Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-01

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bic and proper to be applied to Ireland, can
be gathered from the following extracts
which we make from the article named
| For this monstrous outbreak coercion is the
only possible remedy, real coercion, that is,
and not the "milk-and-water" substitute that
has made our ministry the laughings stock of
the civilized world; Ireland could be pacihed
In few weeks; any military officer Of expe-
rience, unfettered by the trammels Of rou-
tine, cosld draw up effective scheme for
that purpose. The forces now in the island
would be amply sufficient to carry it out, but
the government refuses, so that the lives of
| its faithful subjects are made burden to
them, and nothing fourishes save a
cowardly rufianism hardly paralleled in any
region of the globe. The powers requisite
to secure the desired end" Black
,Cood's defines as follows: A discretionary
right to proclaim particular districts, which
should have the following effect: a. Par
liamentsry Acknowledgement. (2l Suspen-
sion of trial by jury, court-martials being
substituted. (3.) In case of outrage heavy
compensation to be levied, with power of
billeting troops upon the neighborhood.
| "A "Moonlighting" to be punishable with
death; intimidation, unlicensed possession of
arms, mutilation of animals and crimes of
violence against the person to have severe
| penalties, including penal servitude and the
free application of the lash. (5.) Troops or
| police, in the presence of mobs, to be allowed
to act at the discretion of their responsible
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The adoption of some simple scheme of this
nature would be followed Immediately by
the best effects. The British Tory organ goes
ON to say that it is aware these suggestions
will be received with yell of execration by
so-called hum anitarians, but it is only what
every foreign government would do under
like circumstances, only what we our
selves should do in India or in
many other parts of the empire;
the absurdity consists not in treat
ing savages as savages, but in attempt
ing to govern them with machinery suitable
only to an advanced, well-disposed race.
There is great outcry about Furnishing the in
nocent with the guilty. In these cases the
whole masses are guilty. Here follows a
sentence in which the Tory writer sets forth
in striking terms the nationality of the Irish
movement, showing thai the people are
united, that something in the way the Eng
lish use the peo pie who has equal rights as
a nation with themselves, has bound the
men and women and youth of Ireland SOL
idly together in resistance. That sentence
says: every one knows the perpetrators,
a,,I h tba.,
one is an accessory before or after the fact"
There comes soon after the above a reproach
on account of "Mr. Gladstone's atrocious
boast that Mr.. Forster during the whole of
his administration had not shed one drop of
Irish blood" The writer proceeds with the
cold-blooded earnestness of familiar of the
inquisition to ask: "What if some force
were needed to put down revolution, and
the number of lives taken exceeded those
of the victims? Can any balance of value
be struck between the life of the murdered
and his murderers? Would the deaths of
ten of these assassins be any equivalent for
that of one honest man? But we anticipate
no such tragedy; the cruelty OF these butchers
is exceeded by their cowardice." Replying
to the observation that pressing old or new
land laws would end by driving out from
the three southern provinces their entire
agricultural population" the writer says:
every well, and what harm if such result
had happened or were hereafter to be brought
about" and then comes the sentence: "The
Irish tenant does no. starve because he is
over-rented, but because he either will not
work or else occupies plot of ground too
small to support life" "Let the industrious
Celt remain, but let his do-nothing brethren
make way for some. of the overlooking mil
lions OF Great Britain" To the argument
that rough measures would build up undying
hatred in the future, the BlaekwooPs reviewer
says it is impossible to aggravate what has
already reached the worst, as the Irish regard
the English with ian unreasoning detesta-
ton that it would be impossible to increase"
In conclusion, Mr.. Gladstones ministry
are tainted with constantly apologizing for
having had recourse to force, force consisting
in the arrest and retainment in most comfort
able custody of the chiefs of the revelation"
As to real force ait shrinks from the very
name of such a thing" Then follows the
exclamation: LET there be an end to squeam-
ishness, let the country speak out and compel
Mr.. Gladstone to do his duty" or demand
the expulsion of himself and satellites from
power "to make room for those who both can
and will perform those first duties of govern
ment now so shamefully neglected" We
need not comment upon the sentiments here
put forth in the magazine that is the organ,
tried and trusted, of the Tories in Englan
to-day, as it was of their fathers and grand
fathers; and further back still, for the publ
cation has now reached its 131st volume,
those sentiments speak for themselves, and
show how the aristocracy OF Eng and, the sup
porters of church and state, remain in this
good year 1882 the same "Bourbons who learn
Just such sentiments and such demands for
blood, into the ears of George the third, when
our sires struck the blow which, we rever-
emily thank God, cut us and our children
clear from aristocrats and aristocratic rules
forever. On reading these utterances, and
these calumnies upon a nation who's. history
numbers of the greatest names of the nine
teenth century among its sons that we have
already published from the same article, can
we wonder that the Irish people are goaded,
and provoked, and Infatuated, and would
they not be less than men not to protest and
resist? We are no advocates for outrage
and crime, but we cannot shut our eyes to
the fact that all the outrage is not on one
side, that the aristocrats who call themselves
masters" over the Irish people are also
guilty and are without excuse Fiends who
have made men desperate cannot assume
angelic virtue and become the condemners of
the consequences of the desperation they
themselves evoked, the sons OF Ellis evoke
the spirit of darkness. But why do these
lordlings and princelings rage like the
heather in the psalm? Because they are
afraid, and fear makes men cruel. They
know that when the Irish have won emanci-
patton from the oppression of the landlords,
the English, Scotch, and Welsh tenantry will
seek like enfrancihsement. The aristocracy
are lords of the soil, and when their power over
its cultivators is reduced to just dimensions
they know that the great stay and support of
their caste is gone, and that the progress of
democratic principles will overwhelm them
forever, and all their feudsl state and pre-
negative that is so out of consonance with
the spirit and temper of the day They