The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-03-31
JOHN D. JENNINGS
saz sasss ADDRESS:
ifLADfEs & GExrLEsEs

Although entertain
ing most lively appreciation Of the honor con.
ferred upon me, through the kind attention of
those 81 nv friends and fellow citizens by whose
invitation rise TO respond to thu sentiment
which has just been offered, 1 am nevertheless,
unable to disPel the conviction Of my compara-
live ineapacsty to meet the expectations and re-
qu'rements OF the occasion. Encouraged, how
ever,b their confidence, and battered ~ the
mark of distinction which is reflected II the
number and character Of the present company,
Ms with feelings Of unfeigncd pride and graft
hcation, that enter upon ths discharge Of the
pleasing task before me-
custom which has been rendered venera.
BE BY its antiquity, has brought rs together up
On this accession, has assembled us around the
present festive boards, linked together by the
bands Of national and national fraternity II is
one which commentaries the life and iabnrs of
the se'need hero, i'll may 30 speak, ofthe Emcr-
AID Isle A hero who went forth to conquest, not
with the grded on armnr the military chiefla;n,
bot with the olive branch of peace, and the
scePtre OF harmony and love. One who, like
his great master, taught in the high places and
the humble .confounding the wisdom Of the wis ;,
giving direction and confirmation TO the sincer
~ 1T the unpretendinc just, humbling the pride
Of the naughty and the learned, who feigned
10 contem0, To disregard and to ridicule the
singular, novelty Of his singplariyl considered
doctrines, and exciting IN envy and mnrcenary
alarm, the religious fidelity of the Druids, who
sawin the new conner the enemy Of their Gods,
and VIM IN the plenitudc Of their anxiety cr,ed
out to t,eif King. that unless the stranger were
driven from their midst, the holy fame from
which the November fires of the people were
wont t"i6's Alsghtrd up upon the hearth stone,
must ere long and forever disappear from the
lanctu1ry Of the temple. Such, in part was the
Effect, and such in part the reception OF Patrick,
the great apostle Of Ireland, as he entered upon
that exalted mission, to which, he consccrated
life repiete with sacrifces-Sacrifcey such
- inspirations alnns could voluntarily seek and
statiently endure. a.- II. IN
.eHhis day iss.t apart by his faithful and devo
I'D children throughout the universe, as the best
adapted to the appropriate commemoraiion oil
~ many VIRTUES, his many struggles and his
many tfiumphs under the proud ensign Of re-
demption, because il was upon this day that he
departed this life that his spirit took leave Of
IL mortal tenement, and winged its way 70 the
hagipns Of caheriai bliss, there to put ON immof.
tullty, and to receive the rich reward Of its Ia
bass, ina crown Of never ending and never "a
ding glory.
Dnt, my friends, AZ has well been sqid by 4
wyseer Of no ordinary note, "change ant
alteration, form tbs very essence of the world :
Time then, the mutable agent &c all human
thia =, has greaily varied, or ratser added to
without varying, the original design Of the pre-
sent festival. Born in religious de voton, prais,
and thanksgiving n Almigh,y God, for the won
derful conversion OF q whole nation from pagan
drrkness 20 christian light it has through III,
yleisqitudes Of successive ages, assumed in con
june1ie6 viii It's spiritasl character, = tempora
q poIitico-natioral phaze, the reasons Of which
are 10 b traced in the annals Of nation. who's
hi1o1 lhasb been written and rewritten in tll
Nod Is her children. Tyranny end opprcs
Sion seisrd lika = vaitore apca ahsvita Of III
natir9. Ggntry that bixusry. of which ireland'
own im1ncstal Philips has said, that .-slhr has n
headAna- aaasnt think: no heart aud cannot fee
t1lat U6rnrh~ shows Il 10 in wrath and that whe
See pensts i = amid ruin: That big.,try wi
abroad, the lamps Of literature were exsingnist
Cd ~ fountains Ut Intelligence WIRE dred vi
daa ne spfit e the people sank. crnshed m
ssshees 4eneosA ~ weight q their counile,
aad accnmulsiing wrongs. The nationat spin
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