Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-05

Under the head Of ''What shall be
done with ireland" the New York
Times has an editorial, which is, to say
the least of it, suggestive. We make the
following extract:
ct may be hard to deal with people
as impatient and suspicious as the Irish.
They are q race of rare, and in some re
spectS troublesome qualities. Quick,
lively, mercurial, irascible, full of imagi-
nation and poetry-proud of their cOun-
try, their race, their ancestry, their valor,
their relgion-proud of their old kings,
who warrcd upon the Dane and Norman,
of their priests, who carried the cross in
triumph from coast to coast long before
the Saxon had ceased to worship strange
gods in Druid grOves-prOud of chiefs
like O'Neil, of soldiers like Sarsfeld
and Wellington, of orators like Grattan
and Burke, of poets like Goldsmith and
Moore. In every country but their own,
hishmCn have risen to be kings among
men. 1t seems as if some enChantmGnt
hung over this strange island, that the
home it offers is misery and poverty, and
that the Irish character only finds true
life under alien skies The men who
cross the seas to sit in the councils Of Ma
pOleon, to command armies against
Frederick, TO be marshals and statesmen
in Spain, to rule in America with the
rigor of Jackson, and show in war the
genius of Sheridan, are mere rebels and
outCasts in their own country, only to be
ruined withthe hard sceptre of Cromwell,
OF the stern and wicked dominion of
martial law"
What is the ''enChantment that hangs
over this strange island Z" 1t is apleasant
belief, says the Baltimore SIN, that St
Patrick delivered Ireland from all the
snakes, and if there was any Satanic spell
upon it, we may suppose the Patron Saint
of Ireland, while he had his hand in,
would have exercised the old serpent of
all from the country, and not left his own
favoritc nation in the condition of the
herd of swine, into whom the devils, dis
possessed from the rest of the world, be
took themselves, precipitating the whole
island on the road TO ruin. The Sen
chantmcntn under which Ireland labors
is 'misgovcrnment." The same Sen
chantment' will produce the same effect
upon any other people. The Times sees
the difficulty, and says that eff England
would win the love and obedience Of
these men, il must treat them with
foTbcaTancc and charity and liberal
minded craftsmanship. The sword will
never pacify Ireland. Cromwell tried it,
ard so did Marlborough, and Mr.. Glad
stone should remember that if two of
England's greatest soldiers failed to make
a lasting peace by the sword, there is an
evil far beyond its reach. Terror is an
old, old story, and all that terror has done
for Ireland has been 10 add TO its misery
and give its people a new reason for ha-
ling the English name and rcbelling
against the English rule. Put away the
sword, says Richelieu; States can be
saved without it History teaches no
truer lesson, and we comm end it to the
illustrious and enlightened statesman who
presides over the destinies of the British
Empire" We also commend il to the
who preside over the destinies
of the American Empire. The Congress
of the United States, in its dealings with
the South, cannot do better than bear in
mind this "Iesson."