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THE STAGE DRIVER'S GOAT
An old gray coat, with ample cape,
hanging by th'e bar-room door,
Aid as l e look upon its shape, 1-7
The past comes back to me Duct more*,
Upon the smoky walls a crowd
Of scenes before my vision float,
And silently my soul is bowed t
Before that old stage driver's coat.
ill
How many scenes of good and
Are pictured to my vision clear,
How many tones, in death so still,
Again are ringing in my car,
I see the coach with teeming load,
re ; steam propelled the car or boat,
And, king of all the dusty road,
I hail the old stage driver's coat.
I see the school boy as be takes
His seat npoli, „ the cumbrous ear,
And fancies, in the noise n makes,
The fame be dreams of from afar,
The bride upon her Wedding day,
Leave those_who fondly'on her doat,
Weeping, yetj4ful, borne away,
Behind theold stage driver's. coat.
But now a gloom is hanging o'er
tThe rumbling of the groacing coach,
The bride comes to her home once more,
Yet feels no joy at the approach,
After a few . short, happy years,
The gpoiler came—his victim smote ;
Ah! there are memories sad, and tears,
litirred,by that old stage driver's coat.
Relic of bygone days, thou haat
- A voice that speaks to memory's ear;
Thou telleituif a varied past,
And we wilts rapt attention-hear,
In, summer's storms,-in winter's snow;
In cities ill ,
ar and lands-remote,
hete'er We mind would backward go,
It sees the old stage driver's coat.
No mantle worn by sceptred prince,
-Crimsoned and glittering witligold,
Can rival, with its gorgeous tints.
The greatness of this garment old,
Although the at tint, by his skill,
May pencil what the poet wrote, •
One jcture 'will be dearer still,
It is the old stage driver's coat.
pIITB AT ST. LOUIS
Speech on Friday, March 12.
kinds—America and Despoti,m-Hungarian
rty and the Catholic Church—lrddrul.
SPEECH OF GOVERNOR KOSSUTH.
!NTLEMEZi :—DOTN/g, my brief sojourn in your
[table city,l have heard so, much about petty
1 matters, and puny party politics, interweaving
ir spider webs with the cable of the great cause
to Christian world, ithirtillumbly plead, and
re so much heard about the hypocritical tactics
NI imported from Austria to advcate the no.
lune of Russo-Austrian despotihu in republi-,
America, ariehiefl) in your city here, that in
' I. became longing fur the pure airchera the
, mailing, as well as the melancholy drop of
ram t the roaring of the thunder storm, as, well
sigh of the gentle breeze, tell to the, appress
id tneir tools, as well as the oppressed, that
is a.Goil in heaven who rules the universe by
al laws; the Almighty Father of humanity,
(potent in 4(s wisdom, bountiful in His Omni!).
ire ; just la His judgment and eternal in His
the Lord who gave strength to the boy David
.6oliah, who often makes out of human in
lab efficient instrumentalities-to push forward
:oinlition of mankind towards that destiny which
mercilul will has assigned' to it—His will,
lost which, neither the proud amLition of arro
t despots, nor the artificial skill of their obsequi
tools can Trevail—in Him I put my trust and
7.heell'uVon in my duties. Still 1 may be es
' for the slight weakness, that when pent up
and then in the close air of obsolete politics,
breast heaves with sorrow, and my heart • be
sad. But when I have before me the peo
sith its open heart, its unconquered soul and
roes instinct, then I feel again that all is well,
that God is with me. Gentlemen, you have
pleased to bestow that consolation to my sad
I thank you for it, gentlemen. I have seen
• a storm. Adversities have never bent the
mon of heart. Often have I stumbled up
ie racks which impious vice threw 'into my
hit the Almighty raised me with increased .
. from every fall ; and heie 1 stand, though .
sit.torn and persecuted, and a homeless (sails,
unbroken and unbenl, feared by despots, Sand
and persecuted by their satellites in my very
ie! Oh, I thank thee, my God, for this hatred,.
persecigirm, and this fear—They shoW too
rly that the cause I plead is not ti ileastcause—
there is lite in its present and, success itt its fu
and that I am in the right way .to benefit, the
toe, noble, and just, and great, to *lnch I demi
my life; ,clad it there were no success in what!
