The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-20
DAILY CRESCENT.
How the Irish Patriots Talk.


How the Irish Patriots Talk
We have heretofore presented the readers of the
Crescent with some specimens of the bold eloquence
Of the Irish Repealers: We have, now, another,
and still holder one. Mr. Mitchell, editor of the
United Irshman in late familiar episte, addressed
to &c His Excellency the Earl of Clarendon Her
Majesty Detective General, High Commissioner of
Spies, General Suborner in Ireland" commencing
with reference TO the recent revelations before the
police magistrate, proceeds:
In the first letter which did myself the honor to
address to YOU in the United lrishman-you remem-
Der it WE'LL told you plainly that spies and in
formers would be of no use to you; that we meant
to abolish their trade-that the movement then
about to commence, should be, in all parts, open,
public and board that you would be told the
very worst of it, if not the worse than the worst,
every Saturday, regularly, in the papers and that
| had no objection TO youropenlng all my letters IN
the post office, provided they were forwarded with
out losing post.
Well. YOU did not believe me- you did not, un-
happy Wing that you are, even understand me.
Will YOU give ear to me, them at length am
about tell you all that is going on, and all that is
in contemplation.
l. The Irish are providing themselves, just as
fast their means and opportunities enable them,
with weapons of various kinds, for which they have
conceived sort of divine passion; no holier ervor
men-not to rob houses, as you, through your rep
tile spies, give out-not to attack persons or pro-
perty'' as your Queens Prime Minister dares to
affrm-not to abolish social ORDER, or rights OF
property savings Industry your rascal press
prints twelve times a week. No. my Lord the
young men of Ireland arm for nobler enterprise !;
they to defend person and property against brl-
gands of the law - and harpies of the govern
ment ;"-they arm to make social order possible,
and to secure to industry its just reWard-they arm
to scourge you and your commissioners, detectives,
aids de-camp, butchers and strangers, forth from
the island of Ireland with rods of steel.
g. The Irish people are busy organizing them
selves in g sections" and classes, and appointing
their officers, that each man may know his left
hand and his right hand comrade, and the man
whose word he will obey.
g. The Irish people, or a competent number OF
them, will simply continue to arm, and so to or
ganize openly my lord, fearessly, zealously, with
passionate ardor, with fervent prayer, morning and
evening" for the blessed hour when that organiza-
ton may find itself ranked in battle array, and when
those arms may wreak the wrongs OF Ireland IN the
dearest hearts, blood of her enemies.
A. The Irish people will, by their mildness, their
moderation, their love of order and respect for pro-
perty, convince those who live In good houses and
wear good clothes, that the armament is not against
them-that your Lordship and the Prime Minister,
and the detectives, have foully beed this nation,
when you gave out that social order'' was in dan
ger, and that pillage and massacre were intended;
that, in fine, the sole enemy against whom we arm
is the government of England in Ireland, and that
no Irshman is our foe, unless he comes forth to
maintain that government with armed hands.
s. The people of Ireland will continue to culti-
vate friendly relations with the people of England,
who are as deeply sworn to abolish that empire
of fraud and blood as are. And we and they
together, by the destruction and dismemberment of
this thrice-accursed empire, will give the three
kingdoms each to its own people, with all its
ftb and rial md
enioy and govern the same forever
As for me, my lord, your lordshps huthle cor
respondent, you have been told that l ia. lnad-a
dangerous lunatic, laboring under cacoethes scr,-
beadi. Do not believe it; am merely possessed
with a rebeious spirit and think have mission
to bear a hand in the final destruction of the
bloody old British Empire, the greedy, carnivo-
rous old monster that has lain so long like load
upon the heart and limbs of England, and drank
the blood and soaked the marrow from the bones OF
Ireland. Against that Empire of He'll a thousand
thousand ghosts of my slaughtered countrymen
shrek nightly for vengeance their blood cres con-
tnually from the ground for vengeance! vengeance!
And Heaven has heard it. Thai bucaneering flag,
that has braved long the battle and the breeze,
flies now from ship in distress; the Charybdis OF
CIartism roars under her lee-the breakers OF Re
peal are ahead, and the curses Of the world swell
the hurricane that RACES round her, pirate and blood
stained SLAYER that she is, filled with dead mems
bones, and with all uncleanness. Her timbers are
shivering at last
"Quamvis Pontica pinus,
Syve fills nobils ~
she will never float in harbor On the day
she goes to pieces all the ends the earth will give
three cheers.
To help this grand work of necessity and mercy
is my highest ambition upon earth and | know no
better way to do it than to make Ireland arm for
battle. To me it is grateful and blessed sound,
the cry, The people are arming.' Thank God
they are arming Young men everywhere in Ire
land begin to love the clear ganclng OF the steel
and to cherish their dainty rifles the very apple
of their eyes. They walk more proudly feel
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