New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-29
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY. NOVEMBER go, 1853

Prison. Tho policemen went b. their own place. With
their doc umenk
Tba excitement ersAt1d by bis arrest ntense Gov
srDm1ni anticipated attempt At pretended 10
do r political purposes Additional regiments " horso
and foot forwarded until the garrison Of Dublin held
1900 mon Hot discussions conyuIsed tho Confederate
Clubs in relation 10 the feasibility Of immediate insurrec
ton Several ,nembcn- among others, for short time,
Mr. Meaghcr-were in favor of fighting OBren and Duf
Is wore persuaded that the project would fail and therefore
opposedh
Mitchell was brought to trial. condemned and sentenced
to fourteen Year. transportation.
The sceno In Court 10 thus described by Mr. Reilly in the
thir,ieth volume Of the late Democratic Rersrs
The lswthe law has now done its part snaihe Queen
Of England her crown and government in ireland are now
securS-. pursunnt to act OF Parliament have done my
part also Three months ago promised Lord Clarendon
and his government IN this country that would provoke
him into HE fustice, places of this kind are
called and that Iwoud force him. publicly and notorious
IT, pack jury against me to convict me- or else mat
would walk out free from this dock TO meet him In
another field
My lord, knew setting my life on that cast but
warned him that in either the victory would DC
with me and the victory is with Neither the jury
nor the Judges any other in this court presumes
to Imagine that is criminal who stands in this dock
lie interrupted with the paudits of the audience;
II have kept my word | have shown what the law is
made of in Ireland have shown that her Msesty Gov
eminent sustars itself in Ireland by packed ures ny par
tisan judges, by perured sherifs-"
Here be was interrupted by the Court.
Il have acted he continued, Il have acted all through
this business the first under strong of duty
do not regret anything have DONE and believe that
the course which l have opened Is only commenced
The Roman he continued in of those bursts Of elo
auence with which he used TO eecrfy men, stretching
forth his clenched hand and arm the Roman who saw his
arm burning to ashes before the tyran promised that
three hundred should follow his enterprise Can not
lpoinrg his friends about promise for one for two tor
ffree ave- for undrpdef ~
Here, amid fearful scene he was seized and utterng
his calm defiance and prophecy Of the doom which awaits
the tyrans Of the land for which he suffered he was
dragged down into the vault.
Two hours thereafter, fearful woman and lovely boy
passed down the steps of Newgae and were driven of in
carriage Anothee carriage drove up, surrounded oy
police. The iron doors of the gateway opened and
Mitchell appeared in his usual dress in the midst OF Of
cols with cooked pistols in their hands At gaop and
BY oircuitous route bis captors reached the most sea
ward point of the quays of Dublin war steamer lay IN
the harbo He reached the deck and surrounded by his
guards bowed, waved his hand-and, farewell
Mr. Magher referring to the events we have briefly mar
rated has said of his co exile
ale was the first TO step deckthe first TO give the
word-the first to take the fre-the first to fall
The Scourge warship conveyed him to Bermuda,
whence after years Imprisonment in the Dromedsry
hulk he was removed in the Neptune to Van Diemans
Land He arrived at the beautiful Antpoda Isle in the
spring of 1880 His subsequent life and escape is well
known.
We think that we cannot better conclude sketch Of
the Irish patriots career than by anscrbng the percr
ton of a speech "On the Transportation of Mitchell de-
yered in the Music Hall Dublin the 9th June isss oy
his friend and wcounryman, Thomas Francis eagher
There is black ship upon the southern sea this night
Far from his own old and-far from the sea- and SOIL and
sky which standing here he used to claim for you with
ali the pride of true Irish princear from that circle Of
flesh young hearts, in whose light and Joyousness and
warmth his drank in each evening new lie and vgor
far from that young wife, in whose heart the kind hand
of Heaven has kindled gentle herosm- sustained by
which she looks with serenity and pride upon her widowed
house and the children that grde her with beauty be-
holds but the inheritors of name which, TO their last
breath will to them the love- the honor the bless
ing of their country-ar hom these scenes ana (oys'
wherein the rich and brilliant and rapacious power oil
which he was the foe has doomed him to dark existence
That sentence must be reversdrevesed by the decree
of a nation, srrayed in arms and in glory . -,
It'll then in the love of country, let the wife and chill
dren of the ilusrous exile be shielded from adversary
"True-when he stood before the Judge, and with the
voice and bearing Of Roman, told him that three hun.
bred were prepared follow hmtrue is that at that
moment he spoke not his home and thought
only of his country-and to the honor of her sons be
queathed the for which he condemned to suffer
But that hCagh al Shr sCp %
home wie loyous-his children pre- sperous and
ennobled. .,.ho.., % h,o,.h
when he left these the thought which calls
10 night as he sleeps within that prison ship dreams fa
Of light and rpurous ,ne H. oraud heart to the
odious conditions OF his exile. . ,
Think oh, think Of that exie-the hopes tne iong
sTbnk oh, think of how, with throbbing heart and
knding eve he will lock out the waters that INA
prson him. searching in the eastern sky for the nag thar
viii announce to him his liberty, and the triumph Oh sc
ditonl
Think oh think of that day, when thousands and
tens Of thousands will rush down to the water edge az
distant gun proclaima his return-mark the snip as
dsshes through the and nesr the sborebenod MN
Standing there upon the deck-the same calm intrepid
noble hear-h clear quick eye runs along he %
ana the lieht which flashes from the bay0nes OF the
nsopIe"a moments pause and then-amd the roar Of
Cannon the fuering Of thousand flags the peallng OF
the bes-the triumphant felon sets his foot once
more up,p his native soi-haled, and blessed and wor
bed AZ the first citizen Of our free and sase