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‘ existence of the distress 3 but there
e
‘sought last session, that the term of three year:
which is necessary to constitute a claim in bis own
countsy, creased to that of seven. It
as immediately seen that a blow was aimed at the
campetition of Irish labour in the Scotch hom
. Market--at the act of union between Great Britain
. and Ireland, the spirit of which is identity of inter-
UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY. : 0 .
“218 , VOL. 1X."
TRELAND. We err egregiously if his government has not even by that public. a are the blind 5 the mained 5 5
’ already determined that Irish operatives shall in fu- ed; widow ; phan
The tly he British ss tem) mptation saan heretofo re to Teavelehe male: ia the Tem whe ‘are W ‘ling | to Sour
and Irish_ prints accounts of of Arnon, a and some of our|their own country, and ifit ruled point with but who are unable to procure employment,--these
religious Editors so frequently insinuate that these outrages | that government, that, if the Birmingham cutle! ler OF |furm one of the classes for whom, we think, provi
are tho natural consequences of Poreny; that we have for ran asgow. weaver complain of distress, no porti ion sion ought ‘to ‘be made, by eve tate; a and ‘tha
som pon the subject i t shall b v the inroads of the Irish. State which neglects them, does not regard right
which'w o would trace the effect to its true cause, vis. the is it not, however, deeply nortitying and exaspéra-| and justi Te here are those whoin vice oF
ting in the bi highest degree to rellect tat relief, or improvidence ‘has rendered destitute, who have,
gross “injustice ‘done to the Catholic Population of Ireland,
f thei:
f relief, should e thus arisen)
under the pretext of confiscation for rebellion, and their sub-
sequent persecution by the foreign Protestants, who wore
eordiality ‘could be expected, aud scarcely
whilst the Catholic was paring, the Protes-
tant offered him a Bible instead of bread, and if he offered.to
ndition that this child
Church.
dead i
having mot with the following able and temperate essay,
. We prefer laying it before the American peo;
‘00.
From the July Namber raf “ The Irish Catholic
We are not par dearly asi, and y
must confess, that our s not a jittle vveited |
on reading a » awertton repor orted to have t
place on the | fourth day of the present month, in th
~ Commons House of Parliam ont Mr. Brough
. presented a ‘petition from the town of Birm ngham, |
“complaining of the distress onder which so sarge a
portion of the British commu 3 now labouring, |
and tracing {t to what the petitioners believe
ses. As we ell as we recol te 7 there was no
ce of opinion among Hon. Members as to the
was the ‘dsual
fies. me Peel 100k | a part he conversation ;
" he sai any thing satisfy ** the manufactures,
. artizans ‘and other Pr nabitante’ am—
expressed his cunfident hope that
ate would right itself--having dwelt ont e nation-
al debt, the currency» er-trading, and the meri-
“can tariff, ‘the Rig (Hon. Gemicman concluded
with someting ae own countrymen, and
that. somethin
ment of “rhiich we have spoken.
mmigration of
git was which produced the excite-
2
ore-
on. See
Trishinen |
our in that c
_ rial alterations in in
ot among a those who are disposed te
" give an illiberal interpretation to the words of m
in.power. We will not believe then, “that when the
ecretary used’ anguage, he inten
w oe settlement. in England should-be
ch'less can we ewppose that he meant
that Irishmen 1 in want of employment should be pro-
_ hibited from seeking it in the sister country. ‘The
* Words of the Right Hon. Gentleman as reported,are
biguous ; ; but we give them the freest glos-),
“my, and we iranslate them in-the sense me spirit
ip nee we think the éy were uttered. We under-
im then to have said, that with a view tu
reliove the English operative from the competition of
the Irish labourer, it is expedient to consider whe-
a
ther or egal provision shoul ade for the
wants ofthe latter in his own co ontry. The cunning
Scotchman, who has no objection that one year's
if} m1
by those
to be/men
to the sears people of Ire
fated Ireland! Never was nat cite with su
merciless ‘indifference by rulers, ws 3 you een
whom an all-wise Providence perunitted to
govorn and scourge you! We e had years a
famine it Ireland. without nutnber pestilence has
tol owed us like a shadow,—widews and orphans,
the maimed. the aged and the infirm liave
been kuown to pin e and perish, unheeded amongst
n
at us,—the strong man in the prime o of years has falle'
er,--the wretchedhess of
abroad that our land wa: ;
and honey ; but that oUF peo ople partook of neither.
