Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-07
IRELAND AND THE FEN1ANs.

well prison by the Fcnians, SHOWS
the bold and desperate resolves OF these
men, and how little they have been al
fected by the recent execution Of Allen,
Gould and Larkin at Manchester. The
undue rigor Of that execution only af-
fords another instance Of the utter in
efficiency Of the spasmodic severity in
REFRESHING resistance that arises from a
sense Of heavy and lo~ng-continucd Ia
tiouNl wrongs. OF course, no journal,
either on this or on the other side Of the
water, a properly justify measures Of
resistance that involve the lives n
safety Of innocent people, as was the
case in this attempt to blow up the
Clerkenwell prison. The supposed pur-
pose of that attempt was tho liberation
Of Colonel Burke and other Fcnians i'm
prisoued there; yet that purpose not
only failed, but several innocent lives
were lost, and, rs the cable dispatches
now inform us, about forty other unof-
Tending persons were more or less Sc
verely injured in the general crash.
Such blind efforts at vengeance and re-
taliation scarcely ever succeed, and can
never be justified. Yet, coming back
to the case as it stands, what else can
the British Government expect? There
are the Irish people, people that have
been suffering for four centuries from
wrongs and expressions and national
outrages of every kind. For more than
q century Of this time they have been
making appeal after appeal for redress,
their appeals never being satisfied, most
of the time scarcely listened to and
during the same period they have been,
on not less than a dozen occasions,
either upon the eve Of rebellion to OBJ
tain a redress of their wrongs, or else
IN open, though hopeless revolt, to &C.
complish the same end. Yet nothing is
done. Many Of the ablest Of the states
men Of the British Empire have, time
after time, brought forward the condi-
ton of Ireland, and have done their
best towards aiding the Irish statesmen
to get relief from the terrible oppression
Of the landlord and tenant system there,
the burden of au established Church,
with which fve-sixths Of the people
have no sympathy, and to produce some
sort of q general education system that
will lift the children Of the Irish people
from the depths of ignorance and degra-
| da,ion to which the policy Of the
British Government has condemned
them. But that Government seems to
have neither ear nor heart for the suf-
ferings and wrongs Of the people of that
country and year after year, and CEN
fury after century 60 by without any
measures of redress being either extend
ed or proposed by the imperious Gov
eminent that rules them in tho same
way they would rule a tribe Of savages
or q herd Of animals. All these things
have to be borne in mind when we
attempt to criticise what is done by the
Feuians in the way Of promising atten-
ton, or Of commanding a redress of
grievances by such blind and headlong
attempts rs the invasion Of Canada +;
the futile attempts to seize British
a~rseuals and other fortified places; the
rescue of prisoners from escorts of armed
policemen, and the blowing up Of pris-
ons, as VIC are informed BY the latest
reports. However insane such proceed
ings appear to US, they are but the
natural consequences Of the stolid indif.
ference and peryerse obssinacy Of the
British Government in all this matter
of the wrongs of the Irish people. The
English have no reason to expect other
or different things, and there is every
reason to believe that instead Of getting
better, such affairs will only grow more
numerous, and become more alarming
and dangerous, until no British officer
and no British public establishment
having any relations to the Irish peo-
pie, or to the arrest and punishment Of
Fenian offenders, can be considered safe
from danger from hour to hour. 1t will
be vain for the London Times to clamor
for more security. # will be vain for
the British Government to indulge in
additional and numerous executions.
Such modes of proceeding never have
and never will put down the desire and
passion for retaliation and revenge for
centuries of oppression and wrong.
In oil this matter. the British Gov
ernment and the British people are now
reaping nothing more than the rank
luxuriauce Of a harvest, the seeds Of
which they have been themselves plant
ing through many long years. They
are paying dearly for their national and
natural proclivity for looking with indif-
ference upon the wrongs of a people
brought under their dominion. It would
be q much easier and far cheaper way
of d~isposing of the Irish question, to
grant them at once the justice so long
deferred, and to begin at once, accord
ing to the advice Of Goodwin Smith, to
recognize Ireland as an integral portion
of the British Empire, entitled to the
same rights granted to England, and to
legislatc upon that basis exclusively.
There can be no other safe and sure way
out of the present difficulties.
A CLOSE fellow remarked to q friend
that he saw a pitiable sight whom he
took hia morninp walk and he couldnit