Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-05-30
THE DAILY TIMES
YOUNG IRELAND AND ISIS
BY ThOs Francis ueagiler.


For The benefit Of tie First Regiment " T. Vounteers-
Dci0ered@ Metropolitan Hal, May p, 1853.
The Lecture OF Thos Francis Meagher, on
"Young Ireland" delivered in Metropolitan,
Hall, for the benefit Of the New York Volunteers
was more numerously attended than probably any
| other lecture this season has been. At 7 O'Clock
| the Hall began to fill, and by O'Clock the whole
Hall was densely crowded from floor to roof
Among the Military present in uniform were the
New York Volunteers, the Montgomery Guards.
the Napier Tandys of Brooklyn, and deta CHI
ment OF the 69th Regiment, together with others,
and presented very brilliant appearance.
The Band from Governors Island filled the in
terval with various national airs, and mt O'Clock
struck up yankee DOODLE" as Ex-MIayor
Kingsland, Col. Burnett, Col. Burnham Gen San
ford, Col Comstock, Col. Duryea, Col. Water
house, Mr.. Whitehead Aldermen Barr, Dough.
erty, Kelley, and numel Gus others came on the
platform.
Gen. Hall entered with the orator of the even
ing. Thos. Francis Meagher, whose advent was
received with most dea fening applause, which
continued for several minutes, during which Mr..
Meagher bowed repeatedly to the immense au-
dience.
As soon as quiet was restored, Gen. Hall came
forward an Introduced Mr. Meagher, at which
the audience masse, and sauted him
with continued rounds of applause. Mr.. Mea-
CHER came forward and commenced his lecture by
preface of some length.
In the city of Dublin. said he, is a CASTLE. I
desire to say few words in connection with this
castle, and then l will proceed with my lecture.
In this castle sits the representative of the Bri-
fish King or Queen, as the case or gender mavlbe
He then proceeded to show the influence of the
vice regal court on all who came into imme date
contact with it. He described with nlu CHI force
and graphic power its influence 10 dragging down
the independent spirit uf the citizens of Dublin
and making them stoop to the meanest articles
to gain the smile or favor of the Lord Lieutenant
or those wLo have influence with him. 1t would
not matter if this influence went no further than
to make a few sycophants, hut it did not stop
here-its influence eating away the nobility
and freedom of thought and demeanor of the
young men OF Dublin; it was sapping the very
foundations of Liberty and integrity and of man.
hood. But enough ofthis castle. and the fair and
false ones who sell themselves to its occupant.
come now to what was called the Young
Ireland party. Deafening applause. young
Ireland" was christened with a sneer AS
in the days Of Pitt aud WaIpole, it was an
atrocous crime to be a young man. But it matter
ed little about the mockiog baptism. 1t was with
the birth, the career, and fate of this party they
had to do. In the autumn of s42 the first num-,
Der of the Nation newspaper appeared 1t was
unnecessary to say word descriptive of that
JOURNALISTIC truth of which it was the oracle
the genius that gushed from it, as crystal waters
from golden fountain. Great applause. l.
Whenever, in any sphere of service, there beat
an honest Irish heart, there that new testament
of freedom woke vibrations which, even to that
hour, had not ceased to play; there, il the intel-
lect of the wanderer has not been obscured-if
his heart has not been scared with sefshuess
or seheming, have the memories redeemed by
that gospel, the virtues it enforced, the destiny
it claimed for Ireland, been eternally enthroned
S,,nh off, A r bon, -
new school of politicians who sought on the
highest ground, and with highest agencies, to
work out the independence of their country
[Cireat applause. With what agencies? First
of all by the invocation of the pure deep love of
country-a love flowing from knowledge of
all that was most noble in her annas-a love that
through all vicissiudes, dark brilliant would
be fresh, active aud abounding--be to the
cause of Ireland what the river is to the land,
source of beauty fertility and power-equay
true to the past, present and the future-refec-
ting in its depths the ruins of the buried ages
the green growth of the living day-and the
inextinguishable light, the sun Of freedom, which
encompassed all. Loud applause. Hence it
that the long array of all who had, in days
gone by. done good service to the old land-sol-
diers, scholars, statesmen-all were given back
to the worship of those who stood where they
had stood in life, and now, through this
pious labor made the inheritors of a recovered
glory. Hence it was, that from their uuinscribed
graves-from the prescription to which pre-
tentous prudence, an intoleraut loyalty, base in-
gratitude, had consigned them-the men who
had risked all, dared all. lost all for Ireland who
had faced the bayonet and gibbets of the Diocle-
slams Of the English Thrones (defening applause)
who had poured out their blood upon the field and
scaffold. and dying with sublime geutleness had
only asked of their country, in return for the love
and life they gave her, that their extaphs should
not be written--Q loud and prolonged cheering)
-untl she took up her place among the nations.
Hence it was these, the martyrs ofthe island. were
from their sepulchres summoned forth, and the
DETAINED were canonized. But this love was not
to cling to the dead alone-it was to embrace the
living. Burying all those rancorous recoections of
creed. and lineage aad calling, which had so long
served so fearfnlly to influence the faculties OF
the country, and so distract and render pow
erless the strength which should have been
bned. (Applause.) Burying all these rauco-
rous Notwithstanding purifying, reunitng,
the dsordered strength of the country-ths love
to realize the holy project of Theobald
Wolfe Tone. Applause of some minutes.)-
And what was that project Let those who still
would trade and thrive--still make money and
notoriety-sti would flourish by keeping alive,
in the name of God, the vicious antipathies that
had so long preyed upon the heart, and paralized
the vigor of his poor country, hearken to the
text. Unite the whole people of Ireland
(great applause abolish the memory of past dis
sension-substitute the common name of Irish
man in place of the denomination of Protestant.
Roman Catholic and Dissenter." Tremendous
cheering.) This was the proect--this the in
struction of Wolf Tone. This the project-ths
the great end to be accomplishment the young
writer's and orators of the new school OF Irish
nOli PINT To nd sba