Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-18

| House of Commons or become SheIlh,
OF occupy any corporate Office. Cath
| ole was ineligible to the bench. and
was denied the right to sit on juries. II
| accused Of crime his trial was mockery
of Justice If despoiled OF property the
doors OF the courts were closed against
his appeal for redress. And after Cath
ole emancipation had been wyested
from, the British Psrliamen. 10y the
| genius and energy, and persistence of the
great O'Connell, there remained. and
still remains the legacy of hatred which
! oppression always creates. English
| statesmen dis.rusted the Irish people. and
| English writer's derided and misrepre-
| sented them. Harriet Nartineau WAS
| accounted wit for saying that Tho
curse OF Ireland ia the Irish. So care
full and just historian as Hume gitfib-
uted Daniel o'Conneil's patriotic e:forts
| for Catholic emancipation to nieIs
| sordid desire to collec! the rents OF the
Catholic association for his personal
sgraudizamert. Neither Dickens, nog
| Bulwer, nor any OF the great modern
| novelis.s of England ever ma3es hero
| Of al Irishman, and whatever legislation
has been had from the English Parlis-
ment for tins benefit Of Ireland, has
been s1.orted rather than bestowed.
Even now, although the substantial;
grievances OF Ireland have been red
ressed although the disabilities Of Irish
Catholics have been removed although
the English Church in Ireland has been
disestablshed although Government
Offices in Ireland are filed by irishmen,
| the effect of old laws and ussges remains;
and the discomfort and hatred for the
English which fills the Irish soul is
reciprocated by the contented contempt
for the Irish which permeates the Eng
lish mind.
l asked Al English gentleman, what
were the grievances OF Ireland: H. re-
piled, "thers were none, they are al
removed: The English politician who
could discover a genuine one. would
have his fortune made" An Irish
gentleman, whom I met in Dublin, and
whom l requested to detail Irelsnd's
present wrongs. replied TO me All, Sir.
England has taken away everything elss
from Us, and now. bad luck to her. she
has taken away even our grievances.
l repeat that the evil consequences
of oppressive laws remain With
the Irish people. although the laws
themselves have been repealed. Eng
land prevented the establishment OF
factories, and the building up OF ports
in Ireland. uLsil her own manufacturing
and commercial supremacy was secured;
and now. when the restrictions are re-
moved, Ireland 10 like prisoner who
has been pinioned so long be has lost the
use Of his limbs The harbors of the
Green Isle are deserted. her stres IN.
turn no wheels. commerce has He'd from
her marts, capital is discouraged from
seeking her shores, her sturdy sons are
forced to idlensss, and the owners of
her soil are absent i'll London or on the
Continent. Though represented IN
Parliament she is yet powerless.
Though part of the British Empire she
is voicsless in the direction Of its affairs.
She is the psriah Of its politics and the
outlaw of its confidence. She is de-
pendent upon bulky, overworked and
Indifferent central legislature for nee
essary local laws of the most trihing
character for 3 Branch Railroad cannot
be constructed in Connsught. or n sewer
laid down in Sligo. without m act ~
Imperial Parliament.
There is nothing in the character of
the Irish people to justify the injuries
and outrages which have been heapsd
upon them. The glory Of England in
letters arts and arms, is largely due to the
Irish. On the the peninsula, at Water
loo. in India, and the Crimea. the Irish
regiments earned imperishable re-
nown, and the greatest soldier, the
greatest statesman. and the greatest
orators OF Great Britain, were of Irish
birth. Neither is there anything in
the latter day history of the Church of
Rome to warrant the belief that her
civil polity made necessary the vigor
Gus, relentless measures which Eng
land adopted toward Ireland. Free
dom is largely indebted to the Catholic
Church. 1t was Langton the Catholic
prelate who uplifted his crozier in the
face of King John, and headed the
Barons who wrested Magma Charta
at Runnemede. And our Courts Of
Justice, trial by jury, the elective
system. and the representative system,
were all conceded by Catholic Kings.
1t may not be denied that there was
time when the Pontiffs directed the
civil polity of the nations whose peo-
pie recognized their spiritual sway.
But that time had long gone by before
England emancipated tho Catholics of
Ireland. The iron arm Of Hildebrand,
and the subtle brain of Gregory, and
the crafty cunning Of Alexander Bor-
gia were moldering together beneath
the marble canopies OF st. Peter when
English rigor made slaughter house
of Ireland. The days when q Bour-
bon bowed in abject submission to the
will of the sovereign POntiff, and All