The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1848-05-26
SPEECH OF AN IRISH REpEALER.

ing OF the citizens to address the queen
and the French Republic. Tie eloquent {
speaker, Mr.. Mitchell, is the able Editor
of the United Irishman. and is one of the
three who have been held to bail for Ut
tering seditious laoguage:--
Mr.. Mitchell said-it has been entrust ed
to me to bring up an address TO the citi-
zens Of the French Republic. hope sir,
that we have all assembled here to-day in
a spirit Of due humility. Nobody here. !
trust imagiues that in Offering our con-
/ gratuIations TO the sovereign citizens Of
| France, we are addressing our equals, or
that the triumph of liberty, equality, and
fraternity in Paris is any triumph to us in
Dublin. THIS is no gala day, indeed, for
us. We, natives of Observation-Disclosures
of Dublln-not citizens of any place
! (hear, hear strangers at home, and eur.
plus sojourners in the land that bore us,
come together under the guns of foreign
( garrison, and by permission of the militia
ry governor who holds our Island for the
English, to feIicitate another people on
the achievement of their freedom. And
that is not all--our own neighbors, and
fellow slaves, and brother-surplus, have
many of them stunned even this timid
and cautious demonstration Of sympathy,
lest some too.presumptuous young man;
some enthusiastic and unconstitutional
pauper, forgetting that he is an lrishman,
should, 10 the excitement of the moment,
touch a note somewhat too proud and de-
finite, that might provoke our masters TO
scourge US back with igoominy to our
homes. (iIear.) These are the condi-
tions under which we find ourselves Assem-.
humiliating are they that |, for one, should
take shame to attend this meeting at all
if did not feel within me the assurance
that our day s coming. We congratulate
the French TO day with bated breath and
whispering hunbleness; but II there be
faith 10 man, if there be truth and man :
hood upon earth, or justice in Heaven,
the day Is near at hand when France shall
in her turn congratulate US on freedom
won--and when Ireland will have no need
ITO hold dow her head o mufle her voice
}. as she Joins in the jubiIant chorus of libe
# rated nations. Who Of us did not feel
his heart bound stronger and his blood run
g quicker when he heard of that mighty aud
generous nation arising in her majesty
aud, at single effort, dinging off the
strongest tyranny in Europe, with its en-
II dless chains of fortresses, barracks, and
batteries, like dew drops from the lions
If main! Why, here is a new charter muni.
ment Of title to the earth, proving al last
a that the man OF the nineteenth century
with all his ignorant enlightenment and
e sleek civilization, has not yet lost his
manhood. And truly il needed proof
t, The nations had lain in trance too long
and the virtue seemed to have gone out o
them, insomuch that men thought the
u world was waxing old. Parchment trea'
ties, devised by certain crowned conspi
10 rators at Vienna three-and thirty years
ago, seemed to lie like spell upon theiI
IL hearts and arms. France, the old pionee
of freedom, seemed enslaved for ever BY
her own hired servant. She, who wa
~ wont to make and uDmake dynasties will
a blast of her cannon-who was wont Il
bind kings in chains and mobiles with fet
q ters of iron--had become, it was though
a mere appanage at last to royal gam
. bier and his brood. Poland had risen to
protest against the parchment blasphemy
and had sunk once more 10 her blood
Italy was fast bound, lire Prone theus, b
strength and force, TO her rock--the two
headed black vulture of AUSTRIA W as gnaw
ing her liver undisturbed, and the blood
her Bandieras, done to death by an En-
glish right hon. n.detective-seemed d TO hav
sunk into the earth without even CIR
- for vengeance. Spain had become mer
-, stake for the royal gamsters Of Paris an
:, St. James's; and ireland! Ireland! Owe
,la Ireland had settled deeper and darke
II pail than ever. Black hate, and STRIFE
na and suspicion had shattered her power
nd and bafied every effort for freedom; an
se her children lay dying by myriads roun
,ur her coasts, mourned only By the hoars
Atlantic.
On all sides the horizon of the worl
bs was gloomy and hopeless enough, whe
nd suddenly on signal from gallant Sicil!
OF the fight noble and right royal workme
al of Paris broke the accursed spell, an
nd sounded in thunder the reUieAe OF sieel
ing Europe--ahd with certain bIaz'n
throne hard by the Column OF July, The
ar have reared pillar of fire TO guide Il
.k- nations through the darkness: ca
on, those workmeo royal. sir, BECAUSE iao'
8 a is the only king in France now, and
ge his clemency, geutleness, and wisdom,
The well as in his proves, he is every inch