Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1856-12-30

We give below the letter Of Mr..
Meagher read before the meeting in
New York, AS one OF the finest spcci-
mems of glowing cloqucnce from his
accomplished pen.
ltI>u Nfws OFFICE,
Nav loRk, Dec. 20, ls5E.
Ny DFAR SIR At ,hc last moment.
! find /, ont OF my power to attend
the meeting in the Tabernacle. Thi, !
deeply regret. From the outset |
have stood by aud supported the cause
Of Constitutional kcpubIicansm in
Nicaragua. The prominent columns
OF the paper | edit, week after week.
give inctlable evidence Of this O.,
this cause Gen. Walker is the pilgrim
and pioneer. In his bright successes.
he has had my congratulations. For
his administrative labors. AS he
brought back peace and impartial sta
bilitv to the beautiful aud fruitful
country. for whose redemption and re-
generation his courage and sagscity
were summoned into action, my words
Of commentator were not wanting.
Weak as they were, in legitimate
and generous and right noble cause,
| did not hesitate, but was prompt to
utter, publish, and promulgatc them
Those words are upon the record.
Whatever be the event would no,
withdraw them. Now that Amer
lean Republicanism in Nicaragua is in
perii-that intrigue strives necessarily
with malignant tact and ingenuity to
subvert-and a rabble barbarian with
a rcmorselcss spirit Of determination
assails. hens it in, and would drown il
in dcluge of blood-conciencc. JUS
tice and magnanimity insist on my
being its sympathizcr, friend, and adj
vocatc.
Adversely alienates no good cause
from me. In the cowardly cry which
now a days in this enlightened age
this age when matcriahsm prcdomin-
a,es to the proclamation, the exclusion
and ostracism of all that is chivalrous
and .hcueticent. when all that is chival-
rous and heneticent is beaten down,
consigned to dungeons or choakcd up
on the scaffold-in this cowardly cry,
with peremptory protest, ! refuse To
Join. With me what is wrong be-
comes no right--nor do submissiyclv
succumb to or tolerate it-hecausc it
scars, triumphs, and cnthrones itself in
imperial IMMUNITY above the world.
Observation-Disclosures
gifted lis a captive. Austrian bayo-
nets plec,pitate themselves upon her
from the Alps. The hayonets of Ma
polcon lock her in. upon the South.
Dukes OF Tuscany and Kings Of Pied
mont with their dclusivc programmes OF
Reform, distract, factionize, and raral-
ize her regenerative intellect within.
Despite the messages with which the
Court of Naples has been ,hreatend-
despite of the English fleet wayering
about the Calabrian coast--despite the
French fleet lying under orders at
Tculon-thc Bourbon of Ncsuyius
has his lazzaroni knife on the Roman
heart-Italy is down. But, up or
down, am, as ever, the student of her
history, the worshipper of her genius.
the postulant for her freedom.
Hungary is down. Buda is no lon
ger the citadel on which the proud
families Of an ancient nationality con
ce1trate The spies, the soldiery and
hangnen of Vienna have made it
their nest and bivouac, and Francis
Joseph, Emperor Of all the Austrians, !
rides through it and tramples on it
as the Goth did once through the corn
fields and vineyards Of fair Lombardy. |
A suburban outcast, struggling for his
daily bread, somewhere, somehow in an
humble cottage on the skirts of Lond-
on lives the man, who with the i'm
pulses Of his heart andgenius raised the
war-cry for liberty in Hungary, and Is