Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-05
rlalID Natlonal1 Democrat.
Thomas f. Meagher on the War.


.be dav. on the occasion of the great festival
oiven August 80, at Jones's Wood, near New
York city, in honor of the gallant Sixty
Ninth Regiment, which immortal lized itself at
the battle of Bud Rum We make room for
the entire oration. believing that it will de-
light all patriots and shame all traitors who
read it, 1t may be read with profit by some
who would be Union men, only that they
hate the party opposed to theirs more than
they love the honor of the nation, and who
sorer vil,-the destruction of the United
States Government, or its preservation, by
the people, during Republican Administra-
ton 1t will be obser we'd that Mr. Meagher has
no sympathy with wretches who claim the
right, under the Constitution, to print and
publish infamous newspapers, having no OBJ
ject but the overthrow Of the Constitution.
Mr. NJ eagher said:
There are eyes clouded and gushing with
bitter sorrow in the desoaton of spirit in
homes where Winter has settled in the zenith
of Sumner, while we stand here blessed and
GIHQuSUSu WIFI all U16 warmth ana U6HuIe-
business, with all the promise and fruitfuness
of this propitious hour and consecrated scene
and there are little hearts that have grown
big and heavy in darkened rooms, waiting
and praying for footsteps which once were
cheerier to them than the songs of the birds
that greet the rising sun. but which shall
never wake again the echoes of the expectant
house. Sensation. In the name, for the
sake, in tenderness and compassion, in proud
regard and duty to those whose husbands
and fathers fighting in the ranks Of the
SiXty-ninth, were slain in battle sealing their
oath of American citizenship with their
blood whose doorways are now hung with
blackest mourning. and whose tables miss
the industrious hands that once furnished
them with bread-in the name of the wild
owed homes of the dead soldiers of the Sixty
ninth, we, who claim these soldiers as our
brothers, and though they were the poorest
of the earth, would be prouder of them than
the haughtest princes of their ancient dadems
and domains. Loud cheers With this
purpose aud these emotions have assem-
bled here to-day, and hence it is have said
that it is propitious hour aud this conse-
Grated scene. Great applause High above
these banners, these tall old trees, these
pilars-gathering al-the youngest, the
fairest, the hardest and the Oldest the rude,
the gentle, white hairs and glowing cheeks,
the extremes Of society, life and character
into one great, edifying and benignont throng,
the Angel Of Charity extends her wings
sancthes the pastimes and pleasures of the
hour; rehnes illumnates ennobies what
might otherwise be rough, bosterous, frvo-
ous or idle, and, linking with rags of dvinest
light and lustre the living and the dead,
breathes into every Irish heart at least the
assurance that they shall never be forgotten
who fall in n ust cause, i'll vindication of
laws that are unmpeached and nuimpeacha
ble, and in sustanment of q Government
which, while it is the least exacting is the
most encouraging aud benehcent the world
has ever known. Enthusiastic cheers -
This is the lesson, the purpose, the inspiration
we acknowledge here; and hence TO reDeat
what have already said, this is propitous
hour, and this consecrated scene Re
newed applause. Peacefulness and Joyous
ness, and glory-such as no home on earth,
however blest, confers, nor the most af-
fluent city, in the funess of its gratitude and
grandeur, can decree-he for eternity, to
those who fell on that terrible Sunday of
July, in the tempest which swept with
fumes and beat back, on a deluge of carnage
and consternation, the army that had ad
vanced to restore in an insurgent State the
eurremacy Of the national authority. Loud
cheering Peacefulbess and iuyousness and
glory be to those who fell in this great en-
deayor, wherever they may have been torn,
at whatever altar they may have worshipped,
to whn,ever school of politics they may have
belonged. Loud and prolonged cheering
Peacefulness and joyousness and goly eternal
and supreme. be TO those who, venturing
here from lreland-conceived in her womb
nourished at her breast, nurtured and en-
todened as her children only are-went
forth without u thought Of home of reward,
of danger, Of any ties however dear, of any
compensation small or great, of any conse-
quences, however desperate and fatal they
might be, to maintain in arms the authority
of the Government to which they swore al
leglance and in tie perpetuatiou Of which
their interests as cmigrants driven by de-
vastating laws and practices from their native
soil are vitality involved,
But what Of the cause in which our coun-
trymen fell that day? Was it urgent was
il Just, was st sacred? Nercr cdS there n
ca'tSe @ore srgent, more Just, more sacred
Hear, hear, hear. and enthusiastic cheering.
The assertion of the national authority de-
rived, as it is, from the free will and votes of
majority of the citizens hear, hear the
conservation in its integrity of that magnii-
cent expanse of country ever which com
mon Constitution has thrown its SHIELD, and
along the frontier and at the gates Of which
common treasury has planted ferts and
custom-houscs, and the flag which no foreign
hand as yet has questioned with impunity-
hear, hear hear the enforcement of the
laws of Congress. the sworn compact of the
States, the invo!ability Of the balIot-boX and
the decisions that proceed from it, the sane
tty of official oaths. the accountability OF
the public servants, the post precious fruits
of the Revolution the claims Of posterity,
the progress Of democracy, its constellation
and ascendency, the glory of the New World
Loud cries of hear, hear Behold the
cause in which those lives were offered up
Tremendous cheering Never, | repeat it,
was there cause more sacred, nor one more
gust, nor one more urgent No cause more
sacred, for it comprehends all that has been
considered most desirable, most valuable,
most ennobling to political society and hu-
manity at large. No cause more just, for it
Involves no scheme of conquest or suhjuga
ton, contemplates no Acknowledgement Of the
citizen excludes the idea fprovincialism and
inferiority, aiming only at the restoration of
franchises, powers and property, which were
enjoyed by one people and one Republic, and
which, to be the means Of happiness, fortune
and renown to millions, must he exercised
and held in common under one code of ma
tional laws, one flag. and one Executive
No cause more urgent, for intrigues, peril
dies, armed legions, the hatred and cupidity
of foreign courts assail it, and egery reCerSe