Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-03-30
The Irish Relief Bill.

of the Acknowledgment Spectator.
The Irish Relief Bill.
The following are the remarks of Gen.
CAss in the U. s. Senate, on the bill ap.
propriating half millioh of dollars for the
relief of Ireland =
Mr.. said, as one member Of this
body, he felt obliged to the Senator from
Kentucky fer the motion he had submitted
and for the appropriate remarks with
which he had introduced it. He has
Continued Mr.. c. expressed my senti.
ments, but with an elt quencs peculiarly
his own. While physical want is un-
known In our country, the Angel of Death
is striking down the furnishing population
of Europe, and especially the suffering
people of Ireland. The accounts which
reach US from that country indicate state
of distress, in extent and degree, far ex.
ceeding any previous experience in mod
ern times. 1t is case beyond the reach
of private charity. Its foundations are
drying up before the magnitude of the evil.
1t is national calamity, and calls for ma
tional contributions. The starving mill
ions have no Egypt "where they can 60
and buy corn, thai they may live and not
de-" From our granery Of abundance
let US pour forth supplies. Ireland has
strong claims upon the sympathy of the
United States. There are few of cur
citizens who have not Irish blood in their
veins. That country has sent out large
portion of the emigrants who have added
numbers to our population, industry and
enterprise to our capital, and the other
elements Of power and prosperity which
are doing that mighty work from the At
lantic to the Pacific, that is already excl
ting the admiration of the Old World, and
will stimulate by its example the exertions
Of the New. Our population of Irish de.
scent hare fought the battles of the coun-
try with al much zepl and bravery as any
class Of citizens. And from the Heights
of Abraham where Montgomery fell, TO
the walls of Monterey, their blood has
been poured out like water in defence of
liberty. We can now send to Ireland, not
indeed what she has sent to US, her chill
dren-those we cannot part with but
food for their relatives, our friends, upon
whom the hand of God is heavily laid. In
petition presented yesterday by the Sem
ator from New York was a suggestion
which am gratifed to find embodied in
the bill reported by the Senator fl ON Ken
lucky, and which | should be happy to
see carried into effect; to employ, in the
transportation of provisions, such of the
armed ships of the United States as are
not required for the operations of war. 1t
would be beautiful lTibpte to the adva l.
cling spirit Of the age. The messenger
of death would thus become messenger
of life the agents of destruction, agents
of preservation; and our eagle, which has
flown above them, and carried our arms
to the very coasts of Ireland, would thus
become the signal Of hope, where it he's
been the signal Of defiance. shall lend
the bill my support with great pleasure.
BEAUTIFUL ExTRAcTs.-I saw the
temple reared by the hands of men, stand
ing with its high pinnacles in the distant
plain. The storms beat upon 1.-THE
God of Nature hurled his thunderbolts
against it; and yet it stood as firm as ada
mant. Reveiry was in its halls--ths
gay, the happy, the young, and the beau
tiful were there. ! returned-and the
temple was no more Its high walls
lay in scatterel ruins; moss and wild
grass grew wildly there, and at the mid
night hour the owls cry added to the deep
solitude;--the young and the gay who
revelIed there had passed away.
| saw a child rejoicing in its youth, the
idol of his mother and the pride Of his
father. / returned-and the child had be-
come old. Trembling with the weight
of years. he stood the last of his genera
ton, stranger amidst the desolation
| around him.
/ saw the old oak stand in all its pride
on the mountain, the birds were carolling
on its boughs. returned-the oak was
leafiess and sapless-the winds were play.
ing at itS pastime through its branches.
"Who is the destroyed" said ! to my
guardian angel.
"Itis Time,' said he; "when the NOR.
ming stars sang together with JOY, over
the new world, he commenced his course;
and when he shall have destroyed all thai
10 beautiful on earth-plucked the sun from
Its sphere-yeiled-th moon in blood-yea
when he shall have rolled the heaven.
and earth away as q scroll, then shall n