On this page
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
his proxy in that behalf ascertains that Parliament will not be drawn into Anti-Maynoothism . After these ttro striking pieces of experience , stored for future use by the two Premiers , late and present , while the pageant-skilled Lord-Iiieutenant is winning some popularity at Cork by his courteous manner and his liberal adhesion to the Queen ' s Colleges , when you would have thought that they had attained a wholesome condition of mind on such , subjectsour blessed Ministers publish their proclamation against Popish processions and costumes in the
public streets . To all practical purposes , this is a wanton display of ill-feeling . There are certain processions of Roman Catholics which can no more' be prohibited than omnibuses can be " put down : " . you cannot , for inatancej : prevent charity-boys from marching jn rank and file from school to Church . Certain processions can be prohibited—such as the more magnificent displays which are made in high streets of Roman Catholic cities : but they are not attempted . Members of religious orders have ventured to wear hats , at their own peril ; and
if the police aid the inherent dislike of the British to ' * outlandish" dress , by " putting down" gowns , hats , and bands—why Mr . Secretary Walpole may count as an ineffective Paul of Russia , who tried to put down hatsj . and was strangled for his pains . Mr * Walpole will not be strangled , but only laughed at . in Ireland , however , there is something besides laughter—contempt ; made more intense but not more respectful by bitter anger at the display of malignity— -of helpless malignity . In Ireland it is nicely timed , too , in another respect .
" The Galway papers , " says the Times , " are full of the most deplorable accounts of wholesale evictions , or rather exterminations , in that miserable county . The tenantry are turned out of the cottages by scores at a time . As many as 203 men , women , and children have been driven upon the roads and ditches by way of one day ' s work , and have now no resource but to beg their bread in desolate places , or to bury their griefs , in many instances for ever , within the walls of the union workhouse . Land agents direct the operation . The work is done by a large force of police and soldiery * Under
the protection of the latter , ' the Crowbar Brigade ' advances to the devoted township , takes possession of the houses , such as they are , and , with a few turns of the crowbar and a few pulls at a rope , brings down the roof , and leaves nothing but a tottering chimney , if even that . The sun that rose on a village sets on a desert ; the police return to their barracks , and the people are nowhere to be found , or are vainly watching from some friendly covert for the chance of crouching once more under their ruined homes . What to the Irish heart is more painful than even the large amount and stern method of destruction , is that , the authors
this time are Saxon strangers . It is a wealthy London company that is invading the quiet retreats of Connemara , and robbing a primitive peasantry of its last hold on the earth . The Law Life Assurance Company having advanced , we believe , £ 240 , 000 on tho Martin estates , has now become tho purchaser under the Encumbered Estates Act , and is adopting these summary but usual measures to secure the forfeited ( pledge .. That gentlemen , many of whom have never set foot hi
Ireland , and who aro wealthy onough to lend a qijartjpr of » million of money , should exact the last penny from a wretched peasantry who had no hand or voice in the transaction which gave them new masters , seems utterly intolerable to tho native Irish reason . All moneylenders are bated except when they aro wanted , and tho relative , or rather the utter disproportion , between the exactor and his victims , in this instance raises these deeds to a climax of atrocity . "
All this , says tho Times , is so , but it could not bo helped . Perhaps not ; but it is an . ugly coincidence . Say that Galway is mostly Protestant , it is still an unfortunate coincidence ; for Galway is still Iroland , still not unmixed with tho Catholic faith . Thoro is aliko Homo ill wind to catch tho Irish , whether Protestant or Catholic , to make thorn hato authority , and to donpiso whoro they do not fear it . And it happens bo juBt ;
before tho election , when tho Irish aro . on tho ovo of ro-elocting the " Irish Brigade . " How admirable , a recruiting serjoant for disaffection is your Orange-Protestant Conservative Government ! Durham-lettor-Lord John , and prooessionproclamdtion-JJord Derb y , have equally earned the derisive hato of tho Irish ; wo of England , who do not wish for something worse than Itopoal , had better look out for a Minister committed to none of these preposterous indiscretions .
