Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-06-26
ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,
nv THE CORPORATION OF DUBLIN.

ADpREss TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,
BY THE CORPORATION OF DUBLIN.
Doctor GRAY said he had been requested oy
the committee appointed at The last mee'ne "
prepare an address TO tho American peoP'e'V
bring forward the following address, wh'c" ITO
read
6 10 TUE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
us1R-Wo the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, ana
Burgesses of the Corporation OF the Chy OF
Dublin, beg leave to tender TO you, and through
you, to the Federal Government and Legisia-
ture Of the United States, our deep ana ai1ec-
lona,e gratitude for the prompt generosity
with which you placed at the disposal o, your
benevolent citizens The natioanl ships, Inc
Jamesioun and Macedonian, for The purpose Oh
conveying to our furnishing countrymen inc
supplies Of food furnished by the liberality oil
the noble hearted people of your Republic.
ITO you, Sir, as the head of state when
is foreign to the power 10 which 1t IS our iaie
to owe allegiance. obvious motives oil dellcacy
prevent us from expressing the emotions sug-
gested by contrast which here Involuntary
presents itself. OF that contrast 1t was not
your intention to make any osteniation, and
we will not further alude to 1t; but no motives
need prevent US, as lrishmen, who never can
consider your nation as alien TO our hearts or
dUeCIlOUS, lTOU ehpltoSibS WI
that the government, of free people, who have
so long afforded hospitable refuge 10 our ex-
patrated countrymen, should have set 10 the
nations Of the world the noble example OF aid-
ing the private benevolence Of its citizens by
giving its ships of war to convey food to dis
tant people, whose unhappy position gives
them no national equivalent to return, but
must leave the generous donors to be rewards
ed by the approval Of their own conscences
owe are aware, Sir that this is not the first
occasion on which the generous sImpathies OF
American citizens have ou'poured themselves
in liberal supplies for furnishing multitudes in
this old world We know that many years
ago, with an enthusiasm Of humanity. similar,
| if not equal in amount TO that which now SO
nobly agitales your country, your citizens led
the people of impoverished Greece We know
that in the year 1889, when famine wasted the
inhabitants Of the Cape De Verd Islands; when
the old world was torpid to the suffering Of
these Islanders, who we're perishing within Its
precincts, and their mother country attended TO
their wants with an inadequacy that was
equivalent 10 total neglect; tho young sympa-
thies of your new world, bound to them by no
political tes-linked to them by few CONNER
clal rea,ions--associa,e by none Of the claims
of eighborhood- ereaped all distances, ply.
steal and moral, and fed that population gratu-
itously for months. These facts may take from
the popularity of the compliment paid TO our
selves, but as exalling the character Of those
10 whom We are SO deeply indebted, it INDUCES
our grateful feelings 10 iniermingle them with
the expression of our thanks. Still we do be-
lieve--that the condition of our unfortunate
country does excite some peculiar sympathies
among your people. OF this we find evidence
in the unparalleled extent Of the efforts now
being made in its behalf over the surface Of
your republic, and in the unprecedented con-
duct Of your government, in sparing ships Of
war for our use, at moment when the whole
resources Of your country are called into exer-
ton, both by land and sea, for the prosecution
of the hosilities in which you are engaged.
"That the people Of Ireland should b. so Of
ten exhibited to the world as mendicants re-
ceiving the charity Of other nations, is deeply
humia,ng to US, SO that the pleasure Of rem
dering you thanks is dashed with gloomy aud
melancholy feeling. To return thanks grace
fully for favors, which while they bless the
giver, must in some degree humilate the rece.
, YER, is no easy task..-n will you exact from
, our misery its perfect execution. But il 1t
could be easy in any case-il would be easy
in the present. Your manner and your words
have been open handed and liberal. If there
, was any country TO which the Irish people
could feel pleasure in owing an obligation Of
this character, that country, Sir, would DO
yours. You will believe, Sir, that our present
gratitude is deep felt and abiding, and is meas
ured, not so much by the extent of benefit con-
erred on our people, ms by the fa,tering good
WILL evinced in comforting it.
"To you, Sir, personally, for the promptness
with which you sanctioned the ACT OF the Leg.
slaturc, and the wonderful rapidly, so charac :
teristic Of your nation, with which you had it
carried into execution, we tender our wa.mest
neutrality-suspicious. respectfully beg that
you will convey 10 the Government, tho Legis-
ature, and the people Of the United States, the
expression Of gratitude which shall never be
etfaced from our hearts, or those Of our chi>
drens' children.
JOHN GRAY, Chairman.