The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-01-04

THE MITCHELL BANQUET.

More than twelve hundrtd persons were pres
INT.
Mrs. Mitchell, Sen, and Mrs Mitchell, Jr..
with two Of her children and some friends occu.
ped consp cnous private boxes.
ter he splendid dinner had been discnsscd,
Charles O.Conor, Esq President Of the occa-
SION, announced the regular lasts wi,b fine
preatory speech.
John Mckeon, Esq, then rose aud toasted
the guest OF the evening as follows
Oar guest John .ni,chei-iis service, and
sacrihccs Tor his country render his name I'M
Erishible on the pages of history ffor. ,he
4i,f sun and the chans to which tyranny CON
signed h';n, we welcome him to freedom in
America. Yankee Doodle
The sentiment was drunk with al he h.rofs
-ani the building rung with repeated bursts Of
applause.
Mr. Mitchels speech in reply, was
flow Of eloquence from beginning to end. =
II occupies nearly two columns in the New
York Times 1t is similar in substance TO his
celebrated San Francisco speech, most of which
we have already published W.. copy few
however, to show the power and
beauty Of his style, as vel! as the objects at
which he is aiming
"l would not receive the hos piiafy Of Amer
ca under u false pretrnce. l would keep back
nothing OF what was IN my heart---and | knew
mat y Anerica was great commercial County,
New ork a great trad NJ city--ihat Wsli street
aud Lombard street are cousins aud dear friends
that England is here regard, as a rich Gus
lniner-lreiand as mendlcani, pauper ard use
nj Ir,,A u,
OF that Wall street, in the centre Of the great
Emporium OF the West, and here ! am an avow-
I'd enemy of English power, greeted with heart
and voice by the PR nd Repub ublicanisrp .f ,,,i,
grand CITY aad whilst hands have waved their
gracious welcome to The banislt OUTLAW Here
IS phenomenon which will as<urrdIy puzzle
John Bull, as he calls himself. How can they
possibly (John will sny) make dollars out of
him. For yon know il is an article pt faith in ,
England, that Americans worship nothing, be-
|ieve in nothing, but the eternal dollar Now |
will suggest. to John a solution Of the problem,
which he can consider at leisure The explain
alton, perhaps is, that Americans, much as they
love excitement and novelty, much they rel-
sh a spicy religious controversy, or an impass-
toned political harangue- as they love
dollars and clipper ships-loye Freedom and
Justice more. Perhaps it is that a rich and
prosperous neighbor is liked well enough as a
customer, but baffled, beggard, ouilawed vota.
ry OF Freedom as a brother. Perhaps it is that
the eloquent sermon preached by whizzing bui.
let's from Bunker's Hill over the burning roofs
OF Charleston, has sunk deep into the national
heart, and begins to frue,ity for all nations
All perhaps it is that the brawny child, Young
Democracy, born that day to the music of crash
ing roots, trees and ringing rifles, and baptized
i'll blood, has grown to be a man,
and begins to feel that he may one day be call
cd upon TO carry the saving doctrine of that SUBJ
lime christening sermon to all the ends OF tho
earth. 1t is well, then, that am no orator, and
no politician, and no polemcal gladiator it is
well that have no other claim on you than
simply as an advocate of Liberty Thus your
to night for democratic freedom
your recognition of the case of Ireland as
legitimate branch Of that sacred cause, is the
more emphatic, the more uamistakable, ,henore
pure and simple, the more encouraging TO
crushed AID struggling Liberty all The world
over.
mo thinking man now imagines that the
present order of things in Europe can be sus-
tained by multiplying bayonets and heaping
taxes forever. The Creator of the " ord did
not, assuredly, kindle the noblest spirits and
crown with intellect the most God-l;ke brows
on earth, only that those spirits should consume
themselves forever IN vain, that those lofty in
tellects should be dragged down into idiocity or
Mrung into insanity forever, in an eternal and
hapeless conflict with cnreless wrong, and sla-
very, and falsshood No. | believe in a mora.
and intellectual electricity. | believe that moth.
ing, of all the thought and passion expended
for this cause, has been lost but that il is heat.
ing, kindling, even now, the atmosphere of the
world. believe that not solitary captive has
sighed forth his soul alone in the dungeons Of
Naples-not gallant soldier has fallen with his
feet TO the foe, on the fields of Hungary, or Lnm-
hardy, or Baden not an imprisoned student has
grown prematurely bald, or prematufely gray,
or has gone mad in The cells Of Speilberg, but
his spirit lives, and moves about us, helping to
swell and kindle the leayebing, heoving, seeth-
ing mass Of that fluid which breed Gods earth
quakes and his lightnings.
Citizens Of New York, | thank you: and
have repaid your kindness at least with candor.
No secretary or man, shall charge with
fraud. ! am Rrofessed revoluli"nist now, an
adyenturer, a seditious propagapdist | mean
to make use of the freedom guaranteed to me as
a citizen or iEchoate citizen OF America, to help
and to stimulate the movement nf European
Democracy, and especially of Irish independ
ence. | mean TO claim for the revolutionary
refugees here, notconly the hospitality and the
comfy of America, but also her sympathy and
active friendship; nay ! claim for them that
America shall be to them the very standing
ground prayed for by Archimedcs, whereon
they may plant lever that shall move the
world. t aar..f - sa
At the end Of Mr.. Michels remarks, three
others were given for his co-patriots, Meaghef
and o Brien. L
Letters were then read from Lewis Cass
Gen. Scott, VIM. II. Seward, Gen. Shields
Postmaster GenI. Campbell, Bishop Hughes
Bishop Wainwright, and others
THE ERIE RAsCALS.
The Erie people are going mite or SO too
far. The Forest City Democrat says:
This is a villainy ia the conduct of the Erians
which admits of no apology. And it must be
met. There ls no use trfling with spirit which
is devilish in purpose, and destructiye in char
acter. 1t must be put down if we wish to sus-
tain law o: uphold right
Yesterday nissels were hurled at the cars
within the bounds Of Erie One passed through
window, grazing the head OF lady; had 1t Int
her. it would have killed her. We learn, also
that on "Wednesday night some half dozen
ties were stuck in the cattle guard, put there Tor
the purpose of upsettng the engine and cars. Is
this yillainy to escape Inpunished Are we,
East and West, to submit to this murderous vo-
lence
In consequence of this brutal and iawiess
spirit, no cars left city for Buffalo last even
ing, the Superintendent wisely concluding that
it was not safe to risk the lives of passengers by
night ,ravel amid scoundrels. We commend
his prudence But we are, we repeat, not tor
submitting to this violence any longer Ii fa.
c,tic means will not answer let sterner means
be tried Eric, or the people thereof must not
be permitted longer to run riot in ni4rderoas
violence, without feeling that there is strength
IN the country to subdua and punish it.
THE WANT OF BREAD in FRANCE
4 poRTENTUous CLOUD FOR
LOUIS NAPOLEON.
All who have read the histories of the sue
cessiyc revolutions in France, from the time of
the unfortunate Louis the Fifteenth, to the pre-
sent day, must know that one OF the most po-
tential clements in The popular discontents which