Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-12-22
From the Baltimore Sun.
Complimentary Festival In Honor or John

| Mitchell.
| The grand complimentary banquet IN Honor OF
John Mitchell took place on Monday night, at the
1 Broadway Theatre, New York, IN the presence Of
a large company, and number Of distinguished
| guess. Letters were received from Archbishop
| Hughes, Bishop Wainwright, Gen. Gass, Thomas
IOAGonnor, Gen. Scott, MI. Seward, Hamilton FISH
4 General Shields, and Postmaster General Camp
BELL declining attendance, for various reasons
The letters were read, and those receiving the
greatest applause, says the Tribune, were IRON
Thomas o'Connor, Gen. Shields and the Arch
bishop Hughes
Speecheswere made by Charles OConnor, John
McKeon, John Mitchell, Thomas francis Meagher'
Horace Greedy, Patrick ]. Smythe, Richard o'Gor-
man, Robert Emmett, and j. Brougham.'
The speech of Mr. Mitchell We make room for.
1t was preceded by the following regular toast:
| Our Guest, Jskn MitcheL-HiS services and his
sacrifices for his country render his name imperish-
ale Oh the pages of its history. From the PRISON
and the challrs to whichtyranny consigned him we
welcome him TO freedom in America MuSie,-I
| yankee DOODLE
Mr.. Mitchell was then introduced by the presi
dent, in few pungent sentences, as the man
hom the aSSemblage present had congregnted 10
honor. He was received with torrent OF cheers,
" hich seemed to shake the roof of the vast eliice
Mr.. Mitchell spoke as follows:
Mr.. MIrcHEEs SPEECH.
Mr. Chairman, Citizens Of NetD York, Citizens
| of Ameriea: 1t makes my pulse beat stronger to
| find myself in the presence OF flee citizens, 10
speak to an assembly of men whom can address
| BY The name of "Citizen." Often in my native
country have stood before multitudes of beings,
! apparently human beings, having the gait and as
peGt of men, nay, having many of the attributes
OF man in his natural state-the feelings, the pas
sions, the individual courage of men, but possess
| ing none Of the rights and dignity, none OF the
civic and political organization, the national pride
and power and ambition that set men above the
beasts and but little lower than the angels.
Oh! l have stood in presence of myriads of my
countrymen and have not seen the face of one cit.
iZen, nor even of one loyal subicctj and, believe
me, this is hideous sight. True, citizenship was
out of reach theTe-loyaIty was impossible there;
for law not, yet by solemn award Of what they
call law, l, who speak to you, was formally de-
prived of VIVA. they call my citizenship; from that
false law have the honor to be an 0ntlaWj the in
dividuals who term themselves the governmGut OF
my native country, by formal procedure in place
purporting to court OF justice, Invested me of
my statute and hi perogative as all Irish serf and
thereby. doomed me-cruel governmsnt-to be, feP
the rest OF life, American citizen. This is more
than rehabliaton--it is promotion. The monarch
zeal East casts me out-the Repu blican West well
comes and embraces me. One slave the less III
Europe-"One freeman more, America, to thee!
SinceI landed on your happy shores, have anx-
iously sought to fathom, to guage, TO weigh and
to appreciate exactly, the real meaning, the actual
available value of the public honorS which have
been heaped upon me OF offered to me; and with
all the pTedispostion in the world 10 doubt and
undervalue and disparage popular demonstrations
in general, 1 cannot refuse to see in all this a
significant, portentiouS TACT. know well, In-
deed, what the English press will say, and will Try
to think OF it. The Americans, they will say, Cfnr
know their slang by hearth love little excite
ment and novelty. MariS and GTiSi not having ar
rived, as expected, the merry public of New York
condeScends 10 amuSe itself in the meantime with
the rantngS of an Irish rebel or two. Then, there
is the "lriSh Vote" as tits called. Sc6eming po-
llticanS, they will say want 10 make capital for
the Hard Shells or for the Soft and so they force
themselves TO enact little Hibernan enthusiasm
fol one evening. But this explanation will not
serve; though comfortable 10 the British mind, it
is not true; there is something deeper; for, in the
first place, am no orator that should draw an
audience, enchanted thloug its ear, the queens
of song can do; neither can be of the smallest
service to Hard Shells or TO Soft
In political conchology have no skilI-the mys-
terry Of Hunk. rism is unknown 10 me, and what u
Silver Gray may mean, alas! cannot tell Let
England think If itwell; in no single article can
minister to the popular appetite for excitement.
cam Prove the Pope to be an AntIchriSt, one
GavaZzi, am told, can do, neither am able TO
demonstrate that the ProtestantS are the locust
who were to arise out Of the botomIess pit as Cath
Ollie theolngianS show clearly enough. The great
Anglo Saxon ideas also las in me neihera preach.
er nor pupil. Though an Anglo Saxon by blood
and race, confess that derive no pride from the
circumstances; because l abhor bully; would
bang robber; l spit upon "manileSt destiny;"
deSpiSe that Anglo Saxon courage and energy which
peace, peace, when ii meet its matce; and on the
whole could find quite much to say for the great
PdnsiGoic idea of Eastern Europe; for this Anglo
Saxon humbug which England of late years has
been trying to cram you with
would have the British public also to take no.
tice OF the fact that ever since landed in San
Francisco have spoken uniformly of the British
Government with bitter and vindictve hostility
would not receive the inequalities of America
under false pretence. j would keep back moth
ing of what was in my henrt-aHd knew that
America great commercial country, New
York great trading city, that Wall street and
Lombard street are cousins and dear frendS-that
England is here regarded as u rich customer; Ire
land as Inendicant pauper and useful drudge
Yet here tonight we within sigh of that Wall
street, in the centre of the great emporium of the
West, and here am an avowed enemy of English
lpowtr, greeted with heart ard voice by the proud
lIepublicA of this grand city, and whitest hands
have waved their gracious welcome to the Danish
ed outlaw. Here is phenomenon which villas
Suredy puzzle John Bull as he calls himself. How
I can they possibly John will say make dollars out
of him? For you know it is an article of faith in
England that Americans worship nothing, believe
in nothing but the eternal dollar.
Now I-wiIl suggest to John solution of this
problem, which he can consider at leisure. The
explanation, perhaps, is, that Americans, much as
they love excitement and novelty, much as they rel
ish spicy religious controversy, or animpassoned
political liarangus-much as they love dollars and
clipper shipS-love Freedom aud Justice more.-
Perhaps it is that rich and prosperous neighbours
liked we'll enough here as customer, but a bat-
fled, beggared ouIaWed votary of freedom is loved
as brother. Perhaps it is that the eloquent SER
mon preached by whizzing bullets from Bunker's
Hill, over the burning roofs of CharleStOwn, has
sunk deep into the national heprt, and begins 10
frucliy for all nations. All! perhaps 1t is that the
brawny child, Young Democracy, born that day to
the music Of crashing Ioof-rees and ringing rifles
and boplised abundanily in blood, has grown to
be man, aud begins TO feel that he may one day
be called upon to carry the saving doctrine Of
that sublime christening to all the ends of
the earth. a
1t is well, then, that am no orator and no poll
itician, and no polemical gladiator; it is well that
vocate Of liberty. Thus your pronouncement to-
night for democratic ireetlom-yout recognition of
the cause Of Ireland as legitimate branch OF that
sacred csuse, is the more emphatic, the more un-
mstakeabIe, the more uuFe and simnIe. the more