Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-09-17
Northumberland.

The refusal of the British House of Lords
to give the Irish tenant even the Justice of
protection against eviction for one year
plainly illustrates the inability of an alien
government to legislate for Ireland. The
reader of history cannot have failed to
observed that at no previous period of the
history OF Ireland were there such bright
prospects for her emancipation from the
yoke of arstocratic power. 1t is true that
the light of hope shines through the dark
ness of another nations misfortunes That
nation, England, has always, if there be
truth in impartial history, been the oppressor
of the weak, and, true to her instincts, she
is to-day shooting down the savages who re-
fuse to be incorporated in the countless
number of her subjects The protection
which she offers, the guardianship which she
gives to the people, savage or civilized, is that
of the wolf to the lamb.
Severe and conciliatory policy seems to
have been equally unavailing to heal its
wounds. Conquest has failed in producing
submission, severity in enforcing indulgence,
if any, in awakening gratitude-the irrita.
ton excited by the original subjugation of
the island seems to be unabated after the
lapse of five centuries. 1t is a melancholy
fact that lrishmen at home and in exile
have been deceived with false expectations
and vain promises.
The seeds of revolution and downfall are
sown deeper in the heart of England than
in any other country that has ever existed
at any period of the worlds history. 1t is
true that that seed has not as yet brought
forth its fruit, it is not because it has fallen
on barren soil. We do not hesitate to say
that when the patience of the toiing and
down-trodden millions of British operatives
and laborers is exhausted, which is now nearly
the case, the lurid fire of revolution will cast
its CHASTITY light on the corpse of the British
Empire
SO far in the worlds history Ireland has
no place in the march of nations; no profit
from the revolutions of the world; dynas-
ties have been exalted and destroyed; en-
pires, risen and decayed; power and riches
have passed from land to land in continual
alterations of victory and defeat during the
centuries which have seen this people al
ways distracted, always weak, always mis-
cradle. For her only there has been no re-
demption, to her hope came, but the cradle
was its grave.
There is certain degree of calamity
which overwhelms the courage, but there is
another which by reducing men to despera-
ton leads to the most glorious enterprises.
Abandoned by all the world, destitute alike
Of fortresses and resources, crushed in the
grasp OF a gigantic power, this people have
reached that point, and may we not venture
TO predict that this unhappy country NAV
soon take her place among those who for
ages have held her in contempt, and Eng
land, swollen with the pride of dominion
and the exuberance of wealth, will be
broken to the dust.
If correctly reported, the present condi-
ton of the people of Ireland, at home, gives
well-grounded indication that they will
soon attempt TO burst the bonds that bind
them. Why not We ask A new career in
vites this worn nation TO brace itself for
hopeful effort, and he who speculates on the
coming time may utter words of warning
with prophecies of good. In this day of pro-
gessive intelligence it becomes mockery to
boast of Irish literature, or to bazen their
art or to glory in their poetry and eloquence,
If they are permitted to remain from year to
year negotiating at one low level of want,
without hope of change or ability to i'm.
prove their hereditary state of bondage.