The Irish standard., 1920-02-07
England Now Feigns Friendship
Which Will Bear Close Watching
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1t would be but repeating the OBJ
vious to say that England has always
been Americas deadliest enemy, while
Ireland has always been her unfailing
and steadfast friend, says the Irish
Progressive League Bulletin.
Since she first struck for her free
dom, Ireland has ever championed
Americas cause, and her sons have
died by the hundreds Of thousands
upon every battlefield to sustain her
honor and keep her great and free.
When England was sending out the
Red Indian, armed with the tomahawk
and scalping knife, against the Revo-
lutionary patriots, Ireland was the
friend Of the Colonies, was their friend
indeed at a time when, as has so we'll
been said, they had no friend in Me
world beside. That American inde-
pendence was won and the Colonies
lost to England forever, principally
because of the aid given by Irish men
and women, is amply testified, not only
by American authorities but by British
authorities as we'll.
The independence achieved by
Washington was cemented by the
triumph of the Civil War. What was
England's attitude towards America
during all that terrible time? 1t might
be well to recall it now when men
have grown so forgetful. When Irish
men were giving their lives to sustain
the Union, England was giving what
aid she could to the Confederacy, was
sweeping Americas commerce from
the seas, and was daily awaiting what
she gloatingly called "the bursting of
the bubble"
Viewing Civil War With DiaboIic Glee.
The opinions Of the English people
and the sentiments of England's pub
lie men were reflected in the press of
the time from which it cannot but be
interesting to quote the following:
The Times of 1861 rejoiced that
"the forcible subjugation of the South
would prove hopeless task. The
Federal exchequer will engage itself
in an expenditure which no country
in the world could ever support"
"Lincoln's three hundred thousand
men will not be forthcoming" was the
fond anticipation of the Saturday Re-
view, which also said: 1T happens to
be the unanimous opinion of nineteen
educated Englishmen out of twenty
that more purpOseless and hopeless
enterprise than the reconquest of the
South by the Federal Government has
never been projected by any modern
or ancient state"
Again, the Times, in 1862, proclaim
cd that "1n few months the inde-
pendence of the South must be ac-
knowledged, and it might with profit
twelve months ago."
Even the "great Liberal" Gladstone.
Joined, the triumphant hozanna, and
boasted in speech in August, 1862,
that "Mr. Jefferson Davis has made
the South a Nation"
A Nuisance Among the Nations.
The Morning Herald declared that
"the Americans have become a nui-
sance among the nations" and the
Liverpool Daily Post but expressed
the truth when 1t said "the vast ma
jority of the people in this country
are in favor of the cause espoused by
the Secessionists.v
Amusing the world" was what the
Times called one of the Greatest
struggles made for human freedom.
1t wrote as follows: "The Americans
are doing their best to amuse and
instruct the world. We, have no need