The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1852-08-27
IRISH ELooUENCE.

Thomas Francis Mcagber is one oil
Of the most eloquent OF men. In 1887
he delivered anumber Of eloquent od-
dresses TO his countymen, which never
have been surpassed We quote from
one of them: 500 |ane u neal p1. '
"A noble philosophy has taught US,
iha, God has divided this world into
those beautiful systems called nations,
each of which, fulfilling its seperate
mission, becomes an essential benefit 10
The rest To this divine arrangement
will you alone refuse TO conform, sur
rendering the position, renouncing the
responsibility, which you have been as
signed? Oiher nations, with abilities
far less eminent than those woich you
possess, having greater difficulties tc
encounter, have obeyed, with hcroism,
the commandment from which YOU have
sweived, maintaining that noblo order
of existence through which even the
poorest State becomes an instructive
chapter in the great history ofthe world
Shame upon you! Switzerland, with.
out a colony, without a helping hand
from any court in Europe, has held fol
centuries, her footing on tie Alps; spite
Of the avalanche, she bid her little state
Sustain, in peace and plenty, the chill
dren 10 whome she had given birth, has
trained them up in. the arts that con
tribute to the security, the Joy, the dig
nifty Of life-Aas taught them 10 depend
upon themselves, and for their fortune,
to be thankful TO no oflicious stranger;
and, thongh blood ted cloud is break :
ing, even whilst | speak, over one Of
her brightest lakes, whatever plague
may issue from il, be assured of this,
the cap of foreign despotism will never
CLEAN again in the market place Of AL
torG. Shame upon you! Norway, with
her population, scarce million strong,
bas'kept her flag upon the Catogat; has
reared race Of gallant sailors toguard
her frozen shores, year after year has
nursed upon that soil a harvest to which
the Swedes lay no claim; has saved her
ancient laws, and to the spirit of her
frank and hardy sons, commits the free
dom which she rescued from the allied
swords, when they hacked her crown at
Ftederickstradt. Shame upon you'll
Greece, whom the Goth, nor Turk, nor
time hath spared not, has flung The cres-
ent from her Acropolis, has crowned o
King in Athens, whom she calls her
own, has taugh. you that a natioo
should never Jie; that not for an idle
pageant has the blood of heroes flown,
thai not to vex school boys brain aud
smoulder,in heaps of learned dust, has
the fire Of heaven issued from the
tribunes tongue. Shame uqon you'll
Holland with tho ocean as her foe, from
the swamp, in which you would have
sunk your graves, has bid the palace,
and The warehouse, costlier than the
palace, rear their ponderous shapes above
the waves that battle at their base, has
onlbid TIM Rialio; has swept the chan
mel with her broom; though, for day,
she reeled before the bayoneis of Du-
mourrcz, she sprangto her feet again,
and. with the cry, up with the House
Of Orange struck the tri-colored from
her dykes. And you, who are eight
million strong; you who boast, at every
meeting, that this island is the finest,
that the sun looks down upon; you, who
have no threaineng sea TO stem, no av-
alanche TO dread; you, who say that
you could shield along your coast a
thousand sail, and b, the drinces of a
mighty commerce; yen, who by the
magic of au honest hand, beneath each
summer sky, might call a plenteous
harvest from your soil, and with the
sickle strike away the scythe OF death; I;
you who have no vulgar history TO read,
you who can trace from field TO field.
the evidences of civilization older than
the conquest, tho relic OF religion
more ancient than the gospel; you,
have thus been blessed, thus been gif-
ted, thus been prompted to what is wise
and generous and great; you will make
no effort; you will whine, and beg, and
skulk, in sores and rags, upon tais
favored land; you will congregate in
drowsy conDciIs, and whom the very
earth is loosening beneath your feet,
respectfully suggest new clauses and
amendments 10 some laundering yoor
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