I ;tagedithey would neither fear r nol hate, nor
astute me.
I thank them for that persecution.; it imparts
' ho pe to my ,breast than all the kindness of
friends could dO, and I give you mr Word , that
bare the consciousness of having well merited
1 9 past the hatred and the ,fear of.-tyrants and
uatruntente, so May God bless me, as f will
all a moral man can do to merit lad hatred spa
. fear still more.
IV try ? Am 1 not standing tin the:banks of the
Lis 1 1 , lrr, cheered, welcomed, sad supported, as
l ien / stepped first upon your glorious shores!
mance, anti the history of whst I , suflered, and
lao,l il.d 4 had cast saMe halo of expectation
) 11 4 my name; the balder distance and lexpec
fttivanished like a dream, and II go on wander
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4ion, Icaiilith and irencuporisindutony and impious
malignity, have . exhausted every- Risible Means to
check that sympathy of the people which rose to
the position of public 'opinion, the MOM powerful
the more it is oppesed. And has , that sympathy
'subsided! has' it abated! is it checked! No, it
rolls on swelling-as I progress: -.here 1 have again
an imposing evidence before my eyes, here in St.
Louie, my narnereke city, where so much, and that
_so persevenutly, was done to prevent this evidence.
Yes, it rolls on, swelling as 1 progress in my mi..,
sion, and it wall Folio; (swelling till it , will finally
isubmergei all endeavors to mislead the natural in-
Plinations of treemen, to letter the energies of the
nation, to stifle its spirits, and to check the growing
aspirations of the peo,ple's straight noble heart. •
Well, so much I dare take forsore, that when the
first roaring of cannon echoes over the waves, an•
nouncing to America that the great battle is engage
ed which must decide what principle shall rule the
world, £rbe►ty or'pespotism—there is no power, and
.no resumed wisdom of stationary policy on earth
capalte,to compel the people of this mighty Re
public to remain an idle and indifferent spectator of
that great struggle, where its own future also is to
be decided; because, in the scale of that approach•
ing strdggle, the destinies of the Christian world are
to be weighed.
So much T dare take for sure, And, indeed, it
cannot otherwise coins, because that's an imperi
ous necessity pf your country's position, and at the
circumstance of the world.
Let me briefly tell how matters - stand ;
When the Emperor of Austria, beaten down in
his sacrilegous attack by our victorious arms, pros
trated himself at the lest of the Czar, mendicating
his assistance, the Czar, about to commit the im•
mense crime of violating the laws of nations, by his
invasion in ilungary, issued a proclamation, in
which he told the world that all the potentates must
league %minst liberty, and they must all consider
the rule of unlimited absolutism as a common
cause; that he would help 'he:young tyrant of Aus
tria in the hour of his need, but under the condition
that alter Hatigaly had been crushed, upon the rti-
ins of our national existence, the allied-clepota most
go on tocrush the spirit of freedom every ere, and
not only not make any concession to revolhtionary
is
Movemen , but not to stay still the dangerous ex
ample of very constitutional government is abol
iShed, and liberty blotted out entirely from the
earth.
That-war against liberty is now going on, and it
is that infernal work of oppression, against which
not only Hungary, but all the oppressed nations of
the European continent, are about to rise.
