The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-19

nhtc never learned 10 lily. Those who
desire to be free must first show that thew
can control themselves,
II were to sum up in one sentence
Tue secret Of Irelands misfortunes, |
should say that 1t lay In this: That while
from the first she has resisted England
complained Of England, appealed 10
Heaven and earth against the wrongs
England has inflicted on her, she has ever
invited otheIs to help her, and never her.
sell made an effective fight with her own
ranks. Compare the history OF Scotland
with that Of ireland. England first In.
Vaded Scotland, and endeavored to incor.
porate It into England by force. The
whole Scottish people told Edward il
should not be. England could oyarrun
their country, build castles and garrison
them-she could intrigue, bride, and
threaten. The English failed. They
could not kill tho whole people, and
while the people lived the people were
determined to be tree. England found Il
had vol by the throat She could not
stranglc 1t, tho effort 10 hold It down was
TOO exhausting TO be maintained, and the
contest was abandoned. To-day a union
exists between the two, and Il was effect
cd on equal terms. To-day Scotland re.
tatns her religion all her laws; the Scottish
MOBILES remain on the soil which they so
nobly defended. Out Of the union of
England aud Scotland arose the country
which the world knows as Great Britain.
Applause 1E1LisAEI j
IRELAND WEAK BECAUSE NOT UNITED,
Ireland, too, was invaded. ireland, in.
stead of a narrow river and dry marsh
Tor frontier, had trench of sea before
her seventy mIles across. She had q
larger population than Scotland and a
country no less difficult 10 be overrin, vet
the invaders fastened themselves upon
her soil, and she to-day remains under
the yoke Of the stranger. She has had no
Bannockburn, she has had no Bruce nor
Wallace. She persists that she Is in
chains, and she cannot break them. She
has all the country which England and
Scotland have. There isno country In the
world where government can DO dened
with so much immunity, and where mu-
tiny is allowed so much freedom OF speech
as IN Ireland at the present day. Yet she
makes nothing Of Il. 4fF n
What the explanation Of the differ.
ences? Are the Irish less brave than the
Scots? They have proved their courage
on a hundred battle fields. Was Ireland
occupied in such overwhelming force
TINT resistance was impossible2 Forty
thousand British were defeated at Ban.
nOckburn. For five centuries the Eng.
lish HvNilAlte force in Ireland rarely ex-
cceded 1900 men. Tho Irish were Tor.
ever quarreling among themselves. The
Scots were together. A Douglass cared
more for his country than for himself An
O'Donnell would take the English side II
they would help him to slice off his neigh,
boris land. Laughter. An old proverb
says: when you find an Irishman on
the spit, you can always find two other
lrishmen to turn it." Laughter.1 O'Don-
nell was no exception. he 1t was who,
when rcproached for selling his country,
said he thanked God that he had coun-
try 10 sell. Laughter.
CIVIL WAR WOULD FoLLw IHDEPEND-
ENCE.
No people over allow ed performance to
limp so miserably behind promise. Look
ut the history Of Irish rebelllons, and
you read that the temptation oil revenge
upon the hereditary foe has been stronger
than the hatred o I the national foe. Who
does not know, if familiar at all with the
history Of ireland, that, if accident set
ireland free tomorrow, the first step after
declaration Of Independence would be
u declaration OF civil war? But, until
Ireland is united in its determination TO
have liberty or die, independence would
be curse to her. England has only one
wish for Ireland, and that Is to give her
all the advantages and blessings she can.
Separation we cannot agree to. All else
We yield to, nudl appeal to American
opinion to assist us il determining what
more we can DO than has beeen already
done. The English and Irish are divid.
ed by cloud OF mutual distrust and
cannot understand each other. The
English speaking race arc connected by
ties which cannot exist between any 9th.
or countries. Ireland lies between us.
On one or other or on, both OF US her future
fate depends. America may form the in.
termediatc element with which com.
bination hitherto impossible may be
ut last effected, .-.. -..r..
AMERICA THE REAL ARDITRR
AT any rate England will never BE-
able to resist the expressed opinion of
America as to the character Of her re-
Iations with Iceland. Let America pro.
nounCe any Judgment with tile impartial
authority Of II mutual friend such judg.
ment will carry u weight with 1t which
we shall be unable To- oppose. don't
believe We shall desire to oppose IT, II
we do, declaration Of opinion in the
name of justice will he likely, sooner or
later. in some shape or another, at one
time or another, 10 convert. itself into
force. On the other hand, when the
Voice Of America tells the Itishman that
Justice has been done to him, when he
learns from u quarter which he cannot
suspect that if he wunts independence
he must win It for himself, aud that he
must rely in future on his own industry,
| believe the Irishman will then be salts.
fed. [Applnuse.l
EFFECT OF GLADsToNE'S POLICY.
But the Irishman has been called a
Rebel and whipped; he has been patted
on the bnck and told that no poor country
since the world began has been treated as
his country has been. Thele is no rene,
dy for him, it has been said, but to man.
age him by Irish ideas. Let US have the
thing which has never yet been tried for
him-steady, impartial justice. The Irish
man requires to 10 ruled by just laws
laws which shall defend the weak from
the strong and the poor from the rich. II
he is incOrrigible, then l will give him up;
but the experiment remains to DO tried.
A movement in this direction has lately
been begun. Tho Irish land act Of Mr..