Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1801-1806, 1804-09-20

YOU are .preiiding over the morality OF
The parental board, tell thole infants
who are to be the future men OF Ire
land, the hiifory of this day. Form
their young minds by your prccepts,
and confirm thole precepts by your
own example; teach them how diff
creetly allegiance may be perjured on
the table, or loyalty be forfworn in
the Jury box |; and when you have
done 70, tell them the tory OF Orr;
tell them of his captivity, of his chill
dren, of his crime, of his hopes, of his
disappointment, of his courage, and of
his death; and when you find your
little hearers hanging from your lips,
when YOU fee their eyes ovcrAowing
with fympa,hy and forrow, and their
young hearts buriting with the pangs
of anticipated orphanage, tell them
that you had the boldnefs and juf-
tice to tigmatize the monltcr--
who had dared to publiih the tranf.
action. ~
!" Merciful God what is the fate
of Ireland, and where ihall you find
the wretched inhabitant of this land
You may fint him perhaps in goal,
the only place of fecurity; ! had al
mott faid Of habitation you may fee
him flying from the flames of his own
dwelling; or you may find his bones
bleaching on the green fields of his
country; or he may be found tofling
upon the ocean, anu mingling his
groars with thofe tempelfs lcfs iavage
than his petfecutors, that drift him to
a returnleiss diitance from his family
& his home. And yet with theie facts
ringing in the ear and Earring in the
face of the proiecutor, you are called
upon to fay, on your oaths, that theie
facts do not exit. You are called
upon in defiance of frame, or truth or
honor, to deny ihe fuiferings under
which you groap, and to aatter the
perIecution thar tramples you under
foot. }1t
3 Z" fpeak of what your own eyes
have feen day after day, during the
courfe of his commillion from the box
where you are now fitting the num-
ber Of horiid mifcreants who avowed
upon their oaths that they had come
from the very feat of governments -
from the cattle, where they had been
worked upon by the. fear of death and
the hopes of compensation to give the
evidence againt their fellows, that the
mild and wholefome councils Of this
government are holden over cata-
combs Of living death, where the
wretch that is buried, man, lies, till
his heart has time to felter and dif.
folve, and is then dug up as witneis.
:" Is this fancy or is il fact! Have
you not feen him after his resurrection
from that tomb, make his appearance
upon the table, the living image of
life & death, & the lupreme arbiter of
both? Have you not marked when he
entered, how the itormy wave Of the
multitude retired at his approach?--
Have you not marked how the hui.
man heart bowed to the supremacy OF
his power, in the undiilembled HON.
age of deferential horror !! How his
glance, like the lightning Of Heaven,
ieemed to rive the body Of rhe
accufed, and mark it for the grave,
while his voice warned the devoted
wretch of woe and death; a death
which no innocence can eicape, no
art elude, no force rehif, no antidote
prevent; there was an antidote---a
Jurors oath--but even that adaman-
tine chain that bound the integrity of
man 20 the throne of eternal jultice,
is (olved and melted in the breath
that iilues from the informer's mouth ;
confidence fwings from her mooring,
and the appalled, and affrighted. Juror,
coniults his own fafeiy, in the furren-
der Of the victim.