from the foot
of the throne. - 40 hl1 Tst5 p - @ii e Il
2iEnglands tyrannyogoad the colonists
into rebellion Her Joss was our gain. We
honor and revere the memories of the
heroes who resisted such oppression and
snapped the shackles in twain. My friends,
you will listen on every 4th of July to the
Declaration of Independence; you applaud
its bold dennnciltions of tyranny and as
sertions of right. And yet you seem to
forget that ten millions of American citi
zSns are to-day ground beneath a despot-
ism ten-fold more calling than that against
which our forefathers rebelled. Yes, the
descendants of those heroes who marched
shoulder to shoulder under the starry ban
ner during the revolution, who fought,
every battle of freedom from Bunker Hill
TO yorktown are to-day deprived of every
1.-THE of that liberty which you enjoy. For
shame! 9iBurn the Declati6n of Independ-
ence. Applaud. not its letter WHEN you
have forgotten its spirit. Tyrants need not
be hypocrites.
For centuries, England has outraged
every feeling of humanity in depressing
the people ofIreland. nIu164 began what
is known in Irish history as the confederate,
war. Irish soldiers who had served on the.
continent fiocked to the support of Erin'sI
flag. England's bigoted, tyrannical policy
caused this rebellion. and for ten years the
native chiertains baffied the armies of Eng
land and gained many signal advantages
over them. Independence was within their
grasp. But the demon of discord as usual
divided their eounselsa and enervated1
their strength. France and England
failed to supply promised aid. o'Neii, the
commander r-in-chief of the confederate
forces, one of the most accomplished aud
skillful soldiers of his age, died when, his
country most required his services. Crowd
ed in a brief campaign of nine months,
he captured stronghold after stronghold
from the starving confederates. He butch
cred the inhabitants-spared neither age
nor sex. "Rebel' infants were tossed into
the air and their quivering bodies impaled
on bristling bayonetsl Cromwell crushed
the rebellion. He treated the people as
rebels and divided their lands amongst his
soldiers. He sold six thousand of the peo-
pie into slavery in the Indies. Such has
been the policy of England towards Ire
land from the time the first hostile foot
touched her soil to the present day. How
has this policy succeeded in establishing
British power in Ireland |? Ask the Irish
man in any part of the world. He will tell
you that it has made every man, woman
and child in the entire island rebel! The
steel of oppression has been driven to the
hearts Of the Irish people. They never
will forgive-they never will forget. The
dying peasant bequeaths rusty fifelock or
pike as rich heritage to his children,
hoping that they, more fortunate than he,
may pierce the heart of the oppressor. The
Irish people are not the only victims of
this policy. While England has .lespoiled-
the homes of the Irish and driven the
weeping widow and helpless orphan to the
waves of pitiless ocean, she is groaning
beneath a national debt accumulated by
her efforts to stitle liberty. To pay the
interest on this debt the English people are
taxed as no people on earth are taxed, ex-
eept ourselves. England is decayed-rot-
to rue her treatment of the Irish
people. At the battle of Fontenoy,
the English column, fourteen thousand
strong, was charging on the French
center. On, on they came. Louis was
about to leave the field. The Dutch and
Austrians now pressing his right and left
wings, Marshal Sake urged the King to
fly. and declared the day was lost. But the
Duke of Richelieu brought up the Irish
brigade, and as Dillon gave the command
"Charge," wild rhuzza rent the air and
those eXiles swept down upon the English
column and scattered it like leaves before
an autumn wind Thus the Irish brigade
plucked the laurels from England's brow
and placed them on the head OF Louis
When the English King learned of his dis
aster, he exclaimed in the anguish of his
heart: "Aceursed be the laws which de-
prived me of such soldiersl' y The time is
not far distant when this Attilla of nations
which blew Sepoys from the mouth of its
cannon, which murdered thousands of
American soldiers in her loathsome prison
ships, will benumbered amongst the things
that were. Ireland is positive weakness
to England. She wears the crown of Erin.
but for her it is crown of thorns. The
cause of liberty is the cause of God. Eng
land is the foe of liberty at home and
abroad God is patient because eternal
but sooner or later England will sink be-
meath its crimes. .- -.s.....s.-.