New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-06-10
spirit of ireland.

Should the struggle IN lrcand for Repeal result ID
no other good than in the spirit of Nat.0HoiHy which
II has created the friends of the cause would be
more than repaid for all their sacrifices. The
whole aspect If things in Ireland has been changed
within the las, six or eight years The deep gloom
Of irksomc but unavoidable seryitude, has given
place to the glad smile of Hope and approaching
freedom The low novels of crime and iniquity
where liquid fires were sold 10 warm inwardly the
body which had no outward protection from the
cold have given place to Repeal Reading Rooms
where cheap literature. not cheap iquor-that which
enlich,cns the brain not what lehtcns the heads
eagerly sought aud easily obtained
Some may say that this is the result Of the Tenn
peranco movement Granted bat the Temperance
movement is in some respects the result OF Repeal
Millions of "a Mcrcurial people were called upon TO
listen TO recital of Seven Centuries Of wrong and
insult from the Sassanach and it was found that
Tenn erance was necessary TO make them hear the
recital calmly and 10 resolve on redress coolly-
Had no Canaan Of freedom presented itself beyond
he RED SEA of cruelty and crime 10y which they
were held in the Egypt OF slavery they never would
have taken their way through cold water to reach
it, Had they never found Moses in o Comet
;hev never would have found his brother Aaron
the priest in Father Matthew.
But the morn of Liberty has dawned on Ireland
and its light is rolling over her green fields chasing
away the clouds Of darkness that have so long hung
over her. and waking the music of Nature 10 hymn
lis welcome The voice Of birds is heard again ana
her groves are vocal once more with voices as soil
and sweet a. Angel whispers In her poetry too
there is a spirit of Hope strongly mconrasi with the
Responding tones in which the blind bards OF her
bondage used to sing. \ spirit Of hope and energy
is brcaihed into the people which Will hi them
above the reach of chains and slavery
Among the agents which have produced these
happy results. the Newspaper Press has been
powerful auxiliary. Without dciracins from the
merits of the Frcemans Journal the Pilot and other
presses in Dublin, Belfast &c. we may mention
The Nation Some OF the finest poetry OF the
lay has appeared in lis columns from which
selection was made and published as The Spirit
IF the irish Nation For the publication of tins
collection of Patriotic Songs Charles Gavin Duffy
the Editor. was prosecuted and imprisoned, with
O'Conucn and others. For England struck at Ire
land through the Liberty Of the Press a. wen a.
through the Liberty of Speech
| But We only took pen 10 say that the following
| lyrics are from the last two copies OF the Nation
which we have received. We regret TO sec, how
ever in the Irish papers generally. seeming spin'
Of disappointment al The pacific news received from
this country We believe q Cornell j. night IN a'
sorting the superiority OF Reason over the argument
Of the sword and bayonct. The Nation. while quo
ting few lines from Us, says that we are an ing
ii>h organ This Is unworthy OF the Nation. Tor II Is
neither truth nor poetry. W hen We do ana 'AY a.
much Tor England We have cheerlaAy SAid ana
done for Ireland. such charge VIII be more plan
.ble