The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-06-25

from the senate and the scao through song and legend
through tears and ioyousness through the lghnngs OF
been faithfully transmitted That generation should not
be the FIRST in which it should be sacreglousy exnn-
guished.
Ii was true that the tone and attitude OF Ireland al that
moment ltle calculated to excite hopeuness or joy
But the humber that attitude the more subdued thai tone,
the more forciby did become the duty Of all WHO
was grevous to inspire false hopes; Il yet
criminal 10 inculcaie despair He would keep alive
the feelings keep alive the hopes, which, down even 10
day, have borne her with unconqueabe endurance
through the agony OF ages So long as those feelings
throbbed these hopes burned there an Irish nation
in existenceone, indeed without the arms and nsig,
MIA, bat with the soul and suscep6biltes OF nation.
The honor OF naton-her wealth, her greatnesswhal
were these They were the emanatiens of the soul that
dwe within hers and the freedom OF nation is but that
soul in its highest state of action.
For one he could not give up the hope OF seeing the
land oil his nativity invested with the high degrees and
honos OF nation. In every vicissitude that hope had
been TO him higher life Before cloud had crossed it.
1t filled his heart with rapture: II was the strength and
impulse Of his boyhood In the light i threw around
disclosed to him nobler world than the school books
spoke Of Whatever intellect in him. il evoked
whatever goodness was implanted in his nature, II
warned into generous activity To see i verified was
that season It wrought upon him redeemng Influence.
From that faithless and sordid world in which many
pure affection withered and decayed bore him upward
with the power of holy vision, and thus preserved from
aperous them fresh and inconupt-
ibe-ihe good thoughts and aspirations OF his youth.
III VIC udyS OI us tAt-ln tnHt bOHtuuc WHtIc Hcdtt
and mind were wasting silently away-among the
strangers from whom many burning thought was hid
and who, IN their frivolous and fippant criticism may
have mistaken the Of for effectiveness
OF houghtn the days of his exile this hope was his
cret consolation. Qaickenng him into action from the
deepest anguor the low!est and dreares moments of
depression, il dsenthraled his mind from the inactivity
which threatened to sublugate it. Above the many in
dgntes and vexatons that beset his PATH i lifted his
spirit up, and at intervals filled with ecstacy the life that
sluggish and obscure without Despite OF the sore
experience that had chafed his spirit il kept alive within
him still vvifyng faith in the noble attributes and des
tiny of mankind.
Were this hope 10 die, all would die within him.
Destroyed-the heavens would darken him, the
earth would become to him wilderness and existence
desolaton. Mr.. Meagher concluded with the fervent
prayer that it might be vouchsafed TO them TO that
hope fulfed' That it might be vouchsafed them to
dwell upon the earth until the promised day had dawned
upon the land OF their fathers and their eyes had behed
her salvation That it might be vouchsaied 10 them to
return to that andto behold her in her gajness and
glory, they had looked upon her in her and
capivityo lead their children to her altar and dedicate
them to her servicefor their old age claim honora
BILE seat within her gates they had been faithful her
youth, and in her holy soil restiDgplace forever.