The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-09-11
SPEECH OF. MIR. O'CONNELL.
In the English House Of Commons on the
affairs Of Poland.


Mr.. O'Connell SAID he was almost a.
fraid TO trust himself in the expression
of his sentiments upon a subject which
NATURALLY must induce one to ndopt lam
gu age nnbccoming the character of
these deliberations. He could not con-
ceal from the House the sentiments of
disgust and adherence with which he
had heard the details of the cruelties
pracliced ny order Of the Russian Au-
tocrat npon this generous and brave
nation. He had heard talk TO night off
the rights conferred on Poland by the
treaty Of Vienna. Rights Had she
Had not that Congress proved they
themselves were robbers aud partners
in gniit Poland had taken no part
in the antecedont struggle. France and
Russia had botl, run over her, it was I
true. Bat Poland had rights antecedcnt |
to the Infamous and iniquitous spolia-
tions of l772 and IVA. That spolia-
tion had rendered unsafe and insecure
those very thrones which looked with
delight OH the unjust territorial ncqui-
sition that political! iniquity had procured
and prominent features in The case Of
the brave PoIes-their great merits and
great wrongs Untou,hed by admira-
ton for the one, or pity for the other,
the miscrenant congucor had gone tram
Ipling on, the PROSTATE people OF that
country y--violating every institution they
espected--wantonIy wounding the bet
tier feeling of both sexes nay, with bar
lbarity unheard Of in all history, tear
ling from tho parents little children, TO-
transplant them to the wild wastes Of
Siberia. Gracious God. what must
have been :be feelings of Polish mo-
ther, at this sacrifice of her loved off
spring? Then lady, tho wife of Po-
| lish General, within this fortnight had
been announced as having plunged a
knife into the bosom of her little children,
rather than suffer them to he torn from
her arms and banished at the inhuman
mandate Of tho tyrant. He heard with
sorrow and regret n noble lord avowing
the respect he personally entertained for
the sovereign alluded to. He should be
ashamed to know, in private life, a man
who had been guilty of only or hun
dredth part Of those enormities, whose
name was not absolutely detested. Was
the oadeof guilt removed from such n
man because he wore crown ?--He
would not hesitate to say, that such was
his grasping and lawless ambition, that
il he could only arrange his finances and
q his treasucs, so that, for n couple of cam
,aigns, Ise could maintain 300. 900 of his
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nothing would save the civilized world
from his designs, short of oil Europe ris-
. ing to check the barbarick irruptioH.-
Had not the treaty Of Vienna been NO
lated from its commencement Excess
!, ofinsuIt and oppression, had reused the
Poles TO resistance. hut That was no pal
lia'iou 20 the crueliics and oppre ssion
, heapcd on them by this modern Goth,
who, like At,ila, might with equal justice
/, assume an equal title to that which he de-
lighted ~ --"the scourge of God" Great
, MS had been their suffering, this noble
people had never since l772, despaire
of the tissue when things should be ripe.
Nor did he dispair of t,eln--tbough at
The crisis Of their fate we were too much
occupied with the Reform, Bill; now
. that was settled, 1t would be seen that
the people OF this country were actua-
! ted by the most lively sympathy for The
people Of Poland. Despite of The ana
: thy which characterized our conduct
fprn,er'y, aud despite Of tho difference of
LOUIS Philip, whom he regarded as an
equal traitor TO the cause of liberty as
any other sovereign, in Europe, these