Year: 1859

clans and families for generation after gener
alton, and every thing that is horrible in the
deeds of savage life were committed by these
revengeful and bloody barbarians.


Proud are the Irish of their country. and
proud are those of Irish descent of their an
cestry Great names has Ireland given to
the world, and great have been the achieve
ments of her sons in war and in peace, in art
and in science. But, what reader does not
go back to the time, when universal ignor-
ance and barbarism reigned over Ireland
| Who will not recollect how contemptuously
they were regarded, on account of that ig-
norance and barbarity by their English con
querors, for many, many years after the con-
quest how that conquest remained for sever
al generations a merely nominal one, on ac-
count of the savage and apparently uncivili-
zable character of the natives, although il
must be admitted that proper efforts at civil
cation were not made; how the wild tribes
of the country pillaged and murdered the
civilized settlements of the foreign intruders
how they lived, very many of them, in the
meanest of mud novels and almost literally
lodged and ate with their swine To Eng
lands shame be it spoken, this same kind Of
degradation exists, to certain extent, in Ire
land now, owing to the oppressive hand
which the English Government has laid upon
her but she has proved that the Irish race is
noble. brave, poetic, eloquent and the civil
lzed and enlightened members of that race
can afford to look back, and smile upon the
time when an Englishman regarded an Irish
man as an inferior being, and born for a rob
Der or n menial.


Leaving the earlier history of now civilized
nations, we can even look at them in their
present stage of enlightenment and find in
their very midst the same condition of things
at which unrcfecting persons are in the habit
of sneerng, as though it was something that
never did or never could characterize their
own race and people. Look at the mine pits
of England where generations of ignorant
and degraded wretches grow up without
even knowing a single letter of the alphabet.
All they know is work, work. work, from
early childhood to mature old age. Look at
the crowded realms of filth and ignorance and
crime in the very heart of the great city Of
London. Look at the idiotic heads, the
heavy animal jaws, the beastly, leering coun
tenanccs, the born scoundrels, the born cow
ards, and the original mean types Of all that
is meanest in humanity, that you will find
there, and what have the proud, and justly
proud, Anglo Saxon race to boast of, except
that where they have had an opportunity for
improv ement they have in the main improv-
ed it, and where circumstances were against
them they became ignorant, and beastly and
cowardly?


We might extend this article indefinitely,
but our design was merely to show that the
idea very frequently entertained, to the effect
that the sometimes disgusting habits of ex-
isting savage nations are owing to an inher-
ent inferiority of their natural constitution,
is false one. They are the same habits that
have characterized all savage nations, with
out exception, and history proves it. The
conclusion, therefore, which follows is, that
every race of men upon the face of the globe
should be allowed every possible advantage
of cultivation and improvement, consistent
with the safety of society and the peace of
the world. Especially should this treatment
be extended to the North American tribes of
this continent, many of whom have shown
the very greatest qualities that belong to the
human intellect, and furnished to history as
noble examples of true native greatness of
character MS can anywhere be pointed to in
all the annals Of time. Several of these tribes
are already far advanced on the highway of
civilization, and the hand which woulo inter.
pose to push them back into the deep night
of barbarism from which they sprung should
be accursed of God and Man.