Well, can America remain an indifferent specta-
for of this struggle'? Is it not a struggle in which
Ameriza was almost equally interested as it was
lot its own domestic war for independence? Yes,
gentlemen, I make this comparison by design ; be•
cause it is not less important to conserve this inde
pendence than it was acquire it. And it is math
ematically sure, that if all Europe becomes Cossack,
because tined by the protectorate of the Czar,
America cannot conserve its republican institutions,
its union and its independence.
lam told your country is invulnerable. But I
say quite thel:contrary,fliat country is the most
vulnerable, which can be approached at thousands
and thousands of points from the sea. Since the
steam engine works, the ocean is not a barrier—it
is a highway—it is a door. You are vulnerable in
your mercantile navy. You are morally vulnerable
by a mete ptohibitive custom system, excluding
you from the markets of Europe. You are vulner
able by seeing your domestic discord stirred by for
eign influence and, foreign gold. You are vulnera
ble by seeing monarchies established in your neigh
borhood, on the continent of America. ' You are
vulnerable by seeing made out of the Island of Cu
ba; a battery against the mouth of the
and New Orleans. You are, in a word, vulnerable
by a thousand ways, precisely because you have
an immense territory, (the larger , a body is, the
mote vulnerable points it bas,) and because your
material interests make you, by their very diversity,
dependent upon the cor.dition of the outward world
But, again, I am told, " Well, if we are vulnera
bleohe 'mote we are vulnerable, the more we must
keep quiet,gtud not mix with foreign matters; we
wilt quietlt grow—we will have, in a hundred
years, a pi:Oblation of a hundred million, anti,then
we will be strong enough not only to defy the - hos.
tility of all the despots of the world, but also to dic
tate our laws to the World, and will rule on earth."
Oh, yes, lithe despots of the world had no brains
inftheit heads, and permitted you, tranquilly, to
grow ta such a power on earth. But there is the
immense, there is the dangerous fallacy. Do you
think that the unholy alliance.of the despots does
not know that you would grow Mauch an immense:
power s if not checked in time! and do i on take
the despots for such fools as to quietly permit yow
to grow to a giant republic, of a, hundred millions 1
II is quite-clear that they would in vain have mar
dared nations—in vain doomed themselves and all
their posterity to-eternal damnation ; the triumph
of the3i ambition would be but short, and their des
polio away but . a midsummer night's dream, if they I
permitted you to become such a power on 'anti.—
Be sure that they feelalteady; at present, alarm
tfd at Your very existence, and bed already attacked
you, Icing ago, had they had the poWer to do ao.
They have not attacked you, becarise their pow
et eras m Europe itself precarious,-threatened and
controverted by - their own people and by wets ; but
let them but abeemplish their foul design-Act 'all
Elm/pa 'Cossplc, ,and you will see how
their first step , will beymeit be, to fall, with the.con
centrated power of all Europe, upon yourself, pre
cisely because - else you would bedome a tepublle
of zi hundred millions. , Could you believe that,the
league of:despots mould endure ,this, .when. if be
"came mortally afraid of the small example of a
Hungarian repubpti '''rbiti4 a ut , tchat I have
sail, and iiien ‘'Orridft,",is Ispe porxi for
stbielparleiseti-you-let r hy yuur,in iii;;
E'retlce; , .rtbktletc.o..gtew toa power so dattgetoOt
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,DEICIINc4TiCiIIi ‘ viebit. 404 QitA;ll*..:,
'to you, or that Which reveali itself in the 'symits ,
thies of the people, which, in its 'littoral instinct, is
more circurfispec,t and more wise than all the short
sighted calculation of antiquated
Let me repeat to ytii hr plain English, what) l
said
„yesterday to a delegation of your
zens, in French.
•
When the struAle is engaged about principles,
indifference is uicide. Nay,' indifference
possible, kecause indifference about the fate of that
principle apou. which your national existence and
all your future:este—that imlifb3rence is , so much
as a passive submission to the opposite pririssiple—
it is almsisteluivalent to an alliance with the
PO.
lie who is not for freedoms is against insellom.44
Thew is no third choice.
The United States have arrived at the necessity
td being a power Int earth. . Indifferentism for the
cause st freedom—carelessness about how the des.
pots dispose of the condition of the world—that to
so much arnot to be a power on earth. And if the
Crated States do not accept thlsposition Of a power
on earth, well, then, they. have resigned - their- fu'
tare, and to resign our own future is suicide.
