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      Last Week We Showed The Danger Of Exacti...

      unjust , still is law in Ireland . We do not deny that the cruel facility of eviction gives to the grasping or the careless : landlord a terrible instrument of persecution , and that sometimes he uses it . But for one bad or indolent landlord in Ireland , how many are there who , with gentle patience and earnest industry , have

      sought to improve the condition of the tenants too often in vain ? Moved by a generous spirit and a sincere desire to ~ make those , dependent on them happy , because in the course of their work the prejudices and passions of some idle rascals are thwarted , the assassin ' s bullet or bludgeon is as ready for them , or

      their agent as for the most heartless and sordid . One after another the abuses of the law have been abolished , but with--: out any good effect in suppressing these secret bands of assas-; sins . None of those who are themselves industrious and Godfearing men dare help in the detection or punishment of the

      criminal , though they fear and detest : him . This is : the grossest ! moral cowardice , the most contemptible truckling to brutality of . | j which hend , in men a nation can be which guilty boast . It s ^ is an the d with more some difficult justice too to , compre of their - ) courage .

      It seems , as we have often said , worse than ridiculous to talk about the purity of the Irish and their freedom from certain forms of vice . This is entirely beside , the subject . It is dis-I graceful to talk of the wrongs inflicted in past times on the conquered country . England has been conquered again and

      again , spite of the popular boast to . the contrary . ; she is a medley of the races that , have subjugated her with fire and sword , It would be as reasonable and just for men to defy the law in England because a brutal code not long ago condemned the shoplifter to the gallowsas it 'is for the . Irish to rail against

      the landownersto ill-treat , and kill thembecause in the time of Elizabeth , and , Oliver Cromwelland even , as late as in the , time of the George ' s , the land was : governed with great cruelty . Vendettas which are handed down from father to son are a very

      disgraceful inheritance . It will be an evil day for mankind when the sins of the fathers are . visited by an Omnipotent Being on the unoffending children . Fortunately , that barbarous superstition has faded away before the light of a religion of which love and mercy are the foundation stones . Ireland must either

      consent to aid us in the task of reconciliation , or be for ever the battle-ground of fanatics and traitors . It is no use holding out our hand if they will not grasp it , or they take it coldly with one hand while the other grasps the bludgeon of the murderer . Even as we writewith the blood of nearly- a score of

      , recently slain victims crying in vain for vengeance , a ray of hope falls on the dark distance . The O'Donoghue has addressed a letter , to his countrymen , in which he speaks the language of peace and good sense , and even of magnanimity . He is beginning to see how impossible violence and vindic ?

      tiveness are beginning to render mercy . He may , see far enough into the future and with clear eyesight enough to . under * stand that until the law is able to vindicate its authority in Ire * land , further concession would be a crime . How can we create another class of proprietors -LJ . in Ireland from , the people CO .,

      themselves , that people whose good we profess to seek , if we know that we are powerless to defend them from the assassin , even in broad daylight ? If the tenant-farmer becomes to-morrow the owner the soil , dare he discharge a servant , dare he claim his due in labour or in money without the certainty - ^ of being , _ ,

      sentenced to death by a midnight tribunal o murderers ? And if he is shot down who shall avenge him ? Will his fellows , will his nominal landlord , will his labourers avenge him ? Who shall dare to speak of comfort to his widow , who shall assure her that her son , that she herself , may not be the next victim ?

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      What power can the law claim , what protection can it pretend to give , where no men but hired soldiers will aid it in punishing the man-slayer ? Is not it fearful to think that everything which the least unreasonable and disloyal of the Irish ask may be granted to-morrow , and yet no check be put on this tyranny

      of crime ? What if then , no longer deluded by the false halo of heroism which had formerly surrounded these wretches , the people themselves rise , and in the fury of roused vengeance strike savagely and wildly around ? Will the punishment , meted out by long-suppressed indignation , be milder than that which . the grave and sober law , rightly supported , would inflict ? We fear not .

      I86 The To Ma Ha Wk. {October 23, 1869.

      i 86 THE TO MA HA WK . { October 23 , 1869 .

      The Fretjfztl Philosopher Ojst Friendshi...

      THE FRETJFZTL PHILOSOPHER OJST FRIENDSHIP .

      Without Friendship Friendship Is A A Man...

      Without Friendship friendship is a a man very beautiful cannot borrow thing . five It shillings is also . useful Shillings have been borrowed at sixty per cent .,, but still a brotherly ; thropy is love a bold of a m sort certain erely of u p n hilanthropy kind iversal has friendshi insp in ired ce p . nt t , he per transaction cent ., and . p There hilan-* flr ?» . ' lot B ' or y t wi he ne aid or of a friendshi lame horse p maiildnd for it «« r can is ih get the rid sacred W ^ of *>^« a " damaged name of

      frie mi by ^ . 'SJ -a ^ ; man ndship VJ * . W » * A * o * A n ^» that his A V # i brother *« these _ % M . * -y * . M . T M . and ^ + man A 1 . VAWV other . 4 , - » X lasting mm ^ - » . - ^ .. m > ¦ . •**•* ' obligations A *** ~ V ** . _ ^ are . ^* ^» conferred * . * « - *** . 4 ^* . **^^ - >^ » ' , oftfiis There 1 beautiful are many ' and - ways useful of ' quality bearing * * * - -of the testimony heart . * to Men the h existence ave been - - known the : self , - thrqug same p iece friendshi -of paper ps to . write ; their names ; side , by side on *

      bee Friends n inspired have . , do One ne . friend bills together ^ has . frequen ; Thus tly > bee often n known has confidence to trust T imp ouching licitly ? i insta n * the nces other , of , this when happy - the- d and ocument sim-ple has trustfulness . become due are . th on sole e re holder and cord undivided . has A friend often Honour acknowledged has been of taking known the up to sacred l tReifrjomt % aVe tie to * ^ ffrs by j note friend regarding . & the *& the them other as brothers . Without ,, and friendshi seizing the p this . one , pe wi rfect thout identity compun of ction nature ,: for

      would' have been impossible . % * ' . ' fra Friendshi nkly about p ; is a , man also . the as . his mother friend of . truth The . cHarity Na one of friendship sneaks ^ so preve behind nts his him back from doing , this to his face . He therefore does it ; m * he ' word **/ friendl *•• * . 11 \ s has n V w *"'• * __ ¦• ' It " 9 ' a sometimes i : _ . ¦¦ :- . _ _ ^?

      T " y" many meanings . Has the " quite same in a meaning friendly way as " , j ; si ; means mplicity soup . " ' , To joint be , and asked cheap ' to sherry dinner . good This repast is beautiful . Friendshi ; Mere p does acquaintanceship not . / entitles man to a People talk of ' " frien frie dly" societies . Sometimes ha - these same

      with to could soc the ieti every venture e most s ha halfpenny v comical e upon put an the test they experiment . have n They dshi received p have to so w searching hi occasionall . ch Onl they . y true y ; ve made friendshi appealed , away p These associations ; must not be confounded with Afo , Society the of Friends idea o . f friendship That is quite with , a which different they affair joined . So in absorbing brotherhood , was ,

      hat that s . they helped nobody but themselves ; They also wore white V not There mean is anything a saying , in " particular Save us . from It was our friends the last , '" but remark ' it do but es one Julius Caesar made to Brutus . Brutus was . an intimate frien put a d knife of Caesar into ' s Caesar , and . meant This extremely is a striking , kindly instance / to . him . of Brutus friend * ship .

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  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Oct. 23, 1869, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_23101869/page/2/