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, any man’s conscience; we regard liberty of conscience, freedom | and, indeed, they never failed either to give a colour to their | general matters, I flatter myself they will not be entirely unin-
: of opinion, freedom of speech, and fréedom of the press, as | statement, by adopting a full policy which went to set Irishman | teresting. | .. hs,
< +» Bongst the most inestimable rights of mankind. . We wish | against Irishman, and inculcating the ine so peculiarly spirit of commercial enterprise is awakence here, the bene
. all Christians would diffuse as widely as possible the holy pre- | pleasing to the palate of Toryism, that religious bigotry was vir- | fit of which must in a very short time raise the condition of this
\ Cepts of the Divine Redeemer, that they may all assist in reu-! tue, and that it was-charital le, for Catholics and Protestants to ' too lovg neglected town. It commenced by the establishment
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“SUBSCRIPTION POUR
PROSPECTUS OF THE TRUEM TELLER FOr 1939.
in the first day of January. next, the *TrerH Tex.er”
willenter upon the fifteenth year of its existence. In anticipa-
tion of this event, we deem it our privilege, if not our duty, to
address to our readers ‘and the public such observations as are
adapted to the occasion. ' + Daring the fourteen years through
‘which it has passed, numerous journals ofa similar character,
and intended for the same class. of readers, have at various pe-
riods been issued. But all these. afier brief existences, have
teased, and ours alone has continued to receive the faveur an
support necessary for its maintenance. ee ‘
‘o account for this fact, might lead us into invidious and un-
2 pleasant remarks... shall therefore abstain from undertak-
ing such a task, and simply) return thanks to our patrons for
having nobly stood by us tn storm as well as in. sunshine, an¢
for having disregarded and discountenanced the efforts made to
suppress our paper.
“ Tehas been out lot to receive as lavish a share of abuse as bas
been bestowed upon any paper in this country. i
journals advocating a political creed different from our own, as-
‘sailed ‘ns: with isivective and viuperation ; not only have th
* + religious and political bigots heaped upon our heads the denun-
gnity ; but even individuals from whom
. We might expect friendship and co-operation, and towards whoni
‘we never manifested any inimical feeling have joined in the ery
“against us, and sought to involve us in that ruin which destroy-
ing all our aims, would yield them no advantage whatever.—
‘ourse
Amidst this abuse and opposition, we have pursued that ¢
which we adopted at the commencement of our career, V:
“ never toturn aside for the purpose of assailing co-laborers in the
cause we sustain, but ever to leave them unmolested that we
might enjoy the same immunity. This has given success to
our exertions, ard furnished us with confidence in all our under-
takings, n we see a journal established for objects similar
to those we have in view, endeavoring to injure us, we hug to
our breast the pleasing assurance that their designs will be un-
derstood—and their motives properly appreciated.+" We. enjoy
the certainty that justice will be done to us, and that we will
survive to see our maligners prostrated. ' . :
has now an’ extensive~ circulation
nited States, in Canada, and some other parts
possessions. But we- will not conceal the fact that
Democratic Republicans in this city, who can af-
ford to patronize our journal, have ‘yet not given us their sup-
/ port. They do not recollect that our advertising columns can
““ not be a source of profit to us—that we depend entirely upon
the number of papers we issue—and that the political character
., of ourpaper necessarily confines its patronage for the most part,”
to those whose creed it advocates. hen the Conservatives
Jef Tammany Hall, maty of them by way of exhibiting -their
magnanimity, withdrew their names from our subscription lists ;
but we saw them depart without one sigh, estimating more high-
ly the principles we advocate than the favor of any man, or set
of men. Wee felt sure that this fact, when made known, would
“have the effect of increasing our subscribers; and we now feel
“ it our duty 10 mention the fact, although we can spare a few
more of any class of readers without feeling our iiterests mate-
~ rially affected.
. To Trishmen we have always endeavored to make out paper
acceptable. | We defy any fue to mention any instance in which
we have shrunk from the duty of defending Irishmen.‘ “V
have not hesitated to express our disapprobation even of the
course of the National Executive, when we regarded it as taint-
ed in the least degree. with Anti-Irish, or Anti-Catholic feeling.
