The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-01-02

I do and can do nothing. On the hrst Weeh
LID November oil the Irish members OF far'
lament will lay q similar appeal before tue
Prime Minister. Disraeli will simply laugh
at their apparent earncstDess. What does
he c ire u 100000 Irish people die OF famine !
l Nothing
He regards Irisbmen Just as he regards
their Aryan cousins to the east and west Of
the Indus. Like the lark 10 the fable, the
| Irish people seem 10 think that they must
depend on Themselves and on the children
OF their race. The distress which has fallen
on this country Is In truth great, and The
people, 1 fear, must suffer. The only inn
mediate and direct remedy Is employ menf.
This they are not likely, as you see, to OBJ
tain. Immigration, therefore, to America
In winter and in the coming spring Is likely
10 be renewed. You cannot but observe
the spirit 10 which King AlfoDeo Of Spain
has acted towards those who, In his pro-
vince OF Murcis, suffered from the late
floods. He, like father, ran 10 aid his
children, the Spaniards.
How differently. compared with our
rulers, the Emperor and Empress OF Aus
tria acted last spring 10 those among their
subjects who In like manner bad suffered
Four years ago the Garonne, swollen by the
rains OF the Pyrenees, committed great de-
yastation I'm the south OF France. The then
President, Marshal MacMabon. went in per-
son TO relieve the sufferers. The people Of
these nations ask for bread. and they re-
ceive abundance OF bread and every re-
auisite. We ask for bread, and are
given stone; a fish. and, behold! a
serpent is presented. Disraeii does not
govern on principle OF RICH. or OF
distributive justice or with fatherly con.
Germ for the subjects OF this nation. bis
rule Is one OF policy and statecraff. directed
by imperial interests, and seemingly the
outcome of political pressure. You were
never in Ireland. Many Irish men and wo-
men now in your country were IN ireland
in 1916, 1847, and 1913. They know how
mutitudes then asked for bread, "and there
were none to break it unto them Then,
as in Jerusalem during the captivity, "the
children and the sucklings tainted away in
the streets"
FAMILIES STARVING.
myself saw strong men and young wo-
men die OF starvation; one young girl espe-
cislly, OF nineteen, the eldest OF poor fam
iIv OF nine, struggle in the jaws Of hunger
for six months and then perish, literally re-
duced to heap Of bones. did my best at
the time to help that family. | was then
only eighteen years Of age. saw two men
dead with grass in their mouths, having
striven in vain to obtain sufficient nuiriment
to sustain life from the grass Of the field.
Scenes like these were then common. Many
would not believe that such things occurred,
bu, | saw them. ] saw hundreds Of chill
dren, from the age OF two to twelve, with
hair on their skinny arms and checks fully
one inch Tonga false growth caused by
decay and hunger. | saw over one thou
sand men, women, and children Of all sizes
and ages outside the pOorhouSe OF Castle
bar, assembled for inspection by order OF
the poor-law guardians, lest any name
should be on the relieving officers lis eX-
cent those who were actually at the time
alive. | cannot say in the flesh. for flesh
they had none. Their presence at the time,
young as | was, reminded me Of the vision
Of bones beheld by the prophet.
Shall scenes like these occur again 2 God
forbid Shall the children OF ST. Patrick
the sons Of saints and sagcs the descend
ants Of q noble race; the O'BOyles, who
who have come down from the cOnquering
Mall the Great; the O'Brens; the Dom
nells, your cousins from Donegal; the
OL0ughIins and MacLcughlns the
O'Reillys, O'Kellys, and all the O's aud Macs
OF the grand Mieslan stock-perish mise
rably from neglectt Shall the children Of
the bigh-Dinded and fiery yet noble Nor
man families share the same fate ? Away
witlftbe thought!
The times are changed. Food, at all
events, is cheap. Our friends in America
will send relief the first moment the real
crisis. which Is Fastening, shall come. Let
not Ireland be as Jerusalem was in the days
Of jeremiah, "a laughing-stock or a dcri-
sion TO all the people their song all the day
long"
ROOD has not blessed us with abundant
wealth lie has given us a noble heritage I'm
an ancestry ilustrious for noble deeds and
for the greatest OF all His giflS-the bless
ing Of the divine faith. A people so gifted
with natural and superior endowments is
worthy to be saved. Judas Maccabeus no.
bly, stood up and valiantly fought for the
Jews in the days OF Antiochus Epiphamcs.
Judas was their savior when Holofernes
threatened them with destruction. Esther
was called to the throne OF AhaSuerus 10
foil the vlllainy Of the Prime Minister OF
Amar.
WILL AMERICA HELP?
Can you do any good for your people in |
the land OF American The two great ends |
to be attained are-first, to relieve the PEG.