Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-26
Irish America.

The communication in the Star of Wednesday relating to an article in the CITIZEN n regard to the O'Donnell trial, may attract some attention from those interested in Irish affairs, and the uniairness of the deductions may pre- Judice some of our Irish-American citi- zens unfavorsbly to the administration of the government of their adopted country.
 Every schoolbOy knows that accord ing to the British constitution the Queen has taken an oath to abide by constitu- uonal government, and has no rlght to interfere with the administration of the laws. Whatever the Prime Minister or any of his subordinHtes may advise with his approbstion) is done in the Queens name.
 Mir. Gladstone is at the present time the Government of Great Britain's colos- sal Empire, and the most virulent Irish man will not dispute the justice and wisdom with which he has tried to ameliorate the condition of the Irish people; but no statesman, however grand and gracious, can mitigate the woes of people who continually repel benevoleuce by assassination and crimes repellant to the instincts of humanity.
 The disestablishment of the English church in Ireland was one Of the noblest achievements of the grand old mans statesmRnship, and will long remain an historical evidence of his justice and wisdom.
 The beautiful green Isle has been en- dowed by nature with the dowry of the seas, and the usufruct of as fair land as England; but the unfortunate Celtic element has not passed under the divine wand of St Patrick, and the reptiles still sting the hand held over them with the cOrnucopia of charity.
 As to the O'Donnell trial. VIC have only a remote concern. He was tried according to the laws and customs of the country under whose flag the mur- der was committed, and 1t would be sublime impsrtinence for our govern ment to interfere in the execution of English law. Moreover, such imperti- nence would not be tolerated by the na- tion from which We derIve our lessons ID law.
 The idea of any foreign government having the least respect for international pohteness, to have interfered with the sentence and execution of Guitesu would have been too ridiculous for con- sideration.
 1t is trde that some members of con gress, dependent upon the Irish-Amerl- can vote for their seats, posed III the House of Representative III regard to a judicial proceeding in another country; but the dignity of the Senate was not disturbed by these wild Celtic waves; nor was the equanimity of our executive department oyerthrown by the howlngs across the Atlantic.
 Under any administration at Wash ington we have some men who are capable of maintaining the dignity and grandeur of the Republic; and however useful the Irish vote may be at the polls Shey arc lmpOtent ID the Senate Cham Der, and the higher branches of the government
 It would probably not be unwise for the Irish-Americans who are joint participants in the glory and prosperity of thls country to eliminate 8 little of the native modesty with which they have been gifted by generous Creator in recognizing the fact that the govern ment of the United States has some other duties to perform than intefering with the administration of justice in foreign countries
 The Celtic race are so fully occupied in attending to the political affairs of the United States and of other coun- tries, that its no wonder that the con- dition of Ireland manifests some evidences of neglect-if the patriots who left their country would return to the emerald isle and honestly assist in its regeneration they would be entitled 10 benefaction from Pope Leo-and no doubt the gracious Sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland would pardon theIr Impetuosity. The American Minister in London is the representative of a great and friendly power and as such IS entitled to the respect of Englishmen of whatever caste and the slang from our side of the water will scarcely reach any respectable source in England.
 Up to the present time all the efforts of our esteemed Irish-American citizens to embroil this country with England have proved abortive, and long may the abortions continue.
 The Irish people have made their own woes. Nature has been more generous to them than to many people who are and happy.
 The dream of Irish independence is more futile than was the vision of the Southern Confederacy.
 It IS true and admitted that Irish pat rlOtism has earned the admiration of and Americans, but in thls practical era of the worlds history lllu- siOns should not bs palmed off upon the ignorant; and the possibility of Eng land ever admitting the severance line of St. Georges channel is deIusion which oTf adopted Irish citizens should be to make capital out of. Such men as Emmet, Grattan, Shields, O'Con- nell, Wolf Tone. Fitzgerald, Meagher, Duffy, Martin, Darcy McGee, Butt, and gentlemen of their character who illum- mated the history of their native land by eloquence which spans the Atlantic ike rainbow, are no more to be com l pared to such miscreants as ODonno- ran Rossa, John Mitchell, Gallagher, | Barrett, O'Donnell and the dynamite l tends than the arch of heaven to the l 'urve of worms back.
 SUM RoMANUs CIvIs.