Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-03-22
England and Ireland.

The existing excitement of the mas
ses IN Ireland, is raising the question
In various quarters, what is the posi-
tlon the government of England hold,
towards the people of the insurpen,
country, and the nature of their de
mands? The subject is one upor
which the limits of single article
would be insufficient for its proper
and intelligent discussion. Among
the reform measures asked, is iber
allty In suffrage, more extended thar
is now provided, especially the privi
lege of a ballot, together with an alb
atement of the tithes now levied upon
the people for the support OF the es.
tablished church, to which but about
one sixth of the population of the ISL
and belong. This latter cause has
always been source of much trouble.
and was one of the chief causes of
the uprising of 1898, and the weaker
attempts at rebellion of the present
century. Indeed, to enumerate eau
ses of discomfort on the part of the
Irish people, would simply be useless
and evading the question, as were they
all granted, and a code of laws ad-
opted by the British parliament, at
the dictation of a committee of the
people of that unhappy country, for
their government, they would in a
short time become as dissatisfied as
ever, and clamor as loudly for indie
pendence. What they want is separ-
alton from Great Britain, and that
alone will satisfy them; and until that
is granted, it will as VIC have said, be
worse than useless 10 attempt to emu
merate the causes Of discomfort and
the real or imaginary wrongs of the
Irish people. As long as a drop of
the blood of the men who under the
leadership of Sarsfield, disputed the
passage of William, Prince of Orange,
across the Boyne, and participated in
the defence of the city of Limerick,
known in the history of that country
as the city of broken treaties, flows in
Irish veins, so long will the knowledge
that Ireland is under British rule be
sufficient source of dissatisfaction,
and so long will this blood cry loudly
for Irish independence.
The present uprising is evidently
the most gigantic which has yet been
made in that country, and though ii
must fail before the hosts and treasure
of England. we of the United States
can no less respect and sympathize
with the brave men who are seeking
to achieve for their native land that
liberty which Washington and our ia
theirs achieved in our own; which Kos
suth failed to achieve for Hungary
and which Garibaldi has been so sig
nally successful in obtaining for TIA
England has made Ireland a mer,
recruiting station; there she obtain
her best fighting material, as well q
large quantities of supplies for her ar
mics. Ireland being one of the mos
fertile countries on the face of tn
globe and a large producer of grail
and forage. If England loses hel
she will have to look elsewhere for tn
attainment of those very desirabl
commodities, and by conquest an
plunder impoverish such land as sh
has in the Emerald Isle. But tn
home government is determined not t
lose her, and to this end is well pre-
pared to suppress the present rcvol
Every city and town of Importance
heavily garrisoned with British troop
and the Irish coast literally swarm
with British men-of-war. On the otl
er hand, the Fenians seem bent on m;
king this their greatest struggle fc
their independence, and with the nj
terial composing both armies, blood
2 and murderous work must be eXpec
ed, and though She odds are terrib
!, against the revoIutionists, we can on
a hope against hope for their success
/ and extend to them in this hour of Il
al, the sympathy which we have s
cordially extended TO Crete, Hungar
d Poland and other counties und
similar circumstances.-Rutlamd Hi
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