If the name of Ireland, a...
The Times, 1824-07-21T00:00:00

If tlhe name of Ireland, and thie numberless tragical aud enormous crimes, the record of vhich, wvith that of their resuhls, may be said to constitute the great bialk of Ibish -history, had been less familiar to As, there has hardly been a Dublin newspaper printed for these 30-years, that would not rouse the indigna?Jon of any sober mind, as a seevolting libel against humanlity, It is needless to split hairs upon the subject: all the factions of that cottutEy are alike-alike odious to the honest man, and pitiable, lhowever terrible, to every ian gifted with reflection. NVW have on one side a band of hypocrites, screening their rapacity under a show of alarm for religion and for the state: on the other, ainul_ titude of untaught barbarians, ltftaind ard hardened by (lespair, aiid bouindAogether il etcdless plottifng to revenge- upon the law those injuries ijiDh: tliej have sus- tai23d ii spite of. T 'he Orape. ~party,. however, are. worse than tlieir . opponents: - they mAke a pre. text of the fanaticism ' hieh in theifhlcarts tley la,ugh at, while the herd of Papists, butied in superstitio*, and in- tolerant for conscieiicq:sake,, think of power not as an en- joymelt but as arprotecionr.,and dream not tbat they .e attackibg the deepest foundations of society, by the mode of.warfare-'vhich they. exercise, against, the aulthors attd agentf o J mr.owni- wr6ngs. .~Tfie last few.,4a4s have fiii- :nishied'ps hap~~py.roofsoC.. the.sp.irit which pospssses bot}bh?e 'le3jinretpund. qOlr. last. 01ipn atior cOn- taiea one story to which we.ically have not nerves to re- cur, except in the most general manner. - A,priestj by the visitation of GoD a maniac, taking ulpn Iiimsel? zhe duty of casting out devils, entered a house and deliderately crush- ed the life out of an innocent babe in its mother's-in its father's presence-in the presence of a room full of Roman Catholic spectators: and did none step for- wvard to prevent this horrible butchery ? No! GoD pre- serve us! not one! The unhappy father was held back by force-tle bruaalized mother by her phrenzy of suretsti- tiousconfidence thatthis HOe0ENLOHSN of apriestwas work- ing a new miracle !-the rest of the Popish crew Isy the same ferocious andE degraded madness: so the helpless child had its ribs beaten in-its neck broken; and, so far as the- lookers-on were concernod, they (though not the wretched lunatic whose hands performed the deea) were one and all guilty of murder. The Coroner, we sav, ought to have issued his warrant for the seizure of every in- dividual present at that barbarous ands unheard-of sa- crifice. The punishment of some of these persons might recal others to their duties, and wvould at least contribute to check tie miracle-workers, who may, one day or other, apply "1 their miraculouts orgaus" to no very salutary end. Sueh, then, as this house full of savages, are the worthy citizens who exercise the elective franchise, and choose Knights of the Slhire for Ireland! W'e shall not offend the Irish Members by saying that the fruit is worthy of the tree; but we do much and anxiously desire that some one may have courage to move next year for the abolition of the 4?s, freehold in that country. Those who can believe a mad priest to be bonJfide a devil-destroyer, must have, to be sure, a consummate faculty of casting evil spirits out of Parliament. The next form in which we shall have these " raw ma- " terials of senators," (as CurtRAN called them), will be that of Riband processions, and with good reason. The North of Irelattd on thle 12th of July set them an edifying example. Every town almost had its Orange orgies-and some of them the usual concomitant of riot, in contempt of the well-known and anxious remonstrances of the Go- vernment-yea, of the equally notorious, though not, per- haps, equally serious, inhibition of the Grand Orange Lodge itself. Such is the genius of Orangeism-of every lawless confederacy: it begins by renouncing all authority but that of its own choice; it ends with despising the au- thority which itself has chosen. It is the radicalism of church and state. Why not, as an Irish paper suggests, employ the Insurrection Act against the Orangemen, as well as against every other branch of Irish insurgents ? The LORD LtiUTgNANT Would lose neither strength nor reputation by recommending so equtitable a measure.