The American patriot., 1855-05-19

body polite as with the body physical, ex
tremes are hurtful. We cannot escape from
the burning heats of the torrid zone, and plunge
Immediately into the frozen streams of the
north; we cannot, without DANGER parch in
the desert and revel in the first spring We
meet; neither can we with safety emerge from
the dark and debasing thraldom of heredita.
ry bondage, into the noontide blaze Of free.
dom, without long, and healthy training
Gratitude has been at all times characteristic Of
our race. The ingrattude of an Irishman il
like Juvenals bird "rara aris in terris, mig.
rogue simillinaa cygno. szi}s13l
Then let US prove to the American people
that their countless favors are not forgotten
that we have determined to separate from the
political parvenues who have meanly specu.
lated on our impetuous feelings, and religious
fears, and now when the crisis has come, and
the true American spirit is eliminating hea.
venward, they are quitting us weakened as q
party and despised as people. There was q
time when the word american sounded like
the music Of Heaven in our lacerated hearts.
when the generous American sympathy flowed
warm and deep towards the perishing and on.
pressed children Of green Erin. When her
strong men were sinking by thousands into
their coftinless graves, the arm of America was
stretched across the wave and nobly rescued
the remnant from lingering annihiation, and
how have we repaid herr We have actually
helped to carry out, by our conduct at the bal
lot-box, that solecism in free governments, that
the minority shall govern. We have aided to
ostracise from power and place the wisest and
bravest men Of this country, and substitute in
their places nondescript species of animals
who are now the laughing stock of the gar
tered fools of the European cabinets. Even he,
the patriot Of humanity, the sage of Ashland,
whose wisdom more than once checkmated the
willy cabinet of our hereditary foe; whose bril-.
liant emanations awoke the slumbering embers
OF expiring liberty in the wild pampas of South
America, whose undying eloquence recited
around the camp-fires of Greece and Poland.
nerved the heart of Suliote and Sarmatian to
10 or%s. 1Se7ven he, ever glorious even in de.
eat, was pulled down from his high and well
nerited aspirations, through the instrumen.
ality of street politicians and barbecue patri
IT'S. Why not then abandon this suicidal
course, which will ultimately end in our dis
,omfiturep Can we wish for a nobler, no.
ier termination, than was that of the founders
If this heaven-favored republic?
What comforts in life were theirsp
A life of privation and toll. A grave in the
'attle-tield-but with the proud consciousness
hat they were leaving to their successors,
"a hope, name,
They too would rather die than shame"
But you may reply, our religion is threat
ned by this American party. was always
t opinion that mans religion was perfectly
Independent Of external contingencies-an in
isible compact between the Creator and crea.
ure, ratified by approving conscience and if
ounded on the immutable promises of Hea-
en-, it cannot be subverted by human agency.
it has survived the shocks of prosecutions
'r eighteen centuries, no earthly power can
ow assail it. Besides, the great majority of
ne American people are perfectly indifferent
the propagation Of any particular creed.
If it be not connected with the State they
are not whether you reverence the Grand
anna of Thibet, the Patriarch of Constantin,
pie or the Roman Pontiff:-while the teachers
the other denominations (the sentinels on
he watch-towers Of Zion) are too busy in
wearing at each other Or trying to secure
lace in Congress-
Ere it is too late then, pause in your present
.judicious career. Amalgamate, unite, heart
nd soul, with the great national party before
hich all other parties must of necessity sue
lmb. -=
All the elements of durability, extension
I'd success, are united in it. Its members are
lmerous, national and intelligent. A read
g population has power among them;
riting population has power; power certain
its effect and irresistible in its control, car
ring with it either the principle of fertility or
'e cause of devastation, like the lightenings
Heaven-adapted either to purify or destroy.
hink not these sentiments are intended to
ound your feelings as Irishmen. l have
zen, at the first epoch of my American ex-
tence, swept along by the loud and unmean-
6 cry of soulless Democracy, and though
ay dissent from the political creed of the
ajority of my countrymen, cannot forget
at l have drawn my first sustenance from
c bosom of Green Erin, and would, if her
es would permit, like the dying Argive, draw
y last sigh by the rush of her waters ct dul-
$ moriens reminiscitus argos
A SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING" Have YOU
asted Hopes?" asked a lady of green H.