The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-08-18


Nit6 Vengeance a- wIlia- thr cfir- c'j..a.r
Tia, nee from your suffering lau.LaUI
SrEEa,lA.
Are the men Of Ireland brave Orisit
true charge that they are bat idle takers.
who shrink when the hour for daring strikes.
Their present conduct must determine this
question.
To my mind never TO a nation was there
youchsaicd fairer opportunity for winning
Independence. \ grauder Prize was new
er held out to the imperial ambition OF the
patriot, than the freedom and fame in the
reach Of us if We be faithful aud re,olule.
Ii the gift be spurned, no hope can come Of
Liberation more, until this generation sleeps
with its ANCESTRY or llELOTS.
Think of the oppression, the misery, the
deadly wrongs, that call for the pro>Iraticu
Of the dominion that cuslayeS, and robs, and
murders. Think!
Think Of the gallant men who suffer for
their sell-Sacfiiciug enthusiasm and fidelity.
They plead 10 Ireland for Succor. for res.
cue-bccausc her Liberation viii end their
bondage. Thiuk-til!'.S defiance. ven
geance' (thc trinity 'SpcranZa' SO grandly
invoNcS , nerve the heart, upl.n the arm.
and c!cnch the liberating hand. Thjak!
From amid the impriSoning waves that
sentinel Bermuda, comes manly voice, de-
handing restoration 10 a land freed forever.
more; to home now de>ulate in the faith
cr'S absence. Think ofhim.
From the cells Of Ncwcate. Young, gifted.
aud noble spirits, who would be foremost in
the battles front, call upon Us to gather and
discipline our strength. For they know
that. once ranged against the enslaycr. the
host Of Ireland need but strike 10 conquer.
IHink of them.
IL were treason the most accurscd 10 the
country aud the cause to urge for individual
consideration only an appeal to arms And
among the political prisoners whom New
gate holds. there is no; one who would not
rather wear thus moment the fettcr Of the
convict. than allow the Independence Of Ire
land to be mpeIi!ed byunwise efforts for his
deivcrauce.
So pure, generous, aud unSClGSh i their
devotion 10 Liberty. Holy as the saints :
burning as the lovers: heroic as tie mar
tyr's.
But to me il appears that with the fate o.!
these men is involved our dc>iipy. Irthey.
too, leave our shores the victims of jury
Packing. the mind of the country will be.
come so habituatcd to unre,istcd oppression,
that it will forever after p!ay the part of the
..bastinaloed elephant" And " c will but
live TO see every man compe:cnt 70 teach
inspired to arouse, honest TO cuidc. and VA,
| liant TO lead, nung into Nrwatc. Knocked by
the prctcncc Of judicial inquiry. and doom.
ed TO herd with The yacabouds and uutcn,,,
| Of society.
| The true way 10 act now is IN extend thl
| organization withoutpause. by day or pirht
/ This will form the country into an army o
defence. Then-tn watch the urruaratipr
/ for the trials: aud if the British Govern.
Iment dare in defiance of the peoplc's will. Il
mack another iury-pilc the barricaAel
| like not at alithe assignment of II ,,onV
for prcparatiou, We have no such time
| Did the C,stIc-yillains dread ourbciur rra.
DIV for them in that interval, they would i'm.
proviSc a especial Commission" TO antici.
pate and defeat our action. Let not the
pcople dream, then, thatthcy can DELAY fol
/ a month. a week, or a day. They have bat
the Present. Let them act rs if the hour il
which they read these lines were the las
. Of truce. And they ,riN be ready!
| Another subject TO be explicitly canvass.
cd is the chance of success. do not be-.
/ lieve, brave friends of the Clubs, that yuu
Twin meet this question with timii anxiety.
Waterford paused not tomcaSurc difficult
/ ties or calculate probabilities when She saw
her young chicitain marked for vengeance
| Had Mcaghor wlllcd, he could have held
his city against all the garriSonS south o
| Dublin. Fiery columns of tall Tippcrary,
men would havcruShed TO his banner. The