The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-06-09

TOOK possession of the same. The Immediate
followers of O'ConnelI--those especially in Dub
in-wcre strongly addicted to TIE wings; were
inclined, as they said, to give them fair trial
Ihey were always so good to ireland That
was, (hr. Meagher eXclaimed) they were always
SO good to those who played false to Ireland
They would do everything TO ameilorate her
condition The meaning of which was, (said
! Mr.. Meagher) the wings would resuscitate the
fortunes of some old place beggar. (Great
| laughter As for an insurrectionary movement
| they did not contemplate it until early in the
spring of 1913. Two great events conspired TO
Drlng tins about-the Irish famine and the
| French revolution of February The famine
| had wrought hedous devastation. Not Egypt
when the darkness came upon the land; not the
city OF the Holy Temple, when the Roman cross
d her wall not Venice, when the Plague struck
her and she lay blackened corpse upon the
Adrlatic; not the gardens and the vineyards Of
| the Lombard, when the steeds Of the Scytbin
( trampled through them ; not London, in the
days o. which Dc Foe and LinzarG, on imperish-
able pages, have left us paintings as appalling
| as the Judgement" of Angelo; not in any of
those CHIMES and cities, in those their DAYS of
! deepest dismay and tribuation, did scene
| so terrible meet the eye ofIIeaven as thatwhich
IN the land of his fathers, in such hideous color
| ing had been revealed. Finding the worst come
their country all but gonc-her commerce
gone, trade gone, credit gone--au her interests
| all her faculties, destroy desti-
| tuition, desolation, death-death by the minute
death by the million, utter ruin utter annihila-
! ton. coming upon her, and coming with speed
and the howl of the gale in the Tropics, they
| who had boon true to the island, true to her in
| the face of all, the worst eyen-the distrust and
! detestation of many amongst her own people,
| who had been faithful to her freedom" as they
now are faithful to her fall, they felt the time
| had come to make n bold attempt to cut adrift
the dismantled craft, anG with the remnant of
! the crew and fortune, save her from the royal
| pirate to which she had been lashed. John
| Mitchell was the first to step. on deck-the first
to give the word--the first to take the fire the
| first to fall Vehement applause) The events
J then shaking Europe to the centre, stimulated
| the new passion that sprung up. Thrones were
everywhere tumbling like the idols of the heather.
Crowns were tossed about as though they never
had been anointed and the people in their ir-
reverence so despised them, they would not pick
the diamonds and the rubies from them. And,
! as though the angel of the Lord passed over
them, before the Spirit ofFreedom, the armies
OF the kings fell PROSTATE to the earth 1t might
have been a wild belief-but men eager for the
disenthralment of their land might, in such a
crisis, be pardoned the belief-that the people
had but to strike one blow to prevail and tri-
umph. Mr.. Meagher then introduced the name
| of Smith O'Brien, amid the most enthusiastic
! applause. He said that he knew of no man
who had larger heart for the people; that he
was as jealous for the freedom of his country as
! of his own honor; that he threw himself into
the insurrectionary movement with Roman ear
| nestness and devotion. To do so he had no
| temptations save those which excite to virtue
| and to heroic goodness persuades and prompts
| the honest conscience. Smith O'Brien was more
| sanguine of success than others were. He tho't
| that the people would turn out in masses, and
| that the Roman Catholic clergymen, if they did
not head, would at all events not dshearten and
restrain them This was fact which he (Mr.
| Meagher) knew not who would question. They
| did so in all the villages and towns where Smith
O'Brien endeavored to rally and concentrate
body OF. armed men. They did so especially
that occasion where Smith o Brien, with n hand
( full of ragged and half armed men, came sudden
ly, and by the merest accident, into collision with
the police. But ther were noble deviations from
! the course which body the Roman Cath
olic clergymen thought it advisable or expedient
! to pursue. There were many young curates
throughout the country--in the Navan, in Wa
terford, in Dublin, for instance-fully prepared
and prompt to throw themselves into the move
-ment, to aid it and to bless it, Taking a broad
view 1t was notincorrect to state that the bish-
ops and the parish priests were opposed to the
movement, anu ~ suppress it brought their i'm
mense influence in the pulpit, and in the forum
and in the field, to operate.-On the other hand
the curates of the Roman Catholic Church were,
to man, in favor oft. This he knew that in
one memorable instance a young curate was
marching to join O'Brien, with body of brave
fellows he had hastily collected and armed from
the hardware stores of the village when the par
ish priest appeared, and with severe admoni-
tions dismissed the good curate and his escort.
Had the Catholic clergy, as a body, taken anoth-
er course-had they gone out, as the Sicilian
priests went out-as, if | mistake not, the arch
bishops of Milan had done-had they lifted up
the cross in front of the insurgent ranks, there
would have been n different story written. Who
else were opposed to the movement The o.
Connellites, almost to In Waterford,
the most vigorous of them were sworn in as
| especial constables,'' to put down the ssIrish
rebels" So, too, the Orange party, who thot
3 +l,ai,a oh, or,1
and so buckled on their armour ofrighteousness,
and pitched their tents under the lion an unicorn.
| So too, the landlords, who have lived upon the
sweat and blood of the people, and now tremble
| lest the grave would give up the dead, and the
| victims of their evictions and exactions-swel-
ling the army of the poor would precipitate
upon their heads, their houses, and their idle
children, crushing retribution. SO too the
! Castle folk, who had their opera glasses their
bouquets, their scented gloves of pink or prim-
rose, their genteel servility, their handsome
beggary, their illegible daughters, to protect
and provide for. So too, the merchant. the
tradesman, the railroad and every other specu-
| lator-all, in word, who had any amount of
money in the bank-they believing that whole
| sale depreciation or oommunstic distribution
| of property, was the one thing contemplated,
being beaten into this belief by the lurid scribes
| and scoundrels of the English press, who made
| the most of that terrible business of the month
| of. June, in Paris, to calumniate and cry down,
| in Ireland, the cause of freedom and republican
! ism. Who, then, were for it None save the