The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-04

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power, to exercise the natural an6
| God-born right of self-preseryation
Are the lives of a few scores of ty.
rannical and inhuman landlords OF
more value than the lives of !, 600. OOC
of warm-hearted people?
Eternal nsture when thy gain hand
Had heaved the foods and fred the
trembling land;
When life sprang startling at thy plastic
call,
Endless her forms and man the lord Of
ali,
sayI was that lordly form inspired by
thee
To wear eternal chains, and bend the
knee;
Was man ordained the slave of man to
toll,
Yoked with the brute, and fettered to
the soil?
No! Nature formed US in heavenly
mould;
She babe no wretch his thankless labor
urge.
Nor slave to take the pittAnce and the
scourge."
Talk of respect for property and
what is infinitely more sacred res
pect for life! Has England ever
shown Z respect for either in the
case OF Ireland? In 1867, to
prevent the English flibusters
from becoming more Irish than
the Irish themselves, statute was
passed declaring it high-treason for
an Englishman to marry an Irish
woman, and decreasing a forfeiture
Of life and lands to speak the Irish
language or follow Irish manners,
or customs, (Anglice). The ungoY-
ernable, the anarcheial Irish; Away
with them to hell or COnnaught !!
An emissary of the British Govern
ment was employed to assassinate
the leading Irish chieftain, John o.
Neil, by a present Of poisoned wine.
The Earl of Essex when on a visit
to Sir Brien O'Neil, the house af-
fording him hospitality was SUI
rounded by English soldiers during
the night, O'Neil, wife and family
were executed and the whole body
of his clan massacred. A high
English official invited seventeen
Irish chieftainS to supper; at the
conclusion they were all assassin
ated, (Anglice); and this was the
manner, not alone towards the Irish,
but towards every other people I'M
able to resist her piracy by which
England has earned the heinous
epithet of "PerfdiouS Albion" but
the Irish survived, and the process
of determination by treachery and
the sword proving inadequate it was
resolved to try starvation. A large
portion of Ireland was raYaged, and
all the means of human subsistence
Systematically destroyed; the whole
population was steadily and skill
fully starved to death; out Of every
corner of the woods and glens the
people came, creeping forth on their
hands, for their legs could not bear
them; they spoke like ghosts crying
out OF their graves ;th9y ate carriOn,
horses, dogs and even to the dead
carcasses of men. The land which
before these wars was pOpuleuS and
rich, plenteOuS of corn and full Of
| cattle is now become so barren Of
man and beast that any are scarcely
to be met with. Sir Charles WilmeJ
finding an Irish camp where there
were none but sick and wounded
put them all to the sword. Sir Rich
ard Percy left neither corn, nol
horn, nor home unburned between
Kinsale and Ross. In six months
more than thirty thousand people
had been starved to death III Nun
ster alone. The English bTigands
killed blind and feeble men, women
boys and girls, sick persons, idiots
and all people indiScriminately
After organized resistance had
ceased the soldiers surrounded the
population Of villages, forcing men
women and children into old barns
which were set on fire; those who
| attempted to escape were shot OF
piked. No spectacle was more
! common than to see multitudeS OF
dead bodies in the bitches, theiI
mouths all colored green by eating
nettles, docks and all things they
could find above ground. This was
the time, my noble Saxon, when the
Irish were reduced, mot relapsed) tic
A state Of barbarism. OH the un-
goyernable, the anarchial, the law
| less and murderOuS Irish and their
want Of respect for life and rights
OF property
! In Munster 100000 acres thus
cleared were coniScated and bes-
towed on the English brigands
and flibusterS-"the murder0us
| English brigands and filibusters."
! The nobility of England at this
time, according to Spanish authority
had their floors carpeted with
rushes, and their method Of eating
was almost on a par with that of
savages. using their fingers almost
exclusively. 1t was Under similar
features that the Protestant religion
first presented itself to the Irish
people: the sword and penal laws
were the apostles Of the reforma-
ton. MOTHER attempt was made to
convert the population. The scent OF
carrion now brought over from
England a flight OF adventures
aDtlv called "undertakerS." SIX
towns of Ulster were declared for.
feited to the crown and bestowed
on its tirelings. The Irish proprie-
| tors becoming outcasts and a source
of trouble rewards were offered tel