The union Democrat., 1869-05-29
JadRc. Jary aud Execusioner.

Nhen oetween ROVER and Weakness con-
aict arises, Power always claims that it is
fighting the battle Of civilization and human
progress. Il a perfect St. George Staying the
dragons of barbarisnr and ignorance. In
the revolutionary struggle between the Amer
lean Colonies and the parent country, if King
George and his ministers were to Re credited,
the colonists were a set of rebellious wretcnes
who could not comprehend the nature of the
best government the sun ever shown upoo.-
who did not know when they were happy
and prosperous. The same style of argument
prevailed in our late civil war. According to
"loyalty" all the virtue, and all the righ,
were on the side of the Federal Government.
Everything vicious, barbarous and wrong was
on the side of the revolted South. The war
was fought to save the poor deluded South
erners from the misery which would certainly
result from their ill-adsised conduct.
After the struggle is over, Power writes
the histories and paints the pictures and al
ways takes care that its own conduct shall
onists in an unfavorable light. To intimate,
ever so mildly, that there might be some right
in the position assumed by the weaker party
and possibly some wrong in that assrmed by
the stronger, requires considerable moral
courage. For, so to do leaves the doer liable
to be called every bad name. from villain 70
traitor, in the copious vocabulary of English
exuletiyes. The strong party always acts as
Judge, jury and executioner without allowing
the u)prit to be heard in selfdefence.
There are no two nations on earth whose
relations to each other so fully Illustrate the
truth of what we have said as England and
Ireland. Without the slightest shadow of
right, England has, by wholesale system of
lying, tried to place her conduct in fayora-
bic light before the nations of the earth. Poor
Ireland has been held up as the worst of NAL
efactors, although right. truth and the logic
of the world are on her side. and for what
has been all this destruction of Irish nation
ality, this wholesale religious persecution and
trampling under foot of the noblest aspra-
tions of the Irieh mind? If we are to believe
such distinguished Englishman as Professor
Goldwin Smith, all the outrages Of FIVE centu-
ries have been perpetrated to make the Irish
people happy In speech delivered at Ith
eca, N. Y, on the 10Th inst, in reply to
Summers speech on the alabama treaty,
Prof. Smith made use of the following re-
markable words: Every body in Great Bri-
tain would consider the loss of Irelanda gain,
if it could be proved that Ireland would be
happier disunted from England" Could
human audacity and assurance possibly go
beyond this? Catch an eagle, cage him up,
beat him every time he tries to break his
fetters, do every thing in your power to
crush his proud spirit and then say you would
give him his liberty if you were only convin-
ced that he would be happier in his mountain
eyric than under your prison bars ! This is
the monstrous position assumed by Godwin
Smith, speaking for the English people. The
feelings and wishes of the Irish people are
not worthy of being consulted in this matter.
but just let some one achieve the impossible
feat of convincing John Bull "that Ireland
would be happier disunited from England"
and Ireland straightway takes a position
among the nations of the earth Probably the
Fenians may yet succeed "by the logic of a
pike head ard the pathos of blow" in bring
ing this conviction home to the English mind,
and that is the only way it will ever be done