New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-07

unless already he has consciousness OF the wrong we
have done TO Ireland which compels him TO hear this
subject honestly while he deals with IL. tApplause
Ana for Americans, I think 1 shall be able
TO justify my dealing the subject before
them now cannot pretend To have bthe
scholarly attributes of Mr. Froude and dare not pre-
tend to tho fiery elOduence Of Father Burke'o ut may
pretend 70 tell Irshmon that this voice which have
raised for them has been laughed at in England and 1t
would not have been silent even II my Of the
question had gapst Them II the need OF the po
tea condition required that should utter them Zap
! plause]
In order TO examine the matter fairly propose to re-
view the land question and the religious question: and
to deal with the Irish as people am not going back
INTO a very long story extending from century to CEN
tury because IL were to do that the relation OF
our original crimes toward Ireland would alright any
body who examining the record. And it is impos-
sble ever recall yesterday. I'll utterly impossible
am glad there hereI hope they are English
men-who think this fair matter for levity. confess
do not confess 20 state Of dissatisfaction and dis
content. to a state OF misery and wrong, to state
OF wretchedness and shame in tho circumstances OF
these people brought out by the policy Of determination
from year year OF its existence. think that
Try which has pursued that policy with the people of
Ireland should at any rate not hesitate to grappe with
the topic and that wrong has been done ana more
mischief through not thus exercising PREPARATION and en-
deavOrine TO solve the question. tApplause.l
Ireland is purely an agricultural country, or nearly
so and this is from special disposition Of the Irish
to occupy themselves solely with agricultural pursuits
but because England prevented Iushmon from follow
ing any trade requiring skilled artisanshp at all There
is trade, of skilled handicraft to which
the Irish have turned their hands that England has
legslatod for the purpose OF preventing You may tell
me all these statutes repealed. That is per
ieoty true; but while you have repealed the statute,
you cannot change the habits Of life you have insed
people, generation after generation. You check
| particular kind of life and develop another particular
kind OF life, and 1t is impossible by the mere repeal Of
statute the habits and thoughts Of a ma
tiou and make them entirely different by enact
| ing clause which you bring to bear upon them. ZAP
| plausel
] What was done in Ireland When Irishmen fed cat
tie aud sent them TO England the English farmers com
planned the competition of Irish cattle, and they for
bade their expectation from Irish shores. When the
Irshmen killed their cattle at home and sailed the
| meat and the meat was exported from
ireland, that entirely stopped. When they kept
! their live cattle home and turned the hides into
eatherthen edct went out from England restraining
that; this branch OF trade cut of. When they
took to sbeepfarming Incorporation Of sheep into En-
gland was forbidden, and then they took TO working
their wool CLOTH You say that the Irish cannot be
dilisent, and cannot develop any great industries
point you 10 the time, not OngagO in that land when
there many wooden manufactures rising in Ireland
j
manufactures, and turned the people adrift who were
striving TO earn an honest livelihood. point you also
70 their silk their cotton their sugar and their soap
everything except their linen nteriered with by
the British Government. You will find that fast as
nishmen turned their attention and ability TO any one
OF the manufactures there Immediately acts OF
Parliament enacted preventing them from pursuing it,
| You tell me they repealed. Yes they are; but no
sense justice caused the repeal, did any feeling Of
| humanity dictate it. Will tell you what did 1t.
IRELAND DrDlSOT BETRAY ENGLAND.
When England was in a shameful war, TO which need
not further alude in this place; when England was
weak; when there one TO overawe the Irish in
Ireland, two sent cry from Ireland in terms of
aery eloquence which Irelands advocates from time to
/ time used One was Henry Flood the other Henry
Grattan. [Appausel Their voices, like the touch OF
the magcisns wand sprang from part to part OF Ire
land and these organized in armed band-at least
COOO0 volunteers Did they embrace that moment when
we weak to strike us, TO repay as for all the wrong
/ we had done to themG Did they use that moment
/ when we were down anu they were strong 7
| Did they use that moment to give us the
/ need of vengeance, which we could hardly have re-
| astedl No! They only asked some rights for them
selves, some freedom, some liberty. Then they only
spoke the words Of hope the words of power; and it
was to these GOOO volunteers that George Ill conceded
the repeal OF these statutes, which the Irish took
boon rather than right The words of eloquent Graf
tan speaking out for Ircland's eternal freedom
uttered in Stevens Green, where hope that Irshmen
! may have the opportunity again of legisating for
/ their own wrongs and grievances lGreat appause
With the words OF Henry Grattan they were content.
There was no Of threat sort Of menace, sort
| of violence. When we weak they were loyal and
when we left our side exposed, instead Of taking ad
vantage of the weak place TO strike blow the very
! Irshmen who had been trampled upon, guarded and
| shielded US with their arms. When We were again
strong men we repaid them by breaking the bayonets
which We had ntrused to them and tried 70 take back
! from them the liberties which we had given
and had always begrudged them. Misses J
ireland being agriculturalJ country, naturally the
land question is the question which meets most
pecally; and Mr.. Mill, in speech made by him in the
House of Commons on Mr. Chichester Fortescues Land
! bill. said:
People often ask and il has been asked this evening
Why should that which works well in England not work
well IN Irelandl why should anything be needed IN
ireland mat ne not needed in Engiand whether Ireland
was exception TO all the rest of mankind, that they
cannot bear the institutions which reason and expert
tonal prosperity. Sir eloquenty reminded the
| other night OF that double ignorance against
which great philosopher warned his cotemporaries-
Ignorant Of being Ignorant and when we insist on
applying the rules in respect to Ireland aud to
England we show another kind OF double Ignorance,
and at the time disregard the precep which was
inscribed the front OF the temple OF Delphi not only
do not know ourselves. Irish circumstances and Irish
ideas as 10 social and Agricultural economy are .he
general ideas aud the general circumstance ol the
human IL is English circumstances and English
that peculiar. ireland u tue
stream Of human existence, and human feeling, aud
human opinion 10 Is England that IS one OF the lateral
channels. " any honorable gentleman doubts THIS
ask there any other country on the face OF the earth
in which. not merely national fact but as general
rule land Is owned great estates by one class,
ana farmed by another class of capitalist farmers ana
actually cultivated by laborers only detached from the
soil and receiving only day wagesi Ireland Is like the
rest of the world England ID the exceptional country
THE LAND QUESTION UNSETTLED.
Now propose TO deal with thai land question for
few moments. do propose to trouble you with the
history Of confscaon after concation, although this
must not be overlooked in dealing with such questions
because these connsaons have len their bane behind