All this was kno The Fr eneliman knew it,—
@ Spaniard, austrian, the: Itali
e| Ruse sian knew Thec
the condition af the: poor of frelan , and repeated it
Sa le owever, wa
ine
to hay
should b und in
their Enalich masters, till their destitution should
lace them in convenient relatip n to their An-
reluctant concession was to be
ated for those. who are placed iu it, and that
there are others besides clerical, corporate and rent-
rell bipeds, entitled to partake ofits products. t
as most fortunate for the irieh, widow and orphan
ofthis second quarter of the nineteenth century,
the B irotinitham and Glassgow © operatives
should, have found their comforts curtailed by the
visits of their llibernian competitors. Were not
such the case, the present and the future would be
as the past has been. ‘The widow would be allowed
to perish as widows have perished, ‘and the orphan
would be allow vour its, mother’s
h
the par
himself. e could have pardoned him in much,
Nifor the description whi has given of them ;
but we are check n we reflect on that Dis-
d)franchisement Bill which he passed into a law--we
pre esume to reform them !
s possible, that v we may have put too liberal a
construction o on the words of Mr. Peel: itis possi
ble, that ifthe aires, vof the English operative sub-
side in a month or two, the tchedness of the
know that defea
mar or: to retard eve
not -amiss to enter here e dis scussion of the}c
ques tion ofa a legal provision sr the poor of Ireland.
There thas been of eration, and of dis-
torted aurea ia of mnistepresentation on that
subject,—we shall be ‘employed well in asserting|c
the: rights of humanity ; in exposing the sophistry,
4 the calumnies of tt ho di ath rar
ilk} the two clas:
I
citizen of America heard ofl,
d] “should no,
auper population ‘ol Ireland may te Se ne hehe ve city
3 2 to
country. For these and: other reasons we deem it ua t
wretchédness to which they are reduced,~-a
or.a hypocritical heart--may say, that they oughe
not to be. provided for by the rea fon 3, but political
tate the contrary. have based the title of one
of paupers upon right and justice,--we have
her
Tt
the origin of : socicty, ation « of property,aud
preservation of every thing valuable in the state
ie
presuppose the recognition of our principles, or en-
ty join a-maintena
nty
For i hstraion sake, we ve shall select from each of
have named, an individual case,
to prove therefrom the reasonableness of our theory :
and first, we shall take the most cbnoxiou sauple
of that description of paupers. \ whose claim to p
support rests, .in ‘our minds, on something tore
than even pub convenence. We will suppuse
an able-bodied operative, a mun enducd with the
frame and strength of Her culesy--it is ‘immaterial
siinple Inpourer.
trious. Mish
in the ver tigo “Of society, he loses his employment,
and with that employment the means of supporting
pimselt and ‘his family. Is. such an one to starve ?
“Heh © controul over war or peace ; over taxes
or impo oats over trade. free or restricted.
the victim, perhaps, of a blundering legisittion. Bu
is he to be its entire vietien? ask, :
to starve 2”? There isa societ and what} is called
~-property, in the, Sand i in which he lives. It is ad-
mitted that he is a “member of that society, and itis
declared, that when called upon, he mu St protect its
property, even at the peril of his life—can it be
posed that a vational ‘Veing would become a member
of a society, or tiat any society could be formed in
which all title to the means of subsistence would be
‘orfeited,—wher: wou! e liable to
e fo
° “
gain i
not partake of, they would die?
volved in the doctrine, that any nan willing to work
teat” if food
said the Israelites to
Joseph, “ why should we die i in thy presence, having
now no money.” What irresistible ‘eloquence there
was in. that simple appeal! And it was not address.
unjust m:
hard- ‘neared. and he
plicants sbundaaly
Cork.
We now come to a case selected from the second
er .shall be one of the most vitious
ests—-English, hand Irish—-that the enactment]
of which the Scotchman Sought for, would oe jadi
ery to say to the’ [ris erative, a
Jand ; you .may spend six of the best years of your|
‘Fife atnongst us, enriching us by your industry ; but
if in the seventh y
8
=
t you sicken or tose employ:
iment, you will baron no legal claim upon our sympa-
thie: ‘Th asure was accordingly abandoned.
Tis | promoters ea saw that whatever might be urged in
“its four, the end in view must be otherwise attain-
and: some o! oo said, * well, then, make a/
Joga provision for the poor of Ir eland. ” Tt wo
appear to us that the Tome Secretary has resolved] ¢
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isreg 8
and in rescuing from a participation in that injustice
men, some but. who
iefto
the designing
and the n fact, ‘that
ie are indies in Sean whose pirate chari-
all p:
The
ond Trmpronient of wretches. hi is admitted, that
des his own prospects in life-—that he
has blighted the hopes of those ‘who b ad their de-
pendance and, bat be has deliberately
‘artifices to perp
the heart- ending Westitution of thelr unfortunate
fellow-countryme
=
°
at there si ould be ‘Sa certain provision for the
7? ve ato
There will be always in every ‘community t wo
classes of individuals labouring under distress, who,
to ac et upon this alternative of the Scotch worthies. |
they belong, ought, nevertheless, to. be provi
is un! ed,— sa
at themeclres uaksongy to the. moe sna ortby {
etuate the er, nakedness, { p
That al ute and Political expediency require t
hai
— worthy—
suffered to famish, to patel rity and become pestilen-
iaj--to have no alternative but starvation or robbe-
ry. perhaps murder
8.
o
S
y has dangers, as well from within as from
The cupidity and the -ambition—the ar--
mies or the navies of neighbouring potentates or
ided for| nations—-are ‘not the only sources of danger from