The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1883-12-13

this dark political wilderness we need
more beacons. Let them blaze forth
on all sides.
From our own Lonion Correspondent;
If individual virtues are allowed to
compensate or Offset individual faults,
why should not the good deeds of a
nation Or country be remembered
when that country is being sorely
tried and bitterly oppressed, as is
that turbulent and unhappy island
across the channel? Does it not seem
strange that a nation that is SO solic-
itouS for the freedom and self gov
ernment of Switzerland, Holland.
Belgium, Egypt and Greece should
take such infinite pains to prevent Il
people, whose deeds of valor and her.
oism in behalf of England herself,
have never been equalled even by her
own troops, from enjoying this great
boon, this freedom SO dear to every
manly heart Surely this boon has
been earned by the Irish over and
over again. They are accused of
being an irrepressible. factious and
turbulent people, Il difficult people to
deal with. Has America found the m
so !! no. A people who have endured
spoliation and tyrrany of the eXIlis-
itely cruel sort which the fecundity Of
the robust English intellect seems
alone capable of inventing, can hard
ly be called intractable. That there
has been au alien Englishman en- the
soil of Ireland during the last seven
hundred years is an irretragable teS-
timony to the law-abft!ing docility of
people whose blood has washed
every battlefield where the British
flag waved over a victorious army.
1t does not become the English to de-
nounce race that gave the House of
Hanover a Wellington, Il Barke, a
Sheridan and Palmerston, "A Nelson and
a Wolseley. 1t does not betit race
saved from the universal dominion of
first the Bourbon and then the Bona
part, on the fields OF Families, Blen-
helm, Namur and the Dykes, or on
the Sweeps of Torres Vedras, Vet
| tena, Bayonne, Toulouse and Water
loo, to stigmatize the most reliant if
unfortunate race in christendom as
| turbulent. Where the British monu-
ments rise highest, Irish valor illus
trates them; where British institu.
tions Slime most Respondent, Irish
genius illuminates them; where the
rights of race were most securely
guarded the sagacity and wisdom of
Irish statesmen thought out the prob.
lem and formulated the eternal truth.
Nor is it to a country where the mem.
ory of a Jefferson, Jackson, u Ham.
ilton and Patrick Henry, is perpetua
ted in the compact of our indepen
dence, that such words are fitly spok.
en-. The rosters of our armies from
ITS till 1866 are too eloquent of the
bravery, endurance and valor of the
Irish race to let these charges thai
the English are imprudent enough t.
make, be regarded as anything les,
than monstrous. The Irish rae,
are turbulent, as the Mississippi i
turbulent, when the venturesome han,
of man seeks to carry the majesti
channel through an inadequate aper
ture they are turbulent as the oceal
when a storm disturbes its equipoise
they are turbulent us nj, menare whel
; the heel of the spoilpr is ON their neck
when the might that is not right
seeks to make them flesh of hate
flesh, bone of hated hone; when tn
destiny of conquest without mag
3 nanimity of kinship seeks to win then
over to a race whose every utteranc
is IN insult and 4 wrong.
Y NJ. J.. NJ.
London Nov. oath, 1883.