The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-06-09
EBENSDJRG, TIURSDiT, JUNE 8. 1853.

lsbDfi, JUliE y, 1875.
rancorous reeolleetions- healing, purifying. re-
uniting the disordered strength of the country
ols looe was 70 realize the holy project of The
9eaia "oife Tone And what was that project !?
Lei those who still would trade and thriyeSstilI
makc@noney and notoriety-still would flourish
py keeping alive, in the name of God the yicious
antlpathles that had so long proved unon the
heart, and paralyzed the yigor of his poor coun
,fy' netrken 10 the text "Unite the whole peo
PIE OF lreiand-abolish the memory of past dis
senslons-substitute the common name of irish
man IN place of the denominations of Protest
ant, Roman Catholic, and Dissenter'' Tbiswas
the PROJECT, this the instruction of Wolfe Tone
This the project. this the great end to be accom-
ptished, of the young writer's and orators of the
new school OF Irish politics. Painting to see
this end accompfshed-thi s1nion, in politics
and society of all creeds cemented-tbis sova
made perfect-did Thomas Davis utter these mo-
bic aspirations:
"What matter that at different shrines
We kneel unto one God
Hhat matter that at different times
Our fathers won the sod
AS Nubian rocks and Ethiop sand
Long drifting down the Nile
Built up old Egypt's fertile land
For many hundred mile
So Pagan clans to Ireland came
And clans of Christensen
Yet joined their wisdom and their fame
To build nation from;
And oh! it were gallant deed
To show before mankind
How every race, and every creed
Might be by love combined;
Might be combined, yet not forget
The fountains whence they rose,
AS filled by many a rivulet
The stately Shannon flows.''
Nor did this love contract itself to the island
1t viyifed to the it inspired 1t went
forth into other lands. Wherever the fight for
freedom was on foot, in spoke out q word of en-
couragement; word of exultation. Seldom
had there burst upon the of the people no
bier strain than that in which, to quote him
once again, did Thomas Davis put forth his soul
in these lines:
'sSee Russia preys on Poland, where Sobieski
sregned
And Austria on Italy the Roman eagle chained
Bohemia, Servia, Hungary, within her clutches
And Ireland struggles CALAMITY in England's
Tightening grasp;
Oh! would all these unite, or battle alone,
Like Moor, Pushtani, or Cherkcss they soon
Would have their own!
That glorious noon,
God send it soon
Hurrah for human freedom
The effect of ssch sentiments was, in 1843, to
attract towards lreland the sympathies of every
country that had misrule to depose or a bet
ter conditon.o of laws to institute. This was evil
dent, in singular degree, from the tone and
language of the German, the French and the
Italian papers, published in the liberal interest
Thus had young Ireland'' q s.foreign policy -
thus did ''Young ireland" secure for their coun-
try, her cause, her struggle, her principles and
hopes, a concurrence of solicitudes and activi-
ties amongst nations speaking various tongues,
and having, it so seemed, habits, traditions, and
interests, widely irreconcilable.
But the cause of freedom was everywhere the
same in every cline, elected the like sentiment
and passion. The fruition of it by all nations
would eventuate in unanimity of peace and
good will, and a serene glory to the aggregate
of humanity.
But what of the domestic policy?" What
of that policy which provoked against the young
natioGalists of Ireland the hatred and the hoot-
ings of the bigoted, the knavish and the sloy-
al - the needy politician, the cunning and insa-
table hypocrite? They sought to extfnguish
the feuds of former days; to drown in stream,
deeper than that of Lethe, the memories that
had so long hurled off, like conflicting fragments
the strength which should have been in gener-
Gus piety combined and were, therefore, de-
nounced as 'infidels'' by every knave who drove
his trade in Scripture and theology. Were so
denounced because they claimed for all men
and all time that equality before the law for
bled. Were so denounced, because they were
neither hypocrites nor bigots; had more love
than hatred more truth than falsehood and to
this hour denounced, because there is not
amongst them conscience flexible enough to
perpetuate, to their own shame and damnation,
a profitable ora popular conversion. Tire
mendous cheering. Mr.. Meagher then pro-
ceeded to recapitulate the other leading points
in the design and creed of ssYoung ireland, -
laying particular stress upon the efforts made
by that party to place place the political
movement on an intellectual basis. For this,
he said, for this, striving to have the public
mind enlightened, that so it could notbe deceiv-
ed that so its excessive and reckless CT edulity
might be corrected that SO it might be resolute,
active, intrepid and aspiring; for this, too, they
were denounced as ssinfidels - so denounced by
men who would keep the people in the dark
that so they might keep them in their grasp,
and so use them their cupidity prompted or
their necessities required. But in the of
s.infdel'' they gloried. : In the infamy which a
love of intelligence and truth incurred, it was
Just and virtuous to exult.. This, as every 9TH
calumnious name or menace, they flung back
upon their accusers, they do now. They
faced-them as they do now, putting the ques
ton, "Was this n crime?'' Did they curse the
man who would not barter the priceless jewel of
his soul !? To win their smiles; to win their
honors; should their favorite be slaye?" En-
thusiastic cheering.
Mr.. Meagher then glanced at the proceedings
of the ssIrish Confederation their conduct
in certain Parliamentary elections-in the news
paper, the tribune and the pamphlet. He in
sisted that their true ground of quarrel with o.
Connel, was their insisting, in the language of
John Mitchell-sthat the national flag should be
kept as haughtily flying in the face of the whig
as in that of the conservative administration. I"
ho iDcu1ca fiop Of This hold and unrest n0licV