The people's instinct feels the weight of this truth
—it feels the importance of circumstances—it feels
the.anger of losing an irreparable Opportunity, and
hence the fact never yet met in history, theta plain,
common man—a poor homeless exile, becomes an
object of such swelling sympathy, pilling on like a
sea, in spite of all the passionate rage of my ens.
mien, and all the Christian tolerance of the Rev.
Father Jesuits, which they, in such - au evident man•
ner, ahem to me.
I hate said the word. So let Me, therefore, look
to that spectre which I meet in my way. That is
the second time since I am in the , ilnitefi States
that I pronoMieed the 'Word. It_ is , tinser Co aiiiii.
rise, by a few remarks, my reverend enemies, that
I am aware of their hostility, and ready to meet! it
openly, I make this advertisement by design heie,
because it is *not my custom to }Mack fronei.behlnil
or in the dark. Mine is not the famous doctrine,
that the end sand ifies the means. I like to "met the
enemy face to face—a lair field and fair arms—
that's what I like.
And in one thing more I will never imitate my
reverend opponents. I will not indulge litany per.
mini i
sonaliiies, never act otherwise than be mg to a
gentleman. If they choose to pursue a different
courses let them do so, and let them leamAti fruits
of such a coulee. ~ *
My humble person I entirely submit to the good
pleasure of their passion. If they tell you, gentle
men, that I am no great man, they speak the truth.
Nobody in the world can be more penetrated by
that truth than 1 myself. • I have not an Inch of
greatness in all my frame, that is sure. Nay, more:,
I have not the slightest ambition to have been, to
be, or to become anything more than a very . plain,
a very common, but honest man. The warrant of
that common quality—l have it here, in my con.
science, and the tranquility of this inward judge no
aspiration of vile calumny will ever succeed to
trouble. Being' on good terms with my conscience,
I don't much care to be on bad terms with Czars
and Emperors, their obedient servants; or the rev.
erend father Jesuits. Nay, if 1 were on good terms
with them, I scarcely could remain on good minus
with my conscience. So much for myself—now a
few) words tolhe cause.
No man in the world being - ,morepenetrated by
the sentiment. of Christian toleranee—more attach
ed to the principle of religious liberty, and more
adverse to intolerance and sectarianism, than my.
self and my people, besides half of my coentrymen
being Rothan Catholics, and warmly attached to
their religion, anh I claiming moral and material
aid against the Czar of Russia, who is the moat
bloody persecutor of Roman Catholics, so much that
the present Pope, himself, before the Revolution,
when he was yet more a High Priest than a Des
_pot, an his capacity of an Italian sovereign, and
cared more about spiritual than temporal business,
openly and bitterly complained, in the councils of
the Cardinals, against the bloody persecution which
the -Roman Catholics have buffered from the Czar
of Russia ; and, considering, at least, that I plead
for republican principles, to which the Reverend
Father Jesuits should be here warmly attached, if
they are willing to have the reputation of good chi.
zees, and not be traitors in your Republic, which
affords to them not only the protection of its laws,
but also the full enjoyment of all .the prifileges of
your republican freedom. It is, indeed, a strange,
striking fact, to see these reverend fathers hetet in a
republic so warmly advocating the cause of despo. e
item, and so pass:onately persecuting the cause 1
humbly plead, which, at the same time is the cailie
of political freedom and religious liberty for numei•
ous millions of Roman Catholics throughout Ea.
1.
rope.'
