The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-31
ZEN GLAND TROUBLED.

GOi MaH1y many iouk eeN HS"AJ
years England has tormented Ireland.
By one OF thofe turns Of retributive
justice tina. time evolves, the troubled
has become the troubler, and Ireland
now holds England in state Of doubt,
uncertainty and sore apprehension.
No longer can Ireland be refused re-
dress. No longer c IN the strong grasp
Of force dominate the will Of a deter
mined people. Every Englishman
knows to-day that Ireland is a seeth-
ing mars ready to burst out in fame
and fury from coast to coast. Every
town and every village would be
scene Of revolt and violence II the
hopes Of coming justice were now
dashed TO the ground. The knowl-
edge Of this state OF things awes every
rejecting English mind. What must
be dore2 For the solution OF this
eventiul question every eye turns to
Mr.. Gladstone. No one else has q
plan. There is a multitude awaiting
the announcement Of the measure he
has to propose that they may attack
them with fury aud denounce them
with bitter rage. But not one OF them
has a mode OF pacifying Ireland
TO propose. The opposition will
utter their scorn and exhibit
their hatred Of every practicable mode
OF meeting the crisis in vain, as they
can only find fault, only show their
spite; but while contending against
what is proposed to be done, they will
be able TO offer no plausible solution
Of the difficulty themselves. Never
were people more bEiiled, checked
and emt arFassed than the enemies OF
Ireland are at this moment. They see
the handwriting, upon the wall direct
ed against themt elves. They read the
dreadful meme, meme, tekel, uphdrsin,
"thou art weighed in the balant es and
art found wanting" and they shudder
and are at their wits end, knowing
not what to do. Such is the condition
to which Ireland's enemies in Eng
land are reduced, and Ireland is tri-
umphant and its leader is q terror to
every party, faction and clique in Eng
land, however exalted their station,
that opposes justice for Ireland.
Even before Mr.. Gladstone's measures
are known, contention concerning
them has led to detection in his
own Cabinet. But the force OF
circumstances, the might Of cur
rent events, is stronger than
detection or treachery or ma
liCious war from uniaithlul friends
or the revilings Of open enemies. The
grand old man, calm with the con-
seriousness Of power and the support
OF right and justice, will pursue the
path he has marked out for himself,
undeterred by the commotion and tur-
moil around him, and to the coniu-
sion Of hismortiied opponents he will
triumph. Tomorrow week his plan
Of concession to the claims Of Ireland
will be laid before Parliament, and a
struggle will begin that will shake
England to her center, and unite Ire
land in bonds even stronger and more
determined than those that already
fetter and clasp the nation into COM
mon brotherhood. In the meantime
10 England all is uncertainty and
dread, fer who can foresee what Catas-
trophe may result from the strange
complications that now I'll every intel
liRent soul among them with anxiety
and fear for the near future while the
Irish people look upon their blanched
and troubled countenances themselves
stern with resolution aud exultant
with confdeucs.