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thousands dying down in the bitches, wild,
bowling for bread, and 10 'endsavoring
rally and march TO their succor, men stop
on che way 20 quarrel about two kings,
James and Wiiliami Pfstestent England
and Catholic nglaHdi IrehHawasl pefse-
cuted by beth. 4 May God witheriBg curse
fall on tue heads sf'tAe witches who thus
separated noble people. Mitchell thought
that il was TIME for pixies and pifehfoFks,
.muskets, rusty and clean 1.-THE time for an
Irish Lexington, an Irish Concord and an
Irish BuBker Hill He knew it was Eng
land foreign complications, and an indig-
nant people walked to national life by
OCohnell aud not desire to do justice,
that gained EN- ancipatieH, as he and every
weil-informed man has known since that
it was James Stephens. Charles Joseph
Keekman, John @ Leary, and OsDonovan
Rosa, and not the forty Irish liberal mem,
bers of Parliament, that disestabhshed the
church. He returned to ireland after
twenty years of involuntary exile, his body
dropped, his frame weakened, his eye
dimmed, but his glorious Irish heart as
uncomfortable as ever, and, in a last at
tempt to wake the ,slumbering energies of
the people, gave up the ghost. More
lifting death could Dot be. Magnificent
Tipperary, in the face Of a hostile govern
ment, returned him twice to the British
house of commons. and
THE same land that gave him birth & 8 e
/ Has caught him to her breast. &. - g.E
+ Well, the lessons to be used are, to my
mind, that love of country. intertwiniDg it.
self as it does with mans best nature, that
next to God he should homer it-vand, It
being free, sacrifice present comfort, fu-
ture prosperity, everything that makes
home happy. and hope delightful, personal
liberty and life itself, to keep it so; en-
shaved. to dare to fight, to suffer, to die,
to redeem it. Teach the lessons of the
past to your children teach them Ire
lands history; to hate her tyrants,to love
her friends, to follow in the footsteps of her
patriots, until at last that beautiful little
island of our fathers is as free as the
waves that dash in ecstasy against her
coasts. Teach them with their prayers to
raise their hands when the patriots star
his fixed in the national heaven. and ex
claim, Promise for me, Mitchell = Prom
Use for me #.s9d 2s5s q. % asHj e.
The speaker was loudly applauded as he
closed. Then came some stirring remarks
from ss.- g. sa-ts-ri ~soDa.5..ra ag 3
.stsez GEO. II. PARKER ass fgsE g Z.
who was summoned forward. Mr.
2. spoke of what he himself had
witnessed in Ireland-eyidence brought
to the senses, of grinding oppres
preston. Yet ireland was one of the
most beautiful lands on earth. But he
believed the day would come for her de
liverance, hi 1t may not be near, but come
1t will when with ore grand concentrated
effort the Irish people will shake off the
British yoke they wear, and be free. Mr.
P.,s remarks and eloquent delivery raised
the audience to great pitch of enthusi-
ashland he was heartily cheered,
| RESOLUTIONS
we're offered by the proper committee, anc
adopted as follows: 1.E.t u
WHEREAS, John Mitchell and John Martini two o
the purest, bravest and most honest Irlshmen o
this century, are dead, and.
WHEREAS, Irishmen, the world over, regret tn
death of those men as national loss. Therefore
be it fl Arg aa llf ss Is 1853 HT 3
| ResoIUed, That we tender to our countrymel
ev rywhere, our heartfelt sympathy; and be 1t fur
Their H3tt tH# - - ts - :.
Res0lued. That we will teach our children to rev
erence their names, and in the Irish cause follow
in their footsteps. And be 1t fuither
Res0lUed, That we offer to Mrs. Mitchell and fam
lily the expression of our heartfelt sympathy, an
the same expression to the friends of John Martin
4 The meeting then gave three cheers 70
the flag of the United States, aud was dis
missed.-Ddu, Gaz