The American patriot., 1855-08-18

great question of the day. We commend his
sound convertive, patriotic production to the
perusal of all our readers, and especially to the
perusal of all our adopted citizens OF Irish
birth: |
Sir-Tt has been remarked by some philoso-
pher of times past that the men who causes
one blade of grass to grow where none grew
before, is benefactor to the human race
Should then, by sumitting the following con-
s,derations to the cool reflection of my esteem
ed countrymen, induce even one of them to
pause for an instant, amid the political turmoil
which surrounds him, and deliberately ask
himself to how much he is individually acces-
sorv would not consider my suggestions ill
timed or uncaled for. l address myself par
ticularlv to the Irish portion of the foreign
population-the meri Hi1ernici-the pure
Milesian Irish; for with the sworn life-guards
Of royality-the mongrel Grangemen-l shall
have nothing to do.
1t is well known to every 1rishman that, in
the many vain attemps which have been peri
odicaly made through the space of three hun
dred years to shake off the incubus of British
ascendency, our only and constant rallying
cry was "Ireland for the Irish" This cannot
be denied We were even satisfied to remain
an appendage to the British crown if they only
allowed us the privilege of being governed by
native born officers. How then can we con-
sistenly complain of the party now organizing
in this country, named the American party
party whose only objects is to preserve in
tact and inviolate the dearly bought heir-ioomr
of that crusade for freedom, the most glorious
that the sun of Heaven has ever looked upon
since that morning of creation, when the stars
of Heaven sung together for joy? A party
which will forever remain the only breakwater
low, hofu Ehortx ap6 opprncGipD
petuating the blessings of existence to remotest
time, and ultimately saving us from our worst
enemy, viz: ourselves. If we are to suffer
any injustice, it is nearly Of negative charac-
ter They do not propose to deprive us of any
thing, except so far as the deprivation is foun-
ded on the universal law of our nature-name-
, ly self.protection They do not propose to
deprive you of the proceeds Of your honset
toll; they do not aim to s. nd forth these ceri-
cal locuts to dragoon you out Of the tenth OF
your substance. Generously and Hospitality
: they invite you to partake of the fertility OF
their land, but they contend for noninterfer.
their domestic policy. 1t is with the body
polite as with the body physical, extremes are
! hurtful.
, We cannot escape from the burning heats
Of the torrid zone, and plunge immedis tcly in
:, to the frozen streams Of the north: We can
not, without danger, pitch in the desert anc
# reveal in the first spring we meet, neither cal
we with safety emerge from the dark and de-
! basing thradonl of hereditary bondage, into
' the noontide blaze of freedom, without long
and healthy training. Gratitude has been, a
u all times, characteristic of our race The in
c gratitude of an Irishman is like Juvenals bird
!, ''ro ra acis in tercas, n'groqar sam1tftma egg
. no.
Then let us prove to the American peopl'
that their countless favors are not forgotten
S that we have determined to seperate from III
l. political parvenues who have meanly speculate
IT. on our impetuous feelings and religious fears
" and now when the crisis has come and tn
true American spirit is eliminating heaven
a. ward, they are quitting us, weakened as
parity and despised as people. There was
r. time when the word american" sounde
l. like the music of heaven in our lacerated hearts
s. when the generous stream OF American SYN
pathv flowed warm and deep towards the pei
Of ishing and Oppressed children of green Erir
! When her strong men were sinking by thou
- sands into their cotfinless graves, the arm {
!" America was stretched across the wave, All
Is nobly rescued the remnant from linGe!'!n
G. an lihl ,ton and how have we repaid htr:
H. We have actually helped to carry out b
- our conduct at the ballot-box, that soecisn
. free governments that the majority shall GOV
III ern. We have aided to os racse from pow,
til and place the wisest and bravest men of tn
II country, and substituted in their places 10!
descript species Of animals, who are now tn
:, laughing stock of the gartered fools of Eur'
VI pean cabinets. Even he, the patriot Of fhumal
It's ity, the sage of Ashland, whose wisdom MOI
ed than once check-mated the willy cabinet
our hereditary foe; whose brilliant emanatio
We awake the slumbering embers of expiring Ill
aa crty in the wild pampas Of South America
- WHOSE undying eloquence, recited around I'll
IT. mp-fres of Greece and Poland nerved tt
ut heart Of Su.iote and Sarmation to do or die
on even he, ever glorious in defeat, was pule
rs down from his high well-merited aspir
40 tons, through the instrumentaity of sire,
n politicians and barbecue patriots Why no
es then, abandon this suicidal course, which wi
ed ultimately end in our discontinue AMI 6isg ac
i Can we wish for nobler, holer termin ito
- than was that of the founders of this h avel
favored republic? What comfort i'll life we
We theirs? A life of privation and toll. A gra,
!, in the battlefield, but with the proul Co
sciousness that they were leaving to their su
'' cessors
e. "A hope, a name,
MS They too would rather die than shame
II But, you may reply, our religion is threate
: ed by this American party. was almost
III opinion that mans religion was perfectly i
ch dependent of external contingencies-an i
,n- visible compact between the Creator and ere
w. ture, ra ified by an approving conscience; al
~, if founded on the immu able promises of HI
'"' ven it cannot be subverted by human agenc
I'VE If it has survived the shocks of pcrsecutio
ng for eighteen centuries, no earthly power CT