Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-11-22
WHOLE NUMBER 1S1.


people. With The country, then, leave
nv memory, my senlin ents, my acts,
proudly feeling that thy require o ndi.
Gallon from me this day. A jury Of my
|csantrymeD, it IS true, have found me
guilty OF the crime of which was indicted.
For this | entertain hot the slightes! feel
ing Of resentment ogainst them; influence
as they must have been by the charge of
the Lord Chief Justice, they perhaps, ,could
have returned no other verdict
What of that charge? Any strong Oh.
servations upon ii, sincerely feel, would
i'll betit the soIomnity of this scene; but
would earnestly beseech OF you, my lord
-. whensths preihdices and pass iots of ID a.
| hour pave passed away, 10 appeal to your
1conscience, and ask oisit--was your rharga
as it ought to have been, impartial and in
different between the subject and The crown?
My lord, you may deem this language un-
becoming in me, and pcrchance it may seal
my fate; but am here to speak the truth,
whatever it may cost. am here to re-
gre, nothing that have ever done-io re-
tract nothing that have ever said am
not here to crave, with lying lip, the life
coBsecrate to the liberty OF my country.
Far from il. Even here-here, whsre the
.aisf, the llbertine, the murderor, have left
their footprints in the dus,-here, in this
spot, whero the shadow of death surrounds
me, and from which see an early grave
in an unapo nted SOL open to receive me
even here, encircled by these terrors, that
~ ,h Na1 80 ba
sea on which have been wrecked, still
consoles, anina,as, and enrnptures me.
No! | DO no, despair of my poor old coun-
try-her peace, her liberty, her glory
For that country, can now do no more
than bid her hope. TO lift this Island up
TO make her bene,actor to humanity,
instead Of what she is-the meanest beg
gnr in the world-to restore 10 her her ma
tive powersand her ancient constitution
this has been my ambition, and this ambi-
ton has been my crime. Judged by the
law Of Englane, know this crime entails
the penalty of death. But the hlslery of
Ireland explains my crime and iustiGes it.
Judged by that history, am no criminal
I and turning round towards his fellow
prisoner III Manus you are no criminal
land to O'Donohue)--you are 40 crimi-
nal, and we deserve no punishment. judg-
ed by that histery, ths treason of which |
have been convicted, loses all its guilt
is sanctihed as duty-will te ennobled
as sacrifice. With these sentiments, my
lord, avail, the sentence OF the court.
Hasins done who, feel to be my duty
having spoken now, IS did on esayy &C.
casion during my short life. what felt to
be the truth, | now bid farewell 10 The
country ofmy birth, nay passion and my
death-thai country whose misfortunes
have Invoked my sypathies-w whose fac
.ions sought to stil-whose intellect
prompted 20 lofty airn-vhose freedom
has been my fatal dream. | offer 10 that
country, as a pledge Of the love | beor her,
and the sincerity with which thought and
spoke, and struggled for freedom, the life
Of q young heart; and with that life all the
hopss, the honors, the endeaymeHts Of
happy and an honorable home. Pronounce,
.hen, my lords, the sentence which the law =,
directs, and will be prepared to hear il.
and meet ils execution. trust, too, that
| shall os prepared with a pure heart 10
appear before higher tribunal-a tribu-
aal where Judge Of infinite goodness, as
we'll of infinite justice will preside; and
there, my lords, many, many ofthe judg-
nen,s of this world will be reversed.
The conclusion Of this address was re.
,eived with murmurs Of applause.
The Mayo Constitution gives deplora-
BE picture of the state of the country
through the failure of the potato crop, the
nsagre grain crop, the want of employ
nsni, and the disposition of the people to
make off with ths produce Of the land, re-
,ardlsss of the payment ofany ront or tax
%. The Meath Herald says: ''the spirit
# emigration was never moro ripe during
be- spring Of the yaar than it is now, though
va are on the brink Of winter. Scarcely
day passes in which strangers are not OBJ
erved vending ,heir way towards the sea-
,orts of Drogeda or Dubln-fying from
he misery which threatens 10 visit their
ZONES upon the arrival of winter.''