Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1862-07-05
Nor, blushing, show us the human race,
al that is Sordtd, co'cardiy and base !
In WASHINGTON she taught us to admire

A statesman's wisdom and patriots's FIRE, checrsl
Then turned the medal, that the world might SEQ
| A traitors face IN Arnold and ia Lee
You say we are too long in closing the
war, and yet it took You twenty years to
4 send Napoleon to.St. Helene Too long
Napier was longer in doing nothing. He
boasted that he would be in Cronstadt or
| in warmer atmosphere before six weeks
| All can say is, that he 1idn act into Cton-
stadt. Too long! Yet you have been two
years trying to put down the New leland
crs; and you remember your delay in the
| Crimea. If we have been too long, blame
yourselves; your Ministry have done the
mischief, and in a very short time will bury
itself in the grave it dug for the Americans.
A Government that moves a vote of conf
dence to itself cannot be in strong position.
Lord Palmcrston rules England 50 did Car
! diRat Wol@y! The Cardinal fell, and never
rcgaincd again his foothold.
DEFENCE OF IRELAND AND THE IRISH.
The two features of to-night's debate are
Misrepresentation of America and abuse of
Ireland. America has many champions,
Ireland none. have spoken for Americans ;
| intend to say a word for the Irish. 1t
chills my senses to hear you iecr, and sneer,
and throw contempt upon that gallant race.
Two millions of Irisbmen arc countrymen of
mine cheers and will not sit quietly
and hear, in an English audience, Ireland
trod down and abused. like the Irish race.
Ireland has done much for England but
what has England done for Ireland What
record OF crime, despotism and tyranny !
What page OF violence, injustice and blood
shed! Mr.. - says no; show me- then an
oasis in the desert Of her history show me
a ray of sunshine in the darkness of her
horizon. Poor Ireland rich in nature, in
mountains and in rivers, with fruit in her
gardens and fish in her streams the unhap-
py mother OF a brave people made humble
by despotic and corrupt government. Poor
Ireland the land of Curran, and Grattan,
and Shiel; where Power acted, and Moore
sung his sweet melodies, and Sheridan
Knowles wrote some of the finest dramas in
our language-who last week, in his seventy
eighth year, made a beautiful speech, full of
affection and tears for his native mountains.
WHAT IRELAND HAS DONE FOR ENGLAND.
Poor Ireland what has she done that
England should have treated her so The
land that furnishes England with so many
brave armies; whose sons to-day are leaders
in the world-Prcmiers of two nations. and
Generals in them all. You produced but
one great name in your Napoleonic wars
his pictures are in your galleries, his monu-
mcnts III your squares. That man was
Arthur Wellesley, the Irish Duke Of Yelling
ton; Who rules to-day in Spain An
lrishman-Marshall O'Donncl. Who won
the great Italian battle9 Stand forth Ne
Mahon, the Irish Duke of Magenta. Who
won the battle of Winchester, but the twice
Senator, the shot proof Irishman General
James Shields? And who rules supreme in
England, beloved by his people Have you
forgotten that Lord Pab2eleton ia son of
Ireland Poor Ireland How sad is the
story of thy wrongs every page of thy his
tory is record of robbery, pillage and con
quest [Oh, bosh J The gentleman has
twice interrupted me- let me say to him
that when he applies that word to my re-
marks, it signifies talent, brain and intellec-
tual power, neither of which will any one
accuse him of possessing.
SECESSION ArPLIED TO IRELAND.
All the speakers here tonight have been
arguing that the Southern Coniederacy
ought to be acknowledged. Observing this,
/ am disposed, for arguments sake, to agree
with you, and apply the rule to Ireland.
Ireland would be better by herself-morc
independent, more free, more happy, leas
slavery, and would open her ports to all the
world. You have no right to interfere with
her customs, her laws or her religion. When
the Romans made war they adopted the
habits of the conquered people. England,
on the contrary, tries to make them English.
She is not happy, not contonted; vegetation
grows in her streets and misery brootls in the
faces of her people. Let Ireland go; let
America acknowledge the Irish Confcderacy.
HISTORY OF IRELAND.
AS Woods was historian OF the Prince of
Wales, 80 Giraldis Cambrensis recorded the
incidents of Prince John in his Irish tour /;
calling the peasants goats and sheep, which
would become capital game for English
sportsmen. Cambrensis Eversus was more
caustic, yet equally ungenerous One was
Trollope the First, villifying the Irish people
The other was Trollope the Second, piling
on the agony.
Centuries have gone since the armies of
that old coquettc, Elizabeth cut through
your peasantry. Long is the time since the
old idiot, King James, overran that unhap-
py land with his perambulating scailolds
and ready-made eXecutioners. Poor Ireland
what life of conquest.
Then Charles came, with hispackcd iuries
and coniiscation, followed by Cromwell, cx-
patrEllnS clShty thousand OF tny sons, and
knocking down all thy churches followed
by the Second James and his eXcesscs and
the treaty of Limerick; and then comes the
destruction of thy individuality. The Par
lament Houses into stables for the King;
thy squares filed monuments to illustrate
the overthrow of thy religion, and thy eyes
blinded by giving you eight millions a hun
dred representatives to Parliament, while
England's eighteen millions have over a
thousand And this is the land where Ro-
bert Emmet told Lord Norbury his country's
wrongs, and Daniel O'Connell stood boldly
up, and Smith O'Bricn banished, and the
O'Donoghue threatened if he dare TO speak
of the wrongs of his native land.
AMERICA THE FRIEND OF IRELAND. %,
You say, let the south 60. say let Ire
land go. Cheers; and a voice: "lreland is
now prosperous" Yes, said Mr., Train, but
what has made her sol America Who
have added wealth to our land the Irish.
Who build onr factories, our canals and rail
ways the Irish. And in their well-paid
labor, because well-earned, they find large
sums of money, which they have been send
ing back to their people for many years !
Ten millions sterling since the Famine A
noble trait of the Irish character. like the