The New York herald., 1872-10-26

% demand the sale Of mis- debtor's land
The new purchasers Of the :and very
generally reduced the number of their tenants.
who had little pity Cor their poorer couRtrymen.
some @ q the purchasers, also, were land specula-
'o's' VINO wou'o NV =. .r
Or promissory note, and, having cleared the
estate Of It's supernuous tenantry, would again
go-to go to the devil If they could nnd nowhere
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the English government had managed properly
they might have made this necessity OF emigration
to the evicIed tenant 'It is true we can't keep
you here at home, but In our colonies we Will give
yon each 200 acres OF land, with provisions out OF
hrstyear OF occupatiOn.n This might have cost
about twice as much as the Abyssinian war
the mud at Balaklava, but it would have been
good money investment. 1t was needless, how
ever to say that nothing q the kind was done e.
their hearts, while the Irish peasantry at home
formed themselves into disoyal bands and re-
dressed their wrongs by the
WILD JUSTICE OF MURDER.
The landlords would have had their hands tied
sooner than had been the case 5 but ,,,r for the J"
political agitation. He (Froude) did not blame the
Irish for their desire for independence. lie ad-
sacred only when the insurgents had power TO
achieve IT, i was only when Justice was denied de-
ana tne asL nope OF reures6 Dad dled away thAt ~
and blood. Never had y there srs been been q more
uJpjustnsole revolt judgea from ,. this point %ns
rebellion OF 1S4S had ended In comedy, and the
Fenian rebellion had ended very little better. But,
The Irish rebelied again they should at least have
no valid grievances to complain OF. Mr.: Gladstone
took the matter ia hand and began by denouncing
the ''upas tree Of Protestant ascendancy." This
was taunt altogether unpr0vOked and unneces-
sary; but Mr.. Gladstone disestabished the Irish
been abolished as state establishment and not as
o religion The priests then clamored about the
universal education that prevailed in lreland but
Irelands great evil remained the same as ever
the land tenure-and this had been redressed by
Mr.. GladstOne's healing Land act Of three years
ago.. The landlord could no longer eylct the
humblest peasant without having to pay for
his cruelty. He now had to pay his tenant
for every stroke Of work he had put
manded home rule, and, II might be asked. why
not grant this as wela He answered, because no
hOme-rule government would have ever passed the
Land act. An Irish Parliament would necessarily
ne composed chiefly Of landed gentlemen, who in
Ireland would OF their own free will never do JUS
tice to the Irish peasantry until afternoon on
Do0msday. Another objection to home rule was that
Ireland was not one nation, but two. Protestant
wish now to see Cathoilc ascendancy established.
He (Mr. F0ude) believed that the proud, high
spirited Protestants Of the North would never con-
catSoc irish majority Within year England w
would be compelled to interfere to
PREVENT CIVIL WAR.
He hoped, therefore, that no such rash and dan
gerous measure would be attempted. something,
however, remained to be done. The land
lords had changed their IDEAS, and now knew
that they MUST maze their choice between power
and self.indulgence. i they wished nQlittcaA IA.
nuence, they must do something else than merely
spend their money. Eviction. too, was still possible,
and in these days OF enormous millionnares, 1t
might sometimes pay to sweep bar0ny clear OF
should be remedied and the English Parliament
was now no longer the representative OF
mere class, and English landed gentlemen
objects than SELF Indulgence, or they would be
swept away. In the good work Of reform the Irish
people might help their English nefghb6fs r. listen.
ing only to nOber instincts than nationality. they
He (Mr. Froude) concluded by hoping that the SYM
pathy pat % Of the American Repnblic would be given to
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vRgQiessor Hitchcock, OF Union seminary, then
made o brief speech OF thanks to Mr., Froude for
his lectures IN which he said that, while Ameri-
cans We're glad to know that justice was being at
last done to Ireland, the Judgment Of all Americans
in regard to Irish Independence was that it was q
geographical imp0ssibility, ana that American ad-
vice to Englishme would be 'Stand to the last by
your nag"
edgment OF the attention and kindness which had
been shown to him, saying further to Irshmen that
he would yield to no Fenian in his determination.