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THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11.1847
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THE NORTHERN STAR , SATURDAY , DECEMBER 11 . 1847
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THE POLAND OF THE WEST . At the present moment , when the privileged classes of this country are banded together to trample upon unhappy Ireland ; when even Irish "patriots'' are turning traitors , and not a score of just and honest men—English , Scotch , and Irish—can be found in the Senate , to resist the further coercion of a ruined and despairing people ; when unprincipled journalists are doing their utmost to revive the embers of national prejudice , and rekindle the
flames of hatred between "Saxon" and "Celt ; " when on this side of St George ' s Channel Ireland has no friends but those who , like her own children , belong to the ranks ol the oppressed ; and when it is devilishly attempted to chill the sympathies of even those friends , the honest working men of England j at such a time it appears to us an act of duty to remind the people of England of the miseries Ireland has suffered through English missrovernment .
We implore the Peopleof . England to turn a deafeartothe false-hearted legislators , and villanous writers who , would set them against their Irish brethren . If the English people now bravely stand in the breach between unhappy Ireland and her assailants , they will make the only atonement they can make for the evil done in the days of the past . Ireland ' s ages ^ of suffering demand atonement or retribution . The people of England may
avert the latter by making the former . Let them repudiate the injustice committed by the governments of past times , and insist upon the government of the present time acting justly , and all may yet be well . Otherwise the wrongs of Ireland will not fail to draw down a heavy doom upon England , under the weight of which she will wither away and become , like the unholy empires of ancient days—a desolation and a by-word ,
" when the cnrse Heaven keeps for the proud shall come o \ er . Her merchants rapacious , her rulers unjust , And—a ruin at laBt , for the earth-worm to corcr—The Lady of Kingdoms lie low in the dust !" Many a column of this journal has been filled , and worthily filled , with revelations of the sufferings of the Poles , and appeals to the generous and liberty-loving of this and every other land , to aid that unfortunate people in their struggles for freedom and regeneration . But at our own door is a people who have suffered all , and perhaps more than all suffered
by the Poles , with this distinction , that the people of Poland have groaned under tyranny and persecution for the past seventy years , whereas the people of Ireland have been slaves , and victims of English oppression for the past seven hundred years ! Poland has been robbed of her independence , and partitioned amongst more powerful states . Ireland has been also denationalised , and forcibly annexed to a more powerful neighbour . The lands of Poland have been confiscated for the benefit of the conquerors , and precisely the
same robbery has been committed upon Ireland . The Poles have been persecuted for their religious faith , and the most infernal means have been tried to force them to abjure their religion , language , laws , and customs ; precisely the same persecution , for the same execrable objects , has been waged against Ireland . We might extend the parallel , and show , that in all the attempts against the rights , property , and dearest interests of the Polish people , the barbarous Russian despotism , has but imitated the acts of the . cpnstifotwnal : government * bi this country towards the people of Ireland ! , !"
It is now nearly seven hnndred years since the Anglo-Norman brigand ,.. " Strongbipw , ' . ' commenced the work of blood and spoliation by invading Ireland . It is true , that that mail-clad rufiian , with . his band of cut-throats had been invited to Ireland by a recreant Irish prince , who had ,, for ; his crimes , been driven from his dominions by his "¦ ¦ own- people . Unhappily for both England and Ireland , the Irish were only capable ofi offering a feeble resist
ance to tUirjumders j feeble , not because they were weak in numbers or the material of warfare , for the reverse of that was the case ; but because their chiefs were disunited . The state of anarchyinto which Ireland hart fallen , previous to the English invasion , indeed , very closely resembled the state of Poland , previous to the first " partition ; " and , that anarchy was caused by the baseness , rapacity , and ambitious feuds of her " great men ; " and everv in
r £ * 3 * n ' ° M ° Wn time ' Poland ha * saffered the like evils arising from the like Sf * * ' as tw » wongs never yet made a "ght , no amount of blame lairly chargeable to he SSw ^ K 1- stains , canjustir the English invasion , more especially when l Jn at ™ wi was undertaken ostensibl y to reuTkXl n f - tyrant ' ' for h » P » b . About a year after the first invasion , Henry a ., the English monarch , viBited Ireland , and Djnvay of justifying the crimes of his Lieute-
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nants , exhibited a document , signed by the Pope , authorising the English king to conquer Ireland . It is very questionable that the alleged Papal permission to invade Ireland was anything but a forgery . But even / if , authentic , it makes the case of the invaders noj ^ etter . A subsequent Pope granted the Amerkan continent to the Kings of Spain and Portugal ; but who will dare in this ( lay to assert the right of the Pope , or any other potentate , to divide an 3 give awav an entire continent , as a hunting ground for a couple of kings ? When , in the reio'nofone of Henry ' s successors , the Pope
