The North-Carolinian., 1852-06-19
VOL. z3-Mo. 6es.s

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and to share our Independence and besp;-
ftailty. His farthtr is a~mah of large v cath.
Ar Meagher married in Van Diemnns
Land. and his wife WILL no doubt soon
Erelo'n him here. He speaks highly 3ahe
SOIL aadsclimate Ire has just left, and ex-
fPressesg deep: sympathy with the free
English colonist8 there. who. he saws, are
full OF the spirit Of liberty. preparing in
due time to take their place ''among the
] nations.'
A meeting is to, be held at the Astor.
preparatory to a public reception Of the
young patriot. That he will grace his
1101rs Wezhsse fun faith lron,. What We
his position. When assured, >vesterday,.
that honors would be paid to him and his
compatrots he replied. "wouI to God we
had done something worthy of it," lie
feels that idle show and reclamation are not
the true business Of patriots.
IN reference to kOssuth and others, he
expressed hmselfin sympathy with all who
struggle for liberty-that he deprecated
dlssens'on among men battling in the same
great and sacred cause. Speaking of
patriotic associations among the Colonists
he had left so abruptly, he exclaimed.
''ttey. too. are athirst for freedom, and
thus, from both poles rises the song of lib
erty- the music Of humanity" Mr. Mea.
sher has won his fame chiefly as an orator
as the Emmett II the last Irish struggle.
We subjoin portion of one of his speeches
delivered at Belfast, in 1947. which, while
it is one of the strongest rebukes ever given
to lrishmen. is noble specimen Of the
orators sentiments and power:
"a noble philosophy has taught US, that
God has divided tais world into those beau
tful systems called nations, each Of which,
| fulfilling its separate mission, becomes an
essential benefit to the rest. TO this di-
vine arrangement will you alone refuse to
conform, surrerdering the position, re-
nouncing the responsibility, which you
| have been assigned? Other nations, with
| abilities far less eminent than those which
you possess, having greater difficulties to
encounter, have obeyed, with heroisn, the
commandment from which you have
swerved. maintaining that noble order Of
existence through which even the poorest
State becomes an instructive chapter 10 the
great history of the world. Shame upon
you! Switzerland, without a colony,
without helping hand from any court IN
Europe, has held, for centuries, her footing
on the Alps; spite Of the avalanche, has bid
her little territory sustain, in peace and
birth-has trained them up in the arts that
contribute to the security, the Joy, the dig
nifty Of life-has taught them to depend
upon themselves, and for their fortune to
be thankful to no olIicious strangers; and,
though blood-red cloud is breaking, even
whilst speak, over one of her brightest
lakes, whatever plague may issue from it,
be assured of this, the cap Of foreign des.
potism will never gieam again in the mar
ket place of Altorf. Shame upon you!
"Norway. with her scanty population,
scarce million strong-has kept her flag
upon the Categat; has reared race of gal
liant sailors to guard her frozen soil; wear
after year has nursed upon that soil har-
vest to which the Swede can lay no claim;
has saved her ancient laws, and to the
spirit Of her frank and hardy sons commits
the freedom which she rescued from the al
lied swords when they hacked her crown at
Frederickstadt. Shame upon you. Greece,
whom the Goth, nor Turk, nor time hath
spared not'-has flung the crescent from
the AcrOpoIis; has crowned a king III
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 flown; that not to vex sch ool boy $
brain, and shoulder in a heap of dust, has
the fire Of heaven issued from the tri-
bune's tongue! Shame upon you Holland
with the ocean as her fOe-frum the
swamp, in which YOU would have sun k
your graves, has bid the palace. and the
warehouse costler than the palace, rear
their pondorous shapes above the waves
that battle at their base-has out bid the
merchants Of the Rialto; has swept the
channel with her broom; has threatened
England in the Thames; and. though. for
day. she reeled before the bayonets Of
Dumouriez, she sprsns to her feet again.
and, with the cry. Cup with the House Of
| Oranse,' struck the tri-color from her
dykes.
| land you, who are eight millions strong;
you who boast. at every meeting, that this
island is the finest that the sun locks down
upon; you. who have no threatening sea
| to stem, no avalanche to dread; you,
| who say that you could shield along your
coast thousand sail, and be the princes Of
mighty commerce; you; who by the magic
OF an honest hand. beneath each summer
sky, might call penteous harvest from
your soil, and with your sickle strike
away the scythe Of death; you, who can
| trace field to field. the evidences Of
civilization older than the conquest. the
relics Of religion more ancient than the
gospel; YOU, who have been blessed, thus
been gifted, thus been prompted to what
is wise. and generous and great; you will
make no effort. you will whine and beg and
skuik, in sores and rags, upon this favoured