Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-19

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In compliance with request made to
him from Dublin, NJ. Victor Hugo has ad-
dressed the following letter to England on
the subject of the execution Of Burke and
other Fenians:
rh.ro "a anguish in Dublin. Sentences
e deotb follow fast one upon another. A
let,er now before us says "The gallows IS
1T 40 he erected. first for General Burke;
nprt will come Capt MAherty and Capt.
Mcclure then three others, Kelly, Joiee
and Cullinan. There is not moment to
spare Women, young girls implore you
Wul nv letter reach you in time we
rad this and do not believe it. They tell /
ma the scaffold is ready. We reply, that |
i NOT possibIe-Calcraft has nothing to 90 |
with poIitics. II il bad enough that he ex |
lists apart from it. No THE political seaIoio
isnot nossible in England. When England
hailed Kossuth, it was not that she might
initiate the gibbets Of Hungary 1t was not
for the purpose Of renewing the hanglngs
of Sicily that England glorified Garibaldl.
Else what would signify the hurrahs on
London and Southampton? Put an end, ~
was 40. TO all Your Polish, Greek and ltal-
ian committees. No; England, in 1867,
will moi execute Ireland. That Elizabeth
,,ill not behead that Mary Stuart. The
nineteenth century exists. Hang Burke
Imnossiblel 60. copy Talliaferro killing
Jobn Brown, Chacon killing Lopez, Gen,
rard killing young Delorme, Ferdinand
killing Pisacane! What after the English
reyolutionl after the French revolution
in the great and luminous epoch IN Whlch
we live! So then nothing has been sald'
nothing written, nothing thought, nothing
proclaimed, nothing done, within the iasI
forty years. What, such things shaIl DE
done in the presence of us who are more
than spectators, who are witnesses What
the old savage penalties shall stlll suD5lSt
20 tbia hour such sentences as these shall
he pronounced: Such a one, on such day,
yon shall be drawn on a hurdle to the
ylaca Of vour punishment; then your body
sball be cut into four quarters, which shall
he At the disposal Of Her Majesty, who Will
conmand 10 be done with them according
a. hor Good pleasurer What on May OF
lime morning, to-day, tomorrow, man
Locouse he has political or national ialth
hocause he has struggled for that lalth
because he has been vanquished, shall DC
hound with cords, shall have black cal
drawn over his face, and be hanged ah'
strangled until death ensue! NO! you ar
90 ISnoIand for that. You have at presen
,bis advantage over France, that you arr
a free nation. France, as great as England
il NOT mistress of herself, and that Is a sac
din,;nution. You pride yourself upon 1t
pa;tso Rut beware. Ii is possible TO e
~ n ceniury in one day. To recede ever
a. he nolitieal galows You, England
Thon erect a statute 10 Jefiereys. Mean
while. we will erect statue to Noltaire
DO Won give il a thought? You nav
sheridan and Fox who found Parllamen
tarv eloouence: Won have Howard, VIII
ventilated the prison and madepunishmen
marciful. Won have WIlberiorce, wh
abolished slavery; you have Rowland M
who yiyifed postal circulation; you nav
Cobden. who created free trade; you nav
,iven 70 the world the colonizing impulse
Won have constructed the first transatlanu
cable. YOU are in full possession oi polltlc'
manhood YOU exercise the graho rlgh'
citizenship magnihcenty IN all IT'S iorh
Won have a free press, free speech, 'eeOC'
"a ,onsc;ence freedom of association, lr'
"a housebold freedom, personal free
An, Won are about through reform,
orriye at universal suffrage; you are Il
Iaod az the vote. the POLL the meeting y'
are the mighty people Of the hdbeas co'Pt
Wsu then. 10 ali this splendof &C
this: Burke hanged and precisely .
r,use Won are the greatest OF Tree peopi
won become the least. tis unknown WI
ravare one drop Ct shame makes
glory. From being first yon SINK 10
Iast What means this inverted ambltlo
What means this thirst for Degradation
In nresence of these gibbets, worthy
insanity of George Ill. the genuine
would no longer recognize the august ore
Retain of progress The nations Won
turn away their face A irighuul biuho
ogainst civilization would have been COZ
roitted and hy whom BY England l.
subrious surprise Stupor OF indlgnauo
Nbat more hideous Than a sun whence
At once NIGHT should issue? No, no. n
| reneat. YOU are not England tor mat i
are ENGLAND To set an example TO the
lions al proeress, work, initiative, uu
rieht. reason. Justice, the majesty oil IT
dom You are England TO present
spectacle of life and not the example
death Europe recalls You TO your gu
~ s,eak at this moment in behalf OF IN
condemned men Is 10 come 10 the ald
Iceland IL is alse 10 come 10 the aid
Enclsna The one is in danger as rega
bsr sutonomy. the other as regards
glory. The cibbels will not be erecl
R,rie NpCure. MAfErty, Kelly, Jo
Cnllinan shall not die Wives and dau
ters who have written 10 a prescribed ~
:, is.needless tc make yourselves bla
- Look with confidence on "
children sleeping in their cradles; II
woman dressed in mourning, VINO ~
Fngland. A mother will not make
nbsns a widow will not make WIDOWS
P"'"'' VICroR HuG'
Till, H,,,oe Nav 2S 1867.