The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1819-10-27

Icasts were gwen IN compliment TO
the King, the Prince Regent, and the
Royal Family, the Lord Lieatenant of
Ireland, Gen. D'Evereux, Lord Clon-
curry, and the distinguished rcrsonages
present, and among them the follow
ing:
"CHARLEs PHILLIPS and the EN-
crald Isle.''
Mr.. PHILLIPS then rose and spoke
to the following effect
My Lord and Gentlemen--I sincere
Iy thank you; to be remembered when
my countrymen are celebrating the cause
of freedom and humanity, cannot fail to
be grateiul-to be so remembered,
when personal and valued friend is the
object of the celebration, carries with it
a double satisfaction-and you will al
low me to say, that if any thing could
enchance the pleasure of such feelings,
it is the consciousness that our meet
ing can give just offence to no one. Top
les too often have risen up amongst US,
where the best feelings were painfully at
variance-where silence would have
been guilt, and utterancc was misery.
But surely, here, at length, is an occa-
sion, where neither sect nor party are
opposed-where every man in the coun-
try may clasp his brother by the hand,
and feel and boast the electric communi-
cation. TO unmanacle the slaye-to
unsceptre the despot--to erect an altar
on the inquisition's grave--to raise
people to the attitude OF freemen-to
found the temples of science and of CON-
merce--to create constitution, beneath
whose ample arch every human creature,
no matter what his sect, his colour or his
cline, may stand sublime in the dignity
of manhood-these are the glorious ob-
jects of this enterprize and the soul
must be imbruted, and the heart must
be ossified, which does not glow with
the ennobling sympathy. is the
slave so abject to deny it? Where is the
statesman who can rise from the page OF
Spanish South America, and affect to
commisserate the fall Of Spain? Her
tyranny, even from IFS cradle to it's de-
cline, has been the indellble disgrace of
christianity and of Europe--it was born
in fraud, baptized in blood, and reared
by rapine it blasphemed all that was ho-
ly--it cankered all that was happy-the
most simple habits, the most sacred in
stitutions, the most entleared and inoiTen-
sive customs, escaped not inyiolatc the
accursed invader--the hearth, the throne,
the altar, lay confounded in one common
ruin ard when the innocent children Of
the Sun confided for a moment in the
christians promise, what I! oh, shame to
Spain |! oh, horror to christianity! oh, G.
ternal stigma on the name of Europe -
what did they behold ?---the plunder of
their fortunes; the dcsolation of their
homes the ashes Of their cities; their
children murdered without distinction of
SEX the ministers of their faith expiring
amid tortures the person of their Ynca,
their loved, sacred, their heroic Ynca,
quivering in death upon burning fur
mace ; and the most natural and the most
excusable of all idolatries, their consecra-
sunbeam, ,cloudedby the murky smoke
of an inquisition, streaming with human
gore, and raised upon the ruins a all that
they held holy! These were the f-ats of
Spain in South America! This is the
fiery and domestic S,vav Cor which an sy-
scrable tyrant solicits British neutrality!
Ireland at least has given her answer
An armed legion of her chosen youth
bears it at this hour in thunder on the wa
ters, and the sails are swelling for their
brave companions. ] care not if his ty-
ranny was ten thousand times more Graf
ty, more vigilant, more verocious, than
it is; when people piN it their liberia
ton is inevitable; their very infections
will be converted into the instruments of
fhS fs-,o al. Il.