Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-11-07
IRELAND

the feeling prevailing among the Repealers
and their views of the aspects which the
present contest in Ireland is assuming.
THE COMING STRUGGLE.
The clouds are Observation-Disclosures on
~ Knows with what they are charged. Is
1t national triumph, won without blood or
sufiering--or is it national disaster, The
doom Of cowardice and shame? Have we
Knocked the higher virtues when claiming
communion with them, or are our pledges
those Of men! Is Ireland strong, conscious
self-trustlng-is she up to the level of her
destiny? Is the past in her heart, and the
future in her eye, and is she neIvcd 10 the
task thai both counsell
llso, she is worthy Of the time, and may
be proud il has come; if not,-- But
wherefore the aliernatiyel The horrors
it invites are nowhere written. History
has them not, FOR no man dare indite thom.
What a pirate horde may do-chrcked,
beaten back for moment, captured, and
then free and victorious, would afford q
mimic imagery Of the treatment of the self
abasod and fallen People who would fail in
being equal to the rising destiny of Ire
The vista leading on 10 glory is not more
hitting than the abyss behind is dark with
run. There IS no going back, unless we
are prepared 10 fall in. Are we? Cues
li)n fl for towards this, II has passed our
pen, rot in apprehension, but to show that
even if it were such. there is now no room
for compromise with late. Our demand is
that which never could be urged except in
the earnestnes3 wherein life weighs bat
ltle. or abandoned without external dis
grace.
Such is our position. We ask but for
the rcnsserton Of recognized. established
and long enduring prncipia--a principle
which not 70 ~ years ago was The polar
star Of every lrjshm2n who look.d high for
his country's fortune. TO worship it was
the political faith Of Ire,anI-it was found
10 be consistent with the highest glory Of
England, aud the undisturbed integrity If
this empire. Oet Of it no germ of public
danger spruhg; in its lrces action was the
highest security Of the United kingdoms.
But it was SOL! IN The public market b, a
cut-throat-and then?
And then-lrc!and annuIs the bargain;
therefore is she, in the language of her tor
turcrs, "sodi,ious BE it so-nav, if this
be treason, we are traitors. Let them
mouh at US their saucy cpithets-coll Re-
peal " dismemberment," and uneacincss in
our letters turbulence let them brand
ourselves as "disaAected and "rcbel-
lious no coarse nycctivc shall scare US
from the task Of bloung out public lie,
daubed on the Deed Of Uaion by the bloody
hands Of u suicide.
Bot these men grimly taunt us, and say
that those who have estate !" in the coun-
try are against " dismembermcnts." Let
US not quarrel about nickname; but there
is no stake" among the RepealerS.
What is n d" Stake?" Is t the means Of an
Independent existence realized by honest
toll, by good culture, by energy, industry,
and skil!-or the rank, vegetable like
hoard. descending to the sleepy heir from
II plundering ancestor! Which Of these is
"stdke" in The honorable or decent acccp-
taton of that word? If the former (and
who will gansay itO then have the Re-
pealcrs a stake twenty times as suggestive
of virtuous ambition, as those who pirate
about =" something 10 lose"
Apart from this, too, every mans first
stake is his life, his honor, and the lives,
happiness, ana honor o. those whom God
has linked win him on earth. Whoever
looks on aught c'se rs higher than these is
sol or SIo'e' incapable OF living the lie
or dying me inc otaln OF a man.
On. VINO can calculate the stake OF him
who has heart to love his country-the
pledge irr,Vocabc OF the man who hastF
history! Who can look INTO the grave o.
murdered patriots and not find something
mere to take 70 heart! Is there no stake
IN nIlars polluted and lad Io"-pIcd8es
made ard broNen-Leroism betrayed and
martyrcd by the anIice, inSncerty and
rucuIence Of The Saxon! What track of
his along a blackcncd land not marked bv
lust, rapine and crime! Stake! lriShmcn
have stake III the 8rave--a stake OF high
or measure lh1n me wealth OF the world
hnt tins, It VIII be said, means scPora-
word into an act. There IS one thing
which binds the Ir.-l lTrpNDClbiN TO tIr