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Show WHY NOT LET IRELAND GO? (Xew York Sun.) The best thing that England could do today would he to set Ireland at liberty. There i nothing noth-ing eise that would so much conduce to-English happiness, prosperity and security. Give Ireland, not home rule, but commote sepa ration and liberty. Let her be a race, a people and a nation apart. Tie no- string to her freedom, ini- .-pose .-pose no restriction but the sea between, and let her r go free as the air, like a bird from its prism. There is no way, and there never will be anv way, of turning Irishmen into Welshmen or Scotchmen.. Scotch-men.. They are impossible of absorption. To govern gov-ern them is vain. They might bo. all hot or they might be all drowned, but they can tiovrr be domesticated do-mesticated while Ireland remains an islar-d. Since England became civilized abour a century cen-tury agone all her attempts at governing instead : of murdering Ireland have been the derision of at- tentive nations. Jer injustice has been hard to bear, but her colieilliation has been more intolerable ..vet. The more she placates, tho more she benr- gifts with both hands, the more exasperating and Utterly without hope the situation becomes. There was once a man that did languish seventeen seven-teen dreadful years in a darksome dungeon foul, when a bright thought struck him and he opt-ncd the window and got out! There is the very idea. Put away the futility of ages, 'pen th window and let Ireland free. ' Captain ilahan. who is really an Irishman in a heavy disguise, says that. England cannot affoTd t -et Ireland free because of tho fatal weakness ihut would then be hers when she went to war with on of the powers, by reason of having a hostile nation, however small, in her rear. Wc do not believe a word of it. . Ireland, given her liberty without condition, agreement, treaty or stipulation, could never be an enemy in the rear. Tho Irish are hoc buiit that ; , way. To make such a thing possible, Ireland would have to be removed to the furthest spot on the globe. i i Contiguity, for an Irishman, other things being equal, is fatal to hostility. If Ireland were set f re- as an act of spontaneous nobility, generosity and justice, and the continent of Europe were to set upon England, the Irish would swim across the channel, if they couldn't get boats, to be in the fight from the start. : ; . Xo matter what the row was about, the Irish 1 would have to be in it; and nowhere else In the ; whole world would they tight so congenially, heartily heart-ily and naturally as on the side of the Sassenach for the cause of Albion. Albion the perfidious never more. Human nature is more potent than all the ties that statesmen can fashion or impose, and hu- V man nature is much the same all over the world. - but nowhere else is it of a warmer quality than it is in Ireland. What would the whole Avorld say if England were ; to proclaim today: "Xext Christmas day as ever is the soil of Ireland and all the people that inhabit Ireland shall be quit of Britain forver. On that, gracious and hallowed day it shall be theirs, with- out let, hint or hindrance, to shape fate to their i own liking; and may a beneficent Deity smile up"u the time!" , . It would take a year to withdraw the paraphor- ; nalia, whitewash the Pigeon house, get the castle tit ; for a gentleman to live in, prepare the Bank of Ireland, Ire-land, for the senate and the house, and otherwise get everything ready. What would the world say? The world would say that England had not done so good or so grand a thing since her jople took her rulers bv the ne k and extorted from them the srreat charter. Tho world would say, too, and truly, that never at all had England done an act so wjse. |