Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-03-11
Ireland with America.

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Michael Davitt writes the following sig
nifcant letter to the editor of the London
Times:
Sir: Commenting in yesterdays issue Of
the Times upon some recent remarks of
mine, John Dillon's and other Irish mem
bers, on England's trouble in Venezuela
and the Transvaal, you say, among other
choice expressions "When the Parnellite
organs affirm that hate for England has
become natural passion with the race that
nothing can mitigate or modify, it is merely
paraphrasing well-known utterance of
Mr.. Sexton's." Thomas Sexton may or
may not have spoken such words; but, if
he ever did so, he was only paraphrasing,
in turn, what the Times itself declared,
some 80 odd years ago, the Celtic race
would be justified in feeling.
Denouncing, as you had the courage to
do in those days, the gradual extermina-
ton of the peasantry of Ireland through the
means of the Irish landlord system, you
said (the Times, May 4, 1869:
There will then be again an Ireland but
colossal Ireland, and an Ireland placed
in the new world. We shall have only
pushed the Celts westwards; ceasing for
the future to be imprisoned between the
Liffey and the Shannon, he will spread
from New York to San Francisco. We
must grid our loins to encounter the Meme
sis of seven centuries of misgovernment.
To the end of time 100, 100000 of people,
spread over the largest habitable area in
the world, and confronting us everywhere
by sea and by land will remember that their
| forefathers paid 1.-THE to Protestant clergy,
rent to absentee landlords and a forced
obedience to the laws which these had
made. And, even though the rancorous
Celt were to forget and forgive, that will
not prevent the sure development of an in
tractable race and the introduction of in
I
great American nation. 1t will be more
than half Celtic, but the preponderating
race of all will be that one which has at
tanned the climax of its projections on the
banks of the Seine and which has been
precipitated into the deepest abysses of
degradation and despair on the western
shores of Ireland. So, we shall have nour-
ished and brought up, by us at home, a
power which is called to rule over the new
world, to extend its influence over both
the oceans, and to become the master of
an entire hemisphere"
This was a philosophic and far-seeing
view to take of the consequences of Eng
lands rule in Ireland, and your wise words
thus spoken explain and justify the attitude
of the half million American citizens of
Celtic blood who are now ready, as their
kith and kin were in Washington's day, to
be the first to volunteer in war with Eng
land.
| Let me say, however, as one who ha s
just returned from the United States
| (where have had the fullest opportunity
of learning the true state of feeling of the
Venezuelan question:, that neither the
Democratic nor Republican parties are
actuated in this instance by party motives
or catering for the Irish vote. Mr..
Cleveland's and Secretary Olney's stand in
defence of the Monroe doctrine is thor
oughly American, and this is why Repub-
lican congressman and papers most op-
posed to the existing administration have
heartily Endorsed and will continue Loyalty
to support the manly stand of the presi-
dent in defence of American sentiment and
ofthe sister republic of Venezuela against
Lord Salisbury's bullying and land-grab-
bling policy.
A policy OF this character, whether at
tempted In South America or South Africa,