The examiner., 1882-02-04
THE EXAMINER.
CT, SATURDAY, FEB. 4, 1882.
To all Good and Fearless Men who
 Love Truth and Justice.


 The British Monarch, posing as the grea defender of the British faith, has for cen turies manufactured sectarian prejudice and so craftIly used in maintaining it's un righteous rule as to, if possible, deceive the very elect, but it is said '' 6y thel1 acorks ye shall E1aOaU them" Has England defended the Christian faith i'll India where scores of millions of human beings have been starved by her rapacity, has she de tended it in China where she forced hel opium upon an unoffending people? Die she defend it in America where she wageo a cruel war on us for eight years to hold us her vassals?
 Did she defend it when she built up the slave traffic and fastened upon us a curse which during our struggle to rid ourselves of, she strove to perpetuate in this cOun- try? Did she defend it two years ago when she spent two hundred millions dollars in cruel aggressive wars, while Americans were contributing money to keep her Irish subjects from starving Some of her own public men acknowledge and deplore the above facts
 Where has England ever acted the part of the Good Samaritan ? She cannot be compared to the priest and the Levite who passed by on the other side, by no sort of reasoning can she be compared to any other parties in that transaction but the robbers.
 Centuries ago the Irish race, then as gentle, intellectual and Christian people, history tells us, as were known, fell into the hands of these robbers, and ever since has been their writhing victim.
 Many years ago it was enacted by the British parliament, that to kill an Irish Catholic was not punishable, offense, but advancing enlightenment and Christian ity would not long countenance that, and they changed their methods but not their spirit. The millions that have gone down since then in the sad but horrid train of systematic starvation in Ireland makes one shudder to think of.
 Said an Irish Protestant to me two years ago land he was truly Christian, known all the country round for his Christian life), "their sins will surely call down on them the vengeance of the Almighty"
 The victim is now in the midst of one of it's oft recurring struggles to free itself. Where is the truly Christian man or woman who will join with the monster and help him hold his victim?
 The noblest among them, both Protes- tant and Catholic, are impoverished, sick and in prison, an inhuman police in the name of law, bayonets defenceless and unresisting women, free speech is denied them, the press is shut up, trial by jury postponed. and all the strength and arts of a powerful and vindictive oligarchy, calling itself government, are combined to harass and misrepresent the Irish peo- pie, suppress all knowledge to the outside world of what is going on there, and pre- vent all sympathy from the outside world reaching them.
 We know that there was no lie too black or means too satanic for them to use against Washington and his compatriots in their struggle to secure for us the iber- ties we enjoy, and so now there is no statement too false for their use in this struggle.
 They are sending abroad their emissa- ries to declare and are asserting through their press that this is @ Catholic struggle, but the fact is that now, as it always has been with few exceptions, the most earn est workers and leaders in the Irish cause have been Protestalts, who felt that this outrageous oppression of humanity by a great Protestant power, was not only a disgrace to Professionalism and Christian ity, but to humanity, and eventually if Protestantism championed this great wrong, Professionalism would be dragged down with the wrong, for the Almighty surely will not always permit one people to oppress another.
 In order to turn away American sym pathy they are manufacturing Irish out rages by the thousand, but what are the facts-official records in Ireland show there in the past year but six murders, while in our own peaceful city of Phila- delphia have seen it stated that there were over thirty murders during the past year, and that while the population of the latter was but seven hundred thousand to five millions of the former. know whereof I speak, having spent year in Ireland recently, and am not prejudiced in favor of Catholicism for am Protestant. Below append an arti- 1 cle by D. R. Locke i'll the Toledo Blade. | He went to Ireland, prejudiced against them as did, but observation soon turned prejudice to sympathy. do not say these things as an opponent of the English people, who are a credit to the human race. but the people of Eng land are not it's rulers. England is ruled by the few in favor of the few, and it will not be long before this oligarchy which is disturbing the peace and happiness of mankind must give way to the principles of Christian justice and right.
 NEWTON T. HARTSHORN.