The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-26

most AFFECT decrepid, and disabled Of mankind Al thu
of the great artist-somehmes waken the most drow,y
souls into rapturous activity 20 shall the sxaampe-the
D.oo rouse lie spirit Of tha.s nSe now i. dumb an
torpid in tbs shadow Of the thrones that mosed in
the fun tide Of massacre and in which As in the hold
OF the pirate ship the puudored liberties OF tho people,
bound and bleeding are battered down
Austra-the whole Germanic family-tongus tied; the
Rhine sagnAnt in her bed Poland still the Nicbe OF
ons and and children cut and parceled out
among the robbers Hungary With the knife at her proud
and beaueous neck; Italy locked within her scupured
sepuchre and proans sodiery keeping watch upon 1t;
France grmacing in masquerade, the glare OF which
blinds to the crimes OF which it is the senssess and
the reckless carnival Ireland hsr people decyng and
disappearing faster than the ruins even which ruth
less civzst has yet les. standing the soil where
the eye that the history of this day.
with joy-without grief without vengeance without
despair unless II be to this great commonwealth the
rover the progress the immsnsty which are mapped
out in those mighty waters of the West from which
came bu. yesterday
Here here-clory be to Him on high here freedom
stands upon pedestal higher than the Aps-aer spear
lifted to the sun the rays tina. flash from it shall de.
scenddescend through the blacklist cloud and storm
descend and penetrate the deepest dungeon and there
wake up the oldest prisoner-wake him up not IDLY to
gaze upon the bills and his home far off but wake him
to wrench the bars that hem him in and with them
slay the sentinel-though he wear crown, and be i'm
pously hailed the amounted Of the Lord.
Young Ireland" 80 christened with sneer. As
in the days OF Pitt and Wapole, 1T atrocious
crime to be young But It mattsred little about
the hooking baptism. 1t was with the birth, the
and fate OF this party they had to do In the
tumn of 1912 the first number of the Nation newspaper
appeared unnecessary to say word descriptive
Of that journal the truth OF ~hich the oracle
the genns that gu he'd from it crystal waters from
golden fountain. Wherever in any sphere service,
there beat honest Irish heart there that tesla
ment OF freedom yoke vibrations which, to that
hour had not ceased play there if the intellect of
the wanderer has been obscured-f his heart has
not been tainted with selishness schemng have the
memories redeemed by that gospel the virtues it
forced the destiny it claimed for Ireland, been eter-
home Il fsrnad uI new school Of oo.issns who
sought. on the highest ground and with the highest
agecces to work ont The ndepepdencs of their country
With what agencies FIRST of all by the invocation Of
pure deep love of country-a love flowing from know
ledge of all that most noble in her snnasa love that
through ell yicistudes, dark brilliant would be
fresh. active and aboundpgbs to the of Ireland
what the river is TO the LAND Of beauty fertility,
and power equally TO the past the present, and
the depths the ruins buried
agetbe green growth Of the living day-apd the mex
tipenishabie Iipt. the sun of freedom which encom-
passed all Hence IL that the long array Of all who
had in days gone by done good service to the old land
soldiers scholars tatesmen-an were given back TO the
worship of those who stood where they had stood in fe
and nov, through this pious labor made tbs inher
tors Of recovered gory Hence it that from their
Gninscri bed graves-from the prescription to which
preentlous prudence intoeraLt loyalty, ba ingrat
tude, had consigned them-the who had risked all,
and gibbet Of the Docle of the ngh thr who had
poured out their blood upon the field and scaod and
dying with sublime geotleness had only asked of their
country in return for the love and life they her. that
their epaphs should not be written until she took her
place among the nations Hence it WAS these, the mar
of the island from their sepnlchres summoned
forth and the DETAINED cauonized. But this love
not to cling TO the dead alone-t TO embrace
the living Burying all those recoectious Of
creed and nesge and calling which had 80 long served
fearly TO influence the faculties of the counry and
distract render poweres the strength which should
have been cornbnedburyng all these raucorous recol
Acknowledging, purifying reunitng the disordered
strength of the counryhis love was 70 realize the holy
