New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-22

LAWS, AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR
ENFORCEMENT.
Mr. Froude, the English historian, delivered
the third lecture OF his course on The Relations
between England and Ireland" at Association Hall, last
evening" a large and attentive audience TIE greater
part Of his remarks will be found below;
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: My last lecture ended with
an account the rise, the consequence and the col
lapse OF the great Irish Rebellion Of l6. 1t commenced
with massacre and 1t ended in rum For nine years tic
Irish leaders held the destnie Of their country in their
own hands. These were years Of anarchy and mutual
slaughter. third of the population persisted in the
most piteous misery. The heaviest suffering fell upon
the innocent peasanTy their wives and little ones Had
the Rebellion been sustained by an honest determine
to be free had the Irish nation been purifying ltse
in that furnace OF calamity, when the clouds cleared OH
had there been liberated people standing erect
amid the ruins OF their homes, the price would not
have been too much for the admission Of more free
commonwealth among the nations Of the world. The
curtain rose far different spectacle. Ireland with
its chiefs and It's armies, its patriotic heroes and lts
devoees lay PROSTATE ct tie feet OF few thousand
English Puritans What was TO be doue with ti Task
you gentlemen, with experience Of two centuries OF
progress and enlightenment guide anew, what would
you have had Cromwell dol VIII say that he should
have proclaimed universal amnesty and have bidden
the Irish decide upon their own destinyf They would
have voted by maorties for the objects they
had sought and failed to gain by arms. Ihey would
have hidden the English and Scotch coonsts to have
simply taken themselves away and to have left Ireland
to her own people.
A PERIOD OF RELIGIOUS WARS.
The glish, you may say, had no business there IL
was too late to raise questions Of that kind Ireland had
formed part OF the dominions Of England. VIII not
cay how it had about England 100 years before
had shaken off the Papal authority. Tho Popes had
levied war upon their devoted Subjects as they were
pleased to call Protestant States They had used the
swords of Spain and Austria TO force them back into sub
mission and the reek OF slaughtered men had gone up
from hundreds of battehelds 1t had pleased Ireland
in this war to take the Italian side. She
had made her provinces for centuries the theater OF
desperate insurrection Had she succeeded in estab-
fishing her independence, she would have still been
thorn IN Englands side Had Elizabeth left her to her
self it would have been but for the French and Span
iads TO come I'M and closed around with hostile arms
and with hostile nations on either side OF her. England,
and the cause for which England was fighting, would
have come ingoriOus end. 1t could not be, aud
the resolution once formed that Ireland whether she
would or not must remain attached to England, and the
rest had followed out Of necessity. We must look at
the position as men, and not as dreamers and enhu-
siasts.
What was Cromwell to do will tell you what he
did and you shall judge for yourself whether he did ILL.,
The Irish demanded liberty Of conscience. E" NEEDLE
with no mans conscience" the Lord Protector
answered.; "but IL you mean by liberty OF conscience
liberty 10 have the mass that viii not suffered where
the Parliament Of England has power" " MonstrousP
Won may say Well gentlemen, suppose 1t will be easy
for me TO utter commonplace ON the beauties OF
liberty Of conscience. Speaking here in this place be-
fore the freest people in the world, and speaking OF
subject Oh which the English people more sensitive
than perhaps any other subject, at this time cannot
utter those words. Before l denounee great
man ike Cromwell 1 must be sure that
either you 1 would have acted more
wisely OF generously under the same circumstances.
The mass we know it, is the sacred rite OF areligon,
which is one Of many modes, and of the Oldest and
an sorua respects the most beautiful modes, OF
shining our common Maker. 1t has borrowed one
precious Jewel from the coronet OF its adversary for 1t
has learned to respect the rights OF conscience In Others
and in learning that has parted with the single Gle
nent which made 1t object Of dread TO others In
itself the Catholic creed has been and Is the belief Of
some OF tho nobest who have done honor to hui
ii'"'''' cRoMwELL's POLICY OUTLINED.
Rut this is not the creed which Cromwell refused to
! tolerate. The macs, he knew 1t, was system
| Which wherever it had power, was at that moment
furnishing by sword and by fire every deviation from its
own ordinances. 1t had made Germany oharnel house;
Ireland it had plunged into unutterable wo Will not
pronounce whether Cromwell did right or wrong, but
mis- know that II we fathers had been strug-
Cling i'm death wreste for century with such spirit,
we should not hesitate II the cnance was IN our power
10 stop the fountain from which those waters OF bitter
ness we're flowing. lAppause.l Had Crom%el,s policy
tovvard Ireland been persevered in whole, believe
shond not be here addressing you any questions OF
| difference between England ana Ireland. we hdu
formed design for the paclcatloh OF that county
which would have made future trouble there impossible
The Ulster settlers who had been driven out on the
first rising and all other English aud Irish owners who
had stood by the English Parliament throughout the
war were replaced in their estates All the Other irish
Iaudholders had been engaged in the war against In
gland and the lands OF these were declared connscated
| their farms by having performed honest la
Dor openly were protected, subject only to the
| condifon to be obedient TO the new govern
meut, but noble Lords and gentlemen whose
| tI,o oils as maintained
poor mems industry were, by one huge sweep dlspOs
sessed They were not driven out OF ireland
ert themselves or the four districts OF Ireland, one
vas assigned to the gentry exclusively their
A the saxon cOnqucrOrs VI England drove the BrlOns
n no onSausht In the rest Of resnd planted the
| army who had conquered IT,
|, CROMWELL RELAHD's BEST FRIEND.
Eleh soldier had his lot assigned to him. II hewished
10 return home he would sell it to another Engshman,
who would be ready take IT, Many Protestant fami-
lies were distributed the land to promote industry
and order. The reformed religion was made reality
Flemings and Huguenots, all were welcomed, and all
were encouraged to bring with them their trades aud
OCCUPATIONS Preceding settlers had introduced manu-
features into Ireland aud they had Dull. slips ana
begun to trade. Commercial Jealousy had taken the
aaJm IN England. These shortsighted, fantastic, alb
suId and Ubiquitous laws Cromwell t0fe up D me roofs
He justice IN lnsh Industry leeuihg M pockets
| OF ugish manufacturers. lie saw u Ireland should
become full partner IN England prosperity the ncuoh
| Of separate interest ana separate ha NATION,
atty ought TO come TO an end. lie abolished
!
into Tu aand and made part Of it, and her towns ADD
cOuptes sent their representatives 10 Westminster Thus
were tie elements OF mischief swept out OF the way aud
Iva new and Wholesome stock of energetic PrOtestats
planted ia her soil with full and free participation In
every benefit which England possessed Cromwell bade
ireland turn fresh eaI in her tragiea history and enter
upon a career OF honesty and prosperity. We call all this
tyranny from our modern point OF view We must look
facts In the ana not be frightened by words. In 10
years she three provinces which thus treated had
| grown from g wilderness lutO a garden. Boys were
drained aud planted with trees dwelling houses spra1g
up fields fenced W; ships came back TO the hlr-
/ and DrOicrty made and Irish