The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-06-18
The PEOPLES Vinlieater.
Bayonet Rule IN ireland.
New Orleans Democrat.

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&. New Orleans Democrat.
There arc lot of idle drcamcrs in Lon
don who have formed "Peace Society,""
tho object of which is to educate tho nv
tons Of the earth to the belief that war is
All unmixel evil, and that the time is fast
approaching when "univcrsal peace"
shall
''Lic like shaft of light across the land,
And like u lane of beams athwart the lea,
Thro' I'LL the circle Of the golden year."
They food the world with their sentiment
tai literature in the shape of tracts, which
they piously request newspapers to print
gratMitousIy, and do not hesitate to pub
lish tho most molstrOus ISLANDERS against
any people if thereby they con make !.
point for their pct hobby, and make even
sham showing of the wisdom of their
doctrines. Not many miles from where
this peaceful coteric holds its meetings.
ut Fresllwater in tho Isle of Wight--rc
sides the Englishman who has given trNa
and noble expression to the feelings of hu.
nlanity on this subject of peace and wal.
In his poem of "Maud" he puts into tn
mouth of Maud's lover these grand words:
"And it was but dream, yet it lightened my
despair,
When thought that war would arise in de-
Tense of the right,
That an iron tyranny now should bend or
cease
The glory Of manhood stand on his ancient
height,
Nor Britain's one sole God be the millionaire:
Let it 20 or stay, 80 wake to the higher aims
OF land that las lost for little her lust for
And love of peace that was full Of wrongs
and shamcs.
Horrible, hateful, monstrous not to be told;
And hail once more to the banner of battle
mrOllcd, ..t
Tho many light shall darken and many
shall weep
For those that are crusl'd in the crash Of JAR
ring claims,
Yet Gods just wrath shall be wrcakcd on
And man many darkness into the light shall leap,
names,
And noble thought he freer under the sun,
And the heart Of people beat with one de-
sire"
These were the ringing and beautifu'
words of Alfred Tennys0n when EnglSn..
was about to engage with France in tho
famous Crimean war and before the Peace
Society was ushered into existence, W.
believe. But neither the poet nor the
Peace Society has one word to say, 80 far
as we have been able to see, against tho
atrocious war of determination now be.
ing waged by the English people against
the Irish. Yesterday mornings dispatches
state that by the end Of this week there
will be quartered on Irish soil 80, 600 sol
dicrs-seven regiments of cavalry, eleven
batteries Of artillery and twenty-five bat
talions Of infantry.
This great army is to he employed in
forcing the Irish people to submit to tho
onerous and crushing impositions of the
alien landowners; to deprive the people
of their arms; to turn them out of their
homes to shoot them down mercilessly if
they do not tamely yield to exactions
which no people can be expected to bear
patiently, and which would create revolu-
ton in any c0untry-exactions not unlike
those which have produced Nihilism IN
Russia, and which may yet result in fore
ing the Irish people to resort to Nihilistic
practices in order to obtain redress.
It cannot be that high-spiriteil ant,
noble, people will submit forever to be-
ground under the heel of cruel and 70
lentless despotism, and unless England
adopts some moro enlightened and mcrci-
full policy than that which is typifed by
the bayonet she may before many years
find herself in tho deplOrable condition of
Russia, with her sovereign . prisoner in
her own realm. .W .ie3
| No such unholy war as that which is
now waged against suffering and deeply
wrongc,l people can elicit from England'a
laureate or from mankind at large words
of communication, and every self-respect-
ing Englishman must feel that every svic.
ton of poor torant from his cabin, eve
| ~ murder of an Irishman for standing
manfally up for his few remaing rights,
for his family and his home, Is q dark
stain on England's cscntcheon. 6@
The Peace Society, of London, it would
seem, have q wide though unpromising
field for the prosecution of their labOrs ii
home, and it is to he hoped that the seri.
GUS and really dreadful condition of affairs
in Ireland will cause them for . little, al
least, to cease their denunciation of til.
South and the Southern people. If by
assiduously attending to their own HON,
affairs they can succeed in ameliOrating
even in some small degree, the condition
Of the Irish people, then will they moi
have been organized in vain.