made a present of England to the French monarch , the English , although they were then staunch Roman Catholics , defied both the Pope and the French king , and maintained their independence sword in hand .. The invasion of England by the Norman tyrant , William , was authorised by a Popej ; but Englishmen , who suffer to this day under the evils brought upon them by that invasion , do not regard that invasion as having been at all sanctified by the purchased blessings bestowed by the Pope upon the Norman brigand ' s banners . The East and South-East coast , comprising
less than one-third of the kingdom were the only parts of Ireland conquered by the English invaders . This part of the country is known in Irish history by the name of . the " English Pale . " The rest of the island remained for a long period essentially Irish ,. the chiefs sometimes paying tribute to the English kings but quite as often paying off their invaders with steel instead of gold . :.. ' ¦ _ But although by far the greater ' part of Ireland was still unconquered , the invaders pretended to re gard themselves as the rightful
masfers of the Irish soil . The island was divided into ten sections , which Henry made over to his principal nobles , for them to subdue as they best could . From that time forth Ireland was g iven over to the most frightful disorders . When and wherever , by force or treachery , the invaders could dispossess the ancient possessors of the soil , they , did so . Gentle and simple were robbed of their lands , and gradu . ally an alien aristocracy was introduced , between whose descendants and the veritable Irish people there has raged hatred and hostility to the present hour .
For four hundred years the legislation of the English Pale outrivalled the ukases of Nicholas . " Laws against intermarriage with the natives ; " " laws against the language of the natives ; " and "laws against their manners and customs , " constituted the English method of dealing with " the mere Irish . '' The people had been deprived of the protection of their ancient institutions ; on the other hand , they were not allowed to have the protection of English law . They petitioned over and over again to be allowed protection , if not freedom ;
but both were refused . They were proclaimed " Irishi enemies , " and doomed to interminable proscription , plunder , and massacre . Four hundred years after " Strongbow ' s " invasion , the Roy aLTigress , Elizabeth , set about completing the work commenced by the second Henry . Although the Irish had been excluded from English law . they were now made war upon in the name of the law , as " rebels ! " We pass over the bloody records of the battles , surprises , assassinations , and executions , which converted Ireland into one vast field of blood ; but we must mention one fact . One of the
means employed to subdue the Irish was the creation of a famine . The English armies occupied the provinces , destroyed the crops and every description of food they could lay hands upon , above what they wanted for themselves . When one crop was destroyed , they prevented the sowing of another , until , at last , many parts of the country became a desolate waste , and , except in the towns , wholly depopulated ,
Innumerable families gave . them selves up to the enemy , to die by the sword , rather than perish by hungei ' -lThree centuries ago , English statesmen created a famine to " reduce" the " Irish rebels ; " now , English statesmen have a famine to deal with which may create " Irish rebels ;" " rebels" who would now have the sympathy , and perhaps something more of the English people .
In the reign of James I ., six Irish counties were confiscated to the crown , and the entire province of Ulster was colonised by Scotch settlers . The Irish have always been a loyal race , much attached to kingcraft , accordingly when the grand struggle came between Charles and the Parliament , the Irish took the side of the king . They were rewarded for their generous devotion by further confiscations to replenish'the Royal Treasury . Charles promised them liberty of conscience and public worship , in return for which they advanced his Majesty a hundred thousand pounds—a very large
sum in those days . His kingship pocketed the cash , but left his faithful subjects minus the promised privileges . If the English Monarchy was false and rapacious , the English Commonwealth was fanacal and sanguinary . Cromwell ' s fame was baptised in the blood of the Irish nation . The confiscations of property belonging to Royalists in England and Scotland , were annulled at the Restoration ; but not so in Ireland . The Cromwellians were maintained in their
ill-gotten possessions b y the second Charles , who thus testified his gratitude to the Irish loyalists for their support of his father ' s cause In the reign of his successor , the Irish again took up the gauntlet in defence of a king who was too cowardly and contemptible either to wear a crown , or be capable of exhibiting gratitude to that crown ' s defenders . James II . expelled ; fromSEngland , and vanquished in Ireland , fled to France , and the " glorious , pious , and immortal" hero of Orangeism became sovereign of the two islands .
