Piney Woods planter and Amite union literary reflector. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1838-1838, 1838-04-28

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As the night dew tai.S 1ssa on the grass oerhis
i head!
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Shall brighten with yerdure the grave where he
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it rolls,
Shall long keep his memory green in our souls
MOORE.
THE SPEECH OF ROBERT EMMETT,
As delivered at The Sessions House, Dub
lin, before Lord Norbury, one Of the
Chief Justices, on being found guilty Of
high treason, as leader Of the Irish
insmrection Of 1903.
He was tried on the 18th, and exc
cuted on the Goth Sept. 1903, in Thorn
as street, Dublin, in the Odd year Of
his age.
Extracted from the Poor Man. $ Guardian,
No. 81.
My Lords-What have / to say that
sentence of heath should not be passed
on me according to law2 | have moth
ing to say that can alter your predeter-
mination, nor that will become me to
say, with any view to the mitigation of
that sentence which you are here 10
pronounce, and / must abide by. But
have that 10 say, (which interests me
more than life, and which you have la
boured (as was necessarily your office
in the present circumstances of this OPP
pressed country to Destroy have
much to say, why my reputation should
be rescued from the load Of false accu-.
sation and calumny which has been
heapedupon it. lido not imagine that,
seated where you are, your minds can
be so free from impurity, as to receive
the least impression from what | am
going to utter. have no hopes that
] can anchor my character in the breast
Of court constituted and trammelled
as this is. Ionly wish, and it is the ut
most expect that your lordships may
suffer it to float down your memories
untainted by the foul breath of prejud-
ice, until it finds some more hospitable
harbour to shelter it from the storm by
which it is at present buffetted.
Were only to suffer death, after
being adjudged guilty by your tribu-
nal, / should bow in silence, and meet
the fate that awaits me without a muir
muir: but the sentence of the law which
delivers my body to the executioner
will, through the ministry of that law,
labour in its own vindication, to consign
my character to obloquy; for there
must be guile somewhere: whether in
the sentence ofthe Court or in the cat
astrophe, posterity must determine. A
man in my situation, my Lords, has not
only to encounter the difficulties of for
tune, and the force ofpower over minds
which it has corrupted or subjugated,
but the difficulties of established preju-
dice: the man dies, but his memory
lives; that mine may not perish, that it
may live in the respect of my country
men, / seize upon this opportunity to
vindicate myself from some of the
charges alleged against me. When
my spirit shall be waited to more
friendly port--when my shade shall
have Joined the bands ofthose martyred
heroes who have shed their blood on
The scafold and in the field in defenceI
oftheir country and ofvirtue, this is my 4
wish that my memory and
name may animate those who survive
me, while look down with complacen-
~ on the destruction of that perfdious
government, which upholds its domini-
ion by blasphemy Of the Most High,
which displays its power over man as
,ver the beasts Of the forest-which |.
lets man upon his brother, and lifts his
rand in the name Of God against the
hroat Of his fellow, who believes or
doubts little more than the govern y
nent Standard government steeled
o barbarity by the cries Of the or
,hans and the tears Of widows whichit
las made. Is
Here Lord NOrbury interrupted Mr.. En-
met--,suJing, that nc mean and wicked
enthusiasts solso fell as Ne did, lrere not
equal to the Accomplishment Of their
mid designs,l k
appeal to the immaculate God, ! |
wear by the throne Of Heaven, before
which / must shortly appear-by the Il
,lood Of the murdered patriots who
ave gone before me, that my conduct (