New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-13

that the likelihood of Ireland was drained
OIL to America by thousands of brave mer
and honest We men. The mistake 0.
OConnell was that of Calhoun. He ex
pected to succeed by agitation" alone.
Neither OF these philosophers ever EN-.
ployed the people, OF educated the people,
or comprehended the power of the people
to catry out the political principles which
they both protested.
And this misconception of the only
mode OF securing or restoring the rights
OF State has been realized in the results
ct the OConnell policy. ireland was
starving for potatoes; she was sending hel
unemployed men to fill the armies Of
Europe or populate the Western States Of
america; she was sending poor and vir.
tuous young women to scour the floors OF
our cities, and remit their honest savings
to relieve the sutferings at home or to
bring their relatives to freedom and to
food. Curious enough, the O'Connell
school in the South, despising ships and
workshops, persisted in sending out their
cotton from New Orleans and Charleston
in the ships Of New England These
ships loaded back to the ports of New
York and Boston with the "three hundred
in the Storage which, whether Irish,
Germans or Scandinavians, have built up
the free soil empire Of the West and re-
pealed slavery with the bayonet and ballot.
We may digress to remark that it is
curious how the C'Connell policy
OF the South in relying upon agitation and
Intervention, and disparaging, perhaps
despising the agencies of popular educa-
ton and popular employment, has weak
ened the South while the North and
Northwest monopolized the whole Euro
pean immigration, imported with South
ern means, and how the O'Connell rene
dies of agitation" and ''foreign interyen-
ton" resulted in precisely the same en-
HANGED dependence upon the more popu-
lar and powerful government But the
parallel holds little further. John
Mitchell and O'Connell were everything for
Ireland" and very little for the Irish peo-
pie. Sidney Smith said with satirical
wisdom: "They sing Erin go Bragh, it
would be much better if they chanted
Erin go bread Erin go breeches.'" But
those brave freshmen who despised the
policy Of Nestor, shared the fate of those
who refused to respect his counsels. John
Mitchell and young Ireland 'repudiated
the leadership Of O'Connell.
"When that great agitator had only to
speak the word and Ireland was in arms,
he never failed to recognize the supremacy
OF the imperial government, and to cry
The Queen, God bless her; hurrah for !
the Queenr"
The organ Of young Ireland taught"
says Mr.. New, ''the truth, recognized in all |
ages, among all peoples, that who would |
be free themselves must strike the blow.
1t inculcated the doctrine that Irishmen
lad nothing to expect from England's
'lemency, and everything to fear from
highlands treachery; that by arms and by
rms alone, Ireland could ever expect to
'e, as she had right to be, free and
Independent nation. To Mitchell, the
queen was Nice, Queen Of Carthage an
domination Of denominations; the repre-
sentative Of the cruelest, most oppressive
nd most hateful race on the surface of
he globe.
Under this slogan young ireland attack
d the navy and armies of Great Britain
With newspaper They armed and or
anized the people by torch light and
nth pixies. They denied even social
privileges to the English or to those Irish
nen who accepted official appointments
rom the English government. The Irish
len who had been appointed to Office
tter the compulsory Union of Ireland at
1e close of the last century were de-
ounced by the patriots Of that day. The
oct Moore who got over to England and |
we'd with, and upon the English nobility,
rote in one of his fancy odes:
Unprzad are her sons till tn ey learn to bet,ay
AND Inc torch that sh all ligh them dgni,y's
way,
If lit at the pyre where her freedom expires
1t was thus that J Ohm Mitchell. a. writer
the Nation. went so far beyond the
ews Of Mr.. Duffy, the editor, that he
ent beyond seas about it, and became
willingly, ioyfully'' a technical "felon,'
hlle Mr.. Duffy, the editor, who preferred
pruning the articles written by Mr..
itchel to the suspension of his journal,
as dishonored by promotion in the
ritish peerage as "Sir Charles Gavan
uffy. . 1t is plainly stand-off of cpl
cts. II it was no dishonor in John
itchel to be proclaimed as rebel, it .
IS not much more for Duffy to be dubbed Il
baronet. Il
But the resume of Irish history given a
Mr.. New proves that both O'Connell VI
ID Mitchell, as liberators, were failures, 8
was, in our opinion, due to the same if
use. Neither was ever the advocate of ie
ual political rights of the people. Each q
shed to see the Irish nation with its D
bility and castles and traditions of e'
ian Bhoru, with its political priesthood Il
d exclusive religion. Neither advo- al
ted the education Of the people and u
9 employment OF the people. The one IL
ed to beg and the other to bully the g
itish government out of concessions 81
e did not deem j. her interest to grant. IN