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AN GAODHAL.
Of our old Gaelic land.
Last night I had a vision,
A strange portentous dream,
In which some things were revealed,
Which wonderful did seem.
The hope forsook my bosom,
And misery drew on;
And Grief the Island covered,
And Grief, Grief alone.
"THE SCOTCH-IRISH." — Under this head¬
ing the most villainous, malignant and slanderous
article ever penned by man appeared in the Ea¬
gle of this city on Feb. 22. It points the Ulster
planters of James I. industrious, upright, truth¬
ful and moral, while he portrays the natives as
being the very opposite. No wonder the planters
were prosperous when they were planted in choice
locations, while the legitimate owners of the soil
were hunted to the rocks and, when, if they
had a valuable horse or other property the said
planters could take them for a mere trifle. But
the cheek and effrontery of this moral assassin, in
the face of statistics compiled by his own prote¬
gees, to compare the morality of the Irish with
his own sodomatic abominations. Here is the
morality of the four provinces last year, taken
by English officials, — Drunk, Munster 24,432;
Leinster, 24,183: Connaught, 10,663, and Ulster
28,219. Illegitimacy — Munster and Leinster in¬
cluding the cities of Cork and Dublin, less than 2
per cent; Connaught less than 1 per cent, and
Ulster — moral "Scotch-Irish" Ulster, 4 per cent,
This slimy mouthed defamer had these statistics
before him, but truth would not serve the purpose
he had in view, yet some men who call themselves
Irishmen associate with this moral assassin !
This complimentary item appears in the same
paper of Feb. 24. —
"Moreover there is a certain tradition that
an English exploring party, during the first por¬
tion of the 16th Century, discovered in the Caro¬
linas a people who seemed to be neither Indians
nor Europeans. With true British sagacity the
explorers put together the facts that this people
had red hair, uttered a strange guttural speech,
were armed with shillelahs and always appeared
to be on the eve of a riot, and therefore concluded
that they were Irishmen." We notice these things
because this British sheet has been supported by
Irishmen, and because its conductors pretended
to sympathise with the wrongs of Ireland.
This is the expiring spasm of English domina¬
tion. It is the last kick and is wild and reckless. It
sees the power slipping from his grasp. It sees its
kind, through immoral agencies, reduced to three
per cent [vide official returns] in this city. It sees
that the Irish element, which it seeks to defame
multiplies, so that in less than twenty years it will
be the governing element in the country.
Irishmen, you are a power which cannot be ig¬
nored if you have manliness to wield it. Respect
yourselves. Respect your language and history
and place a visible sign of your condemnation on
those who seek to defame you.
A Brooklyn Subscriber — We believe the prop¬
rietor of the Eagle is not an American Citizen [it
is commonly said he is not] for this reason; that
though he was chairman of the delegation of the
King's County contingent to the Chicago conven¬
tion which nominated Mr Cleveland for the presi¬
dency, and it was through his influence that Mr.
Cleveland got the nomination, he did not vote for
him on election day, nor for Gen. Hancock in '80.
He did not register either years, because, we be¬
lieve, for the above reason. We would sooner be¬
lieve that he has no vote than that he would act a
traitor to the man whom he helped to nominate by
refusing to vote for him. But what must we think
of the intelligence, manhood, and patriotism of a
party which permits itself to be "run" by the
representative of the Arnolds of notorious memo¬
ry? This is the man who placed the coat-of-arms
of England over the entrance to the Brooklyn
Bridge, a standing insult to every patriotic citizen
who crosses it. This is the influence in our Ame¬
rican politics which has left our coasts and sea¬
board cities unprotected under the hypocritical
cry of economy, but really to keep us under a
cow, and enable English influence to predominate
in the politics of the American Continent, as is
made manifest by our cowardly actions in the Ni¬
caragua-canal affair. This nefarious English pol¬
icy supported by the subsidised English press,
and by ex-rebel and tory legislators, is a disgrace
to our intelligence and a menace to the stability
of our republican institutions. This is the in¬
fluence which makes the tail wag the dog in our
municipal polities — that puts Burchardism into
practice in their regard. The Irish element forms
two-thirds of the democracy of Brooklyn, and
what must be thought of their intelligence when
they permit themselves to be bossed by a simon
pure Englishman? Not one of this majority has
ever received even the nomination for mayor of
the city because the burchards of the party could
not be got to support him, and yet the Irish will
support these burchards if nominated ! How de¬
grading to the Irish element are these truths!
The Eagle is run purely in England's interest,
and with characteristic British brutishness and
savagery is no crying out for the innocent blood
of the Soudanese. It is the headquarters of the
English detective bureau in this city. It is here
the notorious Jim McDermot graduated.
Irish revolutionist have now an opportunity to
accomplish their end by helping the El Maidhi,
and by sending a few thousand other El Maidhis
to India to sit up the natives there. With intel¬
ligent tactics it would be impossible for England
to hold her Indian empire for six months. In less
than that time every Mussalman soldier could be
got to act as his kin did at Khartoum. Here is an
opening now for intelligent operations.