“We shall never alter our conduct in’ this respect. Whenever
_ either Irishmen, or any other Foreigners are unjustly assailed,
_ we will to the utmost of our humble ability defend them ; and
“our columns, as they ever have been, ever shall be open for the
Communications of those staunch Irishmen, and friends of Ire-
* land, who are ever ready to wield‘ the pen when illiberal pre-
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us
throughout the U:
of the British
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< judices require correction, or reprobation.
ur paper is‘a Catholic journal.’ Our religion is one, that
_ like every thing. pure and holy, too often receives thie sneer, or
, josult ofthe weak, and the malignant. "It has been our aim to
promulgate the truth concerning our religion—to show what are
the real tenets of the Catholic—to demonstrate that the dogmas
__ and precepts of our church are all calculated to improve, and
render more free and happy, the entire human family. . In this
,, effort, we have been assisted by the ablest Divines in our coun-
_.. tty; and so long as our. paper ‘continues iti existence, this aid
will ever be within our reach. The Catholic Clergymen of our
., country are full of devotion to their faith ; and whenever its de-
© fence, "or its advocacy requires the display of zeal, or the exer-
cise of talent. they are ready ata moment foreither. While we
, thus uphold our own faith, we carefully avoid interfering with
auy other sect. We do not presume to play the Censor over
extracts from popular publications, and original essays from the
ens of numerous able writers in this city, and elsewhere.—
Such are the remarks we have thought appropriate in ushering
a new volume of our paper before the community. * We have
nothing more to add than iat we know how to appreciate any
favor or support we ‘may receive, and shall ever feel pride in
dering “ Glory to God on high—on earth “peace ‘and good will | cut each other's throats for the love of God. , And whenever the
tomen”. . ooo * ho blaze of discord bad been subsiding, they, by foul and subtle
The miscellaneous department of our paper usually contains machinations, never failed to kindle the unholy flame afresh.—
Thus has the full spirit of Toryism engendered a spitit of turbu-
-lence, and fostered its growth and continuance. After the pe-
riod of '82 when the immortal Grattan and his band of patriots
had succeeded in obtaining, or rather extorting, from Toryism a
portiou of justice for their country, and some protection for her
trade and industry, the kingdom began to feel the blessings of a
settled state of society, and a period of prosperity followed of 18
laboring to deserve it.
. , Carrick-on-Suir, 7th October.
So imrfense is the ‘capital employed in commercial specula-
tions in England with every part of the known world, and so ex-
hausted are the sources of speculative gain, that a great part
must be considered merely a surplus capital, producing only 4,
5, and G per cent. profits, and yet another portion lies in. the
funds at 1 1-2 and 2 1-2 percent, and, as far as the latter por-
tion is concerned, with regard to material protit, thatit might be
said to be totally unemployed. 5 : :
Under these circumstances, is it pot surprising that such en-
terprising traders as England can so justly boast of, with such a
large unemployed capital in their bands, ‘and ever anxious to
employ it to profitable purposes, have not thought Ireland, with
alt her natural advantages, worthy atention, and where the’ ju-
icious outlay of capital would so certainly produce abundant
profits? Cae as
Many ‘are the indu¢ementsin this particular. . There is not a
soil in the world allowed to _be richer than that of this country,
producing abundant crops df every kind of grain, and a never-
fail igs, butter,;and horned cattle ; also her
of which vever fuils to pay the out-
lay of capital with fine profits.. "The waste lands also present
a wide field for speculation and gain. Hundreds of thousands of.
acres of unreclaimed land lie useless, that: might e as
‘ich as any other in the kingdom, which would not only give
employment to the poor, but leave great profits to the specula-
tor.’ Look to the facilities for export possessed by Ireland—her
fine bays, harbors, and noble rivers; and the land being every
where intersected with water-courses, presents also great facili-
ties for working machinery of the heaviest description for facto-
ries, flower mills, paper mills, &e. 4 oe
't must be acknowledged on all hands that all who have em-
barked capital in any commercial speculations in this country
have’ succeeded beyond their most sanguine expectations:
shall instance two ‘cases within a’ few miles of this town. A’
company has embarked a large capital in opening and working
the copper mines at Knockmahion, county Waterlord. Fifteen
hundred_men are cantinually employed, and are uncommonly
vell paid, and so well is the speguiation telling that at the last
dividend 50 per cent. nett protits were recelved by the company
for the last year. The com:
about a mile westward of that al
the finest description has heen found. Every man in Ireland, I
ani certain, would wish them a success equal to their first en-
terprise. Mr. David Malcomson has established a cotton fac-
tory at Portlaw, possibly one of the most extensive in any of the
manufactnring towns in these kingdoms, Manchester excepted.
This factory employs 1,300 persons within its walls. It also af-
fords a livelihood to 2,000 other persons more or less connected
with it. te lcomson has embarked an immense capital in
this undertaking, and, 1 am happy to add, with an amazing suc-
céss. This gentleman has a still greater ¢apital employed in
several flour mills." If Ireland had many such men she would
soon he prosperous, as then all her resources would be brought
into proper play.’ I could go on to enumerate the many: in-
ducements for te advantageous oatlay of capital in this coun-
try; but they are so apparent to any intelligent person that little
need be said to establish the fact.“ «.. ue
* The question then ‘arises whether, with these facts before
glish capitalists remain ignoraa’
Jand’s manifold advantages for speculation? . Men who have
at all times shown an acuteness of perception and a force of
judgment not surpassed by any trading community in the world
in searching out speculations for the employment of capital to
profitable purpose, cannot be mistaken with regard to Ireland.
