The Irish standard., 1898-02-26
GOODWIN SMITH on THE UNION.

iOl WIN oWii II OS lhE ONlUN.
Our patriotic contemporary, the Cath
Ollie Sentinel. Of Chippewa Falls, Wis,
says that like the late James Anthony
f'roulc, the lying English historian
who was silcnced by Fl. Burke in this
country, PROT. Goodwin Smith stands
forth as the Hpologist of English rob-
berry and rasval,y in Ireland. In Il re-
cent contribution to the Independent he
has the hartiihoGd to assert that the
union Of Ireland with England was not
carried by bribery or bayonets; that the
money taken for Il bribery fund was Il
compensation regularly voted by parlia-
mnnt, TO the Irish owners of nomination
bo9oushs."
The editor of the Catholic Sentinel is
an lrishman convcrsant with his coln-
try's history and asks: Will this
vcracious pandcrer to Castlercashs viii
lainy tell lis when and where parliament
voted money for Il bribery fund except
Goodwin Smith know thar Lord Corn
wallis who had a conscience and some
sparks of homer left. wrote the English
government that this bribery matter
made him sick. Does this advocate Of
spoliation know that Lord Castlcrcagh,
who did the bribing, cut his throat
through rcmorsc when he saw the TO
suit of his rascality? Is Mr.. Smith aware
hat I've,
bribed still exists. and may be read by
any one who desires to look at that
evidence of mans dcpravity?
The Sentinel then quotes from Sir
Jonah Rarrlngton's Rise and Fall of
the Irish Nation" showing who the
traitors were in the Irish parliament
who sold their country for place and
pcif. The following are some of them:
j. Bingham was created q peer and re-
ccived $4,000 for two seats, and $75,UOO
fer the borough of Tuam. Lord Boyle
sct $4,000 for each Of his borouglls and
he held several. A. Ferguson got $500
Il year and Il baronetcy for his interest
Harry Dean Grady was opposed to the
union personally. but sold his borough
for a place worth $4,000 year, and
thanked God he had a country to SELL
Charles II. Coote obtained regiment
and Il pecrasc (Lord Castle Coote) and
S37,50O in cash for his interest in the
borough Of marlborough William
Fortescue got $1,000 year. Col. b.
llennker got a regiment and $4,000 a
year for his scat. I3t. Hon. Sir Hugh
Langrishc got $4,000 for his patronage
at the borough of I<noctopher Lord
Lotus got $l5O,OOO for his boroughs and
was created all English marquis II. d.
Massey was made commissioner of rove
nuc and got $4,000 cash besides for his
interest. II. B. ana |. Stratford re-
ccivcd each $4,000 and positions worth
$4,000 Il year for their votes, and so
on through the whole list.
Some sold their votes for honors, sCme
for cash and some for both. And these
are the transactions Goodwin Smith
would come over here from England to
defend. We may next expect to hear
or him writing palliating dissertations
upon the massacres of the Irish in l7yS,
by pitchcap and triangle or the blowing
OF the sepoys from the lannon's mouth
in India. When Il man dcgrades his po-
silion and prostitutes his pen by tasty
ing history, there is nothing so low that
he will not undertake for money or po-
siticn. MIR. Smith is an average sample
OF the English apo!cgist. He lies With
the impudcnce and assurance of truth
and like 4 battered harridan attempts 10
brighten ordinary readers by the earn
estncss of his fictitious asseverations.
Goodwin Smith may convince some
American readers that what he says OF
the ubiquitous act of union between
Great Britain and ireland is historically
true. but the facts above cited by Judge
Cough. of the Catholic Sentinel, COM
pletcly knocks him out and shows him
to be another Froudc in his treatment
of the Irish question. We congratulate
our esteemed contemporary on its retu-
tation of Smiths allegations concerning
the destruction Of the Irish legislature