Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-31

publicity; the vast sums, offered; all thai
the keen, unwearied efforts of detectives and
government agents can accomplish or effect
nothing. Wealth, power and skill dc
their utmost, and do it in vain-every
effort fails. All this demonstrates that
the present resistance offered by ireland
to English authorities in all its forms, is not
the resistance Of a class of the people, or OF
section of the eountry-it is the resistance
of a united nation. Such universal re-
distance is rebellion, and it il no less rebellion
because its measures, up to this time, are
principally passive in their nature. The
rebellion that exists is not against some par
ticular man, or some special law, or some
particular act of the government; it has .
wide and general scope, and is directed not
toward mere policy, but toward broad,
primary principles. A rebellion thus wide
and deep in its objects is revolutionary, and
what we are now witnessing in Ireland is no
political movement, in the usual sense of the
term; it is a revolution that is in process.
How the present English government have
endeavered, by lenient use Of the powers
committed to its ministers, to moderate the
rancor Of the Irish people, the daily news Of
the last twelve months has shown. That
leniency has excited the bitter anger of the
opponents Of the present ministry and they
loudly call for the removal of Gladstone. If
that gentleman and his associates, dis
couraged by ill-success and disguised by an
ungenerous opposition, should resign, what
would be the consequence to Ireland?
"Gladstone's Last" an article in that sound
tory organ, BLaekVOOFs Magazine, in its last
issue, plainly tells. As a manifestation of
the sentiments that animate the tory party
admirers, imitators and hangers -on-and as
an indication of the policy that party
desires to be pursued toward the Irish people,
we copy some of its expressions. The Irish
themselves are spoken of in the article men,
toned as. "Tnese male factors; to call Ireland
civilized is an Grant absurdity, its dis
affected masses possess all the vices
of bSrbarians with none of their virtues;
absolutely callous to human suffering, idle
beyond conception; covetous and predatory
in their instincts, they have no parallel in
Europe; the state OF the Irish malcontent's
mind seems to resemble the Pathau EAST
India) hill tribesman much more closely
than that of an Englishman; these butchers,
the skulking brutes who infict excruciating
tortures; the slightest show of resistance
makes them run; it is as certain as anything
in human affairs can be that at the first vol
ley fred low the mobs would melt away never
to reappear; after the hanging of the first
outrage would all but cease; the
Irish tenant does not starve because he is
but because he either will not
work or else occupies a plot of ground too
small TO support life; why should the prin-
ciples of this science political economy be
violated in favor of a peculiarly worthless
race; savage races hate and despise masters
who fail 10 preserve order, they respect
hose who deal with them firmly; as
heir respect increases their hate APP
pears to diminish the generous ma
ure,' loyalty and 'sensiliveness' of
he Irish peasant have never been more |
han pleasing fiction, he is in reality a
prosaic, cowardly, false-hearted, |
,ovetous and brutal individual, unfit to live
lnder the most liberal constitution in the |
world. To lament over the curtailment of ]
lis liberties is the same as TO weep because |
ome notorious criminal has his liberties cur
allied by confinement in one of her Msjesty's |
prisons; to sympathize with him is logically |
he same thing as to sympathize with cut
hroats and burglars in our own country" Z
Dur people are often puzzled as to whether
he English are as unjust toward the Irish
8 they are accused of being. We have
arge numbers of Irish men and women
mong US. We know their virtues and their
aults, and we can estimate readily what
ruth there is in the accusations, insults and
auntiug epithets copied above from the re-
pectable pages of the artistocratic Black
,oods. 1t must be remembered, however,
hat these utterances do not come from the
English people, but from the party that sup
orts monarchy, dukes, lords, land prince
ngs-the cruel, bloodthirsty tory party.