The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-25
COLUMBIA.
Thursday Morning, April 25. 1887.



glance at it may not be uninteresting
to many of our readers. There is an
article in the last number of the
Edimburg Reuie,o OH the ''tenant COM
pensation in Ireland" in which the
writer plainly tells the English Co.
yernment that it must deal with that
country in larger and more liberal
spirit, if the spirit of Fenianism is
to be assuaged, and the work of de-
populating the island is to be arrested.
The fact that n passion for emigrating
prevails generally, is proof, he
asserts, of general discomfort. The
people believe that they have II ot had
fair play under the present law, and
they despair of change. He con-
cludes as follows:
"There remain uncontroyerted the
following facts: That the Irish peo-
pie are seriously discontented. That
they themselves attribute their dis
content, in q great measure, to the
existing relations between landlord
and tenant. That every statesmano of
any eminence, who has lived within
the last twenty years, has, at one time
or another, admitted the necessity of
legislation, while the evil they have
all acknowledged still remains prac-
tically unabated. And that the pro-
crossing emigration from Ireland
be it, economically speaking, an evil
or q goods assuredly strengthen
ing, day by day, the anti-British feel
ing in very powerful neighboring
State, already NOT too friendly to
England or the English. -
cit has been often repeated of late,
and probably with truth, that Fe-
nianism in its origin was entirely
unconnected with either the Land or
the Established Church question.
But con any one for q moment be-
ieve that the seditious efforts, of such
men as Stephens or his Irish-Ameri-
can accomplices could have had any
effect in disturbing the peace or
alarming the executive of any.coun-
try whose people were being justly
ruled? These, after all, are moment
GUS considerations, not for Irish
landlords alone, but for the entire
empire
And upon this subject we notice an
interesting article in the New York
San, from which we learn that, for
the last twenty-five years, Ireland has
been constantly declining in popula-
ton, and the decline has been re.
markably rapid, as may be seen by
the following figures. The popula-
ton was. in 1S41, 9,175,OO0; 1851,
6,553, 900; 1853, COLO, 900; 1861,
5,764,000. This shows O. decrease of
nearly 2,50O,O0 since the year 1S41.
Taking this rs basis, and supposing
this rate of decrease to continue, we
are brought to the rather startling
conclusion, that by the year 1908, the
population of Ireland will have totally
disappeared, leaving nothing but
their name and history and one of
the most beautiful islands in the
world.
The British statistics of emigra-
ton show that between the years
1916 and 1857. an average of 10000
per annum left Ireland for British
America alone, but the emigration
from Ireland to the United States is
very much greater than that in any
other direction. In the year 1852,
l6O,O 900 Irish arrived in the United
States; in 1858, 1G4, coo, and in 1854,
$4,000. Since the war commenced,
Irish emigration to this country has
been materially affected, but now
that hostilitics have ceased, it has
again reached the former standard,
and bids fair to become larger than
ever.
1t is mournful to see such deca-
dence in the elements Of prosperity,
and such depopulation of one oi
the most fertile and productive
countries in the world. That misma
nagement or mis-government has
been chiefly instrumental in pro-
ducing it, there can be little doubt.
There can be no question but that
nc tho writer above oite1 infimotoc