Untitled Article
A PLEA FOR THE BETTER OBSERVANCE OP THE SABBA . TH . In" alluding a few weeks ago to the fact that the Crystal Palace was to be removed , we pointed out that the great and permanent advantage which would be gained by the people out or the new destination of the building was , that it would furnish week-day workers of all classes with an innocent and a useful recreation on Sunday . Believing then , as we believe now , that these week-day workers wx > uld be devoting their one day of leisure for breathing fresh air to a good and wholesome purpose , by- ¦ enjoying , suchsights' as the wonderful works of nature in the vegetable world , and the ennobling achievements of human intellect which ^ rociaim the Creator who made us ^ -failing to discern then , as we fail to discern now , any very rampant impiety in the act of walking , on'Sunday , among shrubs , flowers , and fountains , stopping occasionally to admire by the way the produce of arts and manufactures —we certainly never anticipated that the use to which we have referred aa the best use of the
Crystal Palace , was likely to be opposed altogether in its carrying-out . We were mistaken : it has been so opposed—opposed oh " pious , " or sabbatli-observanee-nidrigering grounds , in two or three directions . The principal attack has been led by the Archbishop of' Canterbury himself at the head of a deputation to Lord Derby . We have alvvays treated , and wo wish always to treat , the religious convictions of others , however opposite to our own ideas , with unvarying respect ; but there is something so cruel , so foolish , so dangerous , so thoroughly unchristian in this demand for tho closing of the Crystal Palace rvn fi-nnrln . tr -f . linf . iv * annv » . h -fivi * +. V » rt nninionS OI tilO
Sabbatarian agitators , oven though an archbishop is at their head , is impossible . Their object is cruel , because it is tantamount to shutting up tho beautiful building from tho great bulk of the poople . Their object is foolish , bocausp no men wore ever yet made bettor ( but , on the contrary , have often been made considerably worse ) , by being deprived of harmless enjoyments . Their object is dangerous , bocauso to take away from the peoplo an innocent recreation to which they arc looking torward as promising an increase to their stock ot leasure on the onlday when pleasure is
attainp y able by them , is to try their patience and their long-suffering in tho fast way in which it ought to be tried ; to remind them of their dependont and inferior position , in the most oilensivo manner in which they can possibly bo reminded of it . Lastly , tho object of this ngitation is , unchristian , because no ' warrant whatovor for it w to be discovered in tho teaching and examp le 01 tho Founder of Christianity , as communicateel to us in tho New Testament . From tho Archl > iah ° P downwards , not one of tho " pious" deputation t . hii . fc ivn . itorl An T . mvl T )« rlw _ o . nn auoto a Sinffl "
text out of tho Christian text-book which dirocwy and plainly authorizes tho ( so . called ) principle on whieh they are acting . ¦ " The Sabbath was maOfi for man , and not man for tho Sabbath "—wasj tluw tho Ar c hbish op ' s watchword when ho mustoro u
Untitled Article
MO ; ^ : THE Ii B A I > El jSA ^ tJRDAy ,
Untitled Article
THE NEW CANDIDATE TOR THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY . The list of candidates for the presidency of the United States has-been materially narrowed since we last addressed ourselves to the subject , the democratic party having concentrated its suffrages on General Franklin Pierce . The selection is the more remarkable , since- it has taken the very men who concurred in it by surprise , for the General has not recently been before the world as a politician .