Somewhat acquainted with the terrible history of
that order, I thought to find in the explanation of
this striking fact in the historical, ambition of their
standard idea, to which they in all ,times sacrificed
eveiphing, and misused even the holiesi of all re
ligion, as an instrumentality to that ambition,rso
much so that the very existence of that order hiving
become dangerous to the Romiri Catholiattligion,
the Pope' himself, Clement 11V., with the consent
and upon the advice of the : Council - ot Cars)itlehl,
abolished the order of Jesuits, and - all the Catholic'
sovereigns of the world, even these:known as the
most attached to the Roman celbolirs, CRitt4; : as
the hinge of Spain, or .Portugal , Louis XV, offrance,
and even Maria Theresa, of Aostria, notlwithatand
ing her boundless 'bigotry, expelled the; leirerend
father Jesuits from• rill their ierilteififti:
. New as theist - which Limnably plead
are, the principles of national fieedom and national
sovereignty, they are,- of course,- opposed-to the , ,
' aiplution 01 everyone wholvould likw to 'rule the
world, whereas 1 wish that every People' 6111111 rile
itselt-1 thoun P trtdfiiid this theiry•
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tpturtt passionate pum:cution : which
,1
1 1 4ter & ,Lonis, 1.. got bold -,of Nircuroatance
may es'the matter
Uiti
I hold here in my hand the pri , • ,catatogue of
the Society of Jesuits in the prOvi4e of Minot*
u they term Yohr:State. ' Hereittliea that amongst
the . thirty-five members Officiatitig in the College
of the Father Jesuits, in St. Zoitis, there are not , less
;than eight Risreretiniyatheqesuite imported (rim,
Austria. •
-Now, Yflo the why I fin So porseenfoil ,
This plain foot tells the star) , of a
*t amongst all that The teirerand gentlemen ot.
pose to me, there are only two oonsidenttions 10
which the honor ef my cause, and of my natitint,
forces me to' answer in a few remarks.
They charge against me, that tay cause is hostile
to the Roman Catholic religion, and to get; by this
suggestion; the Irish citizens' Irksidflitir them for
the support of Rosso-Austrian despotism, they
charge me that I am no friend of Ireland.
If there Would be, in this suggestion, the slight
est shadow of truth, I wool& avow it highly and
openly. I am man enough not abuse myself by
hypocrisy. But, as that is not the case, I declare,
before Geri. and this assemllage here, and,dedlare
it with open and elevated brow, that both these
charges are a vile calumny:
At to the Catholic religion ! I, indeed; am a :
Protestant not only by birth, but also by conviction;
acd warmly penetrated bythii conviction,,l would
delight to see this conviCtion' shared by the world.
Bat before ail, I am mOrtelly opposed to intolerant
man andt, sectarianism. I consider religion to be a
matter of conscience which every matt has to ar
range between God ankbimseli. And, therefore,
I respect the religious conviction of every man. I
claim religions liberty for myself and''my/ nation,
and must, of course, respect in others that right
claim for myself: There ie nettling in the world
capable to arouse a greater.indignation in my breast
than religions oppression sectarianism& intolerance.
But, particularly, I respect the Catholioreligion as
the religion of seven millions of my countrymen;
to whom I am boundin Love, in friendship, in home
recollections, in gratitude, and in brotherhood, with
the most sacred del.
And as to the cause of my Country, which I more
particularly plead, I dare boldly say,—all the Jes
uits in the world, and of all tires together have not
a thousandth part so much right to say that they
are„taithful representatives °Oho Catholic religion,
as the Catholics of Hungary leave the right to say it.
While the lather Jesuits indulged quietly in the
comfort of their wealth and plotted ambitious views
about how to rule the world . the Roman Catholics
of Hungary, people and bishops and priests, took
up 111 sword, and sacrifice 4 willingly life and
blood %nd property for their religion: It is Hunga
ry which protected Rome from St. Peter's church
being transformed into a mostre a like Santa Sophia
of Constantinople.
Therefore I can boldly say, that that cause, which
is the 'Osage of the Roman , Fuel°lic population in
Hungary, has by ibis vedr;fam, a higher authority
that it is not hostile to !hi true interests of the Ro
man Catholics religion, thaw , the opposite opinion of
all the reverend father Jesuits could outweigh.
And I am prool to say that as in general it is a
preeminent glory of my country to be attached to
the principle of lull religious liberty, without any
restriction for all to ally soli is the particular glory
of my Roman Catholic erntrymen not to be sec
ond to whosoeverin the lyorld, ion the one side in
attachment to theitiown religion, and on the other
aide in tolerance for other religions.
The Austrian dynasty having beet!. gcntinnally
encroaching upon the rigitiol Protestant-
ism who were those who straggled in the first rank
for our 'rights 7 OUr Roman Catholic countrymen !
