Relief For Ireland

The mass of politicians, fifty years or a century hauco, nmy becomo as far advanoed in Kentmients of hurnanity asina ediior of the N. Y. Tribune is in the f.;, lovving ; Ut ut present ihey are as far behind as the heathen. " The $500,000 for Ireland. We dd not sign a petkion to Congress to mnko n liberal appropriation fur the relief of the St-irving in Ireland, do;ibling the Con.litutionality of iuch a disnos:t'onofthe Public ftloney ; and yet we ure vety sure il oughl to ie Constitutiona!, and we ai-Jontly hopo Cor the passaga ei :he bill. Ilow sbèorrani is the tho't iha1. R:jlcrs hr.ve und lubtod aulliority to send all our National vesscls loadeJ to the water'j edgo with cannon, mortaiv, b:il!, powder, óic , to dah out thebraina an' mangle the bodics of inoffensive men, vomen and ciiildren, rtnd yet it is queetionable whelher they have the right to send a ship loaded wiih gram fura friengly f imishing People ! " The c!:eap defence of Nation3 " is a flowing phrase, though whrther it waa uted in rcference to Chivalry, to Iiduoation, or to something else, we have forgotten. But what defence could be so cheap as blossed Charily ? We spend, in timos of peace, over Fifteen Millions per annum on our Army and Navy. - Suppose we we re !o aboüsh them bolh nt a dash, nnd to speod iiistead Fice Millions a yene in sen.ling food and cloihing to our most nc-edy and miserable fellowbeings ia every part of the earth. Who beüeves it possible thut an army could any where be retsed to invade us after tha first year or two of this new defens' ve policy ? Who doos not feel that ecruiling or drilling to fight p.gninst us would be an utierly hopeless business ? O tiiat tingre ivere one N ation vvise enough lo thuroughly Lelieve and trust in the sure practicability of overcoming Evil with Good !