Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-05-12


From TIC New York Journal OF Commerce.
| Ise.a nd and the Southern States.
By recent act OF Parliament, the Lord
| Lieutebant Of Ireland was autborized d to
suspend the writ of habeaS corpus when
ever rebellion or lawlessness that could
not other wise be repressed made that ex-
treme step nece ssary. He has now en-
ployed his extraordinary power in one
(only one) district of the County of West
meath. Upon doing so he Immediately
| communicated TO the home Office the full
reasons of his action, accompanying his
| statement with copies of memorials from
| Westmeath magistrates and other respect
| able residents of the district, establishing
| the imperative necessity of euch sui pen
| 81 ID, aud throwing themselves on the ex-
ecutlVe for protection. The English gov
| ernment YES ed this power in the vice regal
authority in Ireland reluctantly, and only
after conciiiatoIy measures had been tried
and failed, and in the same spirit of reluc-
| tance evidently the Lord Lieutenant has
| asserted it. We do not propose to con-
s'der whether the English government has
| been as generous aad magnanimous toward
| Ireland as it Should have been. But in
| contrast with the former severe rule of the
| unhappy island by the English, the course
| of the Gladstone administration has been
| q marked. Improvement It is probable
| that had the Fenians met Mr.. Gladstone
half way, he would have been still more
acco ommod lting. But the Irish disaffec-
| Il N seems too dee p seated to be removed
or ppesssd by anything short of a recog-
nItion OF Irish independence at this late
| day , and SO long EugIau is not willing
t. surrender that part Of her possessions,
| Mr. Gladstone may say with show of rea-
| soo hat he is freed TO be harsh where he
| would prefer to be peaceful AMI kind. ".
| caunDt bat comp are. WI h u fceing OF sOr-
row and humlllat1oD, the policy pursued
| by the Gladstone government toward Ire
land with that ad ped by Congress and
| the President toward the Sou bern States
| In Ireland, great number OF persons are
| a S:ate Of chronic rebellion against the
British government itself. Tue acis OF the
teuiauS not simply lAwiess excesses.
like these that proVOke the application OF
lynch law in new countries. They are not
common brig Andage. like that prevalent IL
| parts OF 1t I,, Greece and cplio, where
tae marauders and murde rero have no other
oUiect han to Fob, burn. and cut throats.
| The EenIauS are III cOmbl alton against
tue auJ Jh0Ilty OF the government ltst If; and
| its Representatives aud as Supporters,
~ner her rich or poor, are III Oily reel
| ,ItI is OF Feniau amin 'elty. Hue" when
| the Br tisu Crown suSDtndS tue HnbeQS cor
puS aud establishes Martial law in auy part
|
Is actually about to crush out a literal re-
neilIon, whose rise and progress would eu
danger tie awful goverement Df the couu-
try. SO much for Irelant. Now, mark IL
| how off IL. pint the Rdmlnistratlo 4 4
10 Washing IN tre u s tue cOuL ,. 1t max, :
Il Efforts. wur mau,IOuIug to ri cat
Ii dlsaTo tlon liz III It r'g:o.. 1t pass q
u 90 .srd amnesty bili, ~ulcn wJu.d l.,
ouce with u d ,ubt, have tue La gplest
| or, t..
the Souih as in rebelIlOus condition, aud
repels her earnest advances for rest, ration
to the full privileges of the Union with
suspicion and coldness. All through the
legislation for the government of the ex-
Oonfederates, there is q mournful lack Of
generosity and trust. As a t'auk Repub
| Can pap1r i'll this city well put the case: Our
| government III its conduct towards the
S uth, reverses the maxim ascrlbed by
Bulwer to Richeieu-frst. ali means to
conciliate. and, those failing, all means to
crush A. Washington the crushing is the
| first and only thing tried. Then note
| the immense diff rcEce betN cen The mo-
| tive of the Fenian outbreaks and that Of
the Ku kluxes. The f)Imer, We inve
shown, are ccnc.Ittd attacks on Bri i7h
rule in Ireland. The later are, at tue
worst, WrO1g headed aId inexc1sBb!e ex-
ena plitic Itiol s. of L5 nch Jaw, practic ID
/
thievys, wac, j. is feared, would escape
heir just desert. There have been il
stances where innocent men have been mur-
| dered, or baLished, or whipped,
by these self-constituted Regulators;
but the majority of the caes re-
ported are of the same kind that
characterized the early days in Califo nj \,
md now ccca-ionally occur in Nevada
At all events. they are not acts of rebellion
| CD N "a
| are not tempts to overthrow that govern
ment. They are not such acts of rebellion
| as Eogland seeks to suppress 10 Ireland.-
Toey wonld, it is belle ved, altogether cease
| if the Fe eral power would return to the
| South her original functions OF self gov
ernment. There is much force in Mr..
Cox's argument that the Ku klnx outrages
! are The natural product of continued gov
ernment interference in the South, MIS-
'ory being full of analogous examples
where dangerous secret societies have bsen
fostered by the too severe treatment of
| peoples by their rulers. Another fact Is
worfh remembering The Ku-klux'ka an
| is sort of rival of The Union League. The
| latter, or persons claiming to belong to it,
has been guilty { + outrages as sserea to be
| not less nIoustrou. than these attributed
to the 4. Ks. The Union L -ague is not
discouraged or imp .tr med By thu gov
ernment, and, in fact, it seems to be relied
on by many Radicals as proper and usefu
political ally at tae South. Probably, II
| there were no Union League, there would
be no Ku uK!ux. Before the experiment
of passing the Force bill was tried, the
League should have bet n ''callfd off, from
the South, and some decisive mauifesta-
tion made by Congress of the wish and the
purpose to be good friends with the South
ern people. Sue, We ei confident,
| lou q f Il Al
of Mr. Glad>tore's large mind and ht ar'.
hnd be been a. the head of tins gOvrru
nent, and then, perhaps, tbtre "ould have
been L thought, : there could ave beeL
10 serious pr-tence Of the necessity OF en-
a.tiDg a Force law.