IRELAND.
The Dublin Warder has published an article which amounts to little less than a direct incitement to the murder of O'Connell. It com- mences as follows.
"0 Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; thou God, to whom vengeance le- longeth. show thyself."—Psalm xeiv.
" Well may the Protestants of Ireland—indeed, well row the loyal an1 peaceable of all creeds, call upon the Almighty to show himmuseli, and stay the course of those of whom the Psalmist, in another place, says, ' Who imagine mischief in their hearts. and stir up strife all the day long.' It would seem at if David were prophetic of the preeminently- wicked and blood-stained Dis- turber of our day, O'Connell, and his vile adherents. How long, merciful God ! are we to endure this man ? And, if thy thunder sleep, is there no other LT,ency of thy justice? Is the blood which he daily and hooey causes to be shell, to cry in vain to Heaven ? His dwmon excitements are spreading death to the innocent in every direction : yet he, the guiltiest miscreant in a country which he has steeped in red-blood guilt—la. lives, protected by the laws which he is continually bringing into contempt ; protected by the Christian feelings at which he laughs, and the Gospel restraints of those natural passions which his crimes are daily provoking to retaliation. One of his infamous scribes counsels the impalement of Protestants who shall. dare to exercise their rights as- citizens at a public meeting! yet he urges to wholesale assassination and murder with personal impunity : he walks the streets in safety, while his signals of blood go forth in every corner of the land, answered in the dying agonies of unoffending Protestantr. The monster—the Polyphemus of Popish agitation —walks in the security with which a Christian morality invests him ! But how long is this to be endured ? How long is our wretched country to groan be- neath his factious and murderous inflictions? When Brutus' dagger pierced Cwsar in the Senate, Brutus became the God of Route, for Home bad not the Gospel. Wheu Charlotte Corday struck down the monster 3Iarat, she became the victim of the power which fell not with him : all France adtnircd her heroism and deified her name, because France was unchri,tian, and acknowledged the polytheism of the passions. In Ireland, thousands of Roman Catholics are ready at the well. understood signal, and the (vivo- cal command, which they well know how to divest of its equivocation, to steep their hands in the innocent blood of unoffending Proteaants, because they too know not the Gospel, but place man above Go41, and the precepts of man above those of the Redeemer—because they too acknowledge the polythe- ism of their demagogues and priests. Brissot represented Matat as a man whose soul was kneaded up in blood and dirt. Have we no parallel for this ia our day and in this afflicted land ? Do not the most malignant calumnies, the foulest scurrilities of language, and the most hellish incitements to coutinued and multiplied murders, form a rival moral compound of blood and (lilt ;' and can we be at a loss to whom we shall say, Thou art the moan!' Marat is further described, as ever wady to incite others to violence and outrage, but was fearful of acting in his own person.' Is not the parallel faithful still ? Yet, O'Connell, who has demoralized all of his countrymen that have yielded to his influence—this Irish Maria, is shielded by the Gospel Christianity of the Pro- testants, whose blood he is at second-band and evasively shedding, and whose faith he is seeking to extinguish in the land—even he, thus faintly described miscreant and monster, can walk safe and confident among thousands of those Protestants of whom he is the active and deadly foe. He could pass through the assembled thousands of Cavan, Down, Tyrone, Fermanagh, and a hair of his accursed and recreant head would not be touched ; wIdle the Protestant pastor and the Protestant landlord, all whose relations in Ihe have been marked by Christian charity and beuevolerwe, cannot lllll ve within the precincts of their own grounds without the assassin of agitation lying in wait for his life. Merci- ful heaven ! how long is this to he endured ? 0 Lord God, to whom ven- geance belongeth—thou God, to whom vengeance belonged', show thyself.' "
The aim of all this is clear. It is to urge on some desperate Orange- man to kill the Agitator, although it is pretended that human nature in Ireland is so much more meek and holy than human nature was in
Rome, that there is no risk in using such language. The Slumlord copied the whole article, of which we have only given a part, without cote or comment, until pressed by the Morning Chronicle; and then it gave the following Jesuitical turn to the article. 4, It is because our excellent Irish contemptwary feels that it is addressing Christians, that it allows itself a liberty of describing how men, not Christians, would act by one who owes his safety, from wild justice, only to the influence of that religion of which he is the bitter and implacable enemy. Its the article of the Warder there is no suggestion of assassination either direct or indirect ; but even had there been such a suggestion, the Warder would not have been without honoured authority. The celebrated pamphlet of Colonel Titus will occur to the memory of our readers. DUCA soy OWe suppose, however, that Colonel Titus intended to have Cromwell (one whom we blush to compare with the Irish incendiary) destroyed by assassination? By no :swans. If Titus thought it innocent to assassinate the Usurper, he was the man to do it with his own hand. Killing no Muider was written to bold up to just odium one whom the writer believed to be trampling upon the laws that formed the only protection of his life ; and it was written freely, because the writer knew that his arguments might be fairly addressed to a pet)* abhorring assassinstion. With the same purpose, and with a confidence as just, time Warder has written of Mr. O'Connell. Irish Protestants are no assassins."
A Jury, even in Dublin, might find some difficulty in adopting the Standard's doctrines ; and it might be worth while for O'Connell just to see whether the administration of justice in Ireland authorizes such murderous suggestions, and such slanderous imputations. They are so far from being abhorent to the thoughts of the more rabid Omngemen- whose favourite song is,
" The cannon shall rattle WItru we go to battle. The Protestant Boys shall carry the day"—
that we should not be in the least degree surprised were the hint acted upon
The Rathcormac inquest, as we stated in our latest impreFsion last weeks has been brought to a close. Thirteen of the Jury agreed in a verdict of" Wilful Murder," two were for " Manslaughter," and eight for " Justifiable 'Homicide." There were fourteen Catholics and nine Protestants on the Jury. The Cork Reporter says that the Magistrates have been bailed.
" The Magistrates who took the bail were the Reverend J. Ryder, brother of one of the Magistrates (the Archdeacon), and R. Woad, Esq. brother-in-law of the former. It seems a family affair. The hail required was BM each, and two sureties in 50/. The verdict was ' Wilful Murder.' Captain Bagley's sureties were Captain Gregg and Dr. Downing. Who appeared for the Reverend Mr. Ryder and Captain Collis, we have not learnt. Captain Bagley, from all we have been able to collect, was mere misled than designedly mis- chievous in this terrible transaction."
The gentlemen of Liberal opinions whose names were returned at the head of the lists of those from whom the High Sheriffs fur the ensuing year were to be selected, have been displaced by the Tory Administration, and the Conservatives chosen. John O'Connell, Esq., of Gretna whose name was first on the Kerry list, has been made to give way to Mr. Bland, of Detryquin ; and Lord Berehaven super- sedes Lord Boyle in Cork. Short as the reign of the Tories will have been, they will have availed themselves of it to do as much mischief as possible: but they will soon cease to have the honour of doing more.—
Cork Reporter. Let the ‘Vhigs remember this : they promoted, instead of setting aside, Tory Magistrates and Lords-Lieutenant.]
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