Weekly Trinity journal., 1863-07-25
NUMBER 2S.
The Patriot Meagher in Council.

On June 18th, in New York, some two hundred
of the friends of Gen. Thomas +. Meagher met at
the Astor House, to present him with a gold
medal, upon which are inscribed the names OF all
the battles in which the Irish Brigade was en-
gagged. General Meagher, in his remarks upou
this occasion, said in conclusion:
at was better that the taxes should be multi
piled, that trade should sand still. that com
merce should be paralyzed limp lazily along
that multitudes should persn on the field with
their country's flag pointed 10 the sun and the
glory of the martyrs ; thai gaycty should put on
mourning that luxury should get down upon
its knees and beg Il crust; that the bitern and
the cormorant should usurp the warehouse and
the palace, and the fate of Tyre and Baabcc be
its visitation. Better all this a thousand times
than that people for the sake of having glUt
of foreign mportations, of being corpuleut and
at ease should at the bidding of craven or auda.
cious demagogues, clamor for aud insist upon
peace which would annihilate their soverelg lty,
closing their history with the crime OF suicide
aud an irrevocable sentence of inetlable disgrace.
Shall this be so? Shall the prayers of the wicked
prevail? Shall base conspiracy, with the hymn
OF the angels on its lips, and the craft of the
serpent at its core, prove superior to the laws,
the army, the inspiration of the land Heaven
forbid! Against peace so scaudalous, there IS
not surpipor Of the Irish Brigade who ,oM not IN
di9HaJtV iCitb intense SCOrn, tOtth the HreeSt
pstuositg, protest IN reprobdtioa Of such peace,
every soldier IN the Army Of the Mississippi, eUerg
soldier East West under arms for the UaioH,
,eW set has teeth and briRg has bdgonet to the charge,
Talk to the returned regiments, and see u HtY DO
not to man, scout the 0ppro6rious proposition
some OF the nolsiest of which were among the
very first to incite the Democracy to arms and
urge the war. Proceed stR} iurther-nterrogNte
the heroic dead let the orator OF our day, in
whose heart burns the desire to be enrolled
among the saviors Of the Republic appeal to the
shades Of Mount Vernon ; to the ancient wallis
that witnessed the signing of the Declaration
to the tomb in the Garden of the Hermitage TO
the granite cliffs of Massachusetts and to the
confusion of the traitors invoke the illustrious
men to whose purity aud greatness Of soul man.
kind is indebted for the examples of this com.
monwealth, Last OF ALL listen to the udjuralion
OF the thousands, who, within the last two years,
have been laid to rest in the harness OF battle
the fields, which their heroism has made mag
Efficiently famous, and over whose graves, unin
scribed though they be, the fires of Heaven by
night aud by day maintain for the chvary of the
Republic perpetual guard. We are oonjured
never TO make peace with the armed enemies of
the United States-never to coufer with them an
instant as parties to any settlement or eompro-
mise; never TO desst an instant from the prose
cution Of the war with the relentless vigor with
which Andrew Jackson would have pressed it
never until the image OF Liberty, now ascend
ing the dome OF the Capitol, shall lor the perna-
nent happiness and glory Of America stIetch
forth tho protecting hand, aud dispense its be-
nignant rays wherever, until the outburst OF the
rebellion, the creed, the laws, the dominion, the
harmony, the wisdom, the power, the oougrega-
ted splendors OF one nation, one Constitution
aud one flag prevailed