The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-01


The following stirring and impressive address to
Mrs. Mitchell, wife of the exiled Irish patriot was
adopted by large and enthusiastic mass meeting
of the friends of Ireland, consisting Of the ladies
Of Brooklyn, and many from NewYosk, together
with an immense mass of the inhabitants in general,
amounting, it was estimated to about five thousand
persons, assembled at Fort Green, on Tuesday even
ing last. Two of the ''air daughters of Columbia
are to be selected to proceed to Dublin, to present
the address to Mrs Mitchell. At the meeting. it is
stated, money came pouring in so fast that the Sec
retares could scarce attend to their business Here
is the address:
Sc Peerless woman Wife of John Mitchell !!
Mother of his children! Daughter of Ireland
The free people of free land wait their blessings
their strongest sympathies from full hearts, across
the broad Atlantic, to comfort YOU in your sorrows
and to strengthen you in the hour of your trials
Among our twenty millions, there is not human
being who would not give to your lonely home the
tribute of tear, were 1t not that their hot blood
rushes impetuOusly to shed itself in avenging
your Ireland's wrongs. Whilst every pulsaton Of
our united hearts, here upon this green feld-made
sacred to us for ever by the footsteps of the Amer
ca immortal Washington-beats warmly for you
and Ireland, the curses of our fathers brothers and
sons, long, loud and deep, are launched upon the
despOtc British Government, who have robbed Ire
land in rObbing you.
eyes Wife of glorious Mitchell Yours shall
yet be triumph. it is deereed that you shall have
your husband iOyfully restored to YOU to his child
rem and to Ireandperhaps, as the future President
of an Irish Republic. Hope on! Your love, your
hope, and people longngs for liberty, shall not be
disappointed. Time shall not write another dark
spot upon Ireland's history, or wrinkle upon your
brow, before Ireland shall stand proudly, nation
among nations, and your patriot husband, free
native soul.
Dearly beloved and adopted daughter of en-
shaved Ireland! Were it not that it would be an
insult to the generous hearts of your native land
we would invite you, for we already know you
would be welcome, to a temporary home al Amerl-
cas- proud Capital, at Washington, by the side Of
the wife of the Chief Magistrate of our happy Re-
public; and we know that she would fondly cher
ish and love you, the exiled patriotic daughter
of an oppressed people, and the fond wife OF Ire
lands true, firm and bold champion. But you
have home in every American heart and your
own heart shall not long be desoate. The heart OF
Ireland shall not long droOp in slavery. Our true
men-your frmest friends-have sworn upon the
altar of liberty that, let worst come that may, the
pike must be the pen, and blood the ink, to write
Ireldnd's Declaration of Independence, and that
John Mitchell shall return in triumph to witness the
signing and sealing of Ireand's Magma Charta.
I'VE impore you, devoted lady, to be for u.s. and
our oppressed race, the unbending execuTlx OF John
Mitche's principles. We adiure YOU to suffer no
compromise 10 be effected between the tyrants and
the people. They have pIundered us-they have
scattered us into exile all over the earth-orn US
from the of parents brothers, sisters, and
friends. We would warn you against the boon"
of Britain, which have always covered concealed
poison. Be yourself deluded, nor suffer others
to be deluded by the presence of England's Queen
in Ireland by her cOurty promises or proceedings.
he tn
monarch to call together a meeting of the land
lords of Ireland in Dublin, and designate that as
sembly parliament, - it would be but TO appease
the clamor of the unwary-tO deceive and divide
the determined friends of national independence
into fragments marked for future conquest by gold
and by patronage No, most injured lady! Hold
fast we beseech you by the immortal truths of your
pure-minded husband. Teach these to the people
at every risk Let the government go, on prose-
cutting these principles in whatever garb they may
appear whether denominated the voice of the
felOn," the "exe,' or the martyr" We will
continue to purchase, and to read, whatever news
paper you publish, and TO cheer on our brothers, our
husbands, and friends in their efforts to uphold
the principles of your husband, even though these
efforts should bring them to premature grave.
1--WE hesitate not, on account of our SEX especial
" at this moment to express what we feel and know
to be truth, because we never can forget that the
mightest revolutions of nations have been effected
by patriotic women Spain was redeemed from
seven centuries of bondage to the Moors, by the
wisdom and frmness of the Christian Princess lsa-
bella. France was redeemed from British dominion
by the heroism of Joan of Arc; and Ireland was
saved from an ingorious submission to William the
Third, by the heroic women Of Limerick. Many
incidents are recorded on the page of sacred and
prOfane history.
$50 on, then, with fortitude, exalted lady! Teach
the people, as John Mitchell taught them, that the
land, and the water, and the air, and the animals
the BIRDS and the fishes Were created by God, fol
the use of the people who work that the higher
classes, as they are called, have assumed to be
proprietors of these, without any authority from
God or man, and have combined to rob the people
and pay foreign robbers to support them.
" Continue, as your husband began, to dispel Thu
of our patriotism; and an admiring world vii
speedily fly to the rescue of you, of Ireland, anC
of Mitchell