New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-05


laws. The United States Marshal viii
also have competent deputy in eacl
place.where United States Circuit Cour
| Commissioner is located.
THE CAUSE OF IRISH DISSATISFACTION
The actual state of Ireland-the magni
tude, misery, fierceness and desperation
of her population, the violence of hel
leaders and the fury of the contendine
factions to which she is a prey-ought, il
anything can at the present time
especially to excite the earnest and anxious
attention of the people Of Britain. Cen
turtles of oppression and misgovernment
have generated deep-rooted and
cordial hatred of the English name
and nation in the minds of the
vast maj GRITTY Of the Irish people, have
depraved and vitiated their charac.
tiers, and fitted them for the commission Of
every crime. There are, at this moment,
from six to seven millions of peasants
scattered over the surface Of Ireland and
while this mighty and rapidly increasing
mass is sunk in the most abject poverty
while it has no property to protect, nc
venerated institutions to defend, and
nothing but injuries to redress and
wrongs to avenge, it is ready to engage in
any scheme Of combination and blood, as
we have recently observed across the
Canadian frontier, and in Ireland at the
''rising iasco" of 1866.
Is not this state Of things that calls
loudly for inquiry? Is there any man SO
blind and bigoted, so stupidity attached to
antiquated prejudices and errors as to
continue to lend bis support to a system
productive of such baleful results? Is not
the experience of nearly five centuries
sufficient to convince the people and Par
lament of England that it is not by mere
brute force, by penal laws and insurrec-
ton acts, that the peace of Ireland and
Canada is to be secured and the founda-
tons of the former country laid? The
period has at last arrived when it is
certain that measures of decisive char
acter must be adopted with respect to Ire
land; aud we are bold to say that the in
tegrity, and for that reason, the fate of the
British Empire depends on the nature of
these measures. If the English govern
ment acts on liberal principles, it is not yet
too late to repair the faults and follies of
which they have been guilty, and to make
Ireland the best bulwark But if they re-
solve to abide by their present system, if
they are determined to treat .fue-sirths of
the people as an Inferior and degraded
caste, and to uphold and cherish all the
gross, fragrant and scandalous abuses with
which every part of the internal admins
tration of the country is infected, We must
expect to see every species of outrage re-
doubled. and the flames of civil war re-
sindled with increased fury and raging to
IN unprecedented extent.
If the people of England are really de-
'irous of attaching the people of Ireland to
heir government, they must render it ad-
outrageous to them. The peasantry must
know and they must feel that they are pro-
,ected by the law, that they have stake
n the hedge, and that every avenue to
power and emolument is open to their
If they be treated thus they
will be attached to English interests; if
lot, they will be alienated still more, the
xisting breach between the two countries
viii be gradually widenel, and British
scendancy will depend entirely on the
lumber of bayonets.
But even this resource, miserable and
umiliating as it is, is one on which no
ertain reliance can be placed. The whole |
isposable revenue of Great Britain will |
1ost probably be found insuficientfor the
maintenance of an army capable of retain
1g population of six or seven millions,
tho have everything to gain and nothing |
D lose by revolution in state of unwilling
objection. But supposing this to be posi-
lie inaperiod of peace, and when the whole |
over of England can be directed to this
ne object, it would be no easy matter to
the addition which the disaf-
ection of the Irish peasantry and Fenian
in America must make to
,nglish difficulties and dangers in period
f war. Had Humbert, when he made
is descent on Ireland in 1898, been &C.
by 10000 instead of 1000
rench troops, and been furnished with
1000 or 100000 stand of arms, there
'ould have been an end to the English
overnment, and the tri-colored flag would
ave foated as triumphantly over Dublin
} it did over Berlin and Vienna. But
le numbers and the evaporation of the
eople have been prodigiously increased
nee 1898. And if the English do not
italy change their conduct it is certain
lat, whenever they are involved in war,
ther with France or any other power
ley shall find their bitterest foes and their
ost jealous and devoted allies in the
eople of Ireland at home and abroad.
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