FAMINE IN IRELAND.
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The accounts of the distress and. starvation in
Ireland are horrible A letter from ladies in
that unhappy country to the ladies in America,
appealing for help, is circulating in the papers,
and it says: "Ohl if you saw the sighlI Above
two hundred men, tattered, looking more like
skeletons than human beings, with despair on eve
ry feature, toiling on road they were making,
and not one probably having tasted food since the
day before; and in the mountain wilds, the 400
men and children peTishing by hundreds! A
mans hire for the day will hardly earn what
keeps himself alive, and though an Irishman
would give his last morsel TO his child, yet he
must keep it himself for if he perishes his family
must perish with him" It is also stated, that un-
less Ireland can obtain some extraordinary aid,
"she must soon become one vast Lazar house Of
the dying and the dead"


The poor of IreIand-and their name is le-
gion-starVing at their daily labor, in the noun
tain wilds, on the highways, on the steps of mar
BILE palaces, and in thronged cities, while the rich
OF Ireland are revcIing in luxury and ease, and
while the splendid government of England lords
over all, from the greatest nobleman to the hum
olest peasant. Disguise it as you will, England
irresponsible for all the calamies and woes of Ire
land; and if there be vengeance in Heaven for
oad and wicked governments, England is destined
10 Wlther beneath the burning curse of the Lord
Almighty. The cries of the crushed laborer, and
.ne walls of the famished women and children, and
tne blood ofthe sons of Erin worn out of them by
ne iron hoofs of despotism, 1ciH be heard, and, as
God lives, must be answered Better to die, We
sons of Erin, on the battlefield, than to starve
But, poor creaturesi what battles can vom fight ?
10 lou can grappie only with gaunt fanaine,. and