The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-06-09
From the New ork Herald.
THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHERs LECTURE.
young Ireland, and the Irish Revolutions
ary Movement of IS4S.


THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER's LECTURE
young Ireland, and the Irish Re Olution-
ary Movement ofIS4S.
Thomas Francis Meagher delivered lecture
IN Metropolitan Hall, Friday evening May
9th, before one OF the most numerous auditor
les we have ever seen crowded into that Hall
Several lregiments-among them the Irish one
attended in uniform, and the United States Mil
itary Band, from Governors Island, were sta
toned on the platform, and played several pieces
Of Irish music. The battered banners borne by
the New York Volunteers in the Mexican cam
paign were planted on each side of the stage
Ike proceeds of the lecture were for the benefit
Of the survivors of that gallant regiment. Mr.
Meagher was accompanied to the platform by an
escort of citizens, comprising several Aldermen,
General Sandford, General Hail. Colonel Bur
nett of the Volunteers, sc, He introduced
TO the audience by General Hall, and received
with the greatest enthusiasm. Mr.. Meacher
then proceeded to deliver the following
LECTURE.
LADIEs AND GENTLEMEN.-The lecture has
drawn to n close, but the duty have anxiousy
and proudly accepted is not yet discharged. 1t
isnow, within three days, just twelve months
since, in the pursuit of the freedom l had lost
with the stars and stripes flying at the mizen
peak, came to anchor in the river that washes
the left shore of your noble city 1t will be to
my memory dark day, indeed, when ! shall
forget the crowd of faces, radiant with deli gh
and friendship, which pressed around me as
stood under free roof once more, and beheld
myself, as it were, at the gate of the great ave
nue. of life-with a multitude of voices calling
upon me to enter, and in triumph be conducted
TO the sanctuary which the arms, the wisdom,
and benefcence of your fathers had opened to
the children of less favored lands.
Happy did feel, that, for the congratulations
of that day-the honors then decreed mel
could, to some extent, evince my gratitude in
the dedication of an hour to the service of
those whose scars are witnesses to the trepidity
and vigilance with which they stood by, and
through the red waters carried, the ensigns of
the republic
Happy do feel, when gazing on this peopled
space-so brilliant and so vast-the thought
comes upon me that may have set in motion
the elements which repose in the higher regions
of our nature, and that this hand, tremulous
and unskilful as it is, may have drawn down
from those regions one kindly ray at least, to
illuminate the hearth aud homestead of the men
who were the guardians of those ensigns.
Happy-happy beyond the measure which the
tongue can tell of-shall feel if, with this same
hand, can smooth the pillow of the dying sol
dier-give, like Abercrombe in the sands of
Egypt, to his quivering lip, the cup which shall
soothc the fever of his last breath or over his
humble coffin, like the poet over the grave of
Marcelus, strew the purple flowers
Who could look on, and not feel his heart give
way at the spectacle of a glorious companion
ship, stricken by want, disease and death-a
group of stately trees struck by the storm strip
ped of the sheltering leaves, and scared by the
lightning, bending to every passing gust, and
one by one sinking with the shreds of their CAV
foliage and fragments of their brave limbs, in
desolation to the earth ? Who can read of fine
army-eyen though that army be the foe of free
dom, and, in the fight, ourselves should strike
it to the heart-who read of such an army
being cut to pieces or by plague famine dis
appearing from the earth, without comnisera-
..on-without a thrill, syllable, tear of no
bic pity?
If, then, to the stranger, though he come
against us, nature yields instinctively gen
erous measure of sympathy and succor, what
should be the emotions, what the anxieties, what
the actions, of those, who, in their mi LIST, be-