The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-08-05

emoeiiisf, and elevate State, by sobriety, hon
estv, anG assiduity in all pursuits in generous
and chserful subordination to her laws, in warm
and strenuous fidelity TO her charter-will the
name OF Ireland be made respected, deep and
! enduring sympathy for her sufferings and her
mission be evoked, and new facilities be opened
for the redemption to which, with broken accent
end a wounded heart, she aspires Loud
cheers.
To this end, the military organization, of
which here behold SO conspicuous an illustra-
ton, is TO conduce. 1t is the school of pro-
priety, honor, generosity, fidelity, and courage
1t absords and concentrates the more vigorous
faculties, the more liberal tastes, the more ac-
tive emotions of the community, and regulating,
purifying, endowing them with spirit of deco
rum, harmony and nobility, reimburses them to
the State, in a condition so improved and with
n force so augmented, that she NAV enjoy the
fullest prosperity with confidence, and face the
most formidable menace without dismay.-
TCheers, and cries of ''the Fisheries !'l Like
one of your noble lakes, which combines and
congregates the vague and wandering elements
of strength, impetuosity, and progress, which
precipitate themselves from your mountains,
course along your plains, and deepen in your
valleys-to send them forth again with renewed
rapidity and p9wer to fertilze your fields, to
food the alueducts your art has reared, and
float the wealth you have waited from and beck
Oned to your shores. Tremendous cheers.
Nor are the benefits, neither is the spirit
which amanates from this organization, confined
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every section of the Commonwealth by its infu-
ence, it eonsolidates that Union whose perpetu-
ity was the noble aim of the eminent statesman
for whose death, seven days since, this city ro-
bed herself in mourning [Great applause
Counteracting the influence of ayarice, luxu-
ry, and fashion, it keeps alive in marts and
mansions-costlier than those of Tyre or siCion.
of Genoa or Venice-that spirit of patriotism
which broke from the lips of the Lacedemonian
mother, when, in answer to the messenger who
told her that her FIVE sons were slain in battle,
she exclaimed-'.I asked not concerning my
children asked only fer my country if that
be prosperous, | am happy - Applause /
that spirit of patriotism which inspired the mo-
ther Of Coriolanus, when she exclaimed-''Had
less dear than thine, my good Marius-I had
rather have seven die nobly for their country,
than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.''-
Loud cheering.
Other feelings, hardly less exalted, and oper-
ating no less sublimely, derive from it their or
ign. In the freest monarchy which the friends
of monarchy can boast of, the citizens are de-
frauded of the prerogative which is theirs, by
the law of necessity, of interest and of honor,
and which extends the solicitude which guards
the ffreside to the wider circle of the State
T Hear, and cheers. Hence all the ruder pro-
pensties of our nature prevail in a more marked
degree There is less warmth, less confidence,
less frankness, less vivacity, and the common
aspect of the people is sullen, sluggish and
repulsive. [Cheers. Here, the poorest ira
der that drives an honest bargain in the mean
est quarter of the city-the poorest mechanic
that shed his sweat upon the garret for his
bread is cheered in his drudgery by the proud
thought that he as well as the wealthiest, is an
retive and essential component of the State
that by his vote he affects the direction of her
and by his arms, and the habits
they impose, co-operates in her defence
I Great applause.
1t must tighten the toll, exhilerate his heart,
quicken his pulse, and pour fresh metal into
his worn and withered arm, TO feel that, like
Putin am, he may turn from his obscure labor to
share the exciting perils of thefield. [Cheersl
Lifting him above the superstitions, which haunt
him from the cradle, it subdues the fear of pain
and inspires disdain of death. Dvesting it of
IT'S terrors, it comes not like the Erinnys, with
a cincture of snakes, and heralded by the cries
of Citharon, but beautiful as Hyperion, with
his brow radiant with an immortal star, and his
summons is
.'Welcome as the cry
That told the Indian Isles were near
To the world seeking Genoese,
When the land-wind from woods of palm,
And orange groves, and fields of balm,
Blew the Haytian seas"
Loud and continued cheers. Mr.. Meagher
concluded by citing the following passage of
Washngton's Farewell Address
profoundly penetrated with this idea, shall
carry it with me to the grave, as strong'in
ducement 10 unceasing VOWS. that Heaven may
continue to you the choicest tokens of its bene-
ficence; that your union and brotherly affection
may be perpetual; that the free Constitution,
which is the work of your hands, may be sacred
" maintained; that its administration in every
department, may be stamped with wisdom and