The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-06-11

would wish to enter into with the "haled
Yankees" as 1t has been suggested IN
letters of very late date from the capital"
A proclamation has been issued bv
General Bravo, ptoolaimiug martial law
IN the district of the capital. Mexico
and for organizing The whole of the male
population.
Adde'S To the American People, by the
Corporation Of Dubiin.
DR.. Gray sand he had been requested
by the Committee appointed at the last
meeting To prepare an Address to the
American People, to bring forward the
following Address, which he read.
To the President of he EiieR States ::
SIR:-We, the Lold Mayor, Alder
men. and Bnrgesses Of the Corporation of
the City Of Dublin, beg leave to tender to
you, and through you, TO tie Federal
Government and Legislature of the Uni
ted States. our deep and alTectiona,e graf
nude for the prompt generosity which
you placed al the disposal Of your benev-
client cltlzens the national ships, the
jamestown and Macedonian, for the pur-
pose OF conveying 10 our counirymen
the supplies of food furnished by the lib.
crafty OF the noble hearted people Of
your Republic.
To you, sir, as the head of a State
which is foreign to the power to which ii
is our fate to owe allegiance, obvious mo-
lives of deIcacy prevent us from express
sing the emotions suggested by a con'ras,
here nvolunIarly presents itself. CT
that contrast it was not your intention to
make any oslen,ation, and we will not
further allude TO it; but no motives need
prevent us, as Irlshmen, who never can
consider Your nation as alien to our hearts
or affections, from expressing our salts
faction that the government Of free peo.
pie, who have so long afforded a hospia-
BILE refuge to ouf expatrIaled countrymen,
I the noble example of aiding the private
benevolence Of it's citizens by giving its
ships Of war to convey food to a distant
people, whose unhappy position gives
| them no national equivalent to return,
but must leave the generous donors 10 be
rewarded by approval of their own con
sciences.
I'VE are aware, Sir, tina, this i. not the
first occasion on which the generous
.ympaIhies of American citizens have out
poured themselves in liberal supplies for
faml.hng mullitudes in this old world.
We know that many Years ago, with an
enthnlasm Of humanity, similar, if not
equal in amouu, 10 tina: which row so
nobIy agi,ales your country, your cili.
2ens fed the people Of impoverished
Greece. We know that, in the year
! 1892, when famine wasted the inhabitants
of the Cape de Yerd Islands when the
old World "as torpid tn the suffering nj
( these Islanders, who were perishing
within lis precincts. and their mother
country attended to their wants with an
inadequacy that was equivalent to total
neglect; the young sympalhles Of your
new world, bound 10 them by no polili-
cal Iies-linked ~ them by few CONNER
cia reIatlons-associated by none of the
claims of Observation-Disclosures all
distances, physical and moral, and led
that population gralutousiy for months
These facts may take from the pecuiiari.
~ Of the compliment paid to ourselves,
but as exalIing the character Of those to
whom we arc so deeply indebted, 1t in
duges our grateful feelings to intermingle
them with the expression of our thanks.
Still we do believe-,hat the condition of
our unfortunate country does excite some
peculiar symPathies among your people.
OF this we find evitlencies in the unpar.
alleIcd extent Of the efforts now being
made in its behalf over the surface Of your
republic, and in the unprecedented con-
due! oil your government, in sparing ships
of war for our use, at a moment when the
whole resources Of your country are call
cd into exerlion, both by land and sea,
for The prosecution Of the hos,iiles in
which you are engaged.
That the people of Ireland should be
so often exhibited to the world as mendi
canls, receiving the charity of other ma.
tons, is deeply humilia:ing TO us, so that
the pleasure of rendering you our thanks
is dashed with gloomy and melancholy
feeling. TO return thanks gracefully for
lavors, which while they bless the glver,
must in some degree humiliaIc the rcceiv-
er, is no easy task-nor will you exac,
from our misery, lis perfect execution.
Bat if il could be easy IN any case--t
would be easy in the present. Your
manner and your words have been as
kindly sympathetic as your acts have
been open handed and liberal. II there
was any country to which the Irish peo.
pie could feel pleasure in owing and ac.
knowledging an obligation of this charac.
ter, that country, Sir, would be yours. |
You will believe, Sir, that our present
gratitude is deep fel, and abiding, and is
measured no, SD much by the extent OF
the benefit conferred on our people, as by |
the da,leripg good will evinc2d in confer.