The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-09-18
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER Is, l878

! Dublin is st. HaCrlcK S CaLleQTIl,
which may be called the West.
minister Abbey Of Ireland. Great
names cluster around it. The great
! Dean of st. Patrick's, Swift, reposes
there, and beside the tablet which
records his virtues, is one to the
memory of Stella. Grand historic
memories make the. place as sacred
as any spot in Ireland, and yet un.
der it's very caves is such squalid
misery and wretchedness as can
scarcely be found in the world
It's grand arches, it's massive pill
lars, it's towering spires, it's glorious
windows, are only q burning re
proach to the degraded humanity
which surrounds it, and the poverty
and crime which stands with bare
front in sight of it's very altar,
should be like blister on the fore
heads of it's ministers, whose Grim
inal neglect no incense can sweeten,
no prayers can sanctify. Of what
use are these grand temples, if the
souls and bodies of the men, women
and children which they we're in
tended to save ale allowed to sink
into utter Ignorance, ruin and deg
radiation? All over Ireland are
these grand churches, costing hun
dreds of thousands Of pounds.
Statuary, carving, frescoes and
painting have all combined to make
them among the grandest architec-
tural triumphs of the age and yet,
from one end of the land to the
other, is a poverty and ignorance
which is simply frightful to behold.
The shepherds do not share the
poverty of the flock. The ministers
are well-fed, well-clad class, the
great body Of the churches are as
finely equipped as any churches in
the world, but the focks are shorn
and poor, stepped in poverty to the
very ips--forgotten, apparently,
alike by God and man. The Lifey,
whose classic waters have given in
spiration to an army of poets,
shrinks to the dimensions Of a dirty
canal, the foul odors Of which
would have stifed poor, poor Pc
gasus, ere he could have reached
the summit of the Olympian Hill.
Dublin is full of parks and squares,
some of them very beautiful, and
the inhabitants are permitted to
look at them all from the outside of
the ratings. The public spirit
evinced in this particular is truly
commendahle ; and it enables them
to keep their grass plots uncon-
taminated by he feet of the COM
mon herd, besides afording a de-
lightful private preserve for the
'tdivarsion ov the ginthry." Lime
rick was reachei4 the next after
noon. The poverty and wretched-
ness seen all along the route seem
ed to increase, Ragged and bare
footed women and girls crowded
the streets, apparently having moth
ing to do. Here and there some
one, a little more industrious and
thrifty than the rest, might be seen
working the lace for which Lime.
rick has so long been celebrated,
but the great body Of them had
nothing to do but to sit down idly
by the wayside and stare vacantly
at the passengers as they passed
I hastened on to Killarney, there
among the beautiful lakes an en-
chanted islands I hoped to forget
the terrible scenes of suffering and
poverty of which in an extended
tour all over the world I have never
seen a parallel: 7 had yet to learn
that there were depths Of human
misery of which I had never dream
ed till I visited the town Of Tralee
I was anxious to see the old tow
where the great Liberator, DAME
lO'Connel lived, it is situated not
far from the sea in the most beauti
full part of the south of Ireland
Two thirds Of the inhabitants live
in low mud cabins which woulc
scarcely be considered respectable
shelter for an animal in more fav
ored lands. At a station short
distance from Tralee, I asked one
Of the railroad officials if he woulc
direct NE to the best hotel in the
town: "Tndeed thin, I can't, ht
replied, II am forbidden to do 81
be the jutys of me station-but a'
I wus to tell ye at all-which
can't-Td say go to Binner's."