The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-07-11
from the Dutisn .Nsttion.]

THE MuRDER Or SMITH obhiEN'
there be tenderness in the women, and rage
IN The men left ia IRELAND, there is news to-day
10 dood the land with tears-to fill the ar win
They are killing Smith o'Brl.n by slow murder
Cruelties the most terribie-craelties which y
maddens 10 think Of, and shames to mention-a1e
inflicted on this deenceless man by the exec"'
toner Of British Vengeance.
He is Gagged in the closest solitary conhnesues.'
His food is scanty and loa,hsome' ne .h -"
cnnsorts- M attendance. lie never sees the tace,
nor hesrs the voice Of iriei,d. lie IS DENIED me
common requisites Of decency.. For months ne
has NOT been allowed change OF raiment OF per-
mitted to change his dress -, -,
In solitude. IN privation, in filth, in rags, lives
this Irish gentleman this noble man who tost
liberty, home, family -aii-iof He.anS.
Nas * this the whole. In the foul den where
he il thrust, like chaiasd reptile, one generous
cirl ofhe age Of ten years. daughter OF the COVER
sor. sought, with the instructive charity OF her
sex. to soace the capiive's care and tighten ms
suherings by kindly Offices; and, forthwith, on
pain Of new privation, O Brien was forbidden eve.
to speak TO her again. lie lost TINS innocent
familiar, whose childish beauty ana gn,.e'esshess'
perhaps spoke to his fathers heart OF Inc orphan
ed darlinrs who weep Tor him at home.
These atrocities are inflicted by the governor
of Maria Isla,d: an official whose brutality has
earned for him in the colony the title otthe black
serpent;' a tyrart whose name is terror and
whose presence is the despair Of the hapless vic
tins Of his internal cruelty.
In this monsters power, tortured, outraged,
naddened, lives your countryman, the son 81
your kingiiest house, the generous patriot VINO
fought and fell for you and Us all
Is this lawa Is this insticel WHO'S so bruta,
here as 10 defend such barbarity. What paltizah
OF British rue--what representative OF british au-
thority dare stand up in these Islands ana vihai,
cate this dark. cowarlly and hellish persecutl
Does the law OF God Justify it, Does the law
of man ordain it, Will the peop.e Of England
sanction it. Wlllthe people Of Ireland endure II!
Ii il q crime horrible enough to provoke the
INDIGNATION Of humanity. What wonder IT the
burning manhood Of Ireland arose in arms against
the government that thus sins against justice ana
our race; that thus murders by slow death our
dear brother; the stainless, heroic champion oil
our liberty.
Men Of Ireland .-and let God and man, the
time and eternity, witness the solemni'y and truth
Of our Observation-Disclosures you be protestants
or cathollcs--whether you are ranged beneath the
Green Flag of our Fathers, or under the crimson
banner of st. George-whether you desire lfish
independence or cherish Union with England,
your sacred duty is Identical You must inter-
fare and save this mans reason. You must inter-
fere and save this mans life; for, we tell you, both
are threatened.
We say this adyisedly. No human consiancy
can long Withstand the torturing cruelty G, Brien
suffers. No bodily strength can triumph over the
privations O'Brien suffers.
TT YOU will not be accomphces in the murder
which is designed If you would moi have O'Bri-
ems blood red in judgment on your souis-we
say to you. interfere. Denounce this inquty.
Terminate this dread agony. Expostulate with
this cruel, malignant, assassin government. Stve
this man Fl m death, or worse than death.
These tldings have produced profound i'm
preston in Dublin. They have excited insens-
est indignation. A committee is being formed
Of men Of all parties; and, if we have not ms'a-
ken Irish hearts. III, re will be denunciaton
that shall ring through the land like the judg-
ment peel-a remons,rance which it will not be
prudent for any government to despise, or safe
for any government 10 disobey.
Wehear, indeed. that the Queen of England
comes to ireland again this summer-cemes for
the ovation that monarchs love from petted
slaves. But we warn her and her Ministers that
as surely as she sets foo, Irish soil while o.
Brien is thus tortured and degraded, so surely,
wherever she turns shall his name be Numbered
in her ears as maiedcton-so surely shall his
blood be fon,ed in her face. This promise we
SO f,,iE led