The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-10

his visiter, but by quick degrees his eye filled
with IL wil, light-the blue veins along his long
an! witht red arms sweled with a sudden rush of
blood he sprang upward in his bed. and shak-
ing his cienched hand, cried out-''No time no
tme-the question is public property lit can
not, shall not be postponed" Immense ap-
plnuse.
MIR. Meagher then gave very graphic and
brilliant description of the mastering of the
Volunteers in Dublin on the 10Th of April, 1882
OF tine Dublin Volunteers planted round the
statue of William I'LL. in College Green, with
the Duke of Leinster Lord Edwards Uncle-at
their head. There upon the left the Dunlavan
Light Dragons, and lower down in Dame street,
in close column, the Dunmore Rangers, and
their Colonel, Sir Robert Staples, exchanging
sly glunces with the ladies in the balcony of
Dalys Coffee House, opposite. Loud laugh
ter. Then the Merchants Corps and the Mer-
chants Artillery. with their six x-pounders and
howitzers, and old Napper Tandy at their head !;
and then the crowd of glad citizens bending
down with their heaving weight the iron gate
works OF the Castle and up the whole of Graf
ton street to College Green, and inside the rail
ings of the College, and crossed upon the walls
fronting the Provost House. and down College
street, and the streets that Opeuinto it-and up
and down and all over the leads and parapets of
the houses, as far eye see--Ire hundreds
and thousands of glad citizens, with eyes strain
ing with excite tement-with delight, and pride,
wing green flags and branches-and filling the
air with their wild hurrahs for HENRY GRATTaN
and the Volunteers. He then went on TO de-
scribe the scene within and around the Senate
House. How under a gallery supported by
pillars of massive mould--fUur hundred la
dies. the tairest daughters of the land are seat
ed--their white arms bound with chains wrought
i'll crusted gold, and stones of crimson. violet.
and green--their brows shadowed with the soft
clu>terngs of flowers and feathers, tributes to a
higher beauty from the gay and beautiful crea-
tures of the earth and sky-below these, the
soldiers, and the statesmen-the chiva!ry and
the genius of the island. Mr. Meagher contin-
ued his vivid and life-like description of the
pageantry of that day amid the continued APP
plause Of his delighted auditory.
In the fullest and broadest significance of the
phrase-it was great occasion, and in Henry
Grattan there was man equal to that occasion.
Then, rs now, the example of America quick
ened the pulse, confirmed the resolves, deepen
eel the confidence of the wronged, the armed,
the aspiring communities Of Europe.
To this example did old Grattan on that glo-
rious day appeal, when he said Before you de-
eide the practicabIiity of being slaves for
ever. look to America. Whatever is bold and
Reconsideration virtue and wounded pride
ALL all TO that point will precipitate and what
You trample on in Europe will sting you in Amer
lea. When America sends forth her ambassa-
ifests to the world her independence and power
do you imagine you will persuade Ireland to be
satisfied with English Parliament making
laws for her-satisied with a refusal to her 10y
atty. of those privileges which were offered to
the arms of America 90
Ii was done. The ecommunitywouldnot be sold
The armed presence of the Nation was not bend
The claim of England would cancelled
the spot. and the mighty Empire-the
Royal Elephant, with the spoils of India on his
bnck-whose march is with the Suu-gave in,
was docile-aye, gentle MS a sucking dove Oaugh-
tcr)-went down upon the knees for once to
that poor stripping, who, in the language of the
great orator of our race, went forth i: were,
with nothing but stone ard sling, and the
favor of Heaven to omrlish its redemption
How the e'orI of that day was iarkened : how
the volunteers disbandef; how the Senate was dis
missed; how condition of society and governm't.
meaner and more disastrous than before was
vigorously imposed, | have neither time nor
heart to tell. Nor is it here reauired-for the
policy of our foes, which promulgates the less
crefitable chapters of history So that i,
our bad name among the strangers they nav
have an apology for the deeds they have dome
and the mischief they would perpetuate- tbis
policy-exhaustion IN its cunning as II ia CON
scienceless in it's dnring-has made known in
speech and pamphlet. the venality which under
mined the fabric reared by Grattan
That the Irish Parliament WIS an imnerfact
notwithstanding it deserved the greater share
of the dIstrust the censnre the aversion the
characterization with which it was visited-I
am not here to deny but to assert Bnt that
it should have. therefore. been reformed-and
not pulled DOWNS what all sensible and up-
right men will hold to be equally correct, wise
and generous.
They have pulled the building down. however
hecause. as the complacent knaves asserted. it
was narrow in its proportions inadequate in its
functions. and sheltered much rrof1igacv within
its precincts. and in doing SO. have fought the
children Of the volunteers that should ii he re-
built. it mrst-to stand forever. and defv the
vermin Mt its base. the pick-axe and the storm
it must he set on broader mutations be
built of sounder matcrials-be fashioned not
after the model of Westminster hnt that of
Washington-floud applause)-and he inhabited
nv the spirit of the people. in its fullness and
integrity-one and indivisihe
The Parliament of Ireland is no more The
last of the Volunteers has been horne to his
grave. And so FOO. their Successors and their
hetters-the men of '9S-the men who had n
keener saga"itv. sharper swords. better stvle
of action. thongh less ensv fortune than the
soi'li.rs of Dung"nnn. The streets of Dublin
're silent now. The hoofs that paved the pave
wont on that dav. vex the dull stones no more.
The heautv that shone as the hues of the morn
nr through that vision of freedom has vanish
'd in 'he night that came upon the land-the
trohhing heart has crown atll beneath the slroud
the white arms that bore those chains Of crns-
rcd gold have withered like the 'eaves of the lily.
have heen strewn upon the earth. have become
he snort of the wind, and tho spoil Of the. worm
(APplauss.)