The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-15
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Britain bat around the whole over all time and q
poetry and letters, who forget her Swift Goldsmi
Moore, and others, countless and brilliant stars thai h.
shone out from the midnight sky Of eands
II be that ireland, lamnary whose eux of mind b
lighted the world, Is, in ITSELF untr Oppression ii 4
blind TO the merits of its victim is deaf 10 his cries
oppression may credit the SANDER, bat whisper in The
ears Of ireemen
Who q fAai da,es compian e .ys.patAy iat.,po
foa "a beAo Of Letandg Is il England IN enthusiast,
admiration and esteem for e people Of England their cb
airy their genius, their moral excellence, will yield Il, no
In science, the arts and letters the world owes 40
large debt to English genius that il proud privilege %
speak their language mother tongue. Still more Is due
TO the English people for teaching the world how to a.
sert the rights Of man against tranncal government All
time will be ustrous with the glory their popular nsuec
ons especially those Of l64o and lGssthe Moaa Arara
II history upon which the Ark Of Liberty rested when all
the world beside submerged the duh and turbd waves
Of servy and moral degr adation For patriotic and no.
BILE people of England cherish the aternal feelings
why cannot their represent their virtues WL
cannot their naughty rulers the msg
unanimous aud spirit Of Engand people, and learn
justice and hunany But whittier win the government Of
England turn TO complain OF the Interference foreign avn
patty for lrelandy To the world argeY She will find
no spot which her pragmatc policy has deanged or on
pressed To Canada Every cottage guarded by an Eng
sh bayonet To Frances England threw the world into
for quarter Of century by her interference with
us government To SPAIN 1t is governed by her armies
give to lambs To other continental nations She Ia.
given king to and another TO king To the wcsp
There is scarce soveregntythe United States excoptsd
which she has not at time sEoher by force mach
nations controlled. To the East Egypt has but within ,
few months changed her government under the fire Of Eng
sh To India with her hundred millions Of Eng
fish slavesto India which she made Phlcgitlon running
red and hot with boodto India which she covered with
ruin and darkened with smokes land where tho silence az
despair only broken by the crack the whip the csnk
Of the chain the shrek of the victim immaculate and
meek spirited England Let her, complete the CYCLE
raise her hand crmsoned in the blood Of every nation under
Heaven and make her appeal Chna too against foreign
which, for the crime Of being wealthy
is about to be made by just and gentle England bowling
and desoation.
'sNo let England complain Of interference Her whole
of dctaon She dictates the worlds let the
world for dictate to her. Our part at least shall be
done and from the lakes to the gulf thousands shall raise
their voices against that Of eachery and wrong
the Union by which England hailed ireland In or
der to make her q slare. sou a4ys2s
n this country, cannot presume that any will b. found
to echo the sensesss objection to interference IT, indeed
expression Of sentiment and eelnga right Of which no
power earth deprive usbe interference 1t certainly
conflicts with national law with the law Of that
try this and it will hardly be pretended that msnifss-
ation of interest in the Of human liberty anywhere
moral wrong 1t is to this causeto the reciprocal influence
of the minds of nationsthe national interchange truth
that the advance any branch of political and other know
edge, useful the race is to be ascrbed Without this the
fire of civilization and improvement would burn out In the
contracted spot where it first kindled mn IN favor Of
free trade in truth and know reason why human
thought human sympathy, when yrtuous and benscen
should be confined within prescribed limits.
Brethren indeed stand here surrounded by Irelsnds
and daughters. If the friends Who in your native isle
send their souls the wide embrace you could
look upon this gorgeous scene the champion OF Ireland
0Connc HIMSELF your faithful and fearless prcs
could he consider himself exile among strange Mol
brethren. Come not from the womb Irea~wd .
the mother country Of America England gaze charter;
Ireland hearts and hond England, 10 true, settled Amer
ioaj bat howf BY oppression at home 1t English op
preston that crowded valleys with men, ths
foes oppression the Old World the jewels Of liberty
in her heart Of hearts here. Fen Aericans q
Ne@ England, aud those sections ercasirey 6erSan,
speak ia drogatioa ~ Ireland her eioat shas.g tic
blood that om their reias, and sanderny tie dss thar
mo,des IN Their asy rash Are then brethren
q But merely sprung from the stock bat
baptized in the baptism of blood Look the muster
rolls of the revolution In the continental line band he
who knew signal for defeat nearly every American
shoulder pressed by tina. of Irishmsn their hearts
beat together their struck together their
to the skies their blood fell to the earth together And
not brethren
"Why, who at Quebec Heights the head of our
army rushed foremost, and foremost fighting fe' II
Irish Montgomery who first Redeemed that with hi
lfes blood and Is that blood forgoten3 Has II passed
away did the snow-wreah which il crimsoncd with the
suns II So then fell blood for hearts colder
than the ice which IL redeemed IL then Heaven avert
from country the which avenges ngratude Bu,
ii Is not sol
Upwards OF sixty years sncc gallant soldier fell Of
Princeton His last glance the glorious banner be
fore bmhis last thought for his native cline What land
did that noble spirit adornf II Ern What banner
hoatcd over him 7 II was the stars and striped
" Il that martyr forgottenY But few days since, and
than half century after he laid in warriors
grave, the military Of the land for which he died
march in pilgrimage his resting place with the banner for
which he calamity fought mancd in and the man
~ tread Of the sodiery measured into melancholy sownes
The whose troop he led into many fields claims him
own and bears his remains rest, holy relic IN
her bosom Amid all the pomp 81 hi. countrymsn again
surround hagan give voice to his fame and again drop
tear into hi, grave The honors done Hasett prove
that the revolutionary services Of gallant lrishaen
and cannot be forgotten.
1T Is American principle that the wide universe the
home Of Lbetyovery people her ohdrcnevcry shore
her cmceyery mountain top her hroncevery valley Der
heritage We believe that all should aud win be fset
that The spirit ~ freedom win encompass. the world like IA
atmosphere and that the time will when in ever
cline,
f'Prone from it, seat oppression will be hurled
Its name, it, nature, withercd from the world
Thus should the patriot love his country thu, should
he watch and cling to m He who loves relsre
he may die bat despair and in the last gush Of @
the prayer which commends his country his God full Of
the pride Of the patriot and the confidence Of the martyr 10
this sacred ner cay fall Lot u.s. the contrary,
indulge hope that festival will be the celebration
Of Irish independence In that triumph, how full
OF boy and gratitude will be the aspiration sends 70