, 1881-11-27
NASBY ON IRELAND.
The Island Sold BY the: Pope to
the English,
Who Coniscated the Land and Butch
cred the People. .-
Repeated Attempts at Colonization and
Extirpation.


HyD. Il. Locke, alias the Rev. PetroltumT Easby.
COnK October, lS51.-It Is very difficult to nuke
an Americuu understand the 1risn question, for
the simple reason, we nave nothing parallel TO It
in our own country: for which every American
should have corus upon both knees from thauk-
ing his Heavenly Father, who cast his lines in
such pleasant places.
Whenever you speak to an American about
the woes and wrongs OF ireland, he at once says:
Why does the Irish farmer sign a lease which
he knows he caunot live ro?'' :" II he don't like
the country and the laws, why don't he get out
Of it2" l. Why is it, the country being under
one Governm cnt. that the English farmer and
the North Of Ireland farmer ere prosperous,
while tho South-of-Eeland farmer Is in State
Of discontent?"
The trouble With the man who asks these
questions is he doesn't know anything about the
subject. He measures eyerybody's grain in his
half -bushel. He supposes that under English
Government, as in American, there Is one law
which obtuins everywhere and under which all
men are equal.
shall try to make it plain how farmer In
one part of ireland may be prosperous and IN
another poorer than the pigs he fattens-
To understand this matter it is necessary to
70 back some hundreds Of years. Ali grievances
took root Il long way bacK-the world has got
too wise to commence or tolerate any new ones
a SCRAP OF HISTORY.
Originally ireland was IN Independent king
dom; in fact, five independent Kingdoms. I'm
der the Kings were the clans. The Clan O'Cou-
nor, for instance, held certuin amount Of land,
not each man an owner In fec simple, but in
common. That is to say, tho ownership OF the
soil w,ls in the clan as community, each family
OF the clun holding its land forever, and that
land was distributed aonE them @ as the oest @ H. H.
clan sus elected, and he WAS their General, their
COUNSELLOR their Judge, their adviser. phlloso-
pher, guide. and friend He was, In fact the
futher OF the clan.
To support the dignity o. his position. ana 70
bear the expenses Of the post OF honor put upon
land held-so much per acre. II was very lSht-
Tor the chief farn.d tuud. US did tho clnnsmen:
and there WIS. for the time. 4 fnlr degree OF
prosperity ia the slaud: US much as couid be ex-
pected for that day AMI generation. At least.
everybody had all they, could cut, drink: and q
wear, which they earned themselves by the Ia
The English wanted ireland, and England did
with ireland as it has done with every country
it ever desired to possess England had more
The result was that in ll55 bull was issued
By Pope Adriun IN. eonferring tho sovereignty
Of the island upon Henry i. of England. After
urcl pixies with the Irish, who declined to &C
quiesce in this Papal sale, and, finding her
weapons the longest and strongest. took posses
sion. This work, begun, b5 Henry L., recelved
i Il great impetus from Henry Wiz. the brute
who was SO handy at 1ecapitatlng his wives, and
j: is sna dodeWea eas up PP os
The country was conquered, the chieftains
wcre expelled, the land was divided up among
PIE found themselves tenants ut will Of u foreign
proprietary, instead of being actually oWuers IN
Zee simple Of their own land.
ENGLISH METHODS.
England never does an injustice by halves
She Is very moderate in the matter Of mercy
aud Justice, and things OF that nature, but when
it comes TO robbery and suoiauon she knows no
middle way. Queen Victoria rave hundred
pounds to the Irish In the falnine year. au hour
income but when it comes TO blowing Sepoys
from guns. there i5 no end TO it.
When Elizabeth determined ,upon occupying
Ireland, tho orders were to spare neither man,
woman, nor chill.
Tho chiefs were driven out. and the land Of
the aS M tas Ned S5
acres given him frou tue estute OF tho Munster
Geraidines, and a proclamation was made
cood families" to undertake tho planting of the
lands from which the lrish-the pwners lnd oc-
cupiers of the soil. mad been killed or driven on
and tho repopulntion OF the country -nOne
of the native Irish to 10 admitted
Under this invitation. which the English rob-
bers were not slow to accept, scores Of estates
were given to the dis5olute nobility OF England.
who were willing enough To take possession or
land which they got for nothing, aud which
would give them means to dodge the primal
curse Of lnbor. What they wanted was 10 live
aa they wanted, by the STeat OF other men s
brows, and British hayoDets gave the means.
1t is nut possible III the space OF Il newspaper
article to detail the outrages pcrpe1rAteu upon
this unfortunate people hy tue Kings ana Queens
Of England, but let it suffice to say that Il whole
sale system, of spolintjou, robbery, and even eA-
tirpation. ,sas inausurlted and snhst rc!entesiy
nud vigorously pursued. Man. woman. and child.
and even the animals that could not be driven
.otr and sold, were destroyed.
Thcre never was in the history OF the world, n
record SO black with in1nnIy, SO red with blood
or 80 scarlet with injustice.
tjY1fAf3
OF Ireland This is tue title by which My Lor1t
This und 11y Lord That holds the lands he exacts
rent for today. This is his deed to the property
1lpon which ilve millions of people are eating
two meals of potato day. thAt he may gamble
and keep mistrcsses in London and Paris
Hut have not space for detail l must : an a.
swer the questions IN the second Paragraph OF
this letter.
PECuLIARITIES OF THE LAND TENURE.
why does he siEn a., q !. lease the conditions OF
which he cannot fIlnll :: :."
lea, where the tennut and the landlord cc;ne to-
gether, and bargain and wranslc over the terms,
and when an agreement is arrived ut both arc
bound by she terms thereof There Is 20 lease
no writing, no courts, except for the landlord.
The tenant is born upon the ground which Brit
ts 6rpte force tho ony p'npe h, there ee IS I'D
landlord enforced upon him by the pixies OF
Elixabe,hs batlditti said TO him: The rent OF
this land will be one shilling IN acre nc
could go nowhere else. He knew no other
country, anu 80 he bowed his head and built
with his own hands Il cabiu-iu the supjugauon
the old homes were entirely destroyed-and
went to work upon land forty Acre5 OF which, In
its natural sta1e, would not pasture goat.
Before it had any value whatevEr tho bog had
land mud to be made. They Gull it " rccinimtng.
The tenant has no leusc. Hc is purely and
simply In the power OF the landlord. Whatever We
rent he must pay He IL Il tenant at willard
tie will is the will of his landlord, the English
robber who lives IN Injury in Losldon and Paris.
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