The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1848-07-13

not have said SO. l feel no depression. His
examplea-his stern fortitude-hS tranquil
heroism-forbids the feeling, All that was
perishable in him-his flesh and blood-afe
in the keeping of the privileged telons who
won his liberty with their loaded dice. But,
his genius, his truth, his heroism-to what
penal settlement have these immortal lnhu-
ences been condemned? Oh! to have
checked the evil promptly-to have secured
their crown and government against MN anu
his teachings-to have done their treacnerous
business well--they should have reao MS ms,
sion and his power in the star tnat PreSlueo
at his birth, and have stabbed MIN IN MS era
die. They seized him thirty years too late
thew seized him when his steady hand had lit
the sacred fire, and the fame had passed from
soul to soul. Who speaks of depression, then?
Danish it Let not the banners droop-let
not the battalions reel-when the young
chief is down. You have to avenge that fall.
Until that fall shall have been avenged, sin
backens the soul Of the nation, and repels
from our cause the sympathies Of every gal
liant people. For one, am pledged to follow
him. Once again they shall have to pack
their jury box-once again exhibit to the
world the frauds and mockeries-the tricks
and periures upon which their power is
based. In this island, the English never
never, shall have rest The work begun by
the Norman never shall be completed. Cen
Grafton transmits to generation the holy pas
sion. From the blood which drenched the
scaffolds of 1898, the felons of this year have
sprung. Should their blood fow-peace, and
loyalty, and dcbasement, may here, for time,
resume their reign-the SHOWS of winter,
the flowers Of summer, may cothe the pro-
scribed grave-but from those graves there
Ill TO-
debasement, forsooth A stagnant society
breeding in its bosom Shiny, sluggish things,
which to the surface make their way by
stealth, and there, for season, creep, grunge,
and glitter in the glare of q provincial royal
ty. Peace, loyalty, and debasement!
mass of pauperism i-shovelled off the land
stocked in fever sheds and poor-houses-
shipped to Canadian swamps-rags, and pes
thence, and vormn. Behold the rule of Eng
land and in that rule, behold humanity de-
throred, and Providence blasphemed. To S
keep up this abomination, they enact their t
laws of felony. To sweep away the abomi- 7
nation, we must break through their laws.
Should the laws fall they will hedge the
abomination with their bayonets and their l.
gibbets. These, too, shall give way before
the torrent of fire that gathers in the soul of d
the people. The question so long debated I
years ago, Oh uCluS Vi DlOOu-uGDdlcu IdttCl- r
ly in venal senate, amid the jeers and yells ;,
of faction-the question, as to who shall be
the owners of this island, must be this year a
determined. The end is at hand, and so
unite and arm A truce to cheers-to speech y
es-to banquets-to "important resolutions" l
that resolve nothing, and "magnifcent dis 8
plays" which are nothing but preposterouS
receptions. Ascertain your resources in each
ocality-consolldate, arrange them-substi- h
tute defined action for drittless passion and IL
in the intelligent distribution and disciplined -
exercise of your powers, let the mind of the =;
country manifest its purpose, and give per- "
manent effect to its ambition. In carrying a
out this plan the country shall have the SER b
vices of the leading members of the Council IL
and from this great task-the organisation Of q
the country-we shall not desist until it has !
bccn thoroughly accomplished. When it is II
accomplished, the country may resume its
freedom and its sovereignty. To the work, W
thon, with high hope and imprisoned vigor. I
There is black ship upon the southern sea fl
this night Far from his own, old land-far s,
from the sea, and soil, and sky, which stand ;;
ing here he used to claim for you with all the u
pride of a true Irish prince-far from the cir. o.
Gle of fresh, young hearts, in whose light and ia
joyousness and warmth, his own drank in W
each evening new life and vigor-far from tc
that young wife, in whose heart the kind "
hand Of Heaven has kindled gentle hero II
ism, sustained by which she looks with seren- -,
ty and pride upon her widowed house; and
in the children that girdle her with beauty,
beholds the inheritors Of name which, to al
their last breath, will secure for them the of
love, the honor, the blessing of their country SC
far from these scenes and joys, clothed and ri
fettered felon he is borne to an island =,
where the rich and brilliant, and rapacious =,
power of which he was the foe, has doomed u
him to dark existence That sentence b.
shall be reversed by the decree Of free ma b,
ton, arrayed in arms and in glory. Till then,
in the love of the country, let the wife and re
children of the illustrious exile be shielded /,
from adversely. True-when he stood before IL
the Judge, and with the voice and bearing of 81
a Roman, told him that three hundred were I'll
prepared to follow him-true it is that at g.
that moment he spoke not of his home and Sc
thought only of his country u,
and to the honor of her sons bequeathed the :.
cause for which he was doomed to suffer- '0
But in that one thought all other thoughts p'
were embraced. Circled by the arms and to
banners of a free people, he saw his home al
wife joyous-his children pros CT
porous This was the though that forbade 70
lis heart to blench when he left these shores "
this the thought which calls up this night y"
rs he sleeps within that prison ship, dreams a9
tull of light and rapturous joy-this the nj
thought which will tighten the drudgery, and til
reconcile his proud heart to the odious condi- i,
ions of his exile. Think oh, think of that -,
'xile-the hopes, the longings, which will III
ROW each day more anxious and impatient We
Think ! oh, think of how, with throbbing
leart and kindling eye, he will look out
crosS the waters that imprison him, searching or
n the eastern sky for the flag which will an ar
lounce to him his liberty, and the triumph of 80
edition. Think oh, think ofthat day when u