Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-23
GEO. A. HICKOX, EDITOR.
Ireland and the South.


 ably just as long as an army IS kept there to en- force it. Possibly longer. Ireland, by one wicked device and another, has been kept in state of suhjugation for several hundred years. But her spirit has never been subdued. She is Irish still. Ne trust the result will be the same in Arkansas. -BridgepO't Farmer.
 Evil advice, like the foregoing, is about all the help the Southern Conservative has had from the Northern for many years past Just before the war, Southern Se- cessionists were advised to fear nothing from the government, to expect civil war, if anywhere, at the North! Then, after the war, the same evil counseliers came for ward with more bad advice. They sug- gested the rejection of the Constitutional Amendments. Now, third time, the De- mocracy of the North are counselling the Southern wing of their party.-They ad- wise anarchy, assassination, and the evil arts that can alone delay the return of Southern prosperity. Can it be possible that the South will be third time misled? The comparison between Ireland and the South is one so often made by Democratic orators and editors that it is worth exami- nation. Macaulay in his history thus opens his account of the difficulties in Ireland in 1888.
 FWhen the historian of this troubled reign turns to Ireland his task becomes peculiarly difficult and delicate. His steps-to borrow the fine image used on a similar occasion by Roman poet-are an the thin crust of ashes beneath which the lava Is still glowing The seventeenth century has in that unhappy country left to the nineteenth fatal heritage of malignant passions. No amnesty for for the mutual wrongs inflicted by the Saxon de- lenders of Londonderry, and by the Celtic defend CTS of Limeric, has ever been granted from the heart by either race. To this day more than Spartan haughtiness alloys the many noble qualities which char acteriZe the children of the yctors, while Helot feeling, compounded of awe and ha- tred is but too often discernabe in the children of the vanquished." Vol. II page IT.
 He thus describes the Irish peasantry: They never worked till they felt the sting of hunger. They were content with accommoda- tions inferior to that which in happier countries were provided tor domestic cattle. Already the potato, root which can be cultivated with scarce ly any art, industry or capital and which cannot mon people. From people So fed, diligence and forethOught were not to be expected. Even with in a few miles of Dublin, the traveller on 8 soil the richest and most verdant in the world. saw with disgust the miserable burrows out of which squalid and half naked barbarians stared wildly at him as he passed. Vol. II, p. 119
 The Anglo Saxon residents of Ireland are thus described:
 'They were an aristocrac cast which had been en- abled by superior civilization, by close union, by sleepless vigilance by cool ntrepidity to keep in snbjection numerous and hostile population.
 In all ages, men situated as the Angio-Saxons in Ireland were situated have had peculiar vices and peculiar virtues-the vices and virtues of masters opposed to the vices and virtues of slaves. The member of dominant s.. n aol. dom indeed, fraudulent-for fraud is the res course of the weak-but imperious, insolent and cruel. Toward his bretheren, oR the other hand, his conduct is generally just kind and even noble. Vol H, p. 174.
 ''The Englishman compared with pride his own fields with the desola.e bogs whence the raparees issued forth to rob and murder, and his own dwell ling with the novels where the peasants and the hogs of the Shannon widowed in filth together He was a member of a society far inferior, indeed in wealth and civilization to the society in which VIC live. but still one of the wealthiest and m os highly civilized societies that the world had ther seen; the Irish were almost rude as the sayages of Labrador. He was freeman; the Irish were the hereditary serfs of his race He knew that great numbers of Irish had repeatedly fled before . small English force, and that the whole Irish population had been held down by a small English colony; and he very complacently inferred that ht scds naturally q betiag of higher order hdn Mt btsRman; for t is thus that q doninant race al sCdys expldias iS Gscendency and excuses is tapdn. ny. That in viyacity, humor and eloquence, the lr16h stand hlgn among the nations Of the world is now universally acknowledged. That, when well disciplined, they are excellent soldiers, has been proved on hundred fields of battle; yet it is cer- tain that century and half ago, dtey acere gen. e'dtly desptsed il our istdnd Gs both stupid aud c co,cordiy people" Vol. II, p. 393.
 On the very next page we find the fol- lowing regarding the introduction of Irish troops into England by James II:
 ''The English felt as the white inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans would feel if those towns were occupied by negro garrisons."
 Of the legislation which followed the Irish insurrection of 1888, and remaine in force for more than a century afterwards, Burke said:
 "The declared object of these laws was to re- duce the Catholic people of Ireland to misera ble populace without property, without estima tion, for Catholic parents were not allowed to edu cate their children. The framers of this code di vlded the nation into two distinct bodies one o which bodies was to possess the franchises, all the property, and all the education the others were to be drawers of water and cutters of turf for tho privileged class and community"
 No American denies that Ireland has been shamefully abused-but wherein: Our Democracy seem to suppose in the suspension of the Habeas Corpus, and the use of military force! These are the re suits, not the cause of the disease The root of the evil lies deeper: in the domi nation of race over race, of religion oyer religion. It is not surprising that Macau lay is struck with the resemblance between the feeling and conduct of the Englisl Protestant towards the Irish Catholic, and the feeling and conduct of the American white towards the American black. Could more perfect epitome be given of the "Black Laws" of reconstructed" South than Burke gives us of the Irish Pena Code? It is the terrible example of Ire land that MT. Johnson and his friends arc determined to follow, and that the Repub lican party are determined to avoid. Whil, we have political power, America shall nev CT be cursed with the tyranny of race or O caste.
 One great need, in addition to liberty the ballot, and intelligence, is common t
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