The New York herald., 1872-12-23

on the prison authorities in order to get my
brother some books, as even these are refused.
He is the worse treated in the prison. The
tember Since then his manner is much
altered. by order, no doubt, of the
government. 1 wish to call your attention to
the fact that he ought to have been liberated
with the other men. have no doubt he
would have been had his case been looked
into. He tells me the only thing that has
kept his reason has been the exercise of his
religion. Bear in mind his
youth. He was only twenty-one when he
went through that farce Of trial" Evidently
Mr.. Gladstone and the Times have been read
ing James Russell Lowell. and, laying their
warm hands upon their warmer hearts, can
say in the classic language of the "Biglow
Papers,"
lido believe in freedoms cause
Ez fur away ez Paris iz;
Hove to see her stick her claws
In them Internal Iharisees.
It's well enough agtn king
TO draw resolves and triggers,
But liberty g kind o. thing
What don't agree with nggers.
Substitute "Fenians'' for 'niggers" and the
parallel is complete.
Nor have we DONE In this matter Of con-
sistency there is absolutely an embarrassment
of riches Turn not aghast, readers of the
HERALD. if we put before you mirror wherein
to contemplate 'the most Christian govern
ment of the world
"Home Rule" declared the Attorney General
at Liverpool meeting, ''aims at an end
which think absurd, impracticable and un-
tenable, but on end which they have perfect
right to aim at if they can get it. Home Rule
processes to respect the monarchy and to move
to it's ends, which I think absurd, by means
which they have a perfect right to use, and
which are perfectly legitimate. Home Rule
has for its head Queens counsel an able
and accomplished lawyer, and not a Fenian
centre" And then, what follows? The met
ropolitan police visit those taverns where
Home Rulers resort for the purposes Of discus
sion, and warn the proprietors that if such
meetings be permitted their licenses will be
jeopardized. Mr.. Martin, M. p, sits in the
House Of Commons in order to ventilate the
very subject which Home Rulers may not
argue in an adjoining tap room-a tap room
that must be closed at twelve, while every
club in town and taverns on familiar terms
with the police authorities burns midnight gas
deAantly to prove what a thoroughly impair
tial, consistent animal is John Bull. "Eng-
land is the land of liberty, America the land
of liberties" said Punch, some years ago.
The phrase is neater than it is true. 1t would
be truer, though not SO neat, to affirm that
England is the land Of privilege, America,
with oil its faults, the land of right.
eff, then," says Mr.. Froude, ''America will
counsel England what to do that she has left
undone, what wrong she can yet redress that
Ireland may justly complain of, England, l
am certain, will listen respectfully, cordially,
gratefully Mr. Froude reckons without his
host. England has told Mr.. Froude, in words
more plain than polite, that she will not listen
at all; but, if We were sure of being heard,
we should protest, after the former manner of
Englands Premier, against the harbarous
treatment Of Fenian or any other political
prisoners. Yet of what avail to protest?
Does not the London Echo-calling itself the
peoples paper, because it is cheap-assert
that ''until the Irish ore disfranchised in
America Mr. Froude has but q small chance of
getting an impartial verdict?" OF what avail,
then, to protest? Our sympathy with Ire
lands wrongs simply means an appeal to ''the
Irish vote,' and so we leave one Fenian para
lyzed, another languishing in prison for want
of decent treatment, and humble, law-abiding
Home Rulers without tavern in which to dis
cuss Parliamentary question, until the Irish
shall have been DISTINGUISHED in this land of
universal suffrage.