The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1824-03-29

oA w ruhiouIS Rtthe same celebration
Mr. CocKBURN did honor 10 the Spanish
patriots III the following speech
"Mr. Cockburn rose Texcessive APP
plause. II was impossible not to recol.
lecs the enthusiasm with which, at the last
meeting, the friends OF Mr.. Fox drank
success to the cause Of Spanish liberty !;
they then believed that the efforts OF the
tyrants of Europe to confront and keep
down the principles of liberty in the pen
insula would be suceessless, and that they
were no. sufficiently powers'l to prevent
the people of Spain from arranging their
own internal rights. and political govern.
ment; such was the increase OF liberal
principles, that we then believed these
tyrants had met with an. enemy fl and
capable TO oppose them, and that freedom
had selected the soil of Spain as the spo,
where she should shew her noblest DOW
ers, and her brightest glories. In these
hopes they had been disappointed. The
cause of freedom had been sadly upsuc.
cessful /; and the warmest and sweetest
anticipations had been blighied and blast.
ed. CCheers. They had failed, not
because their energies were unequal TO
the task,but because they had no material
to work upon. The patriots Of Spain
great in their patriotism, and glorious in
their mental conce ptions-found nothing
but an ignorant population, swayed by
bigoted priesthood, actuated by the ba-
sest motives loud cheers The imnie
date result had been, that the progress
of liberty, end almost the progress Of
thought, had been stayed and DESTROY Ed
in the peninsula ; and that Spain is now
nothing but the relic and monument os
gallant few who endcavcred to achieve
end obtain freedom, not fitted for her base
and miserable population
owe know that many brave aod Illus
,rious patriots had not been able 10 escape
she fspgs Of the tyrant. They had per
ished and among them the gallant, the
glorious, TIE spotless, the murdered ri
ego In mense cheering. But happy
were they who had so perished- happy
we're they who could no longer brood
over their country's desoiatiion Yet,
alas! there were hundreds and thousand
who werd obliged TO witness, not only
he destruction oftbeir coun.ry's liberties
but the ruin Of their own fortunes, and
the extinction Of their famiiies- Heaven
bless them Heaven bless them in their
political E.isery-Reaven bless them in
their political despair-in their dungeons
lin their celis--iu their miseries--iD
'heir s1fIerings--uasy they now feel that
;hey have become members oft great
community Of the friends Of freedom in
every part of the globe loud cheers T.
In The glowing pages OF history, every
incident OF their lives would cause the
admiration of posie,ity, and their deaths
would he recorded with those Of Hamp
cen and Sidney in another land, but in
he same cause cheers Some there are,
however, whom more Particular late
had followed, who YET lived 10 witness
ihels couD.fy's wrongs. and 10 thirst for
tac day retribuiion-- patriots who, be-
Acsibg III no,hua but the comiuUu lle.in.
oi freedom, among all their brethren
he'd drown themselves, in spite of the
alien act, upon the generosity OF the Bri-
iish people. They had done this country
she singular honor OF selecting it as the
place Of their retreat, names, that would
hereafter be the stars of bistory-the
gallant andinvincibls Nina the eloquen,
and philosophical ArpuelIes-- tic promp,
and determined AIava--ujtb more than
600 seif eXpatristed Spanards, choosing
rather h5euy, without all TIC domestic
y local enjoyn,nts Of tbeirowu country,
'a 1any tbng &e9ery fhins the tyrant bad
rs 5es'nw rad cheers, bhue prepared
py ben .as; lrcs io,'ti e b,lerbess Of 20.
veriy. OF the coDtuncly OF dependence,
vet .ey rrrFerred moth IN The isen,,,,v FL