The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-07-21

| Listen 10 the strain in which the news of Mea
gher's arrival in America is greeted in ireland
This is the voice Of the Nation:
'Meaghcr in America! What triumph, wha
| happiness in the words.
| Oh many time since the new of his flah
| first reached us have been sick at heart Ion U
ing 10 receive this blessed message Many i
Time have we with streaming eyes looked up tc
the throne Of God, and asked where was oul
dear brother' And now that there is an end tc
all an nxiety--now that he has escaped the jeul
Gus searches ofhis iailors, and the mysterious
dangers OF the seas-now that he is the guest o
trecmen, and housed amongst his own country.
men-we can scarcely write for excess of iov
for the heart strings of ourselves and of oul
country are wound about this i!lus.rio-s son OF
| ireland
Our dear brother. For three years and a hal.
| he was chained and condemned criminal in
the hands of those whose fatal power DEGREES
love CT Ireland to be mortal and unpardonable,
SIN. For three years and a half he was subiec-
ted to all the restraints and ignominy of Grim
malls fate, dead in law to all privilege, to all
society, an outcast and telon. Law had no
pity for his fresh youth Justice had 10 mercy
for his 81 owing genius. He had loved eIand,
he had pleaded and striven for ireland. and they
judged him reprohate, and banished him TO The
comp ranionship oithe demoniacai sinners against
man and heaven. But the God of martyrs
and of Ireland has plucked him from their grasp
and set him up before the world again as a bero
and an apostle. Dec gratias.
Meagher's arrival in America opens a new
page i'll the history Of Ireland We conceive
great career for him under the flag OF Wash
ingt"n. He does not go to the great republic as
a political notoriety, to daramatse and win idle
cheers. he does not 60 there as a political spel-
II n afo cf IL,
subsidies of a Cosmopolitan patriotism. He does
not go there TO clamor about this personal
wrongs, and to sacrifice his personal dignity to
rhetoric and vanity. He does not 90 there to
rush upon the public stage, and die out exhaus-
ted in month. He goes to fulfil great des-
tiny. He goes to work with a mans strength,
and to achieve for himself in the position which
solid virtues and great abilities conquer in every
free state as their prerogative. He goes to com
bine and sway his countrymen by the spell of
his glorious eloquence, and to renew amongst
them, in foreign land, the memories and ira
ditions of Ireland, which dwell in his own poet
ic and heroic soul with love and reverence.
''Strong the pillar-towers
And deep as the holy wells.''
He goes as the type ofthe old nation, to its
exes and Its lovers, they may sit down once
more amongst their household gods t,
be their legitimate chiefain and apoat-
lie. He goes to lead and anal lgam1te the
Irish race IN America, till slow and patient dis
cipne and God-sent opportunity give them
potent voice in the destiny of Ireland
We call on the Irish in America to recognize
in Meaghers arrival amongst them as the open.
ing of new era for Ireland and themselves.
And we call OIL the great republic to welcome
Thomas Meagher as it welcomed Adds EN-
met The wonderful orator, whom we have
lost, is now its citizen, and it will honor itself
in honoring him. A gallant young lrshlnan,
who has suffered for Us, is now its citizen and
claims the sympathy and love of its kindred
heart.
The same paper utters the following mourn
full words:
Our good news to-day is sadly clouded by the
telgcnce, received of Smith O.
Bren.
o O'Briens health has failed and his spirit has |
sunk under his trials. Mourning for bis bs low. |
ed family has crushed the heart of the gallant !
exile; and the knightly soul of the Irish gent
!eman has dropped in loneliness and indignity |
n OF for himself, but for those of his house Of
whom he was the stay and the bride, is his soul
grieved and his form bowed But for his coun.
try he still hopes, in gallant fidelity to his prin-
cpes and her liberty.
We have words for this theme. There is |
but One to console such afliction. But we |
know not any more terrible illustration of Eng
lands rule in Ireland than it has sent Smith o. |
Brien to pine in penal agony. far from his kin
DIRE and his country.