Activate Javascript or update your browser for the full Digital Library experience.
Next Page
OCR
7
NA-
A i ite f
S&S
Wy
— a } ;
SP EePh :
© gubscription Four’ J
- ollarsper Amnwrs
“VOL. XVEE on
‘Truth ts powerful any wlll prevatl.’
NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, OCTORER 1, 1842.
§ Ofice, No. 70 Bayara
t Strect,in the rear,
NO, 40-
[From our Dublin’ Special Correspondent.]
s-:< Dupuy, September 3d, 1842.
Progress of Irish Agitation, :
The session of Parliament having concluded without any
:single grievance under which the Irish people labour, having
-been brought before the Legislative wisdom, we have again ar-
“fived at that period when we are more thaa usually thrown
i back upon our own resources of agitation, for the purpose of
keeping alive that excitation which is as necessary for the body
-politic, as exercise is forthe human frame... Mr. O'ConneLh
has again returned to his native land, and the great energies of
-bis mind will doubiless be henceforth direcied to the furtherance
-of the object on which the mind of Ireland becomes each day
more determined. Already a decided move has taken place. The
, work bay commenced in the provinces... There was upon Sun-
-day last, an immense assemblege in, the town. of Drogheda,
over 20 miles from the ‘metropolis, where the, men of Meath
; and Louth assensbled to give utterance to their sentiments upon
+ the question of Repeal. Alas!) thatthe men of Meath, with
every mesns of having returned a Repealerto the Legislature,
; and with abundance of Repealers to return, should have been
; Stultified by the election of an opponent of; {reland to legislate
« for her own children. But jt is idle 10 recur to by-gones, unless
. for the purpose of avoidance or waraing.: , What is done canaot
« be revoked... But it need not be repeated, and it is in this lauer
, View that I take leave to repeat my regret for the course pursued
in Meath, and to express my bope that, conduct so destructive
. of our objects may never again be pursued by the National
Repeal Association, no matter how much they may be pressed
; by private feelings or personal obligations. a tais
he demonstration in favor of Repeal in Drogheda, was not-
¢, Withstanding fervent as becomes Iristimen to be, when the ques-
Hoa for discussion isthe right of Ireland to be tegislated for by
; Trishmen.” It was bold as becomes men who are conscious of
+ their rights, and who are not unwilling if necessary to maintain
4 them. It was unanimous as it ought to be, when the, question
;, for deliberation in which universal Irelan) is concerned 60 deep-
_.ly., There was_a farther purpose to be,acermplished by the
~. aesemblage at Drogheda. ‘The new corporation act is about
_to be put in operation there, and for the first lime since anfortu-
nate James the Second held that iown as a fortress, the Catholic
population will be entitled to the privilege.of voting for the eled-
.- tion of those to whom their local affairs shall be e ed, and
"the inhabitants of all classes are about for the first tithe during
"a century aud an half to enjoy the privilege of directing the ex-
“ penditure of that to which they are the sole contributors, There
; were some local differences existing—some men who are Re-
© formers of abuses, but not Repealers, were offering themselves
for selection to the people, for there, are good men amongst
|. parties, there are many of those anti-Kepealers, who have
conciliated to themselves the good wishes of their fellow towns-
en. . Those on the contrary, who felt that, nationhood, was
“everything, would not listen to the election of such nen.—
Divisions were consequently threatened in which the common
enemy must triumph.-- And O'Connett was invited there to
«act a8 moderator. They will there pursue 2 bold course. The:
E
ur!
will reject every man but a Repeater, But ifio their progress
“to this conclusion they should perceive that a: Tory, is likely to
Hi slip in—why, the: will then,.as they ought, stop short of Re-
{. peal, to secure the rejection of the Tory. would io heaven
"that ail Ireland was as well disposed towards Repeal as the good
_,, Burgesses of Drogheda. We should soon, be able to make our
ows law. i . var wien, .
“* "-Thia is the first step in the march of Repeal for the present
“year... The year of agitation commences about this, period.
