Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-07-26
nFFor the purpose of showing . eur :,

| uT OF stAo pun iPo'o VI s"o"AHS 1uf Tea-
ders the state of public feeling in Ireland
we copy the following article from the
aUnited Irishman,a Of May 81. May Ire
land soon be numbered among the free and
independent nations of the earth.
I..s3''es...s. The TIM!
|, These are solemn days. We are walk
ing the brink afaR abyss; y athomless va WINS
| the chasm be- a Ils; -Four hearts sink, if
nerve trembles, We fall and perish; if, on
the. contrary, our souls be brave and our
steps rapid, we viii come Forth from the
danger, triumphant In these days, cow
Eardiee is folly, and soiiFa isdsm. he
man who shrink fxon3 tissI md pins
lhhiilasell Hos .stffilg, must
meet die dog death which be. deserves; bat
wherever dauntless heart is beating, be
sure Gods good angels are watching there
For two brave men who fall ON battle
field, fifty towards are slain. Valor is a
very Ajax shield, and he who possesses a
bold spirit has a never failing talisman.
What is the greatest biography that man
can aspire to? He lived a brave mans
life. What is the sublmest epitaph that
can grace his tomb? He died a'brave mans
death! : The coward breathes his last on a
bed Of down, with low whispering voices
in his ear; the patriot falls across barri-
cade,- and is dragged through mud and
t-flth-but the memory of one dies
with his body, while the other, in entering
tomb, ascends throne, and rules US from
his sepulchre.
The time-it is steel-toned era Not
the age for silyery tones and measured SEN
tences. Not the age for rhetoric skill and
tricks of fancy. The strong thing is now
the only true thing. --
The time. 1t is a glorious age. Old
earth sways to and fro, rocked hither and
thither by the storm-breath of democracy.
That great Lazarus-th people-has come
forth from its tomb. The sleeping warriors
are awakened. The clash of their swords
is the death-knell of tyranny. And when
all the nations are advancing in @rythmi-
cal march" i" shall we not keep the step?-
Dress up your ranks, fall in and follow.
The time 1t is no poetic, rainbow-hued,
golden age. No gentle, sweet-voiced sove-
reign rules the world. Our only king is the
sword. At the flash of the patriots steel
the torch of freedom can alone be lit.
This is not the time for beggars petitions.
No more prayers; no more whining; nc
more dying in the ditch side; nor more pa
tent and persevering cannibalism; no more
soup-kitchen paternity; no more of the
grim farce, in which two million of men,
with red blood in them, and something re-
sembling soul, by the grace Of the devil
and the advice of theirpastors, bid farewell
to the sun, and committed suicide; no more
of that gentle claw" which, like death, lev
els all distinctions, and places high souled
patriot in the same filthy cell with COM
mon burglar and swindling Jew; no more
of the licensed scoundrelism of pompous
magistrates-whicht the other day consign-
ed one of our best friends to felon's prison,
for walking through the streets of Dublin
with his friends; no more Of that accursed
mockery called ;sgovernment," which has
trampled into sterility every good seed of
truth, and honor, and courage, which the
Just God had planted in this land, and left
it without fruit and verdure. Away, away,
with all this "specious fry of fraud"-With
English rule and English robbery. Down
to their native hell with aristocratic plumbers
and viceregal green-croppers Their hour
is come. With the keen steel which will
redden in the blood of the first foreign butch
er, we will write fnis in the book of Brit
ish crime, and trace the title page of Ire
lands new history. .-.- .
The people of this land have been dream.
ing an unusual dream The nightmare
vanishes at last and the blood stream cir
culates once more. They can stir their
arms and use their strength again. A
voice was heard, crying in the viii derness,
and 1t has aroused them to sense and voli.
ton. A glorious fiat lux was re-echoed
from one emo of the isle to the other, and
the clouds rolled off from our horizon, ane
the blue sky looked forth on US and blessed
US. A revelation came unto the people
and they felt that they had only to say,
1--WE shall do no such thing" and it was
; done-they fels,.at least, the everlasting
truth flashing on their benighted souls, thai
q peoples will and omnipotence-as fal
US regards each other--are Synonymous.
Let them come forth, then, in the sun
light, and take the rights which have been
withheld from them so long-yes! taxi
them, for they have only to stretch fortt
their hands, and they will soon grasp the
treasure which they desire. Paris wIlle'
that it should be free, and Louis Phillipp
packed up his things, put his umb rella un
, der his arm, and renewing his youth-eu
gle like went forth a-travelling. Sicil.
willed that the Union act-which sucke
t out its life blood-should be repealed, an
the first sword which glistened in the patri
= OTIS hand, cut the parchment link whicl
r bound it to foreign country-Milan-bu
: why multiply instances? Els it not as plai
! Us that God liyeth, that we have but to asl
and we shall receive, if we ask in CON
manding tones of freemen,not in the whir
> ing accents Of slaves2
Come forward, then, ye suffering poor
and prove to your oppressors that you or
6 men and not dogs. From the field wher
Q you toll in the heat ofsummer and the fro'
l. of winter, coaxing out ofsthes sheart of tn
n earth those hidden riches which mir
lister to your tyrants' luxury-from tn
filthy lanes where you cover in rags, an
wet, and m isery, hiding your shame fro,
} the eyes Of your fellow-men, and gnawin
S (you have done it) through the flesh G
}. your own children, to fan the fickern
flame Of life within you-ffom the unde