National Republican., 1873-10-08
THE IRISH QUESTION.

Charles Bradlaush on Biectiess In Ireland.
Mr.. Charles BradlauFh, OF London, England,
who Ia now visiting this country, and who is we'll
known In Great Britain ~ man Of liberal polit-
ical Ideas and friend Of the Irish people, deiv-
cred lecture on Monday night last In New York
on the Irish question, from which We take the
following paragraphs describing evictlons 10 Ire-
land BY aristocratic landlords
"In my checkered life l have been private
soldier, and between 1870 and 1850 was In the
County Cork, stationed at Melancholy. Those
Of you who are Irishmcn will want no descrip-
winds between the hills from Cork, and In sum-
mer SCENE like very Paradise, green grass
growing TO the waters side, and Furnished with
In the evening sunset ] went thcre on No
vember day. was one OF q troop TO protect the
lav oflicers, who had come with the agent from
Dublin 70 make an eviction few miles from In-
nlscarra, where the river Bride Joins the Lee. 1t
was miserable day--ran freezing into sleet as
u fell-and the men beat down wretchei dwell
perhaps. They did not take much beating down;
there was no flooring TO take up; the walls were
more mud than aught else, and there was but
little trouble In the leveling Of them to the
ave had got our work about three parts done,
when out Of one Of them q woman ran and fung
n On he ooP and sas asked 1'tS Sss her
little while. she said her husband had been born
and she asked hat he might Se aDa
to die 10 1t In peace. Our captain had no power;
the law agent from Dublin wanted TO get back TO
rd nG sns va, q %p0.cs And ne
| while we were therein front Of us, while the
sleet was coming down-carried out on wretch.
ed thlng-you could not call It bed-and he died
while we were there, aud three nights afterward,
while was sentry on the front cato at Ballan-
choly barracks, we heard q cry, and when the
guard was turned out we found this poor woman
ina auln at.lu daaH hal Ia
Arm and another In the other, cllnging TO the cold
nipple Of her llfeiess breast. Aud II you had
been brothers to such woman, sons Of such 4
bellion have seemed the holiest gospel you could
hear preached7 Two hundred aud hfty thousand
evictions took place In the twenty years preced'
700 multiply the misery Of that Two hundred aud
nifty thousandf Brother separated from sister
husband from wife, the Union workhouse takinp
one and sS,. ,SS other going out trying to nd te
made . misery so vast that It will require MOI
one act Of Parliament In favor Of VISION, moi
ie tasor y ftySI no, one
generations Of generous and kindly treatment
not to build up, but In some degree 10 efface th,
bloody stain Of iniquity We have made on thu
aDo you want 4 specimen Of q real Eig,lsh.
Irish landlordf Take the late Marquis Of liert
ford. Ii was once the fortune Of my life 4
have TO meet M Lord hcrtiord In Paris, and h
took great pains to impress upon me then hi
generosity. lie told me he was always In To,
habit OF assisting everybody. lie had the mean
10 assist everybody. lie has died euormousl,
rich. When he came into his property he me
his tenants, and he made q pretty speech Il
them. lie told them that II was the happes
day OF his life, and dare say 1t was-the com
Ing Into his property-l am not at all doubtiDl
i the truthfulness Of that-and he said how glat
, he would be to meet them again and again. II
| went from there 70 Paris, and with the excep
. tion OF one visit-I think only one-that he pal
70 Ireland when he wanted the Order Of tn
Garter, with that exception he never set foot OF
his estates again. He took frum them, too
| from them, took from them, ay, took from then
like c0ld-blooded leecb, without any sort o
sympathy except the swallowing Of the blood h
draws from u. Do not say exagHerate. Their
has Just been q trial in the Dubliu courts II
which John Stonns, the agent OF the Marquis o
Hertford, was defendant, and he admitted tha
when man was disposed TO vote, as he thought
wrongly, he served him with . notice to quit, o.
an encouraRement to him for his conceptions o
political right and duty. And q littlo while ago
not going back long time, when In Llsburn IN
people were famine stricken, they sent letter
TO my Lord Hertford. lie had hundreds OF thou
ands In Spanish railways, hundreds Of thou
, ands In German funds, millions OF francs Il
. French securities. am not exaggerating, be
cause the Inventory has been taken OF then
since he died. but he turned a deaf car, b
gave no reply; the people who had been work
ing for his rent were allowed to starve, an
would have starved u an American citizen ha
not sent shlp-load OF food TO relieve them"