Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-05-30

ied-to tue cause 1t Inspired. 1t went forth
other lands. Wherever the fight for free.
was Gu foot, it spoke out word of encou-
mert-a word of exultation. Seldom had
e burst upon the ear OF the people nobler
In than than that iu which--to quote him
again-did Thomas Davis pour forth his sou |
hsse lines; [Great applause.
Russia preys on Poland where Sobieski reigaed.
Austria on Italy, toe Roman eagle chained;
snia, Servia, Hungary within her clutches grasp.
Ireland struggles ,llantly in Engands tightening
grasp
Moor, Pushtaui, Cherkess-they soon
Would have their own
That glorious noon,
God send L soon
Hurrsh for human freedom"
Three brave hurrahs were here given !
The effect of such sentiments was. in ls45, to
ract toward Ireland the sympathies of every
lntry that had misrule to depose or better
,dition OF laws to institute. This was evident,
singular degree, from the tone and language
the German, the French and Italian papers.
blished in the liberal interest. Thus had
Dung Ireland "foreign policy" thus did
oung Ireland secure for their country, her
use, her struggle, her principles and hopes, a
recurrence of solicitudes and activities among
tious speaking various tongues, aud having it so
smed. habits, traditions and interests widely
econcilabe. (Applause.)
But the cause of freedom was everywhere the
me. In every cline ELECTED the like senti
ent and passion. The fruition of ir by all ma
bns would eventuate in an unanimty of peace
d good will, and a serene glory to the aggregate
humanity. (Grent applause.l
But what OF tie domestic" policy! What of
at policy which provoked againstthe young ma
bnaIists OF Ireland the hatred and the hootines
the bigoted. the knavish and the "oyal:" the
bedy politician, the cunning and Unsuitable w.
Pcrite ] (Appause.) They sought to extin-
Dish the feuds of former days-to drown in n
ream deeper than that of Lethe, the memories
bat had so long hurled off into conflicting frag-
tents, the strength which should have been in
Pnerous piety combined-and We're, therefore,
bnounced as infides by every knave who drove
is trade IN Scripture and theology. (Appause.)
We're so denounced because they claimed for all
hen and all time. that equality before the law
|r which their fathers had prayed and toiled,
hd bled. applause. Were SO denounced be-
huse they were neither hypocrites nor bgots-
al more love than hatred more truth than
Rlsehood; and to this hour so denounced,
ecause there Is not among them conscience
exlble enough to perpetrate. to their own shame
nd damnation, profitable or popular conversion.
Tremendous appause.) Mr.. Meagher then pro-
eeded to recapituate the other leading points in
he design and creed of Young Ireland" laying
PARTICULAR stress upon the efforts made by that
party to place the political movement on an in
ellectual basis. For this-he said-for this
|trivng to have the public mind enlightened, that
o it could not be deceived--that so its excessive
ind reckless credulity might be corrected-thal
20 it might be resoute, active, intrepid and aspi-
fing-for this, too. they were denounced as inf
Pals. So denounced by men who would keep the
people in the dark. that so they might keep them
n their grasp, and use them as their cupidty
prompted, or their necessities required. (Ap
b'ause.)
But in the name of .infide'' they gloried Ii
10 infarny which love of intelligence and truth
icurred, it was just and virtuous to exuIt.-
|.this, as every other caluminous name or men
ace, they flung back upon their accusers, as the5
tio now. Applause. They faced them, as they
(n now, puttingthe question: ''was this crime =
Did they course the mau who would not barter
|the priceless jewel "of his soul? To win thsi
|smiles-to win their honors-should their fa-
vorite he slave - Enthusiastic cheering
Mr.. Meagher then glanced at the proceedings
|nf the Irish Confederation''-a their conduc,
Fin a certain Parliamentary election-in the
newspaper, the tribune and the pamphlet He
insisted that their true ground Of quarrel witt
O'Connell was his insisting, in the language O
John Mitchell, tremendous and long continued
applause THAT the national flag should be KEPT
as haughtily flying in the face of the Wing as in
that of the Conservative administration" The
incubation of this bold and purest policy became
necessary in July, 1916. when Sir Robert Pee
vacated the red box and the Treasury bench, anG
Lord John Russell, misses, with his stock
company, took possession Of the same. Tinme-
date followers of O'Connel-those especially il
DubIin-were strongly addicted to the Wings
~, e..
trial. They were always good to Ireland =
That was. (Mr. Meagher exclaimed they were
always so good to those who played false to Ire
land. They would do everything to ameorate
her condition The meaning of which was
(said Mr.. Meagher,) the Wings would resusci-
tate the fortunes of some old place-beggar-
lGreat laughter. As for an insurrectonary
movement, they did not contemplate it until early
in the spring of 1848. Two great events con,
spred to bring this about--the Irish famine and
the French revolution of February. The fam
inc had wrought hideous devastation. Not
Egypt. when the darkness cane upon the land
not the city of the Holy Temple, when the Ro.
man crossed her wall: not Venice, when the
plague struck her. and she lay blackened corpse
upon the Adriatic; not the gardens and the vine.
yards of the Lombard, when the steeds of the
Scythian trampled through them; not London, 10
the days of which De Foe and Lingard. on i'm.
perishabe pages, have left us paintings appalling
as the Judgment of Angelo; hot in any of those
chimes and Cries, in those, their days of deepest
dismay and tribulation, did scene so terrible
meet the eye of Heaven. as that, which, in the
land OF his fathers, in such hideous cooring had
been revealed. TGieat applause Finding the
worst come-their country all but gone-her
commerce gone, trade gone, credit gone-all her
interests, all her faculties, destroyed -bankrupt-
cy destituton, desertion, death-death by the
minute. death by the million, utter ruin, utter
annihilation, coming upon her, and coming with
speed and the seowl OF the gale la the Tropics,
they. who had been true to the Island true to
her in the face of all, the worst even, the dis
trust aud detestation of many among her own
people. who mad been ''taithful to her freedom"
as they now ..faithlnl to her fall" they felt
the time had come to make bold attempt to cut
adrift the dismanted craft, aud, with the rem
nant of the crew and fortune, save her from the
royal pirate to which she had been ashed. John