The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-10-24
"SErrLlSG or IRELAND,
ffow The Green Isfc WIS Treated UiltIc
the COlMnl0uWenlth

ffow the Green I*fc Wns Treated UutIcr
the Commonwealth.
The following description OF the condi.
ton OF Ireland under The rule OF Cromwell
is taken from Mr.. c. q. Walpolc's recently
published "short History OF Ircland":
In August, 1862, the Parliament passed
an ordinance ''for the settling Of Ircland,'
wllicl. III elect was a prescription OF the
whole nation. "Alcrey and pardon both
as 10 life and estate" were to be extended
10 MI "husbandmcn, plowmcn, Iaborers
and artiliccrs;" for the new land owners
would require hewers OF wood aud drawers
! Of water. And also 10 those who since 1911
had manifested "a constant good affection
to the interests Of the Commonwealth OF
Engand"-a very small company, Us it
turned out, seeing that one who paid even
n forced contribution 10 confederate or
royal officer was held to have shown no
constant good affection. The Presbyterian
land owners OF Down aud Antrim were
involved in the same condemnation us tho
Irish. For had they not utterly shown
royalist proclivitits ind broken away from
the Independents? They were to lose
their estates and be transp|antetl 10 ullot.
ments in Leinstcr. Tho rest OF the Irish
peoplt-pecrs, gentles and commons, land
owners ind bnrgesses-Were to be driven
from their homes in Ulster, Leinster and
Munster, and banished into Connaueht and
Clare, where the dcsola,ed lands Of the
people Of the west wete 10 be parccled out
apd allotted 10 then, Tor their bare sub.
stance and hahitalion. Death was to be the
penalty il they had not trnusplantcd bv
May !, 1854. Death was to be the penalty
II they returned without Il license. Here
they were to be hemmcd in, rs in y penal
settlement, with the ocean ON the Que hand
and the Shannon on the other, forbidden
10 enter II walled town under the death
penalty, with a fringe Of disbanded soldiers
planted in belt one mile wide all around
the scacoast and along the line Of the river
to keep them from approaching the border.
line. g,,1.. +
But transportation was the mildcst
penalty 10 which the Irish were subjected.
Death and forfeiture of all property were
decreel for all who did not within twenty
eight days laY down their arms; and to oil
who, since the assembling Of the Kilkenny
Convention, "had coniriyed, advised, COIN
selcd, promoted, acted, prosecuted, or abc,-
ted the same by "bearlng arma. or con-
tributed men, arms. plate, horse, money,
victual, or other furniture or habiluments
OF war" to NIL Jesuits and Roman Catholic
priests and all persons who had anyways
contrived, advised, counselei, promoted,
countenanced, aided, assisted, or abetted
the rebcllion;" and finally to 0rmondc,
Castlehaven, Cianricarde, and twenty
other Peers, one Bishop, and eighty
knights and gentlemen, NIL especially
mentioned by name. 54 :;
1.-The first step towards the accomplish
mept ri this comprehensive scheme was
the removal Of the disbanded soldiers Of
the Irish army. The bulk Of the prescribed
officers and leaders OF the coniederates Ind
already elected 10 sa Tier voluntary Danish.
] ment, and had sought safety on the Cont,