project of 1heobsd Wolfe Tono Aud what that pro-
iect Let those who still would trade and thrive-stn
make money and notoretv-sti would flourish by keep
ing a alive IN the sef n 1ss
yigor of mis- country hearken to the text Unite
the whole people Of Ieand-abosh the memory Of past
Observation-Disclosures the common name OF 'lrshman
in place Of the denominations of Protestant Roman Ca
tholic and Dissenter This was the project, this the
instruction of Wolfe Tone This the project this the
great end to be accomplished of the young writer's aud
orators of the school of Irish politics. Painting to
this end accom- lshed- this union politics and soc
ety. of all creeds cementedthis love made perect-did
Thomas Davis utter these noble aspira tions:-
What matter that at different shrines
We kneel unto one God
What mater that at different times
0nr fathers the sodg
As Nuban ROCKS and Ethop sand,
Long drifting down the Nile,
Built up old Egypt's fertile Land
For many 4 hundred mile
So Pagan clans to Ireland came
And clans of Christendom,
Yet Joined treir wisdom and their fame
To build nation from
And oh il were gallant deed
To show before mankind
How every race and every creed,
Might be bs love combined -
Might be combined, yet not forget
The fountains whence they rose,
As FL, by many a rivulet
Tn stately Shannon flows"
Nor did this love contract itself to the island it vvifed
to the il inspired II went forth into her lands
Wherever The fight for freedom foot it spoke out
word of eI cou-sgement-a word Of exultation Seldom
had there upon the of the people noble strain
than that in which-to quote him once again-did Tho
mas Davi' Jour forth his soul in these lines =
See Pussa preys on Poland, where Sobesk reigned,
And Austria on Italy, the Roman eagle chained;
Bohemia. Servia Hungary-wthp her clutches gasp,
And Ireland struggles calamity in highlands lightning
Oh would all these unite or battle alone,
Like Moor, Pushtani or Cherkess-they soon
Would have their own
That glorious noon,
God send it soon
Hurrah for human freedom
The effect of such sentiments was, in 1843, to attract
towards Ireland the Of every country that had
msule to dpose better condition OF laws to inst
i's - NJ tbe .hs
Italian paperspublshed in the liberal interest. Thus
had Young Ireland" foreign poicy''-thus did
Young Ireland secure for their country her cause,
her struggle, her principles and hopes
of socitudes and activities amongst nations speaking
various tongues and having, it seemed, habits,
traditions. ard interests widely irreconcilable.
But the Of freedom every where the samein
every cline elected the like sentiment and ason The
fruiton Of il by all nations would eyentuate in unani
nifty Of peace and good will and serene glory to the
aggregate Of humanity.
policy which provoked against the young nationasts of
Ireland the hatred and the hooting of The bgotsd, the
ilsysh and the loyal the nee ty potician-the
ping and Unsuitable hy pocrtef They sought to exta.
guisb the ferds Of former days-to drown in stream,
deeper than that Of Lethe, the Memories that had so
Lon buried off. into coniatipg fragments the strength
which should have been 10 generous pey combinei-and
therefore denounced 'nfdels" by every knave
who drove his trade in Scripture and theology. We're
denounced because they claimed for all men and all time
that equality before the law for which their fathers
had prayed ana to,led and bled We're so denounced
because lthey neither by 0crites bigots-
had more love than hatred-more truth than false
hood and TO this hour are so denounced because
there il not amongst them u conscience flexible
enough 10 perpetrae, TO their Own shame and damaa
ton, profitable popular conversion [rremen-
dons cheerngl hr. Meagher then proceeded to
ptuate the otbe- leading points in the design and cceed
of Young Ireland laying particular stress upon the
efforts made by that party TO place the political
ment intellectual basis For this he said for this
striving TO have the public mind enlightened that il
could not be deceivedthat its excessive and reckless
credulity might be corectedthat it might be
lutte, active intrepid and aspiringfor this too they
were denounced as "infdels;" denounced by men
who would keep the people in the dark that they
might keep them in their grasp and so use them
their cupidty prompted their necessities re-
CURED But in the name Of "in6del" they glored. In
| the infsmy which a love Of intelligence and truth
| incurred it was Just and virtuous TO exult.