Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-24
QUEEN VICTOzIA.

England is profoundly exercised over the
condition of Victoria. If the reports be true,
she is gradually drifting into confirmed
melancholy, which is mild name for inFan-
ity. These concurrent reports, with no con-
tradiction, taken together with the fact that
the Queen is to be hid away for elk months
in Scotland, give them the plausibiity Of
truth. Victoria has sometimes stayed the
execution OF a criminal, but she cannot coun-
termand the fat of her own destiny; claim
no exemption from the common doom which
makes no Discrimination between the Queen
are not surprised at VictoriA's threatened or
real insanity, for she Is said to have a kind
heart, and when she contemplates the condi-
lion OF Ireland she has abundant cause for
becoming a raving mauisc. Through the
misrue, The cruel usurpation, tyranny and
despotism of herself and ancestry, Ireland
has been made the most unhappy spot in civ
ilization. The people have long suffered for
the common necesssries Of life. This
came about from the fact that the
best lands were given TO the men who helped
most in subduing the island and bringing It
under English rule, and these owners refus-
ing TO become residents and to mix with the
people removed with their families to Fog
land and drew from Ireland all the profits Of
her soil. Tnen, too, UNDER the diecrimina-
,ions against Ireland, made by British laws,
all manufactures died in the island and
there was no recourse for the people except
to till the soil, much OF which barely pro-
duced enough to pay the rent, which went to
pamper the rich families of IrelRnd's con-
querors. This cruelty and brutality has
produced war which has fertilizsd the soil
of Ireland with the blood of her children,
and it is not surprising that in the contem-
plation of the greatest crime OF ancient or
! modern times Victoria should grow melan-
chely. The mind of Victoria will emerge
| from the dark cloud of sadness and insanity
as the setting sun sometimes does after q
| long day of rain, storm and tempest,
il she will do justice 10 Ireland
By condemuing and paying from the
national treasury the value of all the land
owned in Ireland and then turn the land
over 10 the people who were born upon ii
and from whom it was originally stolen.
This is what ii will have to come to at lasi,
and it is hoped during her lucid intervals
Victoria will recommend to English states.
men this tardy Justice to Ireland. Great
Britain's course toward Ireland has been
merely the executions Of the law Of the
strong over the weak. Eogland destroyed
Irish manufactures by Infamous and cruel
| laws. The tribute exacted of Ireland BY
English landlords has been continuous
and piiiless, and the hate which Irishmen
entertain for the English government il
grounded in centuries of suffering and sor-
row. No wonder the Queen il melancholy
| She would not be human il she contemp plated
| the wrongs of Ireland without invoking the
peace and quiet of insane forgetfulness- The
ghosts of the Irish patriots who have beer
| murdered for the crime of protesting against
| wrong and outrage, cruelty and atrocity will
wreck other minds than Victoria's. While
the Queen of England has enough to make
her rsving maniac, we do not wish to b.
Understood as rejoicing at the calamity tia
has overtaken her. She has many noble
traits of character. Indeed, it may be sale
that few sovereigns of the world have beer
more loved. She is not great; no brilliant
thought Of hers will descend TO history. Blu
she has tried to be true woman, and were
it not for the traditional injustice TOWARD
Ireland which she inherited, and is still in
spired by those who have profted by perse
cution, robbery and murder, she would b
respected BY the civilized world, not only q.
a woman, but as sovereign.