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

II tney uiu not mead, would at ali events not dis
hearten and restrain them. They did dishearten
and restrain them. Cheers and misses.
voice-"They will never do SO again" Loud
cheers, All! in that voice do | recognise the
future freedom of Ireland Vehement applause
This was fact which he Mr. Meagherl knew
not who would question. They did so in all the
villages and towns where Smith O'Brien endeav.
ored to rally and concentrate body of armed
men. They did so especially on that occasion,
where Smith O'Brieu. with handful of ragged
and halt armed men, came suddenly, and by the
merest accident, into a collision with the police.
applause. But there were noble deviations
from the course, which, as body. the Roman
Catholic clergymen thought it advisable ex-
pedlent to pursue. There We're many young
curates throughout the country-in the Navau,
In Watertord-the city OF my birth. three
cheers tor Waterford in Dublin, for Instance
fully prepared and prompt to throw themselves
into a movement, to aid If and to bless it. Ia
king broad view. it was not incorrect to state,
that the bishops and parish priests were opposed
to he movement, aud to suppress it brought
immense Influence in the pulpit, and in the forum.
and IN the field, TO operate. Kisses. On the
other hand, the curates of the Roman Catholic
Church were, to man, in favor of it,. Cheers
This he knew, that in memorable instance
young curate was marching, to join O'Brien.
with body of brave fellows he had hastily coll
lected and armed from the hardware stores of the
village, when the parish priest appeared, and
with severe admonitions dismissed the good Gu
rate and his escort. Kisses Had the Catho-
lie clergy, as body, taken another course had
they gone out as the Sicilian priests went out
as. if mistake not the archbishops of Mila1
had done; had they lifted up the cross in front of
the lnsurgent ranks, there would have been a
different story written. Who else were opposed
to the movement! The O'Connellites, almost to
man. Applause and hisses In Waterford,
the most vigorous of them were sworn in as
especial constables,' to put down the "Irsh Re-
bes.' So, too, the Orange party, who thought
their Church and Anniversaries were in danger,
and so buckled on their armor OF righteousness,
and pitched their tents under the Lion and the
Unicorn. Laughter, misses and cries of Or
del. Mr.. Meagher said: Oh never mind, it is
only pleasant interpolation.1 (Cheers) So, too.
the landlords, who have lived upon the sweat and
blood OF the people, and now trembe lest the
grave would give up the dead, and the victims of
their evictions and exactions, swelling 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 operas glasses, their boquets, tser scented
gloves OF pink or primrose, their genteel servili
| ty, their handsome beggary, their eligible
| daughters, to protect and provide for. So, too
the merchant, the tradesman, the railroad and
every other specuator-all, in word, who had
any amount OF money in the bank--they beiev-
ing that wholesale depredation or conmunis.
tic distribution OF property, the one thing
contemplated being beaten into this belief by the
lured scribes and scoundrels of the English press
who made the most of that terrible business of
the month OF June. in Paris to accumulate and
cry down, in Ireland, the cause of freedom and
repu blicanism. Who then were for it2 None
save the brave young mechanics of the cities and
the towns. a few Of the writer's Of the Dublin and
Provincial Press. the Catholic curates, and few
of the peasantry, though the heart of all was in
the right place. loud applause.) But with
them famine had done the worst. 1t had eaten
even to the soul, and killed there the most vital
OF all Instincts, that which prompts the poor
worm to turn upon the foot which threatens its
human life. sit was they said, 1.-THE eternal
destiny of the land, "and Heavens will be done ~
(Applause.)
Thus failed that movement in Ireland, in 1913.
But all failures are not altogether failures. Let
them hope that such wrecks give bedding for
the arch that is yet to span the waters dividing
the Irish race from the promised land. in sight
OF which they have stood so long. tremendous
applause.)
Ladies and Gentlemen: The lecture has drawn
to a close. but the duty have anxiously and
proudly accepted is not yet discharged.
1t is now, within three days, just twelve months
since, in pursuit of the freedom had lost, with
the stars and stripes flying at the mizen peak I
came to anchor in the river that washes the left
shore of your noble City. (Applause.)
1t will be to my memory dark day, indeed
when | shall forget the crowd of faces. radiant
with delight and friendship, which pressed around
me as | stood under free roof once more, and
behed myself, it were, at the gate of the great
avenue of lile-with multitude of voices call
| ing upon me to snter and in triumph be conduct
ed to the Sanctuary, which the arms the wisdom,
| hnno nf foth ha,1 tho
children of less favored lands Loud applause.
| Happy, some weeks ago, at the South, did l
feel, that for the congratulations of that day-the
| honors then decreed mel could, to some ex-
tent, evince my gratitude in the dedication of an
| hour to the services of those, whose scars
are witnesses to the intrepidity and vigilance
with which they stood by, and through the red
waters of the war carried, the ensgns of the
Republic. Loud and prolonged applause.
Happy do feel when gazing on this peopled
space, SO brilliant and vast. The thought
comes upon 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 illumi-
| nate the hearth and homestead of the men who
were the guardians of those ensigns. APP
| plaus
| 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
soldier-give, like Aborcrombie in the sands of
Egypt. to his quivering lip, the cup which shall
sootke the fever of his last breath; or over his
humble coffin, like the poet the grave of
young Marcellus, strew the purple flowers. APP
plause.
Who could look on and not feel his heart give
way at the spectacle oil glorious companionship,
stricken by want, disease and death-a group OF
stately trees, struck by the storm stripped of the
sheltering leaves. and scared by the lightning,
bending to every passing gust, and one by
sinking, with the shreds of their gay. foliage and
fragments of their brave limbs in desolaton the
earth! Who read of a fine army-even
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