The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-06-22
MEAGHER, THE IRISH EXILE.
We publish the following extracts from .
speech delivered by Mr.. Meagher in Belfast.
IN lSaT. sS

we puoisn the following extracts from =
speech delivered by Mr.. Meagher in Belfast
in lSa7:
"Shame upon you Switzerland. withou,. .
colony, without helping hand from anv conr,
10 Europe, has held, for centuries. her foo,;nr
on the Aipsi spite Of the avalanche. has bid
her little territory sustain, in peace and plenty.
the children TO whom she has given birth
has trained them up in the arts that contribute
TO the security, the joy. the dignity of life has
taught them to depend upon themselves, and
for their fortune to be thankful to no oficious
stranger; and, though blood.red cloud is
breaking, even while speak over one of her
brightest lakes, whatever plague may issue
from il, be assured of this, the cap of foreign
despotism will never gleam again in the mar
ket place of Altorif. Shame upon you!
Norway, with her scanty population, scarce
million strong, has kept her flag upon the
Categat; has reared race of gallant sailors.
10 guard her frozen soil; year after year has
nursed upon that soil harvest to which the
Swede cun lay no claim; has saved her an
cient laws, and to the spirit of her frank and
hardy sons commits the freedom which she
rescued from the allied swords when they
hacked her crown al Frederckstadt. Shame
upon you! Greece, whom the Goth, nor
Turk, nor time hath spared not'-has flung the
crescent from the Acropolis; has crowned
king IN Athens, whom she calls her own;
has taught you that nation should never
die that not for an idle pageant has the blood
OF heroes f1own that not to vex the school,
boys brain, and shoulder in heap of dust,
has the fire of heaven issued from the frihune's
tongue! Shame upon youl Holland-wrh
The ocean as her foe-from the swamp in which
you would have sunk your graves, has bid the
palace, and the warehouse costler Than the
palace, rear their ponderous shapes above the
waves that battle at their has out bid
the merchants of the Rialto; has swept the
channel with her broom has threatened Eng
land IN the Thames and, though for a day,
she reeled before the bayonets of DumourieZ,
she spraBg to her feet again, and, with the cry,
Up with the House of Orange!' struck the
tri-color from her dykes.
"And you, who are eight millions strong;
you, who boast at every meeting that this
island is the finest that the sun looks down up
on you, who have no threatening sea to stem,
no avalanche to dread you, who say that you
could shield along your coast a thousand sail,
and be the princes of mighty commerce. you,
who by the magic of an honest hand, beneath
each summer sky, mig hit call plenteous har-
vest from your soil, and, with your sickle,
strike away the scythe of death; you, who can
trace from field to field the evidences of civil
llzation older than The conquest-the relics of
a religion more ancient than the gospel; YOU,
who have thus been blessed, thus been gifted,
thus been prompted TO what is wise, and gene
rous, and great, you will make no effort-you
whine, and beg, and skulk, in sores and rags,
upon this favored land; you will congrega,e in
drowsy councils, and when the very earth is
loosening beneath your feet, respectfully sug.
gest new clauses und amendments to some
plundering poor bill"
The following is an extract from his speech
delivered in Court, when asked by the Judge
for his reasons why the sentence should notbe
pronounced:
Il am here to regret nothing that have ev-
er done; to retract nothing have ever said. [
amnot here TO crave with lying lip, the life
consecrated to the liberties of my country. Far
from it. Even here, where the thief, the liber.
tine, the murderer, have left there foot prints in
the dust-here in this spot, where the shower
OF death surrounds me-; and from which | see
an early grave in an anoinled soil open to re-
ceive me-eyen here, encircled by these ter
rors, that hope which beckoned me to the per-
ilous sea on which have been wrecked, still
consoles, animates and enraptures me. No, |
do not despair ofmy poor country-her peace.
her liberty, her glory. For that country, can
now do no more than bid her hope. To lift
this Island mp; to make her benefactOr to hu-
nanity, instead of what she is-the meanest
be eggar in the world to restore 10 her her native
power, and her ancient constitution; this has
been my ambition-this has been my crime.
Judged by the law of Eng land, l know this
crime entails on me the penalty of death. But
the history of Ireland explains my crime and
Justities it. Judged by that history, am no GRIM
inal and deserve no punishment. Judged by
that history, the treason of which have been
convicted loses aii its guilt; it is sanctifed as
a duty, and will be ennobled as sacrifce.-
With these sentiments, my lords, await the
sentence OF the court, Having done what |
felt to be my duty; having spoken now as |
did on every occasion during my short life
what felt to be the truth L now bid farewell
to the country of my birth, my passions, and
death, that country whose misfortunes have in-
voked my sympathies, whose factions | sought
to still, whose intellectI prompted to lofty
aim, whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
l offer 10 that country as pledge of the love l
bear her, and, the sincerity with which l
thought and spoke and struggled tor her frees
dom, the life OF young heart, and with that
life all the hopes, the honors, the endearments
of a happy and honorable home.
LOVE AND JEALoUsY-A RICH SCEEE.-A
rich scene took place in a dwelling on Wash
ingIon street, Roxbury, OH Tuesday afternoon
1t appears that respectable deniZen of that
city went TO california, not long since, leaving
behind him wife, about forty years old, the
mother of eight children. The good lady has
been visited often, and very kindly treated,
since her husbands departure, by gentle
man ofabout fifty, a provision dealer in the
neighborhood, and withal husband and faith
er. His frequent visits to the California widow
excited the suspicion of his "better half" who
suddenly became tormented with the ''green-
eyed monsier"-jeaIously. She watched di-
ligenty his every step, determined upon hear
ing with her own ears his vows of love TO
another, and Witnessing with her own eyes his
infidelity. Tuesday last was the time. Her
husband made one OF his accustomed calls
upon the gold hunters wife. He was ushered
iato the parlor. Some fifteen minutes elapsed,
mben suddenly the door burst open, and the
provision .lealer's wife stood before the false
oair. We will not attempt 10 describe the
scene. The injured wife seized the false one
OF her sex by the hair Of her head and dragged
her from the sofa, tore her clothes into strings,
s;a aii manner III naughty words to her, and