The Irish standard., 1886-11-27

We 60 to gain a little patch of ground.
-Ham]et.
It is very usual remark among those
who pretend to be acquainted with the
conditions OF Irish society, that it is d
land more favorable to the stranger than
to the native that the foreign adventur-
er finds the various avenues to good for
tune which it presents less encurnbered
and blocked up with difficulties and dis
appointments, than the indigenous
children of the soil; and this OBSERVE
tion appeara to be equally confirmed by
experience, whether it is applied to the
humble artizan who confines his hopes
and prospects TO the acquisition Of the
ordinary comforts of domestic life, or TO
the armed aggressor who comes to coll
auer and lay waste for conquest's sake
alone. 20 endeavor, even by conjecture.
to account satisfactorily for this one OF
the very slightest among the anomalies
Of the country's polity-would lead to
a DISC quisition on national dispositions
and habits, and an inquiry into historl-
cal Influences, into which we are not at
present disposed to enter. The most
obvious and usual cause assigned, how
ever, is the superior industry and per-
severancs Of the naturalized inl1abitant.
One class OF persons IN particular
have verified the observation to Its ut
most extent. We allnde to the decend-
ants Of those e1nigrant: from the Pala-
tinate OF Germany. who were invited
over into these countries by the liberal
policy Of the Whig ministry in 170S, 81
measure which afterwnrd gave such dis
pleasure in England, and drew down SO
weighty a censure from the succeeding
cabinet Of ITO. History informs us,
that ut this period the indulgence and
misery which prevailed among the dis
appointed aliens yyas such, as to occas-
ion Il not ill-founded apprehension OK a
contagious {llstemner--no less than
ninety OF them being accustomed to
take up their abode beneath q single
roof. in some Of the lowest neighhor
hoods OF the British metropolis
In tlls sister isle, nevertheless, the ex
ertions OF the same race heve been at
tended with incomparab]y better sue
cess. Unoinglel and uninterasted as
the allyenture1s were with the politics
and the factious prejutlices of the peo-
pie, aud having no internal or external
cause to .Lvest them from the even
COURSE OF steady and preserving indus
t,y. wllicn their habits and inelinations
suggested to them as the most Likely to
attain SUCCESS, they were iii every way
prepared to take advantage Of the en-
couragements held out TO them by the
landed proprietor. These were, as they
still continue to he, very considerable
and this circumstance, together with the
difference, Of religion, OF disposition, and
Of civil habits, laid the foundation of
deep and routed hatred and Jealousy,
which the moral and political changes
that have, since the first introduction OF
the aliens. taken place in the relations Of
the country, have contributed rather to
increase and confirm than to alleviate.
The Palatines, or Palentins as they are
more usually termed among their rustic
neighbors, still continue to be favorites
with the lords OF the soil. The facility
with which they obtained long leases, at
q time when great proportion of the
peasantry OF the company were mere
costisrs to farmers, enabled them to turn
their knowledge Of husbandry to great
account; and although their hopper
plough (Which answered the double pur-
pose OF blowing aud sowing) has, 1 he
Heve, generally gone out Of use, their
custom Of producing crops in drills is
still almost universally adopted. They
are improving and industrious tenants
punctual, whether for the preservation
of their independence, OF the satlsfac-
lion Of their consciences, i'll all their en-
eemea1ts-attentive, even to oegree
of puritanical exactness, to their rehg-
ions obligations-presenting. in the un-
rennitting exertion which they employ
in the acquisition of money, and the
caution which they manifest in it's dis
tribution, q striking contrast TO the peo-
ple among whom they have become nat
uralized--( contrast which, perhaps, as
much Us any other circumstances, tends
to foster the contempt with which they
are regarded by the latter}-precise in
all that regards their domestic economy
addicted to neatness and to the ap-
pearance as we'll as the feeling OF COM
fort in their houses, and imbued in heart
and soul with a tincture Of religious
bigotry and national prejudice which
enables them to return, with ample in
terest, the evil feelings and wishes OF
low Catholic population Of the country.
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