Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-03-11
ireland end ErouGe.

Ex-Minister x. NJ Kelley has addressed
letter to the New YORK: Herald, in which
he says:
There is = certain brutal can2or--which
candor makes some amends Tor its brutality
in Mr.. FrUude's formula, as disclosed in
respondent, that "the only condition under
which Ireland can enjoy the benefits of
good government is condition of subordi-
dination." What chance to reach the ends
Of Justice from England if her initial postu
late is. "Happiness to Ireland can only con-
sist with slavery" And yet this is the
complaceut belief of no small segment of
the British people, the only redeeming iea-
ture for Ireland being that they entertain
exactly the same views as TO all the rest Of
mankind.as we'll. Your average tory lives
and dies in state of mild wonder that Pro
videncc, being omniscient, does not see that
all the peoples of the earth need English
masters, and, being all-merciful, still ne
elects to supply them
The "cheek" of this comfortable theory
becomes somewhat conspicuous when we
reflect that this is q people which for q
thousand years has been uniformly ruled by
foreign princes-Danes, FreDchmen, Welsh
meu, Scot chmen and Hauoverian Germans.
Bnt deeper deep of auGacity is reached
when Mr.. Froude forecaIts chaos to Ireland
from 9 home parliament because Ireland
was in q wretched condition during "the
Kilkenny Parliament, which sat from 1641
to 1649n Mr.. Froude knows perfectly we'll
that the Kilkenny Parliament, so-called,
had as much TO do with the mseries of those
eight or uine Years IA with tho procession Of
the equiuoxcs Tha: fearful period, begin
ming with the dupicity OF Charles and end
ing with the atroCity Of Cromwell, is pre-
cisely the one as 10 which an English his
torian should speak with his mouth in the
dust.
Ireland's plundered and prosecuted peo.
Pile, asking some Of the protection just
granted by Parliament to the Scots, were
answered by an act decreeing the extirpa-
ton Of their faith, and then by an army,
whose commission, a. stated by Thomas
Carte In Protestant English historian, with
no fonduess for 1relandl. WA ITO wound,
kill, slay and destroy ali tho rebels and
their adheren.s aud rel,cvrrs, aud bura,
spoil, waste, consume, desroy aud Gemolish
all the places, towns and houses where reb-
els were or have been relieved OF harbored,
anu all the corn aud hay there, aud to Kill
aud destroy all the nei here iuhahitiDg able
TO bear arms"
Aud, as the commissioners charged with
inspecting their work feprrted, The sol
diers in executing the orders murdered all
persons promlscuous,y, not si'ariug the wo
men and sometimes nos chi;d;en."
Those eight years were years of undated
rapine aud ravage, for which the Kilkenny
Parliament wss only rcsponsiblc in The sense
thai q man who uuSucces-tIIly defends his
life against an assassin is responsible for his
own death.
To argue the incapacity of a peaceful aud
unobstruc!ed assembly to govern Ireland
from this condition is Of q piece with Mr..
Froude's historic method, which, to use Mr.
Lecky's words, consists in "suppressing the
evidence"
Perhaps the drollest thing in heinterview
is Mr.. Froude'S cool assumption that the
trouble about Eugland's relation with Ire.
and was the mistake she made in not fore.
ing Presbytcrianism instead of Episcopacy
upon the people IS the established religion
1t illustrates, as we'll as anything else, a
tory'5 notion cf the right: of the people of
Ireland, a.. indeed, OF any people with
whom England has to do, whether tho mat
t"r be religion or rupees A certain histo.
rian, apropcs of this matter, writes: Before
the English government attempted to force
religion upon them (the IriShl, which had
no; !. single honest advocate in the whole
natcH, there was no incurable disloyalty."
Perhaps the value of this opinion is some
what impaired by the fact that its author is
this same Mr.. Froude. Hist. Eng. X, p.
222)