Smyrna times., 1884-02-13
For the Smyrna Times.
The True Issue.
THE PREVAILING SENTIMENTS AMONG
NATIVE PROTESTANT IRIsHMEN.


THE PREVAILING SENTIMENTS AMONG
NATIVE PROTESTANT IRIsHMEN.
MIR. EDrToR.--I'm nonplussed,
TOTALLY Vanquished, hardly know where
stand. Is it an apparition, a ghost,
even odd StrOngbOw," that has arisen
from the ashes in which he has slum-
oered for centuries, coming edging in
sideways, turning his back yet point
ing his arrows at "An Irishman p"
y, wretched man that | am, who can
deliver me ?" Even the storms encom-
pass me. 0 "Vennor," "Vennor.
stay thine hand, for twas thou who
with a lavish hand didst scatter the
materials for an awful hurricane. ex-
pccting it to find "An Irishman - nm
protected and left PROSTATE, dashed to
pieces on the hard and frozen ground.
Away up at the Hub" YOU started it.
a little breeze. When it reached the
city OF Churches where talent and
scandal stand tiptoo on the misty
mountain tops and where dwclls " a
prominent Congregationalist pastor''-
perhaps the great Beccher. Won
thought it would reach some propor-
tlons, but it left Brooklyn still breeze.
In Trenton you thought to give it a
terrible boom; to fan it into fury
bearing destruction in its bath. and
leaving behind nothing but the black
ness and darkness of desolation, vet,
alas for your cause, it still continued a
breeze. But in the meantime Won
had your eye on the counter current
and Southwark too went the arrows
of truth. Then it was YOU must
have reasoned thus: "'A man who
can twist the British Lions tall
can annihilate this little Irish
man, even if he does use that sling
called the pen with the smooth stones
from the brook called truth" So the
great lawmaker, the mighty man of
Congress too got the clippings" VAST
the Fenian p" Finnerty, or the hero
Robinson before whose vision appears
the great multitude of Irish voters
rushing to the polls with loud hur-
rahs of " Robinson for ever?" Perhaps
the disappointed Cox. How he must
have laughed. The O'Donnell affair
was funny" but here was something
funnier" STILL Something over
which he didn't need to have one side
OF his face painted in solemn gravity
for the argument of Innocence" He
now could laugh all over his face.
What grin " he must have made as
he wrote down those "funnv conclu-
sions." In fact, those Congressman.
when it comes to the Irish question
are set of" funny fellows" But any |
how the breezes met in our midst on |
Saturday morning and kissed mutually !
and so lulling was their effect, that
even " An Irishman went almost to
sleep beneath their gentle influence.
The Records arguments have been
tame, but the words of those forced
correspondents were the tamest of the
tame. They have been requested to
write and in response to that request
they have almost said-nothing. Not
a singe idea verified in one of them.
And such noble array. Thought first
they were testimonials in behalf
OF some patent medicine like st.
Jacobs Oil. But if Jacobs Oil could
not produce stronger proofs of its eff
cacy than the corroboration the Record
has received from those gentlemen,
poor Jacobs Oil would soon be sunk
into oblivion. "The places that know
it now would soon know it no more
again forever"
l will now give few extracts-not
from Americans, hut from some of the
most prominent divines among the
. Sons of the Shamrock - men who
should know something about the
country in which they live and the
issues connected with the agitation in
their native land, as we'll as the char
acter of the Land League, whom the
Record says is ian able, well-conducted
of intelligent Irish people.
who do not uphold murder or riot in
any form" The editor of the Record
must have been asleep during the past
few years, as there is hardly an iutelli-
gent man in this country or any other
country but what knows the character
of the Irish Land League and its con-
nection with the most brutal and
blOodthirsty crimes that have ever
stained any land in the history of civ
ilization-
while we acknowledge the success
which has attended the Irish Execu-
tive in searching out and bringing to
Justice those desperate, blood-thirsty
criminals, whose immunity from ,
punishment for so long time ,
was stimulating disloyalty and fur
ther disgracing our land, we view
Win grave alarm the manifest dispoSi-
tion of the present Government to
yield to the demands of those who
were the chief instigators of rebellion
and violence and presumptuously and
falsely designate their party National
ists." AS to the details of their crimes
human language afforded no words
strong enough to describe its unparall-
eled Its fiendish atrooity. Having
abandoned all honest, legitimate, con-
stitutional courses, they try with the
help of the Invincibles, the Dynamiters I
and the Pope of Rome to keep the l
country well filed with discord and
REV. Canon HoDsoN, d. d. 1
No matter what object Protestants
seek they never murder to obtain it. ,
They never organize murder. They
never make an assault ON poor dumb
animals. The heroism of the Roman
Catholic nevar riaae bforhav. IN, n st .ysl.l.i |