Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-27
REBELLION 5gsr.gsED ny mIseov.

- MEAEs
We copy from the correspondence Of
the New York Tribune the following
paragraphs in regard to the London
Tines. The writer says:
"Of all papers the one whose writing.
on Two or three recent occasions, has most
agreeably surprised the people of Ireland,
Is The Times. As IL struck by some sud-
den illumination on the Irish question.
or Influenced by some great impulse OF
candor and honesty, it has given to its
readers some two or three articles upon
the condition OF Ireland, in which If
there are some inaccurate remarks and
impOtent conclusions, there are also some
noble and generous statements, andsome
frank admissions, which are Of immense
value TO the Irish cause, and have Gre
ated a profound impression in this cOun-
try. 10 n Of these articles it eonfssses
that the English government of Ireland
hes been 8 failure, and says that the
only defense q side of parliament al
make is that the other has done no bet
ter Here let me ask what claim a gov
ernment, which is and has always been q
failure during a period Of seven hundred
years, can have to the allegiance Of the
people, whom il has fOrcibly kept subject
10 its INSTRUMENTATION? But TO return
TO The Times. It says that Burke could
not be given up to execution because the
Irish nation sympathised with and justi-
fled his acts.
at is found impossible to execute in
Ireland q sentence passed IN all sOlem-
nifty, aud deliberately ratified by the rep
reseutative Of the queen. BY the test OF
a critical appeal to the public conscience
it is found hat treason and rebellion in
Ireland are not crimes of such an IN
questionable character As TO justify the
execution of the criminal. So justice
faiters rather than ~relents, as she sees
behind the convicted traitor the appari-
ton of another justice that seems to
take him under her charge. It is her
own form reflected on the clouds and
darkness of 3 miserable past"
In another article we find ideas Of the
same order expressed:
"The progress of the Irish trials brings
day by day q recurrence of scenes that
must ever be painful and perplexing to
every true Englishman. Weseem to see
the customary order Of things reversed,
and self-respect, self-cOnfdence, patriot
ism, and even justice brought to the bar,
while law in its seveFest mood infiicts
PENALTIES and Febukes from the bench.
An unfortunate country pleadSfor the
criminal, and the cause of order and au-
thority has the necessary aid of the in
former and the spy.
This mood Of mind seems to be grow
ing on the Times, aud in a third article
the most remarkable statements Of ali
are freely made. England, it Gays, has
over and over acknowledged the right
Of rebellion, and has practised it herself.
She has given sympathy and aid to
many peoples Who choose to rise in arms
against their rulers, and has made politi-
cal idols Of ali the leaders of revolt, no
matter what might be the form of gov
eminent against which their destructive
energies were directed. Englishmen
cherish in their heart Of hearts the right
Of rebellion under possible circum-
stances and this being so, it goes on to
1.-THE English people, with all their
love OF order and respect for property, |
with all their constitutional and tradi-
tionary sentiment, with all their knowl-
edge aud wisdom, still cherish in their
heart Of hearts the right of rebellion
under possible circumstances. How
then, can we utterly deny it to Ireland,
much weaker, aud with so little to
hsr to tie existing order of thiDgs2 /
Over all the tumUlts, the trials, and the
controversies Of the hour, there emerges
and still cries to heaven the great fact of
Irish WTetchedness, and of that madness
-wretchedness ever engenders.
in tine to came, long after the
face OF the country may have been
changed altogether, the present state Of
will be told In several matters of
act which, however they may be ac-
counted for, can never be denied. Flu
.ure ages will read, as all mankind now
near, that the poorest race in at least the
west of Europe sees alien proprietors
owning nearly all It's land, and an alien
establishment drawing the whale Of its
revenues. In these broad out
lines, which alone find their way to
III the earth sui to al future tine, this
IS as great wrong as any hero ofour polit-
cal IdOlatTy ever r~edressed."
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