: Bur there is ‘another feature in the aspect of the times., The
*” Provincial press has commenced to declaim against the Asso-
ciation. The Tipperary Free Press has commenced this work,
and Idoubt not that as such things always happen, the disaffec-
tion will soon find other means of venting pent, up feeling., I
\ would fail in conveying to your readers the reflection of the na-
*'Yonal miad, which [ trust’ I have dong hitherto, if, I did fot
. tice this circumstance. I
eerthe jouretis in the outset rerninds his readers that he has
lever been devoied to the advocacy of Repeal, ° In this it is but
-{:justice to confirm his assertion. He then proceeds to state the
‘alarin with which he, in common with the people, received the
announcement made in 1834, that the demand for Repeal was
: guapended, and what is called “the experiment” was entered
on. The meaning of this term it is well your readers should be
-acquainted with.” It meant—for it has now passed into disuse
in Irish polities—the tial which was then: decided to be made
~ yas to whether Ireland would be in all things assimilated to Eng-
i “land. Of course, no man of sense would for one moment enter-
©\sin the idea that that concentrated principte of selfishness,
» John Bulf* would ever do us the same justice, or grant.to us
the same privileges which he himself enjoyed. , Bat the experi-
- ment was made much. ta the displeasure of the country at the
af time, and much to the chagrin of her remembrance since... We
: ,, Repealers. were never since in such a proud position as at that
‘ ime: "Three-fourths of the Parliamentary electors were Re-
‘ ealere. Nearly one-half the Representatives were of that party
° na ‘There was an orgavization throughout the country al-
most perfect, but all was without advice or consultation, fleeing
,gaway for the purposes of this “experiment.” _Place-hunting
me ame then no crime, and while the sound men held aloof
. 4 from the subsequent associations for helping England to do that
,
x
a"
{
as
b:
i
humble sop, sprung forward to take the lead. It was the first
time, to use the idea of the journalist, that Irish patriotism de=
generated into selfishness. Corruption crawled from that hour
over the national mind, and now we see with mortification that
the threat of Lord Fortescue, that he would not promote any
man who took a part.in'the Repeal agitation, had kept away
from him all those whose prominence in public was only another
way of announcing to the government. they were up for sale.
Tam rejoiced—I am proud of ‘the reflection that there are 500
aad sound men, capable of taking a lead in public affairs,
who despise Lord Fortescue’s threat as much as they do the
cover! insult which it conveyed against the Irisk people. . You
Ey
That is quite another question, and one which, with your leave,
lie” in the states. |, Lo
But to return now tothe Tipperary Free Press,the writer pro-
were a dozen men in lreland who, upon the morning of the
which she was not, willing to accomplish, the men who wanted |
places, and whose noisy mouths might be stopped with the most) out” must make the people of England contempiible
I toes
may ask me why ‘then do not these men join the association? —
T may one day discuss for the editication of * your geatle pub-
ceeds to say that what was laid aside without consultation, was
taken up without concert. And beis right. ‘Ido not suppose there ft
: ay
them I perfectly ‘gree. Really the termination of this: tora
in the eyes
of all the nations of the earth.
~ | 0.) Condition of the Peepie, oe
Tam happy to be enabled to state for the satisfaction of your
readers that the accounts which I gave in my last letter as tothe
cessation of the famine have been more than justibed: by“ the
abundance which has since then blessed ‘our afflicted country-
men. ) Provisions—ihat is, only kinds of provisions on ,which
our peasantry are fed—potatoes and vaimeal have been selling
at rates which are rouch lower thao have been known for years.
