The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-02


desired him to assure her lieges in Dub
lin, (the English carpet-baggers skulkin!
inside the pale, } that if O'Neil did ris
Il sccatlu be for their advantage, for TIER
aciH be estates for them that want"
But we cannot attempt to discuss il
a newspaper article the policy OF Eng
land. to exterminate and possess. carried
out in Ireland in various forms and dis
guises, from the days of Henry II. to the
days OF Elizabeth. from thence to the
reign of Victoria, from the time tina,
Spencer the poet wrote to his royal mis-.
tress; that Irish prosperity should be
crushed or, nature having made her SO
rich, she would quickly become too
powerful a rival for England" ITO the time
that the London Times said in hellish
glee, 1.-The Irish are going with ven
| yeance = we can but set before our cor
respondent, without any attempt at his
| torlcal order, some proofs of the wrongs
that we Irish "clatter about" that we
don: forget; TIA. we viii sooner or later
avenge.
In OConnell's memoirs of Ireland we
find
40 CRIME ACCORDING TO ENGLISH Law TO ROB OF
KILL AN lRIaHMAN.
" he Irish could not sue az plaintiffs in any
court OF law. They Were not treated as CON
quered enemies bound to accept the laws of the
oonqueror bat entitled to the protection OF
those laws. Thy were treated as perpetual
! tneinles, whom 1t Was lawful to rob or kill
at the pleasure or caprice OF al English sub
ject."
I'm the % Edward l., before the Justice i'll
oyer. at Drogheda, Thomas LIE Botteler
brought an action Of deteuue against Robert
Aimaln, tor certain goods. The defendant
pleadcth: That he Is not bound to answer the
plaintiff for thls-that the plaintiff is All IIsh
man, and not of free blood. And that the
aforesaid Thomas says that he Is an English
i4an, ana this he prhys may b. enquired OF by
The country. Therefore let q jury come and
30 forth and the Jurors Oh their oath say til
the aforesaid Thomas is au knylishman. There
lore it Is adjudged that he do receive his
damages"
sLAUoHrERNG WITH IMMUNITY
sIRIsH''
The following records speak still NOR,
distinctly the perfect right claimed and en-
Joyed by the Engish III Ireland of slaughter
ing With npunity the mere Irish 1t records
a Case tried at Limerick, before the same Lord
Chief Justice WOyan, in the fourth year Of I'd
ward the Second, rs as follows"
William Fitz Roger being arraigned for tn
eath OF Roger de Cantelon, 10y him fslOnious
y slain, comes and says b. could not commit
felony by means OF such killing: Because the
aforesaid Roger was All lrishman, and not OF
tree blood. And tho jury upon their oath Say
that the Aforesaid Roger was an Irishman OF the
surname of O'Hederiscal, and forxsn
lrishman was reputed all his life; and there
tore the said William, as far as regards the said
felony, IL acquitted. But inasmuch a. the
afoasaid Roger " HederiscA was an lrishnan of
our Lord the King, the Aforesaid William was
recommtted to jail until he shall find pledges
to pay five marks to our Lord the KING, flor tins
value OF the atoiesad Igishmul."
The same English party passed another
las N the year l4to, the fifth OF Edward ",
entitled"
IAN Act that it shall b. lawful to kill any
that is found robbiug by day or night. or going
or coming to rob or steal, having no faithful
nam Of good name or fuIe in their company
IN Bngilsh apparel Whereby it was enacted
That tshaii De lawful to all manner of meu
that find any thieves robbing by day o. by
night, or gong or coming to rob or steal, in OF
OF good name In their company in English ap-
prei, upon any OF the lese people of the
King, that 1t shalt te lawful TO take and kill
thos, aud 70 cat of their heads, without any
impeachment OF our sovereign Lord the KIM.
ms heirs officers or ministers or any others. -
Thus, in truth, says O'Connei," the only
tact necessary to ~ ascerained 70 enti,le M
English man to cat of the head Of another man
WAS that such other should he an Iri.hmsn
Il, W. ~ u,
from robbing, who could say but that h..
might lie gong 10 rob; in OF ont a the s.stu.a
has it. And the Rngtishman- the cutler off ri
the he adj WAS made the sole dre of whar. the
irIshulau WAS gong, Aid Of whl he iats,,i al
to do.
In the reign OF Elizabeth the persecu.
ton OF the Irish took new phase. |,
was no longer under the name of "rnere
Irish that the Irish people were huu,ed
down. but ~ papkts. and for manv \
long year SAYS the historian. 1.-The only
alternative offered to the Irish WAS un-
iformty or extermiuation-( McGee's His
tory o; lreIaud). and 80 mercilessly was
the work carried on that Secretary Spen-
Ger writing of the province of Munster
IN the year 1892 says. that most popu.
lous and plentiful country was reduced
, to heap OF carc;,sses and ashes.r
The policy o. Sir Henry Sidney the
Queens deputy in Ireland was ITO tres f,
ireland as discovered country. whose
inhabitants had no right to the soil ex.
cspt such as the discoveries g1ac;ously
conceded to them" and the historian from,
whom we quote referring again to sir
Henry Sidney says.
'.One cannot repress sigh that SO ie.
roc'ous design As the determination O,
whole people shonld be associated in
any degree with the lllustrious name O,
Sidney. (Mc'Gees History of Irel md !
Il seems notwithstanding all this
bloody policy looking to the extsrmina-
ton OF the natives in this discorere,
country. Ireland. some of the lana still
remained in the hands OF the Irish 10,
we find toward the close Of the reion O,
James the / there was horde of sp;es
employed. under the name of discover