Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-05-02
A Difficult Problem.

A Difficult Problem.
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y and they are not always kept il
u. Years ago our own country
) get the bones for one together
african slaves were imported
slavery was for years our national
and before it ceased rafting
Is horrible trouble. Indeed in
|quences it still lives for a skeleton
kind has an uncanny life Of its
BIDS skeleton is the Irish question
pnly haunts novels of the Irish
b the Emerald isle and is expected
east howsoever high in England
bes the Atlantic appears in open
be city Of brotherly love. And
/ is as much 10 blame for owning
|eton as we were for possessing
barrels between the Irish aud
That took place hundreds of years
|are nothing about except as mat
story. Both parties were brutal
ctorious and the actors in those
i've gone to their account. All
be of moment now to those not
|or Irish is the present merit in
question. What the condition OF
and who is 10 blame for it and
be done to better it; these are
which any man of intelligence
interested and in which his sym
puld be on the right side.
I'D in Ireland is largely owned by
|Iglish ancestry who like their
n use Ireland for their own pc
poses aud not with much Gaze
neral Prosperity of the country
! its inhabitants. The non.resi.
lords form large class and the
kndlords might some of them be
lay. Rents are SO high thai
b barely exist-that may be said
fule, and prosperous tenancy the
Besides Ireland has not an
king in the British parliament,
B her size.
bit is that of a domination of
" men of another blood; and a
b that has had in it, if less OF
1 much OF hostile temper. This
Justly made worse by the acts
assassins which it is the shame
bf Ireland to have raised. But
be real question at the bottom
ing is whether it is not better
)erned that Irelanl should b.
b, and her government by hel =
hrs ago the island had popu- u
pre- than eight millions; now i Z
rec millions less. The greater i
E''live Irish come to America Il
Ply rs there is New England 1
ed States there is now IL New "
Re, The New ireland is not At
ct of country but consists ul Il
Immigrants and their descend III
Fri OF NV Ireland is bad and TIT
the O'Donovan, Patrick Grove. Il
hrt. The part that had hand ~
lions that have caused the lat II.
Whitehead and others in Eng u
part of Nov Ireland matches u
Jams who are being convicted ''s
b the Cavendish Burke assass-
year ago.
|are several million Irishmen et
Irish blood in this country
only good people but VIII
Rl and credilable affection fpt he
left and their kindred there. lie
have more money than the I've
ntry and they have helped
his associates in the late
hereby they have got out ol
e ministry and parliament -,
hble laws and mean to O. 1,
Atives of these men met 10 tbt SCI
veral hundred in Philadelphia ~ w.
organized an Irish national Mi
new league of which Alex pr
In of Chicago, who seems
man, is president of its
hssed several long resolutions III
boiled down mean that it is 10
The Irish who have come to n
Old Ireland should govern pf
DO longer be under English IN,
The convention does no. ce
is is TO be done but it has no 90
(or dynamite methods and 50 Ia
the new league will sup. 49,
In agitation that by decent fo
belf government for Ireland.
3 can be obtained is the hard
swer. Eugland's pride Will rll
10 nanS on 10 governing at
he would be better off were lh'
The two countries dissolved. Ge
never be oontented under an
and now that her sons in w.
Fly declare their hope for the oO
pnt of Ireland,i agitation to thu
be kept up. There is every ev
bat sooner or later some ~
ns will in the future give SO
e'f-government she desire 8. tn
is will will be cannot be IN
Wheeler is the Vernon