Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-08-14
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bly, good in itself, and an earnest Of
other reforms to coms-the people of
the Emerald Isle, not yet in the enjoy
ment Of the benefits promised them, con-
tinue popular agitations. AT short in
tervals, we learn Of reported outbreaks,
rather than outrages, which are melted
by the eviction Of tenants, and we'll
nigh rendered excusable by the mtiable
condition of poverty, nay, starvation, in
which the poor Irishmau is thrown
when, 10 addition to lack Of employ
ment, no is thrust from his hut and de-
prived of the little "bit" Of ground
planted with his traditional potato.
What wonder, then, that under the
pressure Of such crushing circumstau-
ces, the poorer classes Of ireland, warm
and impulsivc by temperament, and
made irritable by adversely, rise at
times, and, without any fixed aim or
de6uite hope Of at all ameliorating their
condition, wreak a summary vengeance
upon the merciless tools Of still more
merciless landowners, who revel in lux
ury across the channel? For ages the
curse Of abseuteeism has weighed down
Ireland with q fearful and disastrous
weight. At times temporarily remedied
BY the enactment Of legal statutes, it
never has been removed and the Gland
evil" to-day, as asserted often in Par
Lament, makes a subject for reform
next only in Importance and urgency to
that Of the I" church evil" now happily
lifted. That it will receive the attsn.
ton Of the Administration, now on the
highway Of good to Ireland, none can
doubt; indeed, pledges have been tacit-
ly given to consider it at an early day.
Another element, however, aiding to
swell the volume Of popular unrest, il
the retention il confinement by the
British authorities Of o number Of per-
IONS convicted of completely in the
late Fenian movements. The cable
brings US news of a great demonstra-
ton made at Limerick in their be-
half, which continues q series of SINH
lar meetings commenced many weeks
since, and which have been held in
nearly every chief city or town in the
island. AT Limerick, twenty thou
sand people marched in procession,
with bands and banners, aud were adj
dressed by various speakers" Tho
proceedings were enthusiastic, but not
disorderly-an infallible sign that tho
participants were swayed more by rea-
son than passion, and were coguizant
that their demands were just, and were
determined in urging them. A letter
to Mr.. Gladstone wal adopted, demand.
ing the release of the remaining prison.
ers. Now, will anything issue from
this demonstration more than from those
which preceded it2
The one at Dublin was q multitude
Of forty thousand, was participated in
by many men of distinction and in
iuence, and yet it ended in the formal
presentation Of a huge petition to Her
Majesty the oueen by the Lord Mayor
of the city. So with the others; and
Limerick will not be more successful.
Still, as the great body Of the Irish
people are moving in the matter, their
very weight must eventually make
itself felt. Apart from any considera-
ton Of the justice and validity Of their
claim-since the Feniau cause has &C.
tuslly expired as an armed enterprise III
Ireland, and since the remaining pris-
ouers prominent in it were guilty at the
bar Of the law, but excused upon many
grounds Of national feeling and ardor-
none save the insxorable but can find
an expedieucy and ~magnanimity in
mercy for their liberation. Let England
free them. By so doing she makes no
more enemies, and perhaps, amid the
warm-hearted and grateful, though
sometimes wroug-headed Irishmen, she
may make many friends. At any rate,
since the experiment can work no harm,
il is worth the trial. But since "demou-
s.ratious" have hitherto failed, the in
ference ia that the one al Limerick will
fail also, as any which may succeed it.
If the natural good sense of England,
and the promp,ings of mercy, do not
attain the result, then, besides these
popular gatherings, some other means
Of persuasion must be brought to bear.