Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-05-25
THE FEELING IN IRELAND.

-ier introduced the following lines into his
speech
LET the coward shrink aside
Wen have our own again;
Let the crawling slave deride,
Here's Tor our own again.
Let the tyrant bride and lie,
March, threaten, fortifg
Loose his lawyer az d his spy,
Yet Well have our own again.
Let him soothe in silken tone
Scold from foreign throne;
Let him come with buges blown
We shall have again.
Let the game be fairly tried
Wen have our own again."
Mr.. Bourke on the same occasion, quoted
the following lines:
They banned our faith, they banned our lives they
trod us into earth,
And while we bore with passive hearts, our patience
was their mirth,
Even this great fame that wraps them now not we
but they have bred;
This war is their own work, and now their work be
their head"
The ''Nation, in leading editorial says:
Thank God! we are to be troubled no moro
with phantoms of ''amelioration" and ssequal-
ity." The unproductive desert of the last tive
years, w here promise rose on promise like waves
OF barren sand, is past, and We have reached
the skirts OF firm land fit for fighting on
Our imperial rulers have made the true cause
OF quarrel conspicuous as tower; they have
struck down every right, or pretence of right,
which they might derive by crown, or compact,
and have revived, as their banner, the ancient
claim of conquest.
The time of the sword has come, the cant of
the constitution is obsolete as Ogham stones.
1t is come; and we will show that the reli-
gous spirit of this people, like the cloak of the
Crusader. carries beneath its cross soldier
heart and warlike equipage. We love not
the prospect OF civil war, but our dread of it is
dead-it died in the Famine. 1t is time for
Ireland to strike; she has negotiated in vain
for half a century. In her name we choose
and we beseech Heaven TO sustain and bless our
choice-clvil war, rather than submission to
English tyranny We choose this course with
deliberation, and after full reflection on all the
duties which attach TO US, i'll our generation
and we call on the people to prepare for the
battle. England has thrown down her gau ge
Thus Ireland takes it up.
The Freeman's Journal, in reply to Lord
John RusselTs threat that he will .sput down
the Repealers by force" holds this Ian
guage:-
To their menace of armed thousands, we an
swer, remember we are millions. To thei
armed faction we oppose the resolve of PEG
pie. When they ally with British arms tn
murder knit of the Delahunts, and the Claren
don pixies of the perjured spies-when the.
arm their hlrelings against the properties, lib
cities and lives of our gentry and our people
when it is openly declared that the merits of
constitutional question are not to be discussed
in the senate house, but in the field-whel
arms are sent from England by the Government
to arm factions against liberty, against tn
nstitution, and against the people-we asl
the Irish gentry will they be consenting partie
to this prOcedure-will they aid and abet tn
minister in his efforts to precipitate this coun
try into instruction and anarchy, that ''En
gIish Interests" may be advanced by perpetual
| ing the Union?
This is a question which the Irish gentry, am
Irish merchants, and Irish traders, should pu
to themselves without delay. What have the
gained by the Union? What will they benefi
BY its perpetuation, that they should consen
j to make their country the theatre of civil wal
and their properties the sport of anarchy? Ar
they prepared to submit to this, to have, as tn
/ Times puts it, the streets of our cities delugeC
with civic blood, and a licentious soldier
let loose amid their homes, that British inter
est may be subserved al the cost of all that hu
name and honorable men hold dear? If no
now is their time to speak, now. ere it be 'fro,
LATE"