Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-12-24


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pied down. md by the rivers Of babylon thes III
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hides or commands trading brig. iheine NV
| forest paths of Van Dieman's innd' listening !"
| the murtnuring Dnrwent, or STUDYING WIN ihe
zeal Of an under graduate. see the stately -
| lirien 50 cnlm IN his mien ~ naughty ~ NJ
| eve. no man ga see that hi- henri II brenkihg-
! Americans will Won call these men adfehtuffrS
| aud sedituus propagandsts! VIII yon warn
them against fraudulent Vaccinations fei'.dhR
| to disturb your genteel friends, the sovereign
/ of Europe; once more pardon me the question:
| The MayIlower Pilgrims were adfcnturers~
| BENJAMIN Franklin was "A sedtious propagandlsi;
| and If Washington bad been taken he would have
| hoan sent IA Botany Bay. America, | know,
viii NOT be false to her own high traditions anu 10
the Immortal men who made her history
And do indeed believe TINT the time Is coming
when America will have Ia decide once tor al,
whether she will be an ally OF tyrants or the
nconle-wbo can doubt which, No thinking
man now imngines that the present order oi
things i'm Europe can he sustained by multiply
ing bavoneis and heaping on taxes forever. HE
Creator of the world did not, assuTcdly, kindlc
the noblest spirits and crown with intellect the
inosf god Ike hrows on earth-only that those
spirits should consume themselves forever III
vain, that those lofty intelects should be drag.
ged down into idocy or wruug into insanity for
ever in an eternal and hopeless Conflict with cure
less wr.ug aud slavery and ialschood.
No | believe IN moral aud intellectual electfi
citv. believe that nothing of all the thought
and passion expended for this cause has been
lost but that il Is heating, kindling. even now the
atmosphere of the world. ] believe that no II
solitary captive has sighe forth his soul alone IN
the Dungeons of Naples; mol gallant soldier
has fallen with his feet to the foe ON the fields OF
Hungary, or Lombardy, or Baden not nimpri-
-oned student has grown prematnrey bald OF
grey, or has gone mad in the cells
of Spiebcrg, but his spirit lives aud moves about
us, helping To swell and kindle the leayening
heaying, seethng mass of TINT field which breeds
Gods earthquake and his lightnlngs. Citizens
of New York, thank YOU aud | have repaid
your kindness Mt least with candor.
No secretary or man -hall charge me with
fraud, | AIN profcsscd reyoluiionlst now, an adj
veuturer, a -edtious propaganda. mean 10
mike use of the freedom guaranteed to me as n
citizen or nchoatc ctizo Of America, to help
aud to stimulate the moveme II of the European
democracy. aud especially Of Irish independence.
| menn To claim for the revolutionary refugees
here, not only the hospitality and the comfy oi
America, but also her sympathy and active friend
ship. nay. claim for them that America shall he
to them the very standing ground prayed for by
Archmcdes, whercon they may plant u lever that
shall move the world.
This speech wns received, throughout, the re-
port $ avs, with distinguished marks of approval.
The applause was at times most yocirous, and So
constant that the time of delivery was thereby
much extended.
In the course of Judge Emmetts remarks, he
gave an account of the appropriation of the funds
contributed in lsiS, to aid the cause of lrcland's
freedom,& which wns subsequently placed in the
hands of the Irish Directory" of which the
Judge was member. Itappenrs that there were
various propositions 10 dispose of the fund, but
none was acceded to until it suggested that ii
might be devoted in aiding in the relcaso Of the
Irish exes in Van Dicman's Land. Mr.. Z. J.
smyth was the agent through whom the Directory
effected its purpose. lie proceeded to that cob
ny, and the escape Of Mitchell, Meagher and other
exilcs was the noble result. The announcement
was received with loud applause.