It was a glorious sight, almost tinparelleled in his
tory, but was also fully appreciated by the liungari-
an Protestants. All of ue, man by man, would
'her saerifiyefile, and blood, and gold than to al.
low that altair's breadth should be enkated from
the religious liberty of our Roman Catholelergy-
men
Now, what position took the Roman Catholics of
Hungary in our plat straggle ? There was not-on
ly no difference between them and the Protestants,
in their devotion for our country's freedom and
dependence, but they, according to the importance
of their number, took O's the struggle a very pre-em
inent part. The ROman Catholic Bishops of Hun
gary protestedagainst the; perjurious treachery of
the dynasty ; many of them 'suffer even now for
their devotion' to justice, libe i rty and right ; and
who is the Jesuit who dares to( affirm that he is de-
voted more to the Catholic religion than the Bishops
of Hungary ? Our battalions were filled with Ro
man Catholic volunteers: , Catholic priests led their
faithful Sock to the battle
. field ; our nation& con-
Tendon, las cornposesl in - rnajority of Catholics.--
all the Catholic population,,Without any exception,
consented• in and cheered autbasiastieally my bp
ingelected Governor of Ilungiuy, though I am' a
Protestant. 1 bad anal have their frienilsitip, their
devotion, their support, find when I formed the first
ministry of independent Hungary, not only a tall
half of the new ministry 1 entrusted to Roman Ca
tholics,. but especially I nominated a Roman Cath
olic Bishop to' th e charge of a 'minister ot a public
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in. ,i.,, and all the, Pro t estants of my country
hails the ntiminalken With applause.. Such is the
ca of Hungary.. Who' dares now to charge ate
that 'cause is hostile to tbe Roman Calcific re.
ligioe l -
- • But lam allied with Maned, with the Romans
'and Wijh theltaliatts ; •thne goes on the charge, and
these cursed Italian& ale enenties to the Pope. l'es,
but not th&Pope,,' the:lloi Priest 'of the Anibal;
'eatitcilie Church, lid to •the.,deip.otik erivereign of
:Rome anil his.coiniuted temporal goveroment—ftbe
worst of humarOuvention. Since when is'it a prin.
biple of,the Roinen:Citfiblic religion, hat the Ro
mans shctillti be . no.llepibitcamil arid that the iligh
Priest of the Roman Chorch, shoulkkbe ,4 ..deapotic
'eciiereigti over: the ROlTUlti•nition I-aid in that ca.
'Paeitili . dttioTittl,t4lf • and obedient Servant to: . the
CiiiiitliniXiit thitieyiatit enemy iniilkoody`perse.
430111 . /X,QI Roman i3altiblisign 1 Wiry,tilexziisi,the
Roniens,(itord all . llitt , 44olblici,ut -Italians. are Ro-
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man Catholics,. and are so warmly attached to limit
religion, that.when, in 1849, the -French republic
sent an army against the Roman republiCto restore
Abe Pope, not to his spiritual authority-because that
was bynnobo dy contradicted, but to his temporal
despolisin, ll / l e . whele danger could have been aver
led by the Romani' by becoming Protestants. The
Idea Watt 'proriotinceilin Rome, and not a single
Itoisais itzceipted it. ' They preferred to struzule
'Without hope - of itibtoly—they preferred to bleed
and to die rather thaisio abandon their faith.
NoW, who can dare to insult the Roman Cattle
tics of Hungary, - Crolia, Italy, Germany, Poland,
France-4bn can dare to insult the thobsand of
thousands of Roman citizens Of 'the Viiited.-tates
—Senators, Govein - ors, Judgeemen of all public
and private poshion*—Who can dare to insult them
that they are hostile to their own religion, because
they unite to support the cause which I plead
And because they side with republican freedom,
with civil and religionis liberty against Rosso-Aus•
trian despotism 1
Who can dare to allirm that he represents the
Catholic religion, if three millions of Roman Catho
lics do not represent it I The Reverend Father Jes
uits, perhaps.
