The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-04


cures for Irish t4risvahcSs.
The London Neacs of July 20 says:-
"Mr. Gladstone, who was unable to be present
on Tuesday at the Inauguration Of the Palmer
ston memorials, visited Romsey yesterday, and
addressed a large assembly in front OF the Town
Hall. The Mayor presided, and several members
OF The Corporation were present. The Right
Hon. W. Cowper, NJ. p, also attended. The
Mayor having introduced MIR. Gladstone, a
complimentary address to the right honorable
gentleman was read by the town clerk.
Mr. Gladstone then said:-l had the adVan-
tage OF being one OF the colleagues OF Lord Pal
merston, and Will not disguise, since 1t is no
matter OF mere pers onal egotisfn, that | look
back with much satlsacL cLon upon many labors
performed IN concert with him, and in the ad-
mlnistration OF which he was the head-labors
which / trust have not been wholly without
advantage 10 the country. We, the people of
the Uni ed Kingdom, are the stewards of a
great and noble inheritance, which 1t is our
duty not only TO enjoy but TO improge-an
inheritance with respect to which it is our
business TO admit that there remains much
which requires the application of efectual
and ever vigorous remedy IN one portion
in particular OF the United Kingdom. (Cneers.)
But afler allo wing for all thls II Is noble inhe
rltance, and tue one desire which anlmates
all is that, If we have received IT us great
treasure from our ioreiathers, we may be able
10 hand it down to our children greater trea.
sure still. (Cheers) Tne custody OF this treasure
is now committed, IN measure now far exceed
ing the precedent of former times, TO the hands
OF the people themselves. The responsibilities
than they are likely TO be during the
Parliament that will assemble in the month
of Decem Der mex. The mind and intelligence
OF Great Britain have recently been addressed
with a new intensity to the condition of Ire.
land-(hear, hear)-and profound impression
has 81 mped itself on the minds of all in the
inst place that Ireland is III; and in the second
place that If Ireiand be i'll, and 80 long as Ire
land is III, England and Scotland cannot be well.
(Hear, hear.) l sometimes am tempted to wish
that that sea whicn separates US from our Irish
pun m could a tImR removed q
subject OF old observation among intelligent
men that distance enormously anu lnordlnaLely
alters the view which men take of pubic
affairs. 1t has been said that to hear of a
broken arm in our own house or our village
would more impress the mind than TO be told
that town OF ten thousand men had been
swallowed by an earthquake in Chlna; and
applying this principle upon more moderate
scale, l must express my conviction that
this is likewise true OF Ireland, separated
though 1T be from US only by a narrow strip of
sea- for DO believe that If we went back wards
and Tor 4. ards rom England to Ireland, from
amolg Enghshmen to oe among Irlshmen, as
you here may pass from Hampshire 10 Wits, we
should long ago have acquired some true and
Just conception of the great duties that are still
incumbent upon US with reference 10 the sister
island, and ot the re- possibility that we have to
discharge. (Hear, hear) In some considerable
degree we trust thai WITHIN the limits OF Great
Britain 1t may be SAID we are upitea people.
We may have our differences, and we always
shall, and they are serious diderences upon
many affairs, but Notwithstanding that
we are in the man united people. The
masses OF the people from the highest
to The lowest are attached to the Queen, to the
throne, to the Government, to the laws, TO the
institutions OF the country, and attached to one
another. But when we cross the Channel we
unfortunately come, not TO a united, but TO q
very divided counry-a country divided in
itself, AID a country large portion of whose
people-it is painful 10 coutess At, bat 1T is tor
our welfare as well as theirs that we should not
blind ours elves to the undouDted fact-a large
portion OF whose people are either dul or indlE
ferent in their attachment to the rest OF the
United Kiuedom, and to its laws and
institutions as men positively estrauged from
them. Now, gentlemen, do not let us deceive
ourselves. For it is shocking, II IT oe true, that
after seven hundred years of political action
between Great Bdaln and lreland-not OF
equal political connection, out of con-
necuOn, up TO quite recent period,
as between a superior and a subordinate
country, entailing nearly the whole responsi-
blhty upon the superior country, ana taxing II
away from the SUBJ rdinate country-it Is pam
ful, ! say, 10 hear thai after seven centuries o
such connection this condition Of fundamental
enhancement should still, to lamentablt
degree, prevail. (Hear, hear.) Well, gentle
men, we proposed what |, in my sphere, shal
endeay or TO do-whaJ believe my night honor
able friend near me, II honored with your sui
trage Will cooperate in dolng-is this:-We
propose 10 try 10 other medicine for the sister
country than the medicine ot justice. (Cheers.
We have no magical arts TO pracuce
we have no special rec pes or iormulary, or dne
phrases to danele before you or before the eye
Of Ireland. We propose to apply religious
equality TO Ireland-to remove the state Churct
which now exists there-(cheeTs and cries o
"No")-and carefully to ayO d, and II necessar!
TO resist. the erection OF any other Sta!e Church
(Cheers.) We propose To apply this meth ID
not because 1t Is a method necessarily suited &
ali circumstances and all countries but becaus
il j. emntntly suited to and required by tn
circumstances and the case OF Ireland.