The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-14
IRELAND AND THE UNITED STATES

I, was remarkable speech which ex-Sen'
ator E,clesine delivered recently to the 1000
persons assembled in Cooper Institute, New
Yo.k, on the occasion of the Tooth anniver-
sary of Robert Emmett's birth.
1t is the duty of every Irishman in this coun-
try to bring about as speedily as he can, wal
between the United States and England. We
| should use every agency at our command "a
| bring about this end. All we have to do is u
put the right men i'm the right place. Put
them in the cabinet of the President, get them
where they are listened to and where they
have Irish sentiment TO back them. The work
has already been done in this direction and
still is being done. The Canadian fishery award
is one ground for rupture, and there are
many others. All they require is iudciOus
handling.
So runs the most interesting paragraph. 1t
contains direct menace toward the harmoni-
Gus relations which subsist between two of
the four greatest nations of the world. That
it was in accord with the feelings of many Of
ex-senator Ecclesine's auditors is shown by
the fact that cloud cheers greetedohis effort, !"
as New York journal reports.
So we may infer that ex-senator
Ecciesine is not singular in his views. But
we doubt that he expresses the sentiments Of
a majority of the citizens of this country who
are of Irish birth and of Irish parentage. It'll
VIGOROUSLY true that Irish immigrants are, as
a class, among the most illiterate who land on
our shores, yet they are gifted with as great a
share of common sense as any others, and by
the exercise of this alone they may see
through the allurin gauze Ecclesine and other
rabid agitators to hide the determines Of their
plans. 1t is generous of us to relieve Ire
lands wants, lust to defend her from her
calumniators, but neither generosity nor JUS
tice can be reasonably appealed to for the
purpose of diSsolving the ties which bind
England and the United States socially, polit-
cally and commercially. There is a mutual
dependence of the two countries; England on
the United States for agricultural products,
the United States on England. for manufac-
lures. We are at peace, and the
mouthings of all the Irish in the land,
be they of the tenor of ex-senator
Ecclesine's, will not have the effect of adding
to the cause of Ireland one native born Amer
lean. Our sympathy may be touched by the
stories of horror, woe and suffering which
come from Ireland, our better nature may
rebel against the practices we are told are in
vogue there, but to think of rushing headlong
to war, endangering the lives of millions of
people and giving rise to the other countless
circumstances attendant-this cannot happen
till America shall have become but Ireland
with different name, or the evils of which
the Irish now complain are SO magnihed that
no civilized nation can endure them. OF two
things Ex-senator Ecclesine and his adher-
ents may rest assured: First, the time for in
reference has not arrived, and there seems no
probability that it ever will second, the Uni
ted States is not in a condition to wage war
and should be the last nation thought of for
the kind Of assistance suggested.