Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-11-27

IRELAND.
A meeting was held in Dubia last month with a
view otexpressing the sympathy Of the people OF
Ireland with the people Of France. Several speech
o. were made; among those reported 10 the following
y MT Thomas Moore, the poet. II is the first o.
sne KIND we have ever seen from his mouth, and we
Hssicn 10 give IT to our readers:-
MI. Thomas Moore here loudly called FOL
from a.! parts Of the meeting. He roee, and wa,
! received with the enthusiastic cheers, which
were continued fos several minutes. AS soon rs 81
lsnce could be procured, he said he felt considera
Ole embarrassment m addressing then The yer,
favor with which they received ham, was. itself
an embarrassment, making him feel how muci
more responsibility imposed upon him 6y such
kindness, and while it inspired hix, with n wish &c
prove himself worthy of such q reception and suci
an audience, az the came time deprived him OF III,
power. So rarely too, had it fallen to HI. lot t.
address such numerous assembly, that hardly coulC
he recognize the sound OF his voice i'm the effort
he now made to be heard by ihem--unlike those
gentlemen around him. who had been taught oraory
IN It's most inspiring school-uniike his friend. Mr.
Shiel, whose voice had become familiar Wi its own
echoes IN the nobcst of oratory's themes-ihe
ton Ut religious freedon whose elcquence he had
long, at a distance. regarded with melancholy nd.
mirat'on. looking upon It. he owned. rs almost as
VAIN and frutless q waste OF power that of the
young d. mOsthenes the shore, practising tn
the winds and waves.--M anfuly, however, and
glorionsly had he perseverd d, till at length the tri
umph Of oratory and FREEDOM coinp.ete-t
words performed the office of swords. and the chains
broke from around him "a he spoke To come for
ward IN the presence of m"n thus practised, and
thus triumphant WIS., he felt, pre- sumption in which
hing bu, the he himself now SPOKE IN
on c"uld justify him. Luckily however, he
came not now to speak to them of CHAINS and
wrongs. He came not now To address them. as he
might once Indignantly have done, their own ser
vitude. but the freedom of Others; on the rraud
movement of national self retre s. " hich the world
had just witnessed, and in which is surely no, too
much to say that the spirit of free dom has .honc
out IN iairer and more perfect form than even
fhn hrfch ~
but too rarely blessed mankind Nrrs it France alone
that profits by this splendid lesson: II ought 10 be
useful, and, with the blessing of Haven, will be
useful IN every quarter ofthe civilized world. where
there arc rules to be taught TIE bounds of power,
or subjects TO learn he lmi's of cbcdcncc ;Chcers
Serious was tho warning given To moparchs BY
the FIRST rcvlu ION Of that Country and awf as was
the proress OF ationby blood and fire, il is
true, bat still puriticBon--in which tina; great pro-
pl, RIDING ''slf bv one mighty effort, of the
Political dross Of age.-u-eiua he repcai ed & terrible
as that less to the abUssrs of power lie rud-
mems we're stall tor deeply laid in long revenge and
the reri5non. whom II came, TOO bloody, 70 be ever
drawn into prccedsn', or indeed ever to occur again.
but in thos" cases, NOW, he trusted forever preclu
ded. where nation has been so long brutslized by
the endurance of slavery as TO have been rendered
most unfit frr the recovery Of fraedom-wherc the
moral eyes ofa people are, it we're, put out by
long course of oppression till, with all the
blindness, as well as strength Of the strong man
in Scripinr@. they, in the moment OF revenge
oppressed
common ruin. (Cheers,. Momentcus as even in ;,s ex
:esses, was such lesson, yet appicab bic but in ex
IRENE cases and too associated with scenes of blood
and rapne TO be llingly pointed TO as an exam
pie by the hummer assertcrs of mans rights its H.
horIiy, even as a warning, was fast passing away
The friends 'f arbitrary power interested IN decrv-
ng every ctfrt ut resistance. held forth the pracii
.al consequences of that event as burSear noanst
III adoption OF IT'S principles while the lover of free
ION, hopeless of being able separate the spirit of
rs cause from its drcgs, shrunk back from the ex-
ment too hazardous, and almost preferred wan.
ing the blessing altogether to paying so tremendous
price for 1t. (Appianse, Of this state of feeling
On both sides, those ever treaJy enrroachers the
hrones and churches "fthe world, we're not slow ia
akng advantage. Old abuses and preten.ions be. |
IAN to steal out one by ono, from the lurking holes
ays-[Hnre was universal burst of reclamation |
n the midst of which dog bal ked loudly and con-
inued to do 20 after Mr. Moore had resumed. The
earned gentleman in ausion to the no,se made by |
Interruption, 20 borrow old joke of Lord Nor,h's
m like OCCASION, hat it is only the member for
Barksh're loud anghterl AS the poet says, in de-
cr:bing the hour If twilight
"'To their higl, built airy nests,
See the rook. returning home'
Even 80 all the dark birds # superstition und
"A ny werr seen wing ng their way back TO the high |
'aceS Of this world which they usIrp: nor could any
hing clearly demonstrate the securi,y-tbe
blind infatuated security. into which Royalty and it's
nnions were relapsng than the very out
u which the great event they this day met %
emerged. loud applause II was. in
hort manifest that new lesson to those recumbent
ipon thrones was wanting: lesson which purified
Tfo'n all that brsugh suspicion aud stain upon the
orIn"r. made wise by tn experience Of ysst error
nd moderated by the Consciousness Of present
houd proclaim TO the rulers of Garth in
voice not to b. m'slnterpreted or msunde stood
bat the chances of might against right are every
lay dlninish'ng--that the many no lon ger to bc
sacrificed to the few. and that the blessing of FREQ
IN, once possess ed and understood. will no be- with
'ut bosd reinqnished-ha', in short. RICH, is fast
,eming might, and must. such be omnprtent -
Cheers) How gr,ndy. and the samn inc how
emperatcy, this new revolution Of the word of froe
ION has been put forth to the world, was too lively
presented to their nJs 81 memories for him TO think
Of wasting single moment in enforcing them Il
ony remains for them to hope that the warming will
be taken where II is wanled-that this hand writing
On the wall will be read in its true senses by the Bel
'hazzars of this world and that they WILL VIII e there
is yet time, avert, by wisdom and concalioD the
doom that, as sure there is spirit Of Justice in
Heaven Ia preparing for them; is il only in tcso
Tar gone, acute cases Of mIsgovernmant, for which
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