Glasgow Courier. — 1845-12-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CELTIC RAVINGS. (From the Nation—a Repeal Paper.)  "Lord John Russell's Cabinet (says the Nation) may be a Whig Ministry, living from hand to mouth, exisiting by the sufferance of Peel, pining for a coalition (that is to say, for political profligacy), eking out an existence by majorities that would not decidedly carry a parish cuss, rearing bills to be murdered in the House of Lords Ike Michaelmas geese, enacting the solemn mockery of non-legislation ;—a Ministry too weak to act, too mean to resign, and set U?, as it were, to make men ashamed of what marrowless creatures they can suffer to be their masters ;—a Ministry with a Scotch Chancellor in Ireland—with Fortescue, who insulted or corrupted the strength and hope of this country, for their Lord-Lieutenant; and with some journeyman Secretary to manufacture bills for the Irish market, maimed and distorted as their Irish Reform and ii ish Corporation Acts, or poisonous as their Irish Coercion Bill. With such a Ministry, what to do can be no question. It would be a nuisance to be speedily abated. Contact with it would be disgrace—countenance of it, infamy. Or, it may be (may it not, think you?), a Whig Ministry with a national democratic basis. A Ministry resting its right wing on the Anti-Corn-law League in England—its left (maim Repealers of Ireland—making repeal an open question, giving the Lord-Lieutenancy to an Irish nobleman alio lives in Ireland, or, if to any Englishman, to Lord Normanby, a ith permission to countenance the Repeal movement, as Lord Anglesey did the Catholic agitation—making an Irish lawyer Chancellor—giving office to Repealers as Repeaters—as representatives of the bulk of this people—placing the chief and undersecretaryship in the only hands where they will be effective for good, in Irish hands—making the principle of their Government here, 'lrishmen for Irish offices'—doing in Ireland what Peel did in Canada—recognising the solemn right of the country to govern itself, by calling the leaders of the people to the councils of the state—becoming, in a word, what the Wings might have become in 1830, and may become again now or never—a people's Ministry ;—to such a Ministry as this we would be bound to give no common allegiance. We would be bound to sustain them by every sacrifice and every labour that a people can offer to their country. Eighty members from Ireland who would vote for repeal of the union and of the corn-laws, and who would give • willing support to the popular Ministry against their enemies and ours, would he their clear right. If we have not such a Ministry, then away with them. Away with them as cheats or decoys. Who will dare to t ilk of bolstering up another sickly, paralytic, comatose Cabinet? The sun never saw a sight more pitiable than the last old Whig lord, who pretended to be governor of these kingdoms, smirking and gabbling on the Treasury benches like a superannuated manmilliner; and when any question—the simplest or hardest—on the course of his government was put to him, admitting with an obese simper that he could not answer it, and begging time to make inqinries. This thing, or such as this, can-only have our scorn. And vet, already the Whig journals speculate on our falling down betore any obscene idol they please to set up for our worship. After 12 months of a Whig Ministry, says the Gloat, 'Repeal will be a thing of history.' We will not fling back this reproach, for we feel It may have been earned by past shortcomings, by the weak love of change, and extravagant belief in novelty, which led as to follow Whiggery before, and we cannot blame those strangers that they do not fully know that 'a new solli has conic. Into -Ireland.' I-stability—not the tendency to bend and turn, but to waver and gyrate—the want of a strong, fixed, iron will, has been the curse and reproach of the Celtic race. You may trace it like a poisoned vein running through our history. But education and training have been purging this, bad blood away. The growing race are freer from it than any generation of Celtic men on this soil since .. . .