Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-09

BEECHER ON THE IRISH QUESTION.
 Of the utterances called forth by the dread l full crime committed in Dublin not the least notable is the talk of Henry Ward Beecher to his congregation Sunday evening. We are living, said Mir. Beecher, in an age when brute force seems to be given over to passion and appetite. Throughout Russia we have 1 organized tribes of thugs to whom murder 1 is 8 main instrument. Within the circuit of few years there have perished by the hand of violence Lincoln, martyr, and the Em- peror of Russia, likewise a martyr; the Pres ident of the United States likewise martyr. and now the representative of the imperial government of Great Britain, martyr. It is an avowed and openly avowed means of l changing the condition of government to put murder in the hands of the oppressed. blacker doctrine never came upon the earth, | a fouler conspiracy of iniquity never existed than that which attempts to change the moral aspects of the globe by the pistol and the assassin's dagger. After pointing out that there is a peculiar pathos in this latest case that Lord Cavendish was a minister of mercy sent to a troubled people, bearing an | olive branch-Mr. Beecher expressed the be lief that the cruel deed was not the work of an association, but simply of a few ignorant | men.
 1 MT. Beecher then spoke concerning the wrongs which Ireland has suffered. Upon this point he said For 500 years Ireland has been crater, cauldron, and the fire has scarcely ever been quenched. No matter | what have been the education, the religion or disposition of the Irish people, account for 1t as you will, the harness of government put 1 upon that people by England has been one that restrained the Irish people and rasped them and hurt them. Now the Irish, think, were justified in very much of their conduct in these last few years. I am not one that has single railing word to say of my mother 1 country. There have been no grander traits than those developed in England They are not. perfect. They are wise in political economy. They have great religious fervor Their charities have been boundless. Civlli- zation in the household has never risen higher than among the English people. They have been our benefactors intellectually as we'll as our ineal ancestors. They are a i great people, but they never knew how to govern a subject nation that part of their education WAS always deficient. And so it has come to pass that England never has been willing to do justice to a subject race until it was brought to the very verge of vio- lence and war. When her subject nation alities by their restlessness disturbed her government, her plans, her purposes-then and not until then England yielded their rights, and these were snatched from her teeth and not from her heart And so it has come to pass in regard to this reformation that has taken place.
 Considering the tenacity of the English to custom and their dislike of change Mir. Beecher thinks that in the main the Irish patriots have acted wisely. The genius of Irish reformation has been to bring affairs to such point of sharpest inconvenience upon the English people and government that they, for their own sake, would relieve them and bring them into larger place; and this agitation, he thinks, should be carried uI just to the edge of war without kindling war until relief is extorted from the ruling hand
 He believes in the Land League, in boycot ting, and apparently even in the No Rent cry. He thinks that if Parnell and his co } adjutors are wise they will enthusiasticall, support Gladstone, than whom, he thinks nc , nobler statesman has risen in our day. |
 he, said MT. Beecher, should go down by the folly of the English and the Irish people we should renew in our day the magnificent spectacle of thegrand prophet and leader ot ,, old before whom the sea opened, who led th,
 peopleof Sinai through the desert for forty
 years, and who at last coming in sight of th'
 Promised Land wrapped his mantle rount his head and died without having set foo therein. Gladstone, if. retired, will have
 brought the great English and Irish peoples
 to the very borders of liberty and will hay,
 diediwithout being permitted to go over. H.
 can afford it his fame is sure. But can th
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