The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-04-28
Down WITH The CASTLE.
The Fortress of British Tyranny in
Ireland Must Be De-
molished.
HOODW|NKING THE HOUSE.
The National League Still Lives, Is
Strong and Reso-
lutte.

lue Nat1onal AeaS,le D1l1 AVeoy -
Strong and Reso-
lutte.
From the london Universe. April7.
On last Monday public meeting was
held in Mitchelstown on the site Of the
September 1nassacres, and was ad'
dressed by Messrs. O'Brien, Healy and
Gordon. representatives of the people
The attendance was large, the enthusi-
asm great, the proceedings were order
ly. Not q stick was raised, not q drop
Of blood was shed. The reason is not
FAR to seek. Constabulary were in The
town, tut were prudently kept out Of
sight. The disturbers of the peace not
being III aggressive evidence, there was
40 incentive to riot. A government re-
porter was present to take down what
Was spoken, but was not molested-was
barely noticed. The common courtesy
mad been used OF asking the organizers
Of the gathering to find accommoda-
tions for him, and this they freely pro-
>lded. That amateur note taker, spy
1nasqusrading as stenographer, will
now be able to inform his employers on
Cork Hill how admirably Demos can do
its own policiug-when left to itself,
and how little inclined are lrishmen in
the southern province to fall foul of
each other. It takes two to make a
quarrel, and they are all of one way Of
thinking And chat way of thinking
resolves itself into an earnest convic-
tion that the day Dublin Castle, with
it's pomps and works, is razed to the
dust, will he. for Ireland, day Of re-
ioicing. The doctrine enunciated and
enforced at Mitchelstown was the
ancient and immutable one that resist
ance to bad laws is not merely excusa-
able, but q patriotic duty and a Chris.
tian virtue. If America did not resist
them she would be a crushed, overtaxed
and condemned colony to-day instead
Of being mighty among the mightiest
COVERS Of the earth. That the laws in
Ireland are not those which can concili
ate the inhabitants or make them pros.
porous we have evidence perpetually
recurring. This is the great annual
week of the citizen soldier IN Britain.
In Ireland there are no citizen soldiers.
10 carry arms there is a crime. The
island instead of contributing troops to
the empire depletes it of its strength.
1t is held by a garrison. Dublin Castle
is the detestabie cause of that weakness.
t>nly during two viceroyalties, those of
the Earl of Chesterfield in the last GEN.
tsry and OF The Marquis of Normandy
in this, could soldiers be spared from
Ireland to reinforce the army elsewhere.
prompted by fears of the adherents of
prince Charlie'' the government sent
the former TO Dublin with mission of
peace. His first acts we're to stop priest
hunting. and open the Catholic chapels
for seryico. He discouraged jobbery
and disco,antenanced ascendancy. The
consequence was tranquility reigned,
and it was possible to send four batts-
lions from the country to al the Duke
cf Cumberland. But after Culloden
the Earl of Chesterfield was recalled,
and, as Flowden we'll remarks, England
Icing out of danger, Ireland could
sgain be put under its former regime.
r,he Marquis Of Normandy, as we have
it on the authority of contemporary,
the Irish Protestant, Samuel Lover,
lagislated for the few, not the many.
lie exhibited spirit of justice towards
1he many, and reposed a confidence in
1hem; and, as q natural result, there
vas ready obedience, and no necessity
tor any overwhelming parade OF red
coats. But these traditions have been
Departed from with the brief exception
Of the viceroyalty of the Earl OF Aber-
deem, and the laws now are admins
tered on the stale, wicked lines. They
are set in force to make pauperism
chronic, and prop up the degenerate
descendants Of the Clanricardes-that
once noble house which buffeted the
tyranny of Strafford, and one of whose
daughters intermarried with Sarsdeld.
Alas! for the De Burghs. No longer,
save in derision, can it be sung in the
words of Davis that ''glory guards
CIanricarde's grave.'' The genius of
weeping valor has been replaced by the
imp of grinning usury. Carlyle in his
''History Of the French Revolution"
makes an unconscious apology for the
Reign of Terror, strenuous vindica-
tion of Irish discomfort, and vehement
charge against English tyranny. There
were at most 1000 done TO death by the
Jacobins, but in Ireland, according to
the report of the poor-law commission n
of 1886, the third of a nation had not
for thirty weeks of the year as many