The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-12-07
D. S. MURRAY, PRINTER.

: IL is not possible, in the nature Of thinns.
: A voyage across the Atlantic could not
produce such metamorphosS. Il could
, not be that the great body Of the Irish
| people here were so unlike their fellow
counlrymen at home. 1t was mistake.
The fact had been admitted on partial and
Insufficient evidence. The evidence
which had gone across the water had
been mostly irom the action and express
ion OF meetings in the large Cities
! Great cities were great sores and if there
were any thing prohigate and base in the
nation, 1t would naturally be collected
and these demonstrations, apparently so
adverse TO the interests of the enslaved
were in fact b"!tricks ofdesigning and I'M
prlncIped dcmagogues, who were aiming
at their own political advantage, by mis-
representing the true feelings Of the Irish
In America. Was it not so! (Unver-
sal cries of Yes, yes from the Irish
men presently lrishmen do you sym-
palhze with the oppressor? (Cries of
No, no.) Are you 50 unlike the Irish
men of Ireand2 Continued cries of
4 No, no) | am sure you are not 50 un-
like them, but if you were, you would
well deserve TO be sent back 10 YOUR on.
preston and chains in Ireland, shall I
say2 Oh no, you would not deserve
destiny so blessed as that for there YOU
would find, amid all your tolls and suffer-
Iings, true and noble hearts around YOU:
there, too, the golden rays of the risnG
sun of liberty might gladden. your eyes on
the glorious morning of Irish freedom,
and your ears might hear the mighty
voice OF OCoonel announce the welcome
jubilee oil Irish emanci patton No. Such
destiny you would not deserve, but rath-
er would you not well merit a dshopora.
bic exile to some lonely and distant land.
far from the home OF your youth, far from
all noble and generous spirits, where YOU
might, amid chains and servitude and on
preston, learn TO sympathze with those
who 2roan under the bondage of Slavery.
| repeat, (said Mr.. Walker it is not true
that the majority Of the Irish people in
this country take part with the slavebold-
er. They are misrepresented by active,
ambitious, and designing men, who make
them speak language which their true
Irish hearts do not feel and make them
appear to assume an attitude before tbs
world, which they do not in fact occppv.
tThese remarks were heartily respond
ed to by the Irish, who were present in
great numbers
WENDELL PHILLIPS, of Boston, next
addressed the meeting, as follows
Mr., CHAIRMAN f
No uo,, roccli,ot H.
Irish poet has put into the mouth of the
lil-fateG Lord Fitzgerald From his
prison he is supposed a few DAYS before
his melancholy death, TO address his coun-
try in strains like these:
ooh Ireland, my country the hour
Ofthy pride and thy splendor has passed,
And the chain that was spurned in thy moment of
power,
Hang heavy around thee at last.
There are marks in the fate of each cline.
There ere turns in the fortunes of men:
But the changes of realms, or the chances of time
Shall never restore thee again
Thou art chained to the wheel of the foe
By links, which world could not sever,
shalt go,
And thy sentence is bondage forever.
In the nations thy place is left void.
Thou art lost iOn tho lis of the free;
Even realms by the plague and the earthquake
destroyed
May reyye-but no hope is for thse.'
Such was Ireland in 1700-scnttered
and peeled-her cry unheeded-her hest
sons on the scadoId, or in exiIe-witbout
weight-wi;hout hope. 1t seemed as if
The last star in her horizon had gone out.
Look at her now. Every eye fastened
with the deepest interest on her slightest
action. The civilized world sitting al her
feet, to learn the lesson OF peaceful reyo.
luton. The power OF the michtiesl ma.
ion quails before the voice of her unarm.
I'd peasantry.
Well does her glorious son boast that he
has cowed the Saxon. Well may he fri.
lmph in the thought, that Cesar. At The
head of sixty Iegjons, was no nighuer
han he. What must be the master shirt
ioe to arouse the nation, and change the
despair OF 1899 into the courage ofl843?
W hat power over the people to held them
or twenty years in his hand, and armed
with their hearts and confidence, compel
reluctant government to all his demands!
But, above all, what must be the nation.
which made such career possible All
honor to the GeneraI-but forget moi the
noble material from which his armv has
,een created. | am not here to fluer.
wen in my feeble measure, man or
atlon. However much this may sound
ike eulogy, it is, in fact, but the cold ver-
let of history. (Cheers.)
ain glad old Faneui Hall is to ring
MT an echo, to.nirhi. TO the Corn e.