Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1848-06-24
THE TiME-AN ELOQUENT APPEAL.

27th, after the conviction of Mitchell. It
breathes the true spirit of soul laboring un-
der sense of national wrong and oppres-
sion.
From The United lrishman Of May 27)
The Time. 1t is no poetic, rainbow-hueu'
golden age. No gentle swee-noiced sover-
eicn rules the world Our only king Is the
sword A, the flash of the patriots steel the
torch of freedom can alone be lit.
This is no, the time for beggars' petitions
No more prayers no more whining no more
dying in tho ditch-side ; no more patient and
pcrsevcring canabalism; no more soup-ki'ch-
en- paternity no more of the grim farce, i'll
which two millions of men, with red blood
in them, and something resembling a soul, by
the grace of the devil and the advice of their
pastors, bid farewell to the sun and and com
mitted suicide; no more of that gentle claw
which. like death, levels all distinctions, and
places a high-souled patriot in the same filthy
cell with common burglar and swindling
Jew no more of the licensed scoundrelsm
of pompous magistrates-which the other day
consigned one of our best friends to felon's
prison, for walking through the streets of Dub
lin with his friends; no more of that accursed
mockery called 'government," which has
trampled into sterlity every good seed OF
truth, and honor, and courage, which the Just
God had planted in this land and left it with
out fruit and verdure. Away, away with this
"specious fry of fraud''-wi'h English rule
and English robbery, Down to their native
he'll with arisocratic plnuderers and vicerc-
gal green-cropper Their hour is come
With the keen steel which will redden i'll
the blood of tue first foreign butcher, we will
write Finis in the book of British crime, and
trace the ti,lc-pagc of Ircland's new history.
Tho people of this land have been dreani-
ing an uneasy dream. The nightmare van-
ishes at last, and the blood-s,ream circulates
in the country once more. They can stir
their arms and use their strength again. A
voice was heard, crying i'll this wilderness,
and it has aroused them to sense and vol lon,
A glorious fiat lur was re-echoed from one
eni of the isle to the other, and the clouds
rolled off from our horizon, and the blue sky
looked forth on US and blessed us. A revc-
]ation came unto the people, and they felt
that they had only to say, 1--WE shall do sucl
a thing and it was done-they felt, at last
the everlasting truth flashing in on their be-
nighted souls that Il peoples will and ON
nipotence-as far as regards earth--arc sy'
nonymous.
Let them come forth. then, in the sunlight
and take the rights which have been w!th
held from them so long-ycs! take them, to
they have only TO stretch forth their hands
and they will soon grasp the treasure whicl
they desire. Paris willed that it Shouts, hs
ing MS youth Ieaaic ,i jike ,c,n,.a ~, NJ renew
when s,,ras,l ""i,y y wllled tha, the Union ar,
repealed and the first sword which glistened
in the patriots hand cut the parchment linl,
that bound ii 10 a foreign country-Nlian-
but why multiply instances! Is it not as
plain as that God liveth, that we have but to
ask and we shall receive, if we ask in the
commanding tones of treemen, not in the
whining accents Of slaves
Come forward, then, We suffering poor and
prove TO your oppressors that you are men
and not dogs From the fields where You
toll in the heat of Summer and the frost of
Winter, coaXing out Of the heart of earth
those hidden riches which minister to your
tyrants' luxury-from the filthy lanes whc,e
you cover in rags, and wet, and misery, hi
ding your shame from the eyes of your fellow
men, and gnawing lyon have done it!) thro'
the flesh of your own children, TO fan the
iilckering flame of life within you-from the
underground cellars, where some of You. er.
dowed, mayhap, with high aspirations and
sunny genius, grovel, wormlikc, in cold and
nastiness, cursing the rule which has crushed
YOU down to dust, and extinguished the hca-
vcnly light within yo,i---trom the launts nf
crime, where, with breaking hearts, Won sell
the beauty which was intended to adorn the
homes of virtue, that the Hunger-fend which
is preylng on your entrails may be satisfied -
come forth, ye poor! You wear the carb of
humanity you have the appearance of Men
Let the garb have something within it. le, the
appearance clothe reality. You were'made to
Gods likeness. Premiers and aris,ocrats :
may deny il, but the Manhood who died for
YOU has said so. Blood circuates in your
veins, too. You have rights to demand, and
wrongs TO ayenge. You have as rich a
fluid within your hearts as the tyrants who
tramp on you. You are like them in physi-
cal formation. Ii they prick you do you not
bleed If they poison you, do you not die !,
Your are stronger than they are. They are
lew and you are many. Up, then, grapple
with them, and try fall Or two, 1t is the
only way You can truly estimate their strength
or weakness.
In England, the average cost of construct
ing railroads is laid down at f25.OOO per
mile, or Si2l,0Oo in France, $4,000 in
Belgium, $4,000. In some part of New
England, the cost per mile has occasionally
been from 100000 to $50 600 On the
Greenville and Charlotte railroad, (Sou,h Caro-
IIna) and on the West po;n, 81 MI. 49,.