New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-01-07

celNe, out may DC lepieHo'iUSu % SNA-'i'
nausea of the public stomach, to be KEEP
up until it relieves itself in the ordinary
way, by throwing M the feccant sub
stance. The safe mean between modera.
ton and violence is as difficult in political
as in any other professional practice. II
is the line between the inactive and the
heroic. Perhaps it is homeopathic. Let
us suppose it may be carried out. Will
| it effect our common object@ II so. we,
| if called into consultation, would assent
to it. We deny: First that peaceful agi-
tation can be carried out; second, We deny
its efficacy to redress the assumed wrongs
of State if it could be carried out. The
idea of peaceable agitation is not new.
It has been tried in at least one sig
nal example. Ireland had struggled
from time to time to throw off an unjust
and oppressive government She had
mustered men in open war. Their blood
had mingled with the waters of the Boyne,
their bones had blackened at Drogheda-
Her people, maddened by an act Of union
to which they were not parties, by the
suppression of her State Legislature and
the prescription of her citizens, organized
for a secret and sudden resistance. En-
met, one Of the purest patriots who las
died for human liberty since the days of
Russell and Sidney. was seized, tried and
executed under circumstances of atrocious
cruelty which the same government dare
not repeat in this height Of modern civil
zation. Dare not repeat because Amer lean
IriShmen are intelligent, ,cedtlyd courageous
and numerous. The executionIof Emmett,
Fitzgerald and others, with the
exile of thousands who came to
plant in free America eternal hos
tility against the inequality of the British
union, extinguished this unavailing resist
ance. What next? O'Connell, an Irish
Catholic of patriotism and alility, met the
English government in its halls OF legisla-
Ton. What did not O'Conneu and his
brave associates have 10 encounter and
undergo? Libel upon their motives
ridicule of their speech-contenlpt and
contumely from the press and the public.
OConnell met or attempted to meet this
unworthy treatment by what Just what
the Picdyme advises BY agitation.
Agitate Agitate! Agitate! These were
the premises, argument and conclusion Of
every speech he ever made, This policy
did not employ the poor, or onlghten the
ignorant, or comfort the miserable. 1t
made the people more disconnected, dimin-
ished We may suppose, the value of their
land and labor. Emigration from one Of
the most fertile States of the British union
set in, and weakened by the annual loss Of
of able bodied men md yirtuous
the resource and revenue upon
which wise statesman would have cslcu-
lated for the regeneration of his country.
Then came poor Catholics had long
been prescribed; then the ruin or ab- !
senteeism of the landed proprietors; then |
enforced collections of rents and oppressive |
taxes, with all the trains of riots, murders |
md starvation. And the great agitator
What became OF him? lie continued with |
great prudence and consistency the policy
If William Penn, but whether he could |
lot control his followers. or the British |
grew little sick of this
nausea, he was summarily seized. in
tcted and escaped with sentence of
wolve months imprisonment, for which
lie pleaded the Queens pardon.
This is summary of the mate
ial facts from memory. The object
'eing to show that O'Connells agitations
ended to depopulnte and impoyerish his
ountry, and, by exnsperating those to
'hom he appealed, to enhance the injus-
ice Of which he SO justly and el1quently
omplained. The policy OF foreign inter
ention had been tried for centuries
rishmen had appealed TO the courts Of
pain and France. Expeditions had been
OCCASIONALLY sent ont by those powers.
iallant Irishmen, despairing Of their own
ountry, illustrated the annals of foreign
md. The billions the OReilleys, the
IeMahons, and thousands as brave, ~ast-
L abroad the service for which there was
o employment or demand in their be-
wed country.
The second proposition, thatff peaceful
citation could be carried into successful
feet il would be inadequate to restore ;
prosperity, follows from tie first. {
witt, one OF the most practical statesmen
ireland, recommended 10 his country
en TO burn everything that came fom 4
nCland except her coal" He advocated l
duStrial development and inveghed /
,ainst the injudicious application of c
Dor. Sidney Smith. the savage. in re-
'onse to Tom Msore's melodious appeals T
extinct harpsrs and slumbering L
'ord, said: Instead OF singing Ern so !,
-agh it would be much better to chant 4
Erin 20 Bread" Erin 60 Breeches. o
lis counsel to perpetual discomfort, or b
is appeal TO the emotional inteIposition =
outside influence, amounts e less than 4
at proyerbial American synonym for in y
row Of pins, Ii Ire T
al or the Southern States should . L
the means invoked be relieved OF b
r grievance they must succumb to c,
other. People grow tired Of Polish c
les, Hungarian or any other refugees s
TINT ever tried that last in our war 2
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