Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-06-15
WHOLE NO 4l5.
Measher's Lecture AT the Metrseeli.
tan, New York City.

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Mr.. Meagher delivered Lecture upon voanp
ireland and the Revolutionary attemnt ofs 1sAs
for the benefit OF the sick and disabled New York
Volunteers, ont the evening of the 25th.
ellis Address,. says the N. Y Evening Post.
twas long but exciting and brilliant, and produced
Throughout, and at the close tempest applause:
The following is. a passage from the perora-
tion: f2A-F75 =
"To this republic renouncing all foreign pow
ers and potentates-h taken the oath of aHe-
glance; and in the new sphere and citizenship
which is opened to me here, do trdst prove the
sincerity with which that oath, is taken. and my
deep sense efthe duties which by that act deyolve
upon me- - - -
Faithful to the principles on which this COM
munity is framed; faithful to the laws on which d
proceeds and operates; faithful to the institutions
which distributes the vitality while they secure the
unity of the whole; faithful above ALL to that aos
bic system of public schools, which, in the ilamis
nation of the public mind, ensures the perpetuity
of a. condition Of government and society, based
upon intelligence and good sense, qualifying in
each succeeding generation, the entire body of
citizens the yetmore wisely to exercfse their great
faculties, diminishing the chances Of the impostor,
and in the end, eleyating the democracy to the
highest level instead of keeping il to the lowest
the foe of bigotry, from whatever pulpit it may
descend, or in whatever garh 1t may riot or play
its maddening pranks-the foe of tyranny in every
cline, whatever be the motto or the mask under
which it.marches, or whatever be the ceremonies
with which It's nstalled-acting as yoa have act
Jed, true as you have been true, brave soldiers,
liberal of my services to the republics as you have
been, if that be necessary, liberal of my blood in
the cauae of the republic, you have been trust
that, if it be the will of Heaven to crown me with
the white Hlies and the silver crown ofage, look
ing back upon life well spent, shall be able to
say with the great foe of Catalne, the conspiator
against the Roman commonwealth:
20 Republican, defensi adolescens, non descraas
|sener.' '-i.z'
"Whilst this republic stands -augments her
fortunes proceeds upon her high career-there
is hope for the most abject deerepit and disabled
of mankind. issss u 49,
s'Austria-the whole Germanic family tongue-
the Niobe Of nations, and her estate and children
cut up and parce1led out among the robbers; Hun
gary, with the knife at her proud and beautiosp
neck; italy, locked within her sculptured sepai.
chre, and aprofane soldiery keeping watch upon
it; France, grimacing in a masquerade, the glare
Of which binds men to the crimes of which it the
sense1sss and the reckless carnival; Ireland, her
people decaying and disappearing faster than the
ruins. even which a ruthless civilization has yet
left standing on the soil where can the eye that
scans the history of this day tura with joy with
out grief, without vengeance, without despair
unless it be to this great commonwealth, the pow
er the progress, the immensity of which is mapped
out in these mighty waters ofthe west, from which
/ came but yesterday t.iE' iiH! So E9