From the time of the Protestant Reformation , a new element of discord , and pretext for oppression , had been introduced . The immense majority of the Irish people remained stedfast to the faith of their fathers ; and , of course —for such was the rule in those days—were tl erefore , proscribed and persecuted by their Protestant rulers . In the reign of Elizabeth the Irish Catholics were compelled to attend
the Protestant Church service , although that service was conducted in a language of which they understood nothing . If they did not attend , they were subjected to a penalty of 20 J sterling for each offence . When Ireland submitted to the rule of William III ., it wa s on the faith of a too-celebrated documerit-tbe 'Treaty of Limerick . " By that treaty , the Irish were " guaranteed religious liberty and rights and immunities , which nlaiW * u »
Roman Catholic , population—the immense majority—on something like an equality with the Protestant population of the . kingdom . But that treaty was disgracefully and deliberately violated b the English Government . The "Penal Code ' swept away every privilege guaranteed by the treaty . A State oath was imposed upon the people , revolting to their religious convictions—and , therefore , rejected by the Roman Catholic population , who were thereupon , subjectea to heavy and desolating penalties . Under this atrocious "Code , " a wife o r child might acquire the property of the
nusoand or lather by conforming to the Statetest . But mark the virtue of the Irish people —although any son . by turning Protestant might have acquired his father'ids , Z 2 e instance of such falsehood was ever known In a thousand modes and formSjthe Roman Catholics were harrassed and persecuted for holding tastby their religious convictions . We often hear the Irish upbraided for their ignorance , but be it never forgotten that , under the lenalCode , " Roman Catholic schools were shut up , and the schoolmasters banished ; if after a schoolmaster had been banished , he returned , he was liable to be punished as a felon Did Calmuck tyrant ever invent a more damnable system to destroy the very soul of a nation ?
lhe triumph of the American revolutionists so far shook the English Government , as to compel the dominant power to somewhat relax the screw . The worst of the penal laws were repealed , The brii f period of Ireland's " Par-
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liamentary independence , gave promise of better future , but that promise was not re * Used . Corruption bought up the sham patriot ' of the Irish Parliament ; and a fomented rebel lion , followed by bloody proscription , sile nced in death the true patriots who sacrifice d their lives on the altar of their country , We shall not here dwell upon the meansenv ployed to carry the Act of Union , and the ef * fects of that Union upon Ireland , The sub ject demands a separate article , which our readers wiliperceive follows these remarks .
The martyrdom of Emmett and FitzgeraU and the host of patriots who shaved their fa te did not produce peace in Ireland . The slavC ings on the field of battle ; the shootings and hangings ; the floggings ; the pitch-cap ' tortures , and other hellish atrocities resorted to by the agents of the English Government to strike terror to the hearts of the Irish , faile ^ in producing the intended effect . The blood of the slain cried to Heaven , 'for vengeance and the miseries of the living left no rest for the guilty oppressors . " Arms Bills , '' anj "Coercion Bills , " and "White-boy Acts / followed each other in rapid succession ; but still there was no security for life or property
nor was agitation suppressed . At length it became known that the agitation for Catholic Emancipation had largely "infected"the army , and then the Government yielded— " Catholic Emancipation '¦ ' was granted . But the boon was of little service to the people . It admitted a few rich Catholics into Parliament , and opened places of power and pay for the benefit of the few , but the mass of the people were in no sense bettered by the change . All their social wrongs were continued , and , therefore , agitation has continued . Therefore has the cry of " Repeal" been raised , and therefore isthe Government menaced at . this moment by an Irish insurrection .
After repeatedly trying coereive measures , the Whigs pretended to have become converts to a better policy , and when , in June , 1846 , Sir Robert Peel ' s Government proposed a bill to authorise the disarming of the people , the Whigs threw out the bill , and thereby caused the retirement of Sir Robert Peel from power-Since they have regained their places the VVhigs have made no attempt to try the efficacy of remedial measures , but on the
contrary , after allowing multitudes to perish of famine and fever , they have returned to coercion , as a means to provide for "the protection of life and property . " We have traced , or at least indicated the long course of oppression under which Ireland has groaned , and yet suffers , and we ask the English people , whether that oppression has not exceeded—far , far exceeded—the worst atrocities of which Poland has ^ been ^ the victim ?