I perceive by the reports in the Zruth Teller, which have been
copied into the Irish journals, that our friends have sympathy for
our physical as well as our political sufferings, and have sub-
scribed largely for their alleviation.” I have not heard whether
the distinguished Archbishop of Tuam has received the remit-
tance forwarded, but the last prayer that an Irishman may give,
eseech, on the part of my country, to those who have been
thus mindful of us—may they hever feel similar want,and may
their country, native or adopted, never ave to deplore the same
tyranny which has produced such misery 10 us. 7 Aree et
The Indian News,
on which the standard of Repeal was hoisted, knew any thing : . Finis t
of the occurrence which the day was to produce. There was |“ I send you enclosed copies of the Irish journals containing the
no advice—no consuliation.” ‘The Tipperary Free Press thinks | DISASTROUS NEWs which has just arrived from India.’ Of course
that the new movement should. bave been first extensively com. | your London juurnals will give more details than what I have
municated to those who might be expected to take a lead in the} issued.: On every point, disaster and defeat has waited upon
subsequent conduct of the question, I do not say that what was | England. There never was yet such) a defeat suffered by an
done was pot ‘right. “I ‘do not think it was not right, but I| invading nation—never such aa example had (o the invaders,
cannot help believing that the course’ indicated above would | Before ibis will bave reached you they will most probably know
t : i !
have been much betier. However, ail these things can-
not now, be helped, and I only notice them as I have told you
that you aod your readers may be made aware of what ie pass-
ing here. 1f, however, these views should be entertsined ex-
tensively, perbaps thé course of the agitation may have to be
made to pass into a”new ‘channel.’ I, may, percbance, bave
therefore to speak again upon this subject. Ve ae |
Meantime I cannot pass from this subject without giving you
an anecdote which has been made public fot the firet time with;
in these past few days. Mr, Sraun rox, the proprietor of the
Morning Register newspaper, a gentleman of the very highest
character, read at a meeting of the Repeaters of his ward an
extract of a fetter addressed. in him*by 8 nobleman muct in the
confidence of the Duke of WeLLineron’s friends, in 1830; and
that letter stated that the question of the Union was then under
the consideration of the Pret and WELLING von cabinet of thal
the temple of Irish liberty,
himself deplore the easiness
the, views of the time-setvers, and how much more firmly moet
the hopes which that letter is calculated to excite, fix him to the
determination never again to abandon the independence of Ire-
jand—a course to which be is sworn ‘upon the altar of his coun-
Perbaps it was a necessary consequence of the absence of all
consultation amongst the Liberals at the rime when this agita-
tion commenced, that evén O'Connexe himself appeared to be
undecided as to whether he should hoist the standard of Repeal.
Upon the 13th of August, 1840, he first intimated at.a meeting
of the Precursor Society in the Cora Exchange, his determina-
tion to found an Association for full justice or Repesl..’ The mo-
ment the talismani¢ word ‘waa flung abroad’ upon the airs of
Heaven, the people’s hearts leaped to the glorious prospect which
it opened to their view aud already ia the distance behulding the
indpendence of foreign legislation to which they must ultimate-
ly ascend from every corner of thé sea-girt isle, the pealing ery
arose, and the true-hearted people declared for their country and
their freedom. | But even in that bour the mind of the country
was stunned ‘by the course of which! that declaration was the
correction—the abandonment of Repeal in'1834, and many an
association was necessary before peuple believed in the earnest-
ness of the Repeal Association, and many a man held back be-
cause there was no concert between Liberale previous to the
hoisting of the standard, oe . we
: int
The riots of the manufacturing classes in England have, for
all purposes of good, either immediately or remotely, to those
engaged in them, been tbe most impotent in which a million of mea
waseverengaged. ‘Tie papers will present you with derail.
Your own comprehension will point out to you the uter absence
of all organization—of all common purpose—of all determina-
tion to demand the redress of grievances or of all understanding
of the grievances which required removal, that has been mani-
fested during this session. It was confusion. and nothing else.