Allowing this inference, how then does it happen that such men
-have not invested capital to any great amount in any comnier-
cial undertakings in this countrye? i :
' The reasons appear obvious. “' They never saw Ireland in
any other light save that by which she appears in the mirror of
Tory misrepresentation, which never failed to show this king-
dom as a place where neither life nor property could be secure;
re-
aa — - — | years’ i ip ia any otber country
IR LAND. in Europe; which clearly demonstrates that Ireland, under a
ea a ee - ——-———— | system of good government, would be both tranquil and pros-
Emprovement of Ireland, perous. . :
But the Tories, ever jealous of all advantages possessed b
any but themselves, saw with the envy of demons the rising
peace and prosperity of Ireland, and, like another Satan, came
to the holy resolution of destryoing both. The monster-plot
was hatched, and out of. it came the rebellion.and ‘spilling of
blood in °98, that they might with impunity strike the docket of
Ireland's beggary in 1800; which two feats cost England three
millions sterling—at the same time increasing our debt to thirty
‘ millions, and finally wedcing us to England’s debt of eight hun=
| dred millions. epee '
own the sweeping current of ruin went the linen trade of
the north, and the woollen trade of the south, along with every ©
other conimercial good previously possessed by Ireland. Thus
have misgovernment and Tory despotism crushed the physical
energies of this country, and prevented capital from coming into ,
it. . But what need of enumerating the curses of Tory misrule;
are they not written in the blood and wretchedness of the people
of Ireland, aye, and England too? |”. *
Religious bigotry is, thank heaven, settling down into, the
shades of eternal oblivion, and in a i
of as a curse that only had been. ‘ The government of the Mar- ,
‘yg
common enemy to disturb the tranquility of the country." By’:
| his impartial administration of the law Le has succeeded in fix-
ing this tranquility on a permanent basis, if not again disturbed
by the heartless policy with which Ireland had ever been treated.
{ But at least as long as the noble Marquis is Jeft with us we need
fear no such event, nor, indeed, afterwards, if the government
but adopts the same Jiberal and equitable policy which emin-
ntly distingujshes the administrati most high-minded
iy 1g of the
viceroy which Ireland ever had since English misrale was first
established in this country. But’a fear is entertained that on
the removal of a man s0 fit to create a settled state of society in
this country things will wear their old features of hostility at the
Castle, too long the scene of plot and oppression, and’a place
but too much associated with the melanchol:
at least for this boon, even if they did no more. :
Now that peace is established in every part of the land, the
people should endeavour to do some practical good for themselves
in commercial speculations. Did not the people of America,
after achieving their independence, and after a harassing ten
years’ war, which nearly annihilated the property of that pai
of the werld, by an energy which so distinguished them throug}
out all their: hardships, raise their condition from a state of
verty into a state of the greatest prosperity? and is not Amer
ca now the very rival of England in this particular. Anda
had been done by uniting the property of the land in joint,stogk
speculations. Is there not more , property among the people of
this country at present then was at the period to which I allud
among the people of America? ‘and no one will deny that Ire
land has as many resources for porfital
tica, or aay other country in the world .
From: the present state of things, the people are thrown upon
their own resources—for what particular good can be expected ,
rom English legislation, governed as it is by a Tory House of .
Lords? > Yes, nothing ean be done for the good of the people of ,
either country as Jong as the Tories are allowed to possess this
last stronghold of their despotic power, and from which they spit
forth the venom of their hate in the bitterness of di: vintment
upon the people of the empire. Every one acknowledaes the ©
necessity of reforming the Lords‘ but the question is, will any
step be taken to effect this necessary good? . The master genius
of the Liberator has already pointed out, in the clearest manner,
the inutility of expecting any practical good for the empire while
the Tories have a mojority in the House of Lords. I shall in
a future communication offer some practicaldllustrations on the
foregoing observations. I shall now take the liberty of making
a few remarks with regard to the localities here, and as they bear
upon some of the propositions already set forth, with regard to
DOLLARS PER ANNUM. re ° Truth is powerful aa will prevail. a A OFFICE 100 HIQERTREET, .
"VOR. XIV. NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, DECENIRER 8, 1838. NO. 49.
quis of Normanby has crushed every Paddy M‘Kew plot of the». ¢
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