New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-29
SPIRIT OF IRELAND.

The arrests OF Meagher, Duffy, Reilly, Martin
Doheny &c. are causing intense excitement through
out Ireland Messrs. McGee and Hollywood, also ar
rested on charge OF sedon have been cleared by the
Wicklow Grand Jury-no bills found. Meagher is out
On bail. Gavan Duffy writes from Newgate Prison a
powerful leader for The Nation of the 18TH entitled
The Point of Attack-The Clubs'-insisng that these
must not DO abandoned even though special statute
should direct their dispersion To dis5and the Clubs
he maintains is to sink into ebect and hopeless slavery
Ifthe Clubs are dispersed by baton OF bayonet-ii
from caution cowaTdice or ucachery we give way De
fore the menacng attitude Lhsanu n's INV No.
hwill only be won after bloody struggle aud nope
less interval For every step IN retreat costs nauoh
multitude of lives, by strengthening the commence OF
b.r assailant 81 Will never forgive OConneii the
massacre he 10 causing said thinker OF no ordinary
nover AT the time of the Secession, he Is planting an
nsoept security in the mind OF Ing and which nothing
but blood will ever wash away IL was most true
and II that sentiment be pampered oy new uiun,p
now Ireland will never negotiate her liberty WINE the
sea aows between the lslands. she must win wltn
the sword in desperate and proiraeted ciNh WM-'he
more desperate and proracted because IN sduuon 70
the confidence of England she will have against her the
ro.f Of coincidence at home. The soldiers, the police
the officials the young gentry all the depehuen" "A
who have great risks to run, all our foreign friends a.
our English allies will never trust Der ior'unes on hc
nromses again 43 destroyed the confidence OF these
classes In O'COnnol AZ may destroy theT commence
IA Ireland. -, 4,
The Clubs then must stand. II they go our army i
djsbspded and we may disband our hopes along witt
H. We will lie PROSTATE and hopeless at the eet OF th'
most contemplate faction that ever preyed on coun
ry Beaten, not 10y them but by our own eowsrdic'
and ignorance.
Tshudder 10 think of ireland twelve months hence
A new famine raging among the people; England soon
inc al her desolaion the landlords wreaking tern
Die vengeance for the panic they have suffered power
~ spreading like plague the vigor and valor OF th'
country living into exile by every port To every cline
the noble ustful soul Of the Irish race corrupted an'
demorazed by the sehshness oil struggle Tor Me ah'
BY the desolaiing OF opportunities lost ana las
sddes spectacle the miserable scoundrels elected tt
represent the country in the British Parliament SUI
traheking with the enemy TO the last throe OF hel
sgony 60,
Oh friends. II you would not see our hopes iadc IKE
city in the clouds II you would not scatter all ina
resoute manhood and dissipae that noble courage and
emulation the h CHEST possession OF country wmcn
we're growing up among us again (ss i0felaste an0
assurance Of Lberty) take your stand here Meet thu
aggression of England by hrmer front and closer
ranks double and quadrupe your power and resources
plant your Clubs thick from shore to shore, and II nc
way else is left strike with armed hand for the lss
hope of the Irish race. c. c. D.
NeCgGH Prison.