Wrong done by England , or in the name of England , is as much wrong as if done by Russia . Tyranny and cruelty are the same all the world over . No length of time can sanctify oppression , nor obliterate right . England owes to Ireland a debt of reparation , which has been accumulating for the past seven centuries , and that debt can only be paid by the English people insisting upon veritable justice to their Irish brethren .
We implore the Irish people not to do Englishmen the injustice of supposing that thepresent House of Commons represents the people of this country . That House is as much the enemy of the English , as of the Irish people . The enemy of the one is the enemy of the other , and that enemy , if ever overcome , must be crushed b y the united Democracy of both nations .
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THE REPEAL DEBATE . If another proof were wanting of the incompetency of the Cabinet to govern the country , and of Parliament to represent it , that proof was abundantly afforded on Tuesday ni ght last ,, on occasion of Mr O'Connor ' s motion relative to a Repeal of the Legislative Union between England and Ireland . " In the first place , every endeavour was madeto induce Mr O'Connor to postpone his motion for a month , —and Sir George Grey used themost insinuating " soft-sawder" on the
occasion . Even Irish members , pledged to Repeal ,, but afraid of their own votes , joined their efforts to those of the Whig minister , on the plea that the House and the Irish members would then be better prepared to support itmore able to rally . Why ?—This is a question on which Irish members have been preparing - themselves for years—which ; they profess and ought to know in all its bearings , —and they ought to need nothing more than to hear the trumpet sound the charge for their country ' * battle to rush to the rescue as champions of
itsrights . Sufficient notice had been given tobring them from the furthest west of Irelandand those who were absent were desertersthose who voted against the measure , traitors to their country . We well know what postponing a motion at a minister ' s request amountsto—it is the death-blow to its success—it takes the strength out of its supporters , and give s , government the time , in the interval , to have it negatived under another shape , so that whenthe original motion comes on . the question appears already decided by the House . We congratulate Mr O'Connor on his
indomitablecourage , and the wisdom not to have fallen intothe skilfully-prepared trap . But , mark the reason urged by Sir George Grey for postponing the motion : other measures of greater importance to Ireland claimed precedence . " " Ay ! true to Whig policy , —Coercion must precede remedial measures , and by preceding , in > the natural course of events , prevent thosemeasures ever doing good . Kill a man , and then bandage the wound , — that is Whig policy to Ireland ! When thecountr / s strength is gone , —when the people are banished or destroyed , then come with a
mockery of remedial measures , —it is lik& raising a splendid gravestone over the man you have murdered . Postpone the consideration of Repeal for that of Coercion ! Why , there has been one system of eternal coercion practised towards Ireland , and has it prevented outrage and violence ? No ! The more you coerce , —the more will the victim struggle , — and the more you prevent his open resistance , —the more deadly will you make his secret vengeance . Are the Government so blind and so bad , that they cannot see the only way to prevent outrage , is to remove the cause ? Not
alone to punish the offender—but to render the offence unnecessary , by making the people happy and contented . We admit , that in somecases terror may deter from crime , violence , or resistance , —but Ireland ' s is not a case like this . The Irish have passed the boundary of f , —they have reached the worst , —what can . they have to dread from Government ? What cares the man , standing above the smoking ruin of his cottage , by the dead bodies of his
murdered wifejand children , with hunger , gnawing at his heart , and madness in his brain , what cares he for bayonet , ball , or truncheon ? Ah ! your coercion is but child ' s play , and your power , great as it is , turns powerless frem the excess of ruin you have made ! And it was for a measure like this , Sir George Greywanted to postpone the question of Repeal ! In the next place , we wish our readers to notice the manner in which the question was treated by the House . There was no
discussion—no debate—a few Repeal Members spoke , and nobody replied , with the exception of thfr acrimonious drivelling of Mr Walter , or Major Blackall ' s patriotic statement , that he wo uld have voted for the measure had it been ? brought forwatd by any other member L There again is an instance of the policy of faction—Men not Measures ! Hostility to aft individual makes this patriotic gentleman turB traitor to his constituency , and according to his own assertion—belie his own convictions ! Sir George Grey ' s speech was one unmeaning sneer , advancing not one single reason against Repeal , or against granting a Committee , except the jill-uottat one withlthe truckling
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 11, 1847, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1448/page/4/
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