Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-09
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of political distress TO that unfortunate
country as the assassination of
Presidents Lincoln brought TO the
South. The English government had
exhausted ils powers of oppression,
and still outrsges against persons and prop
erty continued TO multiply. Innocent women,
denied any share in making the admins
tration OF the laws of the realm, were bru-
tally and indecently assaulted, and inseveral
instances shot at. The murders OF men were
many, and were, in some instances, attended
by circumstance more or less atrocious and
horrible, and property was everywhere wan
tonly destroyed. Forty Thousand soldiers
and twenty thousand policemen were
unequal TO the task which Forster
undertook of securing peace to
distracted and suffering people, pushed
ON by msrciie-s sgitators, by the suspension
of law. the denial Of the ordinary processes
and safeguards Of the courts, and the arrest
and imprisonment Of men merely suspected
of criminal designs or OF participation in
crimes whose authorr, aiders and abettors
were unknown. The governments policy OF
violence was opposed by violence and the
land law, a measure unparalleled for the
scope of its bene6cence in the Parlia-
mentAry history OF England, was al
most a dead letter. Such state of
things could not so on forever. The
human system cannot long survive fever
of continuing high temperature, and nations,
like indiv iduals, must succumb to anarchy
nnless peace, like . potent medicine, is in
time youchsafed., The great statesman who
has SO long and so successfully directed the
affairs of the British empire saw and
felt the necessity for change of policy
in Ireland, and when the Conservatives
on the one hand and the Home. Rulers on
the other indicated desire 10 assist in
additional Legislation looking TO the pacifica-
ton of the unhappy island by the farther
amelioration OF her impoverished masses, be
eagerly availed himself OF their proffered
help, and the recall OF Forster and assign
ment OF Cayendish to the position OF
chief secretary for Ireland was the first
proofs that q policy of Cancellation
was TO be tried where one OF brute force had
failed. The Conservatives proposed peasant
proprietorships as the only remaining pan
acea for Ireland's ills, and Gladstone, con-
senling, admitted that perhaps the govern
ment would have 10 60 farther than his op-
ponents desired, and complete revolution
greater than any this century has seen, by
the almost free-will gift of the land to
its present occupants. This profier, made in
the open, frank and manly manner habitual
with AIR. Gladstone. challenged the iudorse-
ment Of the Land Leageurs and Home Rulers,
and for brief time the sun Of hope illum-
ined the island OF sorrows. The "sus-
peclsn were Released from the jails and pen
itsniisries, and members, of Parliament
like Parnell and Dillon took their
seats in the hall Of the imperial Legislature,
willing to assist the government, as they de-
clared, in the development of its new aud
humsne policy. The heart OF Ireland leaped
for JOY. The frss upon her thousand hills
atieaied the appreciation OF the pess<r policy
by the people and their happiness in view OF
the new found liberty OF their lead, rs. The
world appiauded Mr.. GIadsione's courage in
thus facing about, and waited with fresh in
tereat in Ireland's affairs TO see what would
be the outcome Of il. II did not have TO
wait long. The most awful and bloody
tragedy Of all the fearful and unnumbersd
woes that has befallcn Ireland since
Parnel began his agitation for home
rule was the first Response. II
came with the swiitness and de-tructive-
force Of cyclone, dashed the bopss Of the
nation Just released from despair, and brought
ch aoe and confusion where order Ia ID begun
to assert her sway. The bilterest enemy
ireland ever knew conld not have devised a
crime, or sel-eted a place -and-time for 1t,
m IRE opporlnne for The post siponement OF the
quitt and repose so essential TO her welfare.
l. ri Cavendish Was her friend. He WAS
one of the promising young legislators ef
England, proiege OF GladStone's, as near
and desr to him almost as his own son.
Throush him the aged minister, the greatest
England has ev.r knowry hoped to govern
Ireland himself. He intended to make her
paeification and the betterment OF her people
the crowning work Of his life, and surely
the nam, if any one, was equal 10 the work.
But the task may now pass to other hands.
The policy OF Forster may perhaps be
pressed sgain, and with redoubled deterrni-
nation. Even Psruell himself. in the House
of Commons, yesterday, siid that "he dii NOD
deny bat hat ae {. .gopera,n'eat saigh Be
csmpeutd to t,ke rigorous steps "a
resiors iordes "a Leiand-p TO this
complexion has the great Home-Ruler come
at last. Even he, in view OF thi, GROWING
crime of a long list of crimes, cannot deny
that the ininiary may be forced to replace
the policy OF peace by one of repression, more
siringent and severe in its enforcement than
that which made Forster Odious. Such
is the feeling aroused by this das-
tsrdly deed. But let Us hope that more
kindly sentiments will prevail when the 6rst
food OF national and personal grief has
passed away; that the earnest and honest de-
nunciation Of the crime by the Irish people,
at home and abroad, will have the effect ol
mitigating il, and in some measure OF as
susging the grief and bringing the two peo-
pies closer together in presence OF a common
bereavement and danger. Gar6eld's death
brought peace 10 this country. A great crime
called out the best emotions of the human
heart and linked the sections by indissoluble
bonds. May it not be that the blood Of the
two hopeful young men, the missionaries oi
peace, for whose untimely death and the
manner Of il Irishmen to-day sorrow with
their fellow-citizens of England and Scot
land, may prove the seed OF the martyrs
and that hereafter Ireland is to be
lifted above the dead level where fer
seven hundred years she has survived agit; :
tiona and rebelliouS, oppression, repression
and bioodsheJ, sharing by turns the con-
tempt pity, and sympathy of the nations-s
menace to the peace OF England, stumbling
block to the empire. the victim of treacher-
Gus informers, the text for bankrupt, cut
purse adveniurers and frothy orators, and
the perpetual sorrow OF her faithtul children
Outof evil eomeih forth good. Out Of this
monstrous, bloody murder may come tbs
salvation Of nation whose tenacity OF life
il the wonder OF modern times -nay come the
autonomy and freedom, which once for twenty
years she enjoyed, opening for her men and
women all the avenues of human endeayOl
that they may justify their claims of brain
and brawn. and their win 10 do uniram
melted, all that other men and women may
do in the sdsancement Of eiviliEaiion. -
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