The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1861-09-06

scCtted at and scandalIZed her before the |
world, can surely never have the heart and |
arm of any lrlshman who has learned the |
history of the Stars and Stripes hear,
hear, hear valued the blessings and pro.
lection they insured, and who, in the frus-
tration of the scheme of this incorrigibIe |
arstocracy, its chastisement and downfall, |
foresees a healthier and stronger life for
England and the liberty of ireland. Loud
cheering Be it with Irishmen, at all
events, the lesson, the incentive, the ami
mating conviction, the rallying battle cry
in this tempestuous time.
Who speaks about his rights as a pas
senger-about his bag of money, his chest
of books and clothes, the photographs of
his wife and children, his live stock or bales
of mercl andize, when the steamship has
met with a collision, threatens to 60 down,
must be cleared of every embarrassment
and dead weight, land all hands summoned
to the rescue You know it we'll. l assert
it without fear of contradiction from any
quarter, and those who have had most lati
tude and impunity, were they frank and
generous, would be the first to own it
The national government has suffered more
from the patience, the leniency, the mag
nanimity it has practised toward its enem-
les, and those who are in sympathy and
league with them, than it has done from
the courage, the science, the fierce energy
of those, who have taken the field against
| it, and VIGOROUSLY shaken the banner of
revolt and reputation in its face. Cries
of " hear, hear" The masked conspira>
tors of the North are infinitely more Grim
! inal and mischievous than the bold and
armed regusants of the South renewed
shouts of 4" heaa, hear" and Democrat
as am enthusiastic cheers -spurning
the RepubIcanism of the Chicago Con-
vention as spurious creed-having no
sympathies whatever with the men in
power. other than those which should sub
sist between the citizen and the govern
ment- hear, hear, hear Il would promp
tIy and cordially approve of the seyerest
measures the President might adopt to
paralyze the treachery which in this and
other critics, under various liberal and
benefcent pretenses, has been, and is still
at work, to undermine and overthrow the
legitimate magistrscy Of the nation. Ems
/ thusiastic cheers.
Every blow that, with the snout of
"Faugh a-ballah"- enthusiastic cheering
clears the way for the stars and stripes,
and plants that flag wherever it has pre-
scriptive right to float, deals to this En-
glish aristocracy deadly modification
and Encouragement hear, hear i-depri-
wing it of new allies and resources loud
cheering land thus so far avenges and
liberates the island of which it has been
the persecution, the gripping fetter, the
recurring famine, the pervading blight, the
social cancer, and the rank source of the
poverty and ISLANDERS, in spite of which her
children make her footing good, and assert
themselves abroad. Loud applause. +
Which being so, let US, who hail from Ire
land loud cheers we, who have taken
an oath of loyalty, not to New York
hear, hear not to Alabama; not to
Massachusetts not to Florida not to
! Kansas, nor to any one isolated State, but
to all the States immense cheering =
that built up the powerful and resplendant
Union which the sword and counsels of
Washington evoked, which the philosophy
of Jefferson approved, which the head
strong honesty and heroism of Andrew
Jackson preserved, which the great argu-
ments of Webster rendered still more sol
id, and which the loving patriotism OF
Henry Clay, whose precepts and example
still animate the sons Of old Kentucky
[cheering for Kentucky commended tc
the heart Of every true American-let US
at all events, who hail from Ireland, stand
to the last by the Stars and Stripes
tremendous cheering)-the illustrous
insignia of the nation that, ofall the world
has been the friendliest sanctuary of the
Irish race Cheers for America); and il
going forth to battle for the American
Union against domestic treason and the
despotisms of Europe, let the Irish soldier
take with him the assurance, which The
scene here before us justifes, that, should
he fall, neither his wife nor little one
will be forgotten. prolonged applause
during which Captain Meagher retired.
20 L,