HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Signal, 1848-06-02, Page 2PROSCRIPTION.
From the Bytewu Perlin
'1'e hear a great deal of oak of Tale
about "Refuns Proscription" from Mr.
Gowan sed other wine-holders.a4 polo,
. tens Ilea bo., who're •'e.nscaence struck."
The cry is rotated jun nowt, of course, by
those ...•..l expert ezped*Nt-precederty
mein and '• Dodgers' of the artful Todse
for the woman, if poratbtc, of shieldteg
i h xteaselve., •real infim*dnt,I • Refuse Guy-
tr.. i l hum ire edict haat of duty to itself
'.til the country. Advantage has been
t then by the Tories—the first opp.rtuouy
—to raise thin •• bask off"' cry,—that of the
dtsawal of Ferree fore the Office of In.
•Rector of Licenses fur the District of Mon-
treal. Th. office from which Mr. Ferree
has earned his Ji.ntiseal is, of all others in
the country, the roust nun political, fur by
•n Act of Parliament, Collectors of the
Re. came aro even prohibited from voting—
whoch, of course implies on a6Unence
from all interference in politics of the
country. Mr. Ferree, notwithsundine, it
• appeals, is a very active—perhaps one of
the most active of tory partisans ; and
main Monett peculiarly - any, even offen•
.ively o iciou., during the recent (Lotions
in Rawer Canada, and particularly sin in the
rnnnly of lyhcffor,l, ageing the Reform
Canddato— bir. Drummond. Regarding
this disunited much noise, as we said be-
fore, is being made 0y our Tory office -bold
ere, who, no doubt, feel that they deserve
'similar treatment from Reformers for con-
duct on 16th part which though not so open -
1y manifested as that of Ferree was equally
if not more obstructive to the principles of
Imeform and Progress.
Lot os now etre one instance of what
Tones did in this obscure quarter when
they had the power.
Go the 23rd of January, 1845, a certain
letter was written to G. B. Lyon, E.q.,
Barrister of this place, then resident Agent
for the sato of Crown Lands in the District
of Dalhou-ie, by the Deputy Commissioner
of Crown Lands, Mr. Bou (hillier, which let•
ler was concluded as follows .—
HURON SIGNAL.
FRIDAY, JUNE lb 181E
THE MOVEMENT.
A FEW THOUGHTS UPO.4 IRELAND.
We are set aware that Witte 's! History cos -
tales to its .x1,0.11• tinge, say oeeacr7 se
&altos prneatiag the semi 44.4.4104' chsrastet
es the Amory d Ireland premium ier the Isar
hundred yeses- It is admitted to be s hatiie
coition. to be • besedf4l sassy. sad M he 4
healthy country. The tnksd's... have pairs
themselves to be clever, shrewd, active taw,
bah able and wilhsg to week. They have
scattered therm/grim almost err the Oahe. est
is march of mass or Wivess, bet is sear\ et
work ; amid • very large properties of the Seer
.f Europe .d America hes bees p.dtmd by
them. Is litentere, .utesmaaahip, rams used
prefeseteoal talcum, they will bur • fair itsmpmi-
ssn with ether connote* of Eases. And yet,
withal, Ireland has beee and is sow the mass
..happy settee of the earth. Then mug M
sonic cater of this asomsly. It mast eget
either 1. the people or is the geve -.ma.L Throe
is's certain differeaee or pesstisrtty el eharsws
belong.og to the inhabitant d every country.
But the paasioe and dupottitiess el the Minna
family are eesestially the sae, a-1 the peculiar
characteristics of the different cancan are imp -
posed to result in a greet mouse* from the pecu-
Iiu forms of 'bent goventunt, religion .ad
social iwthed's.; and is a .Egli instance
ese it be shows that atlas belesgtag to the
sans variety of the species, hams aaterel'y ex•
►ibited that diffuses of eba.cter which dis-
tisgals► the i.habitaal* of B.odand from the
ishabita.ts of !reload. It mast therefore have
visna front external eiremustatees,—tbe chief of
which are civil goveromeat and religious insti-
lsttves.
Scotian\ and Inland are .omiwlly ander the
same government, that is, they are both ander
British Government, and this to a foreigner, or
• grossly ignorant man, might suggest the idea
that the privileges and grievances of the two
cowries are the same, bat is reality, there is as
mach difference between the governante of
Scotland and Ireland as what is between *6e.e
of England and Ramie. Scotland ie a Presby-
terian country, and has a Presbyterian Church.
She has parochial schools, colleges, literary and
legal institutions of her own making. Her
laws are the choice of the people, a.d in almost
emery particular differ from the laws d England.
Her nationality is as distinct sad independent
te•dsy as it was wino she vanquished the E.g-
lish Edward and his forces 011 the field of Ban-
nockburn ; .and were an attempt to absorb her
nationality, to be made to -morrow, she wQald
find among her own glens and machetes a
hundred Robert Bruce., who were both able and
willing to play the stood part of the Bannock-
burn tune with great spirit, and perhaps -vitb a
few modern improvements. This, then, ia Scot-
land as she was and u .he is.
Ireland isa Roman Catholic country, with an
Episcopalian Church. Her Colleges, Schools,
Iutitulio0s, and Laws, are Episcopalian. Her
Judges and all the Adminutratoro of her Laws,
were, till recently,: altogether, and even sow,
are chiefly Episcopalians. She has been, and L
sow governed by a mere handful of Orangemen.
She believes that a part of the oath of Orange -
ism is to wash their hands in Papist blood ! this
is certainly not true, but the falsehood does not
alter the effects. 86. believes, and consequent-
,
treated by the British Government as an
alien and her conduct has been the result
of that treatment. The Government of Ireland
has been a eerie of systematic attempts to
swamp her Celtic nationality, but the in-
tention has signally miscarried. Insult and
injury naturally beget a spirit of rebut -
'ace ; that resistance bas now assumed the
character of deep-rooted hatred sad implacable
revenge. The system of misgovernment hu
been too long persisted in ; it has gradually and
slowly produced a condition of society that is
totally incurable. The physician bas aggran-
ted the malady till it bas gone beyond his own
skill—but the responsibility rests apoo the physi-
cian. This is Ireland as she is
We said some time since, that tho Editor of
the United Mason n should be taken up and
treated for insanity. It is now too late. The
foci of John Mitchell being mad or otherwise, is
now no question of importance as regards the
fate of Ireland. Ile bas succeeded in co•viac-
iog a large multitude of his couutrymeo that he
is sane and that his views are correct, and o4 this
faith they are prepared to fight ; therefore the
government has just the alternatives of repealing
the Union, or of slaughtering the people. In
the presto* alarming crisis, it is folly to ask
what the 'Beets of Repeal will be ea the nation.
From the •feet that in the close of Put century,
the Irish Rebellion was produced by the corrupt
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