The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-11
III Al l. ES ON.
TUESDAY MORNING. MAY Ii, 1859.
The Mayor OF Cork.

The Mayor OF Cork. y.
Mr.. Gladstone and his colleagues are
doubtless irritated by tlles conduct of the
Mayor Of Cork in abusing England and
threatening sympathy with Fenianism, at
the moment when the attempt is making to
remove one of the greatest evils under
which Ireland suffers. is, however, more
than likely that the introduction Of bill
to remove the offender from the bench of
magistrates will do the Liberal party, as q
whole, more harm than good.
: The speeches of the Mayor will serve to
point moral in the discussion of the bill
to dieestablish the Irish Church. Conser-
vative members Of the Upper and Lower
House, who believe that any interference
with the church, at least, is sacrilege, will
also take the ground that the man who is
guilty Of wrong doing should be tried and
condemned by tha courts, not punished by
an act of Parliament. Their leader, Mr..
Disraeli, has already announced his oppo-
sition to the bill proposed, a-' :, Wild ba
made the occasion I. suowlnl las dan~o-
of interfering with gesta rights Anf ire
constitutional privil niect,
rhese southern states Anow tae fariliiy
with which a legislative body will gather
oil power into its own hands if the ~fYrst en-
croachment is allowed to- pass unchal-
lenged The authority Of the English
Parliament is practically unlimited. 1t is
restricted and confined by no written con-
stitution, and yet the ministers would do
well to be chary of interfering by special
legislation with the possessions and liber-
ties of an individual whose only crime seems
to have been wild and Incorporate speaking.
If the bill is pressed it will probably
pass; for there will be NO desire to break
up the party in power upon what is, in ap
pearanoe, minor question. Many will
vote for the bill as an admission that lee
land is not pacified, and there will arise the
feeling that all that ia doing is Of no avail.
and that, notwithstanding the Disestablish-
ment bill and q probable rearrangement Of
the tenant-right system, the Irish still cheer
the violent defamation Of Feajan Mayor,
while they have nothing but the cold shoul-
der for England and the English ministry.
1t would have been better to allow the
Mayor Of Cork to talk himself out. Polit-
eal effervescence rarely lasts for long.
Men tire even Of patriotic eloquencs, and
before long the Mayor would either have
'ubsided into peaceful state, or have com
nltta6 ~f
would have enabled the government to pros,
9cute him with reasonable hope Of success.
As tits, he is threatened with political mar
yrdom. The penalty will give him :hs
'orce which is wanting now, and he will
''and before his oountrymen as one who,
or exercising the right Of free speech, has
'een degraded and humiliated by ssthe base
'and perfdious Saxon" This will make
him power in the country power which
will not be exerted in fostering kindly feel
ng or allaying indignation.
All this is the more to be. regretted be-
cause OF the great doubt whether the moat
that the Gladstone Cabinet propose to do
in the way Of reform will calm the Irish
heart and allsy the thirst for complete in.
dependence. The dream Of the Irish is.
In Irish ruler governing Ireland under
Irish laws They complain that England
now rsaps all the advantages Of the Union.
hat their spirit Of improvement is chilled
and numbed, and that agricultural progress
IS impossible while the land is owned bv
absentees and managed by middle. men.
they believe that If they were an indepen-
lent people their commerce would revive.
manufactures would spring up, and period
cal famines would no longer deoimate their
people. This is the Irish political oreed.
md it Is only famed to intensity by the
'ndeavor to punish by an act or Parliament |
man whom the law, as It stands, cannot
ouch. No concession short Of indepen-
lence will, In our opinion, pasify Ireland.
Liberal reforms may bring about quiet for
time; but they will mot produce q lasting
tranquility Therefore is it most unfor- |
unate that at this time an affair should
nave occurred, which, at the least, msy ss-
'ioas;y re;ard even that temporary paciA- /
'ation which is SO much desired. England
Will not willingly give up the Emerald Isle.
Every effort will be made to satisfy the
irish; but as small things often produce
great results 90 may the turbulence OF the
Mayor OF Cork cause England more anxiety
Ind Ireland more fervent excitement than
you'd have been brought about by oontinu-
ng the Irish ChurSb Establishment In the |
Id form for ten years TO come.