Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-11-16


sion. It's not due 10 you-it is, under God,
attributable to the fidelity and bravery Of
the police force. When ! reflect on what
might have been the consequences if that po-
lice force, either seduced by promises, or in
Inundated by threats which were made use of,
had Welded to the advances that were made
tothem, if they had been overwhelmedb by the
congregated numbers that have assembled
and attempted their destruction, or if they
had failed in. dispensing those bands of reb
els who assembled round them on the hills,
| think there is no fair man who, docking al
and contemplating what the state of this
country might have been, will not see how
rapidly temporary success might have add
ed to the numbers of the insurgents, and
how soon this country might have been del
uged in blood. and given over to all the hor-
rors of civil war. 1t is from that we have
escaped by the fidelity and bravery of the
police force.
am very far, God knows, from wishing
to say one word at this moment that can
raise or enhance the feelings which some of
you may endure. Blu. cannot in looking
10 what was the state of this country, in the
month of May last, avoid adverting without
entering into particulars of it) to that au
thentic speech which was given in evidence
upon the last trial, eloquent no doubt it is;
but who can avoid seeing, in the rerusal Of
that speech, delivered by you, Mr.. Meagher,
on the 9Th of June, terrible picture of what
was at that time the state of this country,
and the calamiles which were impending
and medlated, and from which by Gods
assistance, we have escaped.
have told you that it was nv wish to
abstain from charging or giving any details,
and shall do so. shall merely add this
observation, that from the commencement to
the conclusion, of this commission which
has now extended to the fifth week, there
has been perfect coincidence in the views
of every member of this bench as to the
law; and if the observations of the distin-
guished judge who presdes here did seem
TO you, and | Can make every allowance for
their doing so, to press and bear severely
upon you-perhaps, in q calmer moment.
when you come to reflect upon it, you will
see that it was from the verv nature Of The
themselves. that those COM
ments legitimately arose which appeared to
you to press with undue severity upon you.
Perhaps, when you come to reflect dis
you will see this in the same
light, and trust that you may be more re-
conciled than you appear at present to the
justice of the unhappy fate which awaits
You, and which there is not an individual
with heart 10 feel who must not deeply
deplore.
shall not now detain You longer. Ihave
merely to exhor, each Of you to reflect on
the awful situation in which each of YOU al
this moment stands, and to prepare for the
dreadful fate which impends over you.--
We have not failed TO send, as was our duty,
to the Lord Lieutenant, the recommendation
with which the juries in YOUR respective ca
ses have accompanied the verdcts that have
been found against you. But you must be
all aware that it is with the Executive Gov
and the Executive Government a.
lone, that the fate of these recommendations
rests.
And we, in the discharge Of our most anx-
ous and painful duty, have now only to pro-
seed to pass upon you and npon each of
you, the awful sentence of the law, which
s-thai you Terence Bellew McManus, you
Patrick O'Donohue, and you Thomas Fran
:is Meagher, be taken hence to the place from
yor came, and be thence drawn on
4 hurdle TO the place of execution, and that
each of you be there hanged by the neck I'M
ii you be dead, and that afterwards the head
Of each of you shall be severed from his
body, and the body of each divided into four
quarters, to be disposed of as her Majesty
shall see 6t-and may the Almighty God
lave mercy on your souls.
At the conclusion Of this address the three
,risones were removed from the dock. The
IAN was drawn up outside, and the prisoners
having been placed in it, were at once convey
ID back to the prison, where they were plac-
ID in separate apartments, and none but their
chaplain, and persons specially permitted by
he Sheriff, were admitted to see them
Much excitmenl prevailed in the streets and
murmurs of sorrow and awe ran
Trough the crowd of spectators assembled
bout the courthouse. The police kept back
he multitude with fixed bayonets, and in
hor! lime all had DISAPPEARED.
Release of State Prisoners.
DUBLIN, Monday mornn g.-The law be-
ng vindica,ed by the conviclin Of the leaders
IF the late insane instruction, Lord Clar-
,ndon has wisely resolved to temper justice
with mercy. Previous to his Excelency's
departure for England, an oder was issued
o admit to bail the following persons. now
suffering imprisonment under the Habeas
Copns Suspension Act William Matthews,
Charles Taale, Patrick Marion, Jas. Crot,y,
William Walsh, James Baker, Coll Roch-
ford, Owen O'Nei, Francis Gabbelt, Justin
Supple. Jas. M. Organ.
The friends of Mr.. John Dillon have re-
ceiyed positive information Of his escape
from the port Of Galway, in vessel called
the Gem, bound for New York. He was