The various candidates still awaiting the selection of the "Whig party are as well known t the bulk of our readers as the corresponding class of statesmen in this country . President FiHmore needs no description . Daniel Webster is ad niitted to be-r—next to jBtenry Cl a y , who is disappearing from the scene—the ablest statesman of the Union ; but a want of faith with his supporters at various times has damaged his chance of support at this most critical time . General Scott is
regarded less as a statesman than as an active military man , whose name is associated with the most recent exploits of American arms ^ and his pleasant character makes him personally liked . He may have a considerable support from the " glory" party , ¦ which comprehends , within its own peculiar pale , sections of the different political parties in the republic . . But the prevailing impression seems to be that General Pierce , adopted by the Democratic Convention , is most likely to be elected ; and he is already regarded as the next President , Who is
heP To Americans , indeed , he is not unknown , and English readers may recall the name of an officer distinguished in the American war ; but otherwise withdrawn from public life he is a stranger to most persons out of America . A man of middle age—he was born in 1805— - of middle height , and slightly built , of exceedingly nervous temperament , he bears a countenance much more than usually mild , pleasant , and genial . He is very courteous in his manners , but sometimes , when provoked , exhibits flashes
of fire and energy altogether unexpected . Americans who have been at Washington remember that unassuming and gentlemanly man as occupying a . high position in the Congress , and they remember that he was an effective speaker , especially in appeals to the feelings of his hearers . We notice that the American " papers are recalling these traits of the new candidate , who is once more brought forward into public life ; but even the American journalists find it necessary to explain to their own readers who this elect of the people is . ' * Franklin Pierce is a lineal descendant of our
own family of Percy—the Percys of Northumberland ; whose place in the State is now occupied by the House of Smithson . Franklin ' s father , Benjamin Pierce , was one of tho heroes of tho revolutionary war , and was Governor of New Hampshire . Franklin Pierce was born at Hillsborough in that State j fche birthplace also of General Cass and Daniel Webster . Pierce studied for tho bar . Ho was elected at a very early age to the House of Representatives in his own State , and was chosen Speaker in the
twenty-fifth year of his age . Ho was elected Membor of Congress at twenty-eight , and Senator in Congress at thirty . It was a career of political advancement seldom paralleled for rapidity in America . This steady progroas , however , amply attests tho capacity which he must have shown for public business . Another trait is remarkable . Ho resigned his seat in tho Senate before tho term for Avhich ho was elected had expired , and returned to tho practice of his profession ; declaring , however , when ho did ho ,
that if his country should want him ho should be ready . Presidont Polk offered him the post of Attornoy-Gcneral of the United States , or Secretary at War , with a seat in tho Cabinet ; but ho doclincd ; and wo think it lucky that he thus abstained from committing himsotf to sonio of tho recent questions which have agitated tho Union . Not , that his opinions aro unknown , for it is notorious that ho is a decided " Compromise man . " Hut ho has been out of tho more recent quarrels , p , '
Whon the war broke out with Mexico , ho onlisted aa a private in a volunteer regiment ; and , if wo may trust a current anecdote , tho mode of his first appointmont is ominontly characteristic . He supplied n . friend with a loiter of introduction to the Secretary of Stato , at Washington , recommending that friend m Colonel of the regiment
in which he had enlisted . ( We cannot give you the appointment , sir , " replied tb ^ Miiuster " since it ha . s alread y been given , and a letter is no ^ v on its way appointing Mr . Fr ^ klinPierce " Soon after he arrived in Mexico ,, a post of Briga dier-General became vacant ; the commiss ^ n was entrusted to Colonel Pierce . He accepted it in March , and in tjie May , following he led his division ia that series pf victories of whicli Che- - rabuseo was ontf : > .
From the incidents and traits which we have so rap idl y sketched , the character , \© f the democratic icandidate can , readily he collected . "We should haves been well pleased to see J udge Douelas chosen , although he is said to have a bias against our country ; for he is too hearty and intelHgenfc a maa to take any course detrimental to his own . We are without information as to the views of Greneral Pierce on the subject of cooperation with England ; but we cannot say that
we feel any apprehensions on the -point , and we shall await the final election not without share in the confidence of many American friends that it will result well . It is evident that the General ' s unassuming demeanour covers an ardent and energetic capacity , which has always risen with the occasion ; and it would seem that possessing in a moderate degree the ambition of the official man and the powerrhunter , he possesses , in the Very highest degree , the ambition of the citizen and the patriot , the servant of his country .
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), June 26, 1852, page 610, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1941/page/14/
-