Litchfield enquirer., 1867-01-10
THOMAS HUGHES.

Theswell known autlaseof s.Tom Brown at Rugby"and Tom Brown at Oxford,' has of late been taking an active part on behalf of Reform in {. ths Parliament and before the people of Great Britain. He has also become correspondent of the N I. Tribune and his raey, genial letters add greatly to the interest of that paper
 It is not often that America finds SO able. ! outspoken and intelligenta friend ill Eng land; and the following extracts are sgsEfIii- sgsEfIii cient to indicate the growing sympathy between Anglo Saxon radicals, on both sides of the water: .s f.-5 ..s.. l SECRETARY SEWARD
 1.-The sensation, this week, here has been the publication of Mr. Stewards dispatch to Sir Frederick Bruce on the subject of the two wretched men, Lynch and McMa- hon, who are lying under sentence of death at Toronto. I regret to say that the i'm precision 1t has made in England is one which all friends to both countries must deeply regret. It is regarded as distinct threat, and threat conveyed in an insult ing and spobbish form, to serve the politi- cal ends of the writer and pander to the bombastic instincts of your mob. 4 mod crate and Liberal paper, such as T7se Pal Mall Gazette, interprets it thus: "We will enjoy the pleasure of dictating to you and giving you orders till it suits our conven- fence to take possession of your domin- ions., You are only tenants oll sufferance, and VIC will make you feel it" This is their rendering of the dispatch, and own ! ~k r State permits himself to write, "Good re- States that are adjacent to each other with daries," having regard to the circumstances of the case in Canada, one can only con- clude that he means bullying. We all know, as well as you, that the whole of our North American possessions or the main land may be over-run at any time long be- fore we could throw any force into the coun- try which could make head against your armies. We are also sensitively alive to the fact that the time of the year has just ar rived when it is virtually impossible for us to do anything for Canada, however press ing the need may be, and under these con- ditions we appreciate highly the taste of your Secretary's dispatch. I am very sor- ry for it, own. Notwithstanding much that has seemed to me petty, and unwor- thy of a man called to the front of free nation in such a crisis as yours, have al- ways tried to keep up the reYeect which I acquired for Mir. Seward wh1u reading the debates on Kansas questions years ago.
 The dastardly attempt on his life, associa- ted as it is with the martyfsm of your grand old President. reTyA those early feelings strongly, and it is with considers ble regret that am obliged fo throw them overheard. If his dispatch means nothing for us on this side, and isb intended for home consumption, and as $. bid for the Irish vote, it might have been ldone ct any rate in far better taste
 l FENIAN1sM
 | With respect to the merits of the ques- ton we are all agreed, so far as can judge, in the desire that every possible considera- ton should be given to the case of these prisoners. Our people revolt, as yours would do, against the execution of priest, and if McMahon can make out a shadow of case such as that set up for him, that he was in Canada on his own business, and only called in by the flibusters to do the duties of his office to wounded and dying men, he should be pardonsd freely. In like manner, if Lynch can adduce any proof that he was not 8 beligerent, but a spectator, sent by his employers to report on the fortunes of the invasion, though the case is far weaker than that of McMahon, no EngGshman would wish the sentence of death to be carried out But if Irishmen, whether citizens of the United States or not, will invade, not their own old coun- try, but province in which they have no traditional wrongs to avenge, and where the people have no sympathy with them, and in so doing shoot down volunteers who have turned out for the defense of their own hearths, they have nothing but short shrift to hope for from us. It would be l we'll if your politicians and journalists could find 1t in their hearts to treat this Irish question with more candor and hon. esty. can appreciate the temptation of a | bid for the Irish vote at your elections; but the real leaders should be proof against such temptation-and I confess that the tone of even the best Republicans on this 1 question is source of much humiliation 1 to your most firm friends here. Even in your own columns I see Ireland chased in the same category with Poland and other oppressed nations, and this without any proof or argument which would not have applied with at least as great weight to 1 your own Rebel States-for it all comes to this, even assuming your premises to be true: that considerable portion of the i people of Ireland wish to sever their con- nection with England. There is no distinc- ton whatever, in any part of the British Empire, between the Englishman and the Irishman. Wherever there is difference, it is in favor of the weaker people. They are less heavily taxed in their own island
 Every career in England Is perfectly open to them At our bar they share the high est prizes. Sir Hugh Cairns, who has just been promoted to the Chief-J Justiceship in our Court of Chancery, is an Irishman. There are three Irishmen among our com i mon law judges, and hosts of Irishmen are practicing with success at our bar, while there is no Englishman on the Irish bench, or, so far as I know, in practice at the Irish bar. In the church and the army the same rule holds, and in the medical profession there are many Irishmen our leading phy- sicians and surgeons. State education in Ireland is on far better footing than Ill England, and in this respect, but for the l internecine auarrels of the churches and sects, there would be nothing. more to be wished or fought for. The only real griev- ances which remain-the established church and the system of land tenures-wouid be abolished in session but for the opposition I of Irishmen themselves. And cannot but believe that all men among you who are