The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-10-04

in the Park, it was resolved to patronize the
Tribune no longer. To this resolution MIR
Greeley replied as follows:
The KnowNothing party at its general mus
Ter In the Park on Thursday evening grayely re-
solved TO withdraw its patronage from the Tyi
Dune. We were not aware that it had ever bless
ed us with its patronage until we were thus ap-
prlsed OF its withdrawal. True, it had u habit
of advertising its candidates in our columns dur
ing the late contest, under the swindling caption
OF Regular Wing Nominations, even when Gas
III Whltney's case( they had no shadow of claim
10 the title. We did not feel at liberty to refuse
these advertisements, but would very gladly
have done without them. If this is what the X.
MS are going to withdraw, we wish they had
been about it sooner. Gaylord Clark used TO
teil an anecdote Of a green academy student who,
being required to write composition in his reg.
ular course of study, commenced it thus:
ut is rather difficult and pretty impossible to
communicate to Others those ideas whereof we
are not ourselves possessed Of"
Our hnow-Nothing friends can deduce the
moral.
From the above it will be seen that the
record of Horace Greeley so far ms his oppo-
sition to the proscrplivc order of Know
Nothingism is concerned could not be clearer
or more unsullied.
What nonsense to undertake to depreciate
Horace Greeley with our Irish American cit
liens, by charging him with want of sympa
thy in Ireland's wrongs? Who was it but
Horace Greeley, when in the "biltcr year" of
famine the cheek of 1reland's fair daughters
grew pale with want and the sturdy arms of
her stalwart sons grew powcress from hun
ger; the babe died at its mothers breast, and
the mother persisted among her starving
children; who was it, VIC again ask, that in
those dark days" lost his personal influence
and that of the powerful journal he controlled,
in urging upon the American government,
and obtained its consent, to furnish a man Of
war to convey supplies to famne-stricken
Ireland? Who was it but Horace Greeley?
What lrishman can read the foil owing
taken from an address TO the People of Great
Britain, written by Horace Greeley, and read
at great mass meeting of the friends of Ire
land at the Broadway Tabernacle, June 9th,
1S4o and not feel that the sentiments there
in expressed are heartfelt and sincere and
what American can read them and not ac
knowledge that their author must be man
who truly sympathizes with those who may
be the victims of misrule and oppression, and
does not shrink from the task of exposing
the causes of the misery:
When the wall of a furnishing people is heard
across the broad Atlantic, and every billow os II
breaks on our shores bears an urgent appeal to
our humanity from perishing millions, who shall
say that we may not inquire into and pronounce
upon the remote as well as the Immediate cause
of such wholesale starvation? You people of
Great Britain have said much, and said it We
hemently, of the wrongs and horrors of Amor
can slavery, which we stand not here to Justify
nor yet to deprecatc your indiscriminate CEN
sures; but the race unhappily held in bondage
in another part of this Union have never been
swept away by famine and its consequences. nor
cried to you for bread. Do not repel us then
as impertinent and obtrusive, but hear and act
conscience and Christianity shall dictate. ~,
For we know by observation and experience
that the confident assumption of your leaders
and rulers that the woes of Ireland have their
origin in the character and genius of the Irish
people, and are inseparable thcrefrom, is nm
founded and delusive. Coming among us. Ms
they generally do, unlettered and destitute and
struggling against the immense disadvantages
and impediments thence resulting, there are
very few among them who do not steadily and
speedily achieve position of comfort and indie
pendence. Though of diverse race and creed
and speech to the majority of those among whom
they must seek employment, and finding seri-
for rude manual labor necessarily landing mon
our shores, they yet generally succeed in finding
work, because nothing honest and useful is too
hard to be accepted by them Among our emf
nently energetic and Woodworking people they
steadily make their way; every canal and rail-
road is in good part the work of their hands.
every village rises and city expands bearing wit,
| ness to their industry; and the proportion of
| idlcrs is probably less than among any other
class of our people Do not these noforions "a ct
| SipnollV rpflltp thp idea that ~
cry in Ireland are the results of their own sloth
fulness and inetlicicncy, and therefore not to be
attributed to misgovenment and want of op-
| portunity? IN
These facts, people of Great Britain we com.
mend to your understandings and your conscien
| ces. You are fearfully accountable to God and
| humanity for their just appreciation Tremen
dous is the responsibility braved by that nation
which darcs to hold another subject to its rule
which assumes the divine prerogatiyc of gov
crnmcnt over others-which holds, in enforced
thraldom, the energies and destinies of a race
| If your dominion over Ireland has been inst
why are Its fruits restitution, hatred, crime,
misery and despair? fyour duty as rulers has
destitute, turbulent and sufTering? Why is Ire.
| land In the very heart of civilization retropa
ding, scandal and sorrow to Christendom
In contrasting that they know not how to make
the irish people contented, peaceful, prosperous
ana happy, your statesmen admit that they have
not the ability to govern Ireland and therefore
have no moral right to persist in the attempt
| We entreat you, therefore, to absolyc yourselves
| from further responsibility for her woes and her
crimes, by relinquishing the dominion which
the experience of six centuries has proved calam-
| itous to her and therefore discredtablc to Won.
and thus test her capacity for sclfgovernment
Call this an untried experiment, If you will :;
| better this than an established failure. Do not
persist, therefore, in endeavors to hold in thral
dom people whom you cannot truly govern
and whom the sword may silence and scatter
but cannot comfort, enlightcn, elevate or feed
We conclude this lengthy but we trust not
uninteresting article, with the following ex-
tract from an editorial written by Mr.. Greeley
in the Tribune of July 10Th, 1S4s, headed
"Ireland's Woes and their Causes England's
Responsibility :"
"a government of Ireland by the Irish, and
| for the Irish, cannot fail to abolish or greatly
modify absentee land holding secure tenants
against the influence of larger and larger cxac-
tions of rent based upon their own unaided i'm.
provements, and ultimately tcnding(as in France)
| to make the cultivators of the soil its owners
1t would sweep away the laws of entail and pri-
| mogeniture, the complicated network of mort
| cages &c, in which the fee of Ircland's soil is
now out of the peoples reach. 1t would stop
| the sending away of q blasted hut still sufficient
| harvest 10 pampcr sloth and luxury abroad
| while the producers of it were furnishing by tens
| of thousands at home. In short it would rem
der Ireland prosperous, Independent and happy
| us she has not been, and will not be- under Brit
fish domination. Heaven grant that the desired
| consummation BIC not distant, but that the mil
lions OF eyes now anxiously watching for it may