Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-11-28


can always keep creditors side only. OF
that enormous debt she can cannot even
pay the interest. Harry over, bleed Ire
land as she will; levy contributions on
China as she will; subsidize the world as
she will; that debt, some day or other.
must sink her: and the whole Earth will
bless God for their glorious deliverance--
tremendous cheers.] And why should she
not?
Record the deeds Of England in hyero-
glypics and what material would you EN-.
ploya A pyramid of human bones! She
has been the despot Of the universe! She
would rob Heavens Ruler of his crown
ard the Arch Fiend Of his maligni-
ty. The heart OF the world has been
quivering and bleeding under her foot for
centuries! Am too seyerea "a voice
from the crowd Nov] NO! Mop is
echoed back to you, Sir, from shrieking
Hlndoostan-from grooming Affghanistan
and from p.undered China! [Great cheer
ing.)
Yes, from the ancient wall of China we
hear the roar Of the British lion. while the
Tyrant's banner unfurls its victorious folds
over the land Of Confucius. Oh yes, the
Chinese were 10 be butchered because they
refused to be poisoned with British opium
[laugh.er.
No! no! is echoed back from her own
children whom, under the guise of Christi
anity and good order. she has impoverished
at home, and from those nations which she
has, under the mask Of civilization, plum
dered abroad! [Cheers.] Too severe?
answer me, ye Heavens! which have be-
held-ard thou, oh Earth! whose bosom
has felt her burnings, her robberies, and
her massacres
For oh! if all the grief and blight
Which she has scattered down on man,
Since first her devastating flight
From Empires mighty shore began
Upon one canvas, broad and high,
| Could be by painters pencil hurled,
That canvas, hung unto the sky
Would, with its margin, sweep the
| world!
Tremendous cheering.]
If the star Of that wicked Empire does
not soon set in darkness, then is History
no teacher! then is Virtue no being fol
our ndoratian! We might as we'll dash
the radiant GODDESS from her pedestal ano
Greet the hydra image Of Vice in its stead
But England must fall. lCheers.) Yes
| say she must fall! She has not built the
arch of empire according TO the laws OIL
moral architecture and it must tumble
down! (Great cheering.) Any other pre-
diction would be a blasphemy upon the Coo
of Justice? Renewed cheers. History
tells US, that the lightninEs Of His ven
lgeance will not sleep forever in the lail
OF His mercy; that the rainbow Of His love
will not forever curve around the pilia. oil
His justice. The lightnings will awake
The rainbow will be dlssipated! and the
storm will at last burst upon the brow and
shatter the palaces Of the GUILTY!
| (Great cheering.)
But admit that History is no teacher,
[if We can dare, and look for Ireland's
redemption from another sousce. To use
a forcible expression Of a friend of Ire
land, "if she cannot UNsCREw her chains
she will BREAK them' Cheers 1t is
ridiculous to suppose that nine millions of
human beings like the Irish, 80 pre-emi-
nent in physical, moral, and mental force,
can for ever wear the chains Of slavery,
and bow to the throne Of despotism.-
Great cheering.] England need not ex.
pect it. can prove that she has never
conquered ireland, in the field, fairly yet;
although as political gambler there is no
comparisons Great cheers.
If blood MUST fowl say LET 1T flow
The spirits Of Emmett. Fitzgerald, and of
all the murdered patriots will nerve the
arms and fire the souls of their country
men. Enthusiastic applause.
Am too enthusiastic My God who
will blame me for feeling so deeply, when
speaking on this subject? Ireland has aided
twice in saving my own beloved country
my own noble. glorious America. (cheers.)
Yes, say, twice! once in the Revolution,
when we burst the bonds Of British tyran-
ny, and again when we threw off the
shackles Of Intempe rance! Ireland set US
the example,! Father Matthew was the
noble instrument which the hand Of the
Almighty employed in unsealing the pure,
Iife-giving, and magnificent fountain Of
sooiiCtJ' lS Sui ystuI "otCIS bto bob iCst
in Ireland. but like another Araiheusa, i'm
hned with health and sparkling with the
rainbows Of peace.
But | shall detain you no longer
fCries of {" Go on!''] am obliged 10 you,
but exhaustion forbids, as spoke bsfoi 9
tonight, at a temperance meeting. shall
close by praying to heaven that ireland
shall soon De Iiberated-that neither Bard
or Orator shall any longer be able to ex-
claim
/" Unprized are her sons till they learn to
betray,
Undistinguished they live if they shame
not their sires,
And the torch that would light them to dig
nty's way
Must be caught from the fame where
their country expires!'
that all their children shall soon participate
in the productions of the most fertile land
in the world; that she will soon hear the
Harp of TaFa sending forth its olden num-