The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1868-03-26
From the Charleston Courier. ~
There can be no Peace while there Is In

Every day brings fresh intelligence
of the deep and increasing discomfort
in Ireland. As was wisely said by
Mr.. Gladstone, at is vain to rely on
time as cure for tho evil. Seven
hundred years had thus been wasted. |"
These with their annual cycles, are
past and gone, and yet the cry still is
''peace, peace, when there is no
peace.
With England, tke-c is neither fra
ternity nor cordial sentiment. 5; The
heart of the son of Erin does rot
beat responsive to Great Britain
He does not look upon it as his own,
his native land. He rather regards
it as his oppressor and his enemy
Seven hundred years nave effected no
dimunition in this feeling. These have
not bridged over the past. Although
nominally one Government, they are
two distinct people, with the chasm
which separates them in reality, as
deep and broad, as at any time in
the past. st
If we ask the reason of this, we
may soon find a ready response. Ire
land has never known England as an
equal, but as ruler. Her people
have never had an equal voice in the
laws, or the same representation
They have never been recognized as
a co-cquaI part of the Government,
but rather as an annexed territory,
whose people should receive grateful
ly whatever was dolcd out to them.
England's sway to them has been
that Of the conqueror. Their destiny
that of a subjected province and peo-
pie Such a. eonditinrs s,d. Of thi. hf ..as ss time
ism, and of sense of wrong may be
covered up, but are still preserved
and nursed in the hearts and homes
ofthe people, and can never expire
rs long as any sentiment Of justice
survives. .
The Irish inhabitants of Canada
and Australia "said Mr.. Gladstone,
were contented and the great reason
for their content was that they pos
sessed the fruits of their own labor,
and enjoyed civil and religious equal
.ity."
And herein is great truth in hiss
tory, often lost sight of by those who
would rule by the strong hand, but
yet which never has yet failed to
vindicate itself.
Though years
Elapse and others share as dark doom,
This but augments the deep and sweeping
tn ughts
Which overspread all others, and conduct
The world at last to freedom"
Ireland to-day is n warning to the
Radical party at the North, of the
inevitable result Of their unconstitu-
tional course towards the South
There never can be permanent peace,
or fraternity, while exclusion and
disfranchisement exists. The white
race of the South will never be con-
tent with, or by their own acts ac-
quiesce in the rule of an inferior race,
The Radical party has forced this
issue. Shall negroes or white men
rule the South ? They have made all
questions subordinate to this.
The appeal is to The people and the
country. This must be met and passed
upon by the North at the ensuing
Presidential election. The South has
already passed upon it. Her white
race stard as unit uponit.
And at last, in view of the coming
verdict of the white race of the
North, Radicalism itself seems to
hesitate at making an Ireland of the
South.
Mr.. Farnsworth, of Illinois ac-
knowledged that it was a necessity
for his political organization 'to adj
NIT all Ito use his own terms) rebels
Unfortunately to political rights, if
they wished to avoid the great calam-
ity of having q black mans party
and white mans party in the South.
When, said he, "it would come'to
that, when the people were divided
into two parties, based on color, the
black mans party soould go to tile
dust. ~"
This is the language uttered in
Congress by one of the most pronoun-
ced Radicals of that body.
These are the opinions long since
announced by the people of the South
and proclaimed by the Democratic