Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-11-17

The people of the United States
have for twenty years contributed to
this change by the remittance of two
aud holt millions yearly to bring
out emigrant$, and thus relieved the
Island of part of its superintendent
population.
England also has sold out thirty
| five hundred encountered estates,
comprising nearly one-eighth of the
Island. in eleven thousand lots, aud
has thus given a new impulse to the
country by giving the tenure to the
living hand in place of the dead one.
She has also established schools and
poor rates and apparently wishes to
make some requital tor the wrongs
of centuries. Some errors, however,
are irreparable. 1t is one of the pen
alties of wrong doing that hearts once
aHenated are not easily regained, and
that in such cases well doing will not
always win its reward.
England cannot reasonably expect
to conciliate Ireland by any half way
measures. She cannot easily forget
that within three centuries her land
has been three times confScated, that
its tenants have not on y been repeat
eddy seat penniless into the street
but have also been DISTINGUISHED and
forbidden to acquire property, if they
worship God as they were taught by
their fathers; that for more than two
centuries all their efforts to rise again
and improve their condition have beer
repressed; that under Elizabeth they
were forbidden to send cattle across
the channel, and when they salted
Their meat and sent that, Irish eXpor
tatiou OF meat was prohibited tina
when they took up sheep in place of
cattle, wool was prohibited, and wheI
thry established the manufacture oil
wool, twenty thousand cloth maker
wee. thrown out of business by an IL
terdict upon the manufacture, and tn
admission OF refined sugar and cottol
goods into England was also prohit
iteJ. and finally when they sent on
ships with goods to the Levant an
: India from the harbors that friug
thci. coast, even this commerce wa
interdicted. Until a recent perio
the chief legislation of England as t
Ireland has been in the shape OF inter
diets aud taxes, until over taxation re
.. duced revenue. To conciIiate Ire
land, England must do somethin
more substantial for the race she ha
aiienated.
The question of the hour is, VIVA
snail be done? Aud the friends 0
progress, after the extension of ou
trage in the two Islands, having d.
featcd the Government on the que.
ton of the Irish Church, now bring
! before the people that question, d
they elect their rulers. In Irelan
where three fourths are Roman Gait
olics, aud one eighth dissenters, Ems
- land has given to the remaining eight
,. a monopoly of the tithes and churc
income, which, with the rent OF pa
. aces and globes, exceed three millio
- dollars yearly. These sustain tw
- thousand clergymen, where one-tnir
y Of them would suffice, and give i
~ comes to twelve archbishops and bis
ops which exceed those of our Pres
~ dent; when two or three Bishop
= with one-tenth of their salaries, wou
- perform their duty. The clergy {
- four millions of a disfranchised RAJ
depend on the contributions of Il
- poor. When the peasant of Irelan
- with a shilling day, contrasts his i
10 come of seventy dollars year wi
- the twenty-four thousand dollars
~ gold of the dignitaries of church,
" feels down-hearted; he is not in
~ frame of mind to appreciate the go
~ offices of England. And when
49, contrasts America, which offers t
IL outcast farm, with England susta
~ ing the foreign landholder by force
10 10 exiting Irishmen from land once tn
,,,, own, he inevitably becomes a Fenia
u, The great measure of reform VIII
~ ~ John Bright, the friend of the Ir
. and the true friend of our Union, tn
Fy storm and sunshine, advocates /;
W. these: the reform of the Governm,
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