National Republican., 1883-02-27
OLD mELANp,s WOES.

They Are All Enumerated by RioheIiCu
Robinson In Ills Resolution "For the
RELIEF OF England, the Benefit OF Ire
land, and the Glory OF the United States"
Representative Robinson, of New York, in
troducrd in the house yesterday joint reso-
luton For the relief OF England, the benefit
of Ireland, aud the glory of the United
States, and generally intended, as Congress-
man-oloct Pinerty, Of Chicago, would say,
I" to fire the Irish heart" 1t is worth giving
in full, and is, therefore, appended:
Whereas there docs not exist on the face OF the
eaflh Today such bl upon civilization rs lie
English goycrrmcnt In lreland-the people
cyiccd from their ancestral homes and dying on
the highways from famine; haheas corpus sus
rehded trh hy jury abolished and win le
corrurt judges aud periured infrmers. Strangers
arrested without cause aud kept in prison without
remedy; the peoples chosen representatives, in
inaly punished for pubii hiug the truth; foreign
hayoneis Keeping o prison latrietiC gentlemen,
chosen by We people while so confined us m yors
OF their ci les and representatives Of ntulligent
Constitue.cIrs in pnriinment rel handed mur-
derers acknowledging, thcir dubolical crimes, 10
The ICIpy tat on Of which they were probably In.
sugaicd 10y the miniuns OF government, allowed
to escape the punish ncnt when they deserve on
CONDITION that they swear away the lives Of less
guilt IN n, whom they CHined iuto their schemes
OF assn ,sinhtlol, aud throw cuuningy coucortpd
sus icious on wholly innocent men: cnricw law
enacted in one Of the most refined cnpitnl, of
Europe, and hundreds Of innocent aud honor
able men arrested o. suspicion in arempt.
ing TO make calls If business or pleasure
in scnsnnnblo hours! hired de eclives, cquuling
tue adult mule population Of the city dog lug the
inoistcps OF II, people the hou .es of the alien
d spoi- htd u eli brhed judge,, spies, aud IN.
formers luRrdcd 10y foreign bnyuuCts. TO shield
them from the wra h of people reduced 10 fam
I've nud driven t. dcsinir and nntine.s by cruel.
ties unparalleled In history, and n subsidized
press md ppTNpFip1 machinery n miiip n
employed 10 misleprcsent TO the world aud to
libel an oppressed Ieople manully cDntending
ngiils nyerpowtring adversiiies Tor human
Whereas tle people of Ireland are painting for
Telublconlsm anu alone among the peoples Of
Europe keeping alive the American ideas Of
NRshi Pton nnd Jefferson. tha L vrrnmcnts de.
rive heir just power from the consent of the gov.
ernCd, who have right TO alter or abolish on.
prcssve gtvCrnu ent and when n long train Of
abuses and uNnrpations evince design TO reduce
M peo lc TO absolute despotsm, II is their right.
and
Whereas they alone among the nations cult.
Ynte the grand American sentiment that IRE
sisanCe to tyra1ts Is obedience TO God - and
Whereas ireland can never be conquered by
Ehplahu nor governed by her, except through
butChcry and Hood, with which humanity has
been shocked for seven centuries Of unparalleled
oppression. duplicitg and guilt, which must con.
tinuo III some power shall inter ere 10 cut the
liBamrut Of guilt that hns SO long tied the op.
pressed nrd oppressor together for mutual injury
and destruction: and
NHtlchs ~ 10 ine uuly OF clNllzcu nations 10
protest against organi7ed bnrbNism, and to ter
minnte. II possible, n system or such shocking
cruelty as the English government in Ireland;
and
Whereas Ireland wns looked upon and appealed
TO by the patriots of the revolution rs one with
them In the revolt a"ainst the English govern-
menti That she furnished more troUps 10 the
revolutionary nrmy, and more Of its generals
md other officers, and left more of its gallant
blood upon our buttlCiiClds than any state In the
union; that peace should not have been agre,
upon without including Ireland within the terri.
l'iy 9i the new rgputllc, and she should not
have been LETT TO he punished by Eng gHud in
revenge ior the aid she rendered us, aud 90 strug
gle alone for the doctrines of the decla alton OF
independence TIL queuChed in the blood OF Em.
met and Fitzgerald: aud
whereas Ireland Is nearer 10 us and more nec-
e-sary To our national safety than much Of our
acquired territory; that we need her or the east
ern landings of our ocean ferries and cable an.
G. orhgCs; that her people and ours are sympa-
the tic ana cungenial; that vast majority of our
people are OF Irish extraction, and scarcely fam
lily In Ireland that has not already one or more of
mat wlilc Gland Is "a Durden to England and "A
blot upon her name, in our union she would rival
New York, ana lie second TO no state in the union
IN wealth, inlellircuce. and culture aud
VIII rcas our countrys greatest achievements
have been the cOnqu st, purchase, and annexation
Mexico. ali Of which would be rivaled If not
eclipsed by the restoration of lost Pieiade to
the siserhUod of her love therefore,
ReS0 Jed IN ne S1de and house Qf Qfrepr6sedtipes of
Uc JHNed Hdtes Of AHcTtcd ia congress assembled,
That c President of the United States is hereby
errmen Of eat Britain IN obtain its consent to the
rysluntion of Ireland 10 the United States by pur.
chase or otherwise, as in the case of Louisiana
Alaska, nnd other portions OF our territory.