‘The Chartists had the ball at their foot; if they knew’ how to
kick it where would now be the hangbly, insulting, people- hating
oligarchy of England? , Oh! they. sre a fallen party. The
people already denounce them, for they see that they have failed
them in the bour of need. Iam more cobfirmed than ever in
the view I have for some time taken of the Chartist’s proceed
ings, by their pusillanimity, upon thie occasion—namely,
they ‘ware in reality jeagued with, and inthe pay of the aristo-
cracy. ° But their day is over, and henceforth they will be use-
less auxiliaries, . Such, at least, are my opinions, and I am sorry
for the conviction, because in all. the principles advocated by
it} Mr. Reynolds received his annuity of £1
nothing of the English in Allghanisian but of their defeat—have
po memorial of them but their whitening bones... Bui England,
Europe, America, when will they forget the first mover of this
disaster? : J pity the victims, but iny country has sutlered inva-
sion from the same people, and that nation, I do not regret, should
be dishonored and defeated when she endeavors to pursue in an=
|| other country the same bad courses; | is
Sd Bath
I regret to state that honest Tom. Steele is very much indias
posed, but his cunstitation is one of iron, and be willrevive.. Bat
iron will wear when tested beyond jis strength. \: Gert 6
: There are four repeal missionaries proceeding fram the Ass
sociation into the Provinces—to get enrolled Repeaters and their
shillings. . I do not thiak the movement will be successful, +
ao reab eras coogeerew A TIPPERARY: MAN.
o*s I believe the nobleman above referred.to is Lord Clons
curry, who was io great odor with Lord Anglesea in 1830. »
cane Dag ot nn
(i he United Irishmen-Reyno!ds the Notorious Spy.
scoucse ysl f Prom the Evening Freeman.) :
wind @ ¢ . evo rt
: In reviewing Dr. Madden's able work—the “ United Irish~
men; their Lives and Times”—the Dublia Freeman observes:—a
‘The prominent feature of the work consists in an ample and judia
cious expose of the policy of the government in fomenting disaf-
fection, and afterwards urging, by a series of the most ¢ruel and
inhuman ‘acts to be found vo record ia any country, civilized or
harbarous, a‘ premature explosion, that they might legally viex
timize the men whose’ political efloris’ having already wrong
from them, many concessions, caused them to be regarded as the.
great obstacles to the ministerial projects against the people, and
thus to clear the way for another conquest, to be followed by the
total annihilation of the constitution and national exisience off
this country. + The means employed by these men are! well de-
veloped—the treachery, the corruption, the wholesale, ‘purchase.
of the people's blood by the Clarea, the Castlereaghs, the uare-
{lenting Cook, the virtuous Sirr, and the minor fry—Armstrongs,,
{tbe O'Briens, the Reynoldses, the M'Nallye, and the slaughter:
that followed, are put in bold relief; while the terrible revenge.
taken by the local arisincracy on“men whose liberal priociples
bad made them obnoxious, is exposed in a manner that dees
much credit to the author.;- We will proceed to place before our
teaders a few extracts from the volumes, which, we have no.
doubt, will have the effect of inducing them to peruse the entire.
The important services of the disinterested Thomas Reynolds, of
Kilkee Castle, county of Meath, and the defence” of his char~
acter by bis son, are ably commented on by our, author. . Ie.
price be named for which he betrayed them, and then —
“Bither Mr. Reynolds believes-that. hie ‘questions wre kane
swerable, or those who could answer are not willing to da a0.
Time, however, has unraveled greater mysteries than those
connected with the name and exploits of Mr. Reynolds, Docu-.
ments, whose authenticity cannot be called io question, are in
existence, and furnish inrelragable proof of Mr: ‘I’. Reynolds ha-
ving received for his disclosures, not £500 only, bur £5000 in
four payments, at the following dates, and in the following.
smounts:— . Co, aan co
21798, Sept,,29, Mr..P. Reynolds received, £1000.,
so) om | Nov. 16, do.” do. 2000.
vf 2799, Jan. 2 do dow... 1000
vot, March 4,0 do. doe 1009
to complete £5000—And moreover, on the 24th of June, 1799,
000, ** in full: tothe 251b,
March, 1799;”. from which period tilt hia death, (Sth August,
1836), his pension continued to be paid to him. .
(>, The amount of that. pension was £1000 Lrish, or £922 Brita
tah. He received it for a teum of tbivty seve youn, |”
: