New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-08

| their bare sustsnance and habltatlon, Dea.n WI,
to be the penalty ifthey had not y %
without a license. Here they were 10 oe heli , ~,
as in penal settlement with the ocean on iilo o,,o
! hand and the Shannon the other, forpuuen ~
enter a walled town under the death penalty Win
fringe of disbanded soldiers planted III oSi' Gno
mile WIDE all round the seacOast anu alons t' liz
| of the river, to keep them from appioachhs '"o
| But characterization was the mildest penalty TO
which the Irish were subjected. pS" fdr " a who
fixture of all property, were decreed LOT hli VIZ
within twentyeight days ala not iaY ueWh 'noi 10,
| arms; to all no. since the assembling oil Sno MI,
| kennv Convention, had cOntriNed, advised. coun-
selled promoted, acted prosecuted OF apetleu ulo
same hv bearing arms, OF contributing men, inns,
house. plate money yictuai OF o.mo nnd Homan
hablliments ot wal y; to all Jesuits anu honan
| Catholic priests and ali persons who hdd anyways
| cuntIived advised. counselled, promoted con
timed countcnanced, aided. assisted or Allotted te
| rebellion -; aud finally to OImonde Castlehaven,
Clanricarde and twenty other peers one hishop anu
eighty knights and gentlemen, all especaIy hien-
The FIRST step toward the accomplishment of this
comprehensive scheme was the removal OF the uis-
banded soldiers of the Irish army. Inc Oulk oil tno
nroscrbed officers and leaders of the cOntederates
| had already elected to suffer voluntary udh E,
ment. and bad sought safety on the COhllhelN. no
| rank and file who had laid down tlelr arms upon
| articles OF had dispersed To their no.hes, "oIo
pressed 10 enlist on foreign service. w hoe regi-
neuts Of them were eagerly recIted -. 'T Pne Of
of tho kings of Spain and Poland ana inc IIIhce VI
| Conde As many as $4,000 were In this way MUIR
| ried into exile. There remained behind, OF heces,
| deserted wives and families: and these the Govern
| ment proct eded to ship wholesale To the. west
lndies-he boys tor slaves. the women ana Urls lor
mjsfresses TO the English sugarplanters. Inc mer-
| chauts OF Observation-Disclosures IN the days OF
Srongbuw-sent over their agents to hunt down ana
| ensnare the wretched people for consignment to
Earbadoes orders given them on the gov
ernOrs OF jails and warehouses; for boys VINO were
OF an age to lahor," and women " who were mar
rageabe aud not past breeding Delicate LADIES
we're Kidnapped as well as the peasant women and
forced on board the slave-shlps. between SIX and
seven Thousand were transported. before the cap
ture by the INSCRIPTIONS dealers Oh ho'he VI VIC
wives and daughters of the English themselves
forced the Government to prohibit the seizure OF
any person without "a warrant.
And now commenced the great transportation
of the inhabitants OF the three easterly provinces
across the Shannon. The order was proclaimed ny
beat of drum in the middle OF harvest Every owner OF
land with their wives. their children, their tenants,
their servants and their cattle, must tne river by
the following May on pam OF death. Inc illsht was
TO be in the winter. The men were to 90 hrSt. ana
prepare rough nuts for the temporary harb0rlng Of
their families TIL their final allotment was made
out A court of claims was set up ut AthlOne 10
superintend the migration, Each proprietor. before
leaving was bound TO give in to the revenue officer
of his district writer particulars OF an NAT he
was intending to take with him, with iull descrlp-
tiOns of each person who was TO accompany NM
A certificate given him IN return, when en-
| Titled HIM. on presentation at AtnIone 10 rev
| acres on which TO solOurn during the inquiry INTO
his claims. The court was then to receive evidence
of the extent OF land he had held IN his old home,
and Of the degree OF good affection or dlsaitecton
which he had exhibited during the war; in proper
ton To which he was 10 receive an allotment III a
! Connaught baIOny the occupation of which he
| would have to dispute with the old proprietor III
| possession.
And now rose up all over ireland great cry for
| little longer time. Even the Republican officers
| represented that the people should be encouraged
| TO SOW the new years crop, lest famine should
| arise in the land. Petitions for dlspensat0ns were
ouled in to the commissioners ana Il SDuit respite
had to be given to the aged ladies' the sick ana the
| nfrm Slowly the beggared nobility and gentry
| sci ont ON their sOrrowiul pilgrimage. The Anglo
IVISh rh.,u 4 = fg.p
native Irish were driven iiOrth from the estates
they had held for five hundred years. The season
was wet the roads were well-nlgh impossible, ana
the squalid multitude, as they struggled INTO ne
west found that the barren. land to which they had
been sent was all too small for the promised &C
| cOmmOiatOn. When tho exlles reached Con-
naught, they were pllaged by the 0heers enipI"yed
| 10 set out their allotments who had TO he brDed,
either with money portion OF the land awarded.
before they would stir in the business. These
worthies-the Kings the Binghams the Coles. the
ST. Georges, the Ormsbys, the Cores: the LloidsE
having cheated the tIansplanteTs Of portion OF
their lots bought up the remnant Tor lew shll-
lings the acre. TO tie extent OF eighty Thousand
But the exodus did not proceed speedily enough.
The adventures we're loudly demanding their new
estates. The Government WAS anxious to dlsband
its troops upon the contiscated territory And 40
the tardy enlgTants were dtStralned on, arrested
aud imprisoned and some even were hanged pour
eRcOarOgr les dNtrcs. The walled towns, winch
were exclusively inhabited by people OF English
blood. were cleared like the country. The Cork aud
Waterford merchants vent into exile, and carried
their enterprise 10 Ostend TO Rochelle, to Cadz,
and even to Mexico. The ilOurlshing trade of lie
| ancient chartered towns was IL tning OF the past
The wealthy burgesses Of Kilkenny and T1pperary
we've alike expelled WITH Walter CheeveIs of
MOnkstOwu, or Lord Roche of fermoy. And Gal
way whose quays had lately bcen laden with
caTgOes from French and Spanish vessels,
| was knocked down to the citizens OF Liverpool
and gloucester in discharge of theiI adv anccs to
| the Parliamentary army.
William III. restored some of tho confscated
lands but he seized Others and made extensive
| of 10 hts fripn
years later the English Parliament condemned these
grants confscated the lands over again. and sold
them for the benefit of the State At the begin
ming of the eighteenth century. when The era of
summary forfeiture may he said to have close the
Catholic Irish retained the ownership of less than
One-seventh OF the country. The ferocitv OF the
| penal laws by which this tran for was aided, and
the Irish population kept in a state OF ignorance
and degradation almost beyond description. is 50
well known that we need quote no illustrations OF
it, The Nonconformists of Ulster Suffered from the
intolerance of tho Government together with the
Catholics, though not to the same extent. They
we're cleared ont" Of Derry and Belfast the,
| we're forbidden to open schools; their marriages
were declared void men were prosecuted in the
consistory courts fornicators for living with
their own wives. Thousands of Irish Prcsbyterians
fed 10 Pennsylvania and Ncw-Engand. That
England continued her atrociOus persecution of the
Roman Catholics in Ireland so long after she had
recognized the principle of liberation everywhere
else is owing in part to the fact that Engishmen
looked upon the Irish Papst an ncorreible rebel.
plotting insun ecton against the royal Government
and intriguing with the foreign enemies OF Eng
land but in estimating the validity of this
we must ask what moral claim England had upon
the allegiance OF the lrsh whether property
which has been obtained by theft ought to be de-
fen1ed by violence; in word, whether the Eng
lish power in Ireland. admitting that it was founded
upon wrong has been legitmated by the
acquiescence of the victims the disappearance of