Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-01-04


wished to procure for my country the qua
rantee which WAsHIxeroS procured Tor Ame'
riea. To procure an aid, which would by It's
example be as important as its valor. disciPiin-
ed. gallant. pre- pnant with science and with ex-
peri.nce: allies who could perceive the good,
and, in our collision, polish the rough points OF
our character; they would come 10 US as s"an'
gers, and leave us as friends, after sharing IN
our perils and eleva,ing our destihy. my 90.
iects were not 10 receive new task-mas'ers' W,
TO expel old ,yrants; these were my views, ana
these only became Irishmen. II was Tor THESE
ends sought aid from France; because FRANCE
even as an enemy could not be more impla
than the enemy already in the bosom oil my
country. :,
Here he ,oas interrupted by the court
have been charged with that Importance 10
the efforts to emancipate my country, as 10 DC
considered the keystone Of the combination OF
Irishmen, or, as your lordship expressed H.
"the life and blood Of the conspiracy" You 40
me honour overmuch-you have given 10 Inc
subaltern all the credit Of a superior; there are
men engaged in this conspiracy who are not
only superior TO me, but even 10 your own con-
ceptions Of yourself, my lord-nen before the
splendour Of whose genius and virtues should
bow with respectful Difference, and who would
think themselves dishonoured TO be called your
iriend-who would not disgrace themselves by
shaking your bloodsianed hand
Here he ,oas interrupted
What, my lord, shall you tell me, on the pas
sage to that scaffold which that tyranny, OF
which you are only the in ermediary executions
err, has erected for my murder, that / am &C
countable for all the blood that has and will be
shed in :his struggle of the oppressed against
the oppressor--shall you tell me this, and must
| be so very slave as not TO repel it?
/, who fear not to approach the Omnipetent
Judge, to answer for the conduct my whole
life-am l to be appalled, and falsihed by
mere remnan, of mortality hereby you, too,
who, if it were possible tocoect all the inno-
cent blood that you have shed, IN your unhal-
lowed ministry, iff one Sgreat reservoir, your
lordship might swim in il!
Here the judge .inteJsred.
Let no man dare. whenI am dead, to charge
me with dishonour-let no man attaint my
memory, by believing thatI could have engaged
in any cause but that of my country's liberty &
lndependence-or that could have become the
plant minion of power in the oppression or the
miseries Of my countrymen; the proclamation
views; no inference can betortured from it TO
countenance bsrbarity or deoasement at home,
or subsection, or humiliation, or treachery,
from abroad. would not have submitted to
foreign oppressor, for the same reason that
would resist the domestic tyrant. In the
dignity Of freedom would have fought upon
the threshold Of my country, and its enemy
should enter only by passing over my lifeless
corpse. And am l, who lived but for my coun-
Try, who have subjected myself to the dangers
of the jealous and watchfsloppressor, and now
to the bondageof the grave, only to give my
countrymen their rights, anG my country her
independence, to be loaded with calumLy, and
not suffered 10 resent and repel it? No, God
forbid! So
Ifthe spirits of the illustrious dead partici-
pate in the concerns and cares of those who
were dear to them in this transitory life-Oh!
ever dear and venerated shade Of my departed
father, look down with scrutiny upon the con-
due: Of your suffering son, and see if have even
for moment devia,ed from those principles Of
morality and patriotism which it was your care
to instil into my youthful mind, and for which
am now to offer up my life.
My lords, you seem impatien, for the sacri-
6ce-the blood for which you thirst is not con-
gealed by the artificial terrors which surround
your victim: II circulates warmly and unruf-
fed through the channels which God created for
nobler purposes, but which you are bent to dos.
troy for purposes SO grievous, that they cry to
Heaven. Be vet patien, have but few
words more to say. l am going to my cold
and silent grave: my lamp of life is nearly ex.
tinguishrd my race is run: the grave opens to
receive me, and sink into its bosom. have
but one request to ask at my departure from
this world i, is the charity gifts silence Let no
man write my epitaph; for as no man who
knows my motives dare now vindicate them,
let no, prejudice or ignorance asperse them
Let them and me repose in obseurity and peace,
and my tomb remain uninscribed, unit! other
times and other men can do justice TO my charac-
ter. When my country takes her place among
the nations Of the earth, then, and not till then,
let my epitaph be written --IHAvE DoNE!'
WEST INDIA ADMIRALTY CASE.
Boston, Dec. 29-The Bah Inquirer, publish
es the proceedings in the case of the brig Neu.
traIty, Of tina, port, which was seized al Anti
qua for an alledged violation Of the navigation
laws, and discharged, by Judge Nugent, OF the
Vice Admiralty Court Of the Island II APP
pears that the Neutrality sailed in August last
from Bath, bound to Guadalupe and market,
with q cargo of lumber two horses COW no