The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-08-10
IRELAND AND ENGLAND.

IRELAND AND ENGLAND.
Foreign Correspondence Of the Times.
DEAR TIMEs:-ln availing myself Of your
kind invitation TO renew, though your col
umns, my acquaintance with my many Leav-
enworth friends, ! know of no object of
more immediate interest than that named at
the head Of this letter II is nearly four
years since ! received from the Fenians Of
Bradford an address on the occasion of my
departure for The States. Since then have
had many pleasant opportunities of seeing
how capable of taking an honorable place
in social and public life Irishmen are when
freed from the evil influences of English
rule Those opportunities have strengthened
my always strong faith in the cause of Irish
freedom aud nationality, and have made il
one of my chief anxieiies on revisiting Eng
land to oi,iain a reply Ia Bonaparte's famous
question, GLOW Is old Ireland, and how
does she stand?'' Four years ago there WIS
an ominous lulI in Irish politics. The at
tempted rising, in which the i'll fated Cl.se-
ret took part, had been defeated by the SHOWS
of heaven and British '.jIsic-' had -laked
lis thirst for blood with the death of the
Manchester martyrs. Gladstone WAS the
coming doctor whose medicines were To ie
tried for the healing of diseases that seventy
yeors Of severe military surgery had failed
To cure
The two great nostrums of England's
chief medicine man, disestabIishmen; of the
church and land reform, have been tried in
the interval of INV Absence, and it is now
possible to report ON the State Of
the patient. The action of the liberals
on the church question was, so far as it
went, i piece of needed reform. Its
effect npon the country has been exceedingly
good, but by no means satisfactory to the
agents of The crown. The Protestants of the
North have accepted the measure with much
wise temper, and have learned from it an
important lesson. They have found that
difficult and delicate ecclesiastical affairs, the
management of which they have been COM
PEELED to undertake, have been dealt with
promptly and pr1denlly. The result has
been revival of the national spirit among
men who wear the Orange. They are
abandoning separate policy and are de-
handing that Irish affairs shall no longer be
left to the carelessnes and ignorance of
Parliament sitting on alien soil, in which
Irish members are an insignificant minority.
The Importance of this movement in the
North cannot be over estimated 1t is a
token that the brave days of '9S are coming
again. In spite OF all the efforts of the
British Government to divide ireland into
hostile religious camps, the national move
ment has always received heroic service from
Proiestants as well as Catholics. The roll Of
Irish martyrs knows no sect. The Catholic,
the Protestant, and the Free Thinker alike
have dared 10 die Tor the wearing of the
green" Now that the Irish Church. the
badge of Protestant supremacy, has lost Its
ascendancy, the memory OF the brave days
when the Orange and the Green were united
returns, and Mr.. Gladstone sees with alarm
that the act OF justice he has done dement's a
union before which his alien government
will pass away from the soil it has cursed
with misrnle and misery.
The second medicine tried by the
medicine man, LAM reform, HIS
proved utter, desricable, and worthless
quackery. In Meath and Sligo, and even in
Ulster the new law has proved imperative
| az preventive of the worst class Of cOnvic-
tions from which the farmers Of the Green
Isle suffer. The late act is simply confess
sion of unremedied wrong. 1t has alarmed
the landlords and left the tenants altogether
unsaiisfied. Mr.. Symth, NJ. p, has pro-
posed that on eviction day 20, 600 of the men
of Meath shall assemble as onlookers and the
national papers approve the proposal.
Whether the issue of such 4 meeting will he
peaceabie is exceedingly doubtful.
presence of such a failure it is no won
der that the political prospects of Mr.. Glad
stones Irish friends are very gloomy and
that that gentleman should declare that the
release of the Fenian prisoners was = mis-
take. The mistake was the dishonesty OF
the action. At the time the Liberation Of the
prisoners was announced ! expressed in THE
TIMES my belief that the news was deceptive.
! now find that upwards of thirty persons,
some of them American citizens, are still
suffering the horrors OF British Incarceration.
While political troubles assail him in front,
| Mr.. Gladstone Is attacked on the sides and
in the rear by the party OF revolution
Fenianism is to-day stronger than ever.
| As result we see part of Ireland in state
Of siege, and the government 80 nervous thai
even an American tourist is deprived Of hi,
derringer on landing at Queenstown. The
discipline OF the party has been greatly i'm.
proved by the painful experiences of the
past few years. For the present its member.
are content with occasional raids, which
serve to keep alive the spirit of the people
and give valuable experience to the recruits,
and with the execution of stern retributior
upon the spies and informers who take Juda,
paw from the government. When the hou
for renewed action comes it will find tn,
men ready to dare and do. There are alss
cooperating influences at work in England
reference to which must for the presen,
defer. VIM. SHARNAN.
SHEFFIELD, England, July Is, 1871.
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