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      T The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal Of Sa...

      t THE TOMAHAWK : A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . . o ¦ ( SlriUfc lrj Jirtljur w'gnkttl "INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PRETERIT . "

      No. 102.] London, April 17, 186 9. [Pric...

      No . 102 . ] LONDON , APRIL 17 , 186 9 . [ Price Twopence .

      Imperfect Expiation .

      IMPERFECT EXPIATION .

      In Speaking Last Week With Just Severity...

      In speaking last week with just severity of the Fenians and their leaders , we must not bs supposed to have intended to aid or abet those who would turn a deaf ear to Ireland ' s cry for justice , because some of her children are leagued together for purposes of injustice . It is because we are fully sensible how

      much remains to be done , and how difficult it is to do , that we are anxious to guard against any mistake on the part of the Government which may alienate the loyal and true lovers of their country , just when their hearty aid is so much needed . Two dangers now beset Ireland—one , that those who , professing

      to be her devoted friends , are in reality her worst enemies , may drive her into hasty rebellion , and urge her to demand what can never be granted . The other is , that having done away with the great grievance of the Irish Church , those persons—always numerous—whose indolence makes them dread the hard work of

      Reform—may be ready to rest from labour , and fancy that because they have done one thing which has been very long a-doing , nothing else remains to be done . In fact , those persons would make a scapegoat , as it were , of the Irish Church , which might bear all the sins of England against Ireland on its

      back , and whose expulsion into the wilderness of Voluntaryism from the pleasant pastures of State-Endowment , might expiate all the wrongs which Ireland has suffered . A very easy way , doubtless , of getting rid of much trouble , but none the less dangerousand none the less wicked .

      If the profess , ors of the great let-alone philosophy should prevail , those who have been guilty of the late outrages , and those who are planning or threatening others will be mainly responsible . But we would entreat those who hold justice above vindictiveness to reflect what these outrages really mean . Are

      they not begot of that moral corruption which injustice has engendered ? Are they not the tardy fruits of a pestilent seed sown years and years gone by ? Foul and cruel they are as the men who sowed them were foul and cruel ; and we shall ever war against the noxious monsters with crippled arms , till all traces

      of the iniquity that begot them are destroyed j we may cut down the poisonous weed , but till we root up the seed it will grow and grow again . No more fearful example of the undying injury which selfishness and injustice work has ever been given in the world ' s history . Other nations have oppressed their

      subjectsmore than England ever did ; in some cases brute strength has ostensibly triumphed , and a whole nation has been crushed out by ruthless extermination . The sword , the dungeon , and starvation have done their

      work in Poland . Long-continued insults have broken the hearts of the few natives that now remain ; even their language is being silenced for ever , and all features of their nationality will erased — not — ; yet but — — bear — does — its anyone proper believe fruit ? that No the ; long wrong after done the name Poland of

      Pole shall - ^ have been x forgotten *¦ , generations ^^ yet unborn shall . reap the terrible harvest that has been tilled with swords and watered with blood—thousands of innocent creatures will suffer the terrible retribution which national injustice and cruelty have never yet escapedand never will .

      In Ireland it is , different there is an earnest wish to recreate not to destroy ; to preserve ; the nationality , not to mutilate it . , which But this we hav e begun y be don . L e ^ t y a perse strict vering and free in the inquiry work be of opened justice at once into the question of Tenant-right , and let delegates be

      chosen by the tenants themselves to set their view of the case before the Commissioners . It is no use selecting for examination a few model tenants , who have nothing to complain of . Both sides , both extremes must be heard , for the errors of each are no doubt founded on some statement of truth . If

      action be taken in this matter at once , the practical assurance thus given of the genuine intention of the Government to do justice to Ireland will do much to destroy the influence of Fenians and Ribbonmen alike . It may be said that Ireland has had enough of commissions , but the disestablishment of the

      obnoxious Church is a more solid proof of good faith than she has ever before received from England , and may encourage her to hope for more . The Irish Church is not ill chosen as a scape-goat . It is unclean , less from its own individual misdeeds , than for the

      injustice and tyranny of which it is the visible token . It is unwhen clean , fo rela r it nd is redolent first of enslaved the days b of a tyranny dominant and faction oppression . But , y the banishment of the scape-goat leaves the expiation far from complete . There are other sacrifices to be made ; there are

      many evidences of old wrongs to be burnt in the purifying fire , before we can sit down and say that we have finished our labour—that we have at last done " Justice to Ireland . "

      Be The It Und Lat Erstood E Review ) Ref...

      be The it und lat erstood e Review ) refused . —A on General Easter Offic Monday er ( of to the take " regulars his place , " p at did referred the not head think breakfast of the the muster column to duty had . he anything In was spite appointed of to the do snow with to command parade , he the evidentl -ice — / h y e Motto for Prince Christian . — "I have ^ done State no service , and they know it I " witho London ut a farthing Assur to ance pay ( the over expenses the water with ) . — . Taking a Theatre

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), April 17, 1869, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_17041869/page/1/