The Arkansas banner., 1848-09-05
Eloquent Appeal--..The Time,

4 friend encldses us, for publication the follow ing forcibie and beautiful reuarks, taken from the late speech of the celebrated MEacHEH. We can imagine with what deep excitement such sou-str- rag appeals heard by the Irish people, aud II it Is in ine power of human eioqueace to arouse them 10 patriotism and struggle for freedom, such burn ing words as these have done 1t, Hear hitu.
 ''fhese are solemn days. We are walking the brink of an abyss; iathoaiess yswus the chasif he. fore Us; if our hearts sibk il d nerve trentbles we fall and perish; if, the contrary our souls lr, bravo and steps rapid. We will come forth from te danger triumphant, In thcse days cowarfIa,c Is folly and courage is wisdom The man rho shriuks from his post and pins hims aif 10 his lady apron string, must meet the dogs death which he de- serves hut wherever d dauntless heart he beating be sure Gods good dngeis are watching there For ~o brave men who iall a battle field fifty COW. ards are slain Nalor is very Aiax shield. and he who possesses bold spirit has failing tas- man. What is the grandeSt biography that man can aspire to fie'lived brave ulans life, What Is the sublimest ePitaph which grace his tonIhl- He died brave mans death. The coward hreathes his last bed of down. with low whispering voices u his ear; the patriot fails batrcade and Is dragged through mud and street filth bat the memory oi one dies with bis body, while the other Iii entering toulb ascends d throne and rules us from his scpulehre. This IS not the period
 
 age for theorctic skill and tricks of fancy The strong thing is now the only true thing.
 "lhe th.. IL ls glorious age. Old earth swavs to and fro, rocked hher and thither by the storm breath of democracy. The great Lazarus lhe l,eo- ple-has come forth from ils tsnib The sleensr warriors arc awakened. The clash of their swords is the dcath-knell of tyranny. And when all the nations are advancing in ''rhy thmical' march '' shall We not keep the step Dress up your ranks, fall in and follow.
 The time It is poetic, rainbow -hued golden age. No gentle, sweet voiced sovereign rules the world Our only king is thc sword. Al the flash of the patriots steel The torch of freedom alone be lit.
 This is not the time for beggars' petitions No more prayers; no more whining DO more dying in the ditch-side; patient and perseveTing can nibaisTu; no more soup-kitchen paternity; no more of the grim farce, in which two millions of unen with red blood in them and something resembling soul by the grace of the devil and the advice of their pastors, bid farewell to the saa and committed sutcide no more Of that genile law which, like death, levels all distinctions, and places hgh-soul- ed patriot in the same filthy cell with common burglar and sasindiIag Jew, more of the fieen. sed scoandrelism of pomPous magistrates which the other day consigned one of our best friends 10 te- loas prison for walking through the streets of Dub ln ffiencss no more of that accursed mockery called "governmeot,' which has tramplesi into sierilitv every good seed of truth. aud honor and courage ~hich the just God had planted Tn this land, and left # without fruit and yeEdure. Away away with asI thls spacious fry of fraud"with English rule and English robbery. Down 10 their native hell with arstecraiie punderers and yiceregal croppers Their hour is With the keen steel which will Fcdden in ths blood of the frs foreign butcher, We will write hnis in the book Of British crime and trace the tite page of Ireiand's new history. The people of thts land have been dreaming an uneasy drvau The nightmare gsuisltes al last, and the biooa-stFeam eiFcuiates in tilc country once more. They can stir their arms and use their strength again voice WAS heard. crying ia this wilderness sud if has aroused them 10 sense and yo- hiioa. X glerio1s }iaf lax re-echosd from one cad oi the ise 10 the other, and tBe clouds rolled o from ear horizon, and the blac sh looked forth on us, aud blessed us revelation Came auto tue people and they felt t'ia they had only 10 say i've shall dO such thing and it done--;hey felt, a last. tlte everlasting truth flashing on tseiY nigbEsd sosls, that peoples w, and 0unip potence --as far as regards truin--aTe SYNONYMOUS
 Let tgem come forth, theu, ia the suD.aht aud take lhe rights Wuich have been ithlleld from them se iSng-yes. take taeal, for they have 0aty 10 stretch forth thzir hanGs. aud they w soon grasp the treasure which t'~y aesirc. Paris wi;i. that # shonia ee free, sad Loais Philippe packed sp D g taiBgs, pet hs umbrella gaaef his s1at and renew iag his yOgtb-eagle like wHut forth &-tfayeiiiBg Sicily wiiled that Inc u al0H act--xhich sacked out is iis-oioodsheula e repealed and the first sword wnieis gtsleReG R tas patriots hau1 cut the pareb meat aA that bound st to foreign eoaaiEy-Mi- iaS. Bat why snitip.y instances! l. t not piaia as thai God iisetA, that have but to 4sk and we shaG ,ees-Vv, fl st ast tn tEe cofnnansag tonee sf 1fssaea. 2et .s tae shs. steess.sl e-1.es