The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-09
Home Rule for Ireland.

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Home Rule for Ireland.
The English Ministers are supposed to
have tried very hard to make Ireland peace
full and contented. They would have sue
ceeded better il they had been in accord
with the people for whom they attempt to
legislate. Their miserable stamping out
policy only increased the difficulty. Coax
| ing must be tried where brute force had
failed. Notoriously against the wishes OF
powerful section Of their supporters, the
Cabinet, therefore, under the leadership OF
Mr.. Gladstone, accomplished the dis-estao-
lishment OF the Irish Church, and effected
change in the laws regulating the tenure OF
land. These were appreciated at their full
value. They were, as far as they went,
measures of tardy justice; but they did not
satisfy the natural wishes OF the Irish people.
It was then thought that royal visit to Ire
land might soften the Celtic heart, and that
to make one OF the English princelings
Duke of Munster would cause the Green
Isle to boil over with loyal enthusiasm. The
first part OF the new programme is now car
ried ont. A. R. n. the Prince OF Wales,
and swarm Of mobiles and attendants actu-
ally went to Ireland, and the only result so
far is a terrible riot in which more than
hundred persons were injured. The cause
Of the trouble was meeting held in Phoenix
Park, not, as we understand it, in advocacy
Of FeLianism, but to urge upon the govern
ment, at an auspicious moment, the grant
| ing Of an amnesty to all Fenian prisoners.
No wonder that the people, in their passion,
have gutted houses which the royal party
| visited. While a hundred families are
plunged. in mourning, the Irishman W:.o
takes to his heart and hearth the representa-
tiyes Of English dominion is naturally re-
garded as the enemy OF his suffering fellow
citizers.
It is plain that no half-measures will con-
tent the Irish. They may be pinned down
by bayonets for centuries; but they will
never cease to struggle for home rule in Ire
| land. They demand that Ireland be gov
erned by an Irish Parliament; that laws for
Ireland shall be enacted by statesmen who
are not strangers to her wants and desires; )
that the revenue raised in Ireland shall be
expended for the benefit OF Ireland, and not
to keep up the pomp and state OF an Eng
lish court. The fondest dream OF all
is the autonomy-the territorial independ-
ence-of Ireland; but the sober thinkers
will content themselves with repeal Of the
legislative union with Great Britain. And
this repeal, We firmly believe, will come at
no distant day. England must take her
choice between repeal Of the Union, and
chronic discomfort coupled with sporadic in
surrection. The train of circumstances
which led to the passage OF the Irish
Church and Land bills, and which promises
to give the Ballot to the United Kingdom,
will insure, soon or late, the freedom OF
Ireland.
The Irish National party grows stronger
every day. Mr.. John Francis Mcguire, the
member for Cork, than whom there is no
more weighty champion Of the true interests
OF Ireland, avows himself Federalist. 1t
is his desire that the connection between
Ireland and England should be similar to
that which existed before the war between
South Carolina and the United States Gov
ernment. During the debate on the Ballot
Bill, MIR. Mcguire, in the House of Commons,
declared that, with the ballot or without it,
a majority OF the Irish members chosen at
the next elections would be pledged to agi-
tate and vote for repeal OF the Union.
And he has already given notice that, at the
next session OF Parliament, he will propose
that 'the representative assembly resolve it.
"self into committee to take into conside-
s'ration the expediency OF instituting such
"a federal arrangement between the differ
sent portions OF the United Kingdom as
swould enable. Ireland, through an Irish
"Parliament, to legislate upon all matters Of
"purely Irish nature, while reservng to the
| lupoilai I UildIuCu1 IOulPaStS Nobetot WV
call questions of an imperial character. :"
This would be tremendous gain to Ireland.
It can hardly be expected that the motisn
will prevail during the coming session; but,
with the example Of Land bills, Church bills
and Ballot bills before us, who shall say
that the cause of Home Rule for Ireland will
long remain mere legislative possibility.
Now, after ages of disappointment and suf-
fering, Hope
like the glimmeriDg taper's light,
adorns and cheers way of the chivalric
Irish people.
The Latest Fashion In Death-Poison.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's pointed COM
ment upon the law Of averages, discovered
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