I take the liberty to Bay, in a te* words : They
are that society Ivbicli element XIV , the high priest
of the Roman Catholic Church, has abolished as
dangerous to the Catholic religion ; they are
those whom every Roman Catholic King has ex
cluded horn his territories as dangerous to religion
and social order-they are those the ascendancy of
whom had always been a period of disaster and
confusirin'to the Roman Catholic ehurch—they are
those who now make an alliance, or rather a com
pact with the Czar ot Russia, and who plead and
support bete, in tree republican America, the cause
ot Russian despotism, sie cause4f that Czar who is
yet red With blood, and damue&-with the million
curses of Roman Catholics, whom he Joined io
abandon their religion, and torced by cruelty, by
misericand by the lash, under which thousand and
thousands of Roman Catholics uerished having
been treated as the unfortunate Minsk Nuns were
proven to have been''treated—to death.
So much for the charge that the cause which I
plead—the cause ofmillions of Roman Catholics—
is hostile to the Roman Catholic religion. Should
I be [timed for the future to unit''r into this topic
once more, I will take the heart-revolting history of
those who calumniate my cause, into my hands,
and recal to the memory of patine opinion, the ter
rible pages of blood, ambition, countless crimes and
intolerance ; but I hope there will be no occasion
for it. .
Now as to Ireland. Where is a man on earth
with uncorrupted soul and with liberal instincts in
his heart Who, would not sympathise with poor un
fortunate Ireland? - Wh9re is a man ; loving free
dom and right, in whom the wrongs of green Erin
would not stir the heart Who could forbear
warmly to sympathise with the' fatherland of the
Grattans, of O'Connells and of Wolfe Tones ?.J in
deed, am not the man ; wherever is oppressioh and
a people there is my love.
But why do I not plead Erin's wrongs ? Am I
asked ! My answer is: Am I not pleading the
principle of liberty 1 Awl is the cause of freedom
not the cause of Ireland I Let me tell yon, gentle
men, that not always that man serves beat one cause
who makes the-most of empty words.
I see all the despots of the European continent
united in a crusade sasaiwo tib^sy i there are two
powers neutral, yet the positron of which may well
decide lot or against despotism. These two pow
ers are Great Britain and America. If the Almighty
blessed my endeavors bitl could succeed to con..
tribute something, that!America, and by its influ
ence over the public opinion of the people of Eng.
laud, Great Britain itself should side with liberty,
out 01 whatever consideration—oat of whatever in
terest, against despotism, then, indeed I boldly de
clare before God and men, that t have' achieved a
greater benefit and done a better service to the fu
ture of lielans!, than all who go about loudly crying
about Erin's wrongs, and not doing any thing' for
the triumph of that cause which is about to be de
cided, and is the pause of all nations who ar3 op
pressed, and of all who are, or will tor. tree.
Whereas, if by uniting in the chorus of empty
Words, I should contribute to alarm not only the
government but also the people orEngland, and to
force that government to side w ith despotism, in its
decisive struggle against liberty to which that goy
emirl eh', being as it is aristocratical, feels -but too
much. inclined, then, indeed, I am sure I would do
such a wrong to the future Ireland, which the sac
rifices of my lile and torrents of blood and , the suf-
'finings of generations coo d not ezpiate.
Be sure , therefore, gen t
eaten, that every man
who pleads for libertyilifeeds for IreLatui ; be.eure,
that every. blow stricken or liberty is also stricken
for Ireland ; be sure tharnot always the most noisy
AM the - best friendsointhprielent activity is often
better service than whatever allow of eloquent
vrorria '
'And so let meliope,that while it is sore that he
,who, irt.'for freedom is for Ireland, it also will - be
found that-irish blood can never be against libetty
Arid ittrto you all, gentlemen, Milne hope that
hoiesrSer:the alvocams of: riespottsm may try to
mieleid pablic'ciPinion in tree Ariterica, the tmeo
rupted noble Mateo:4.ot the people will proveto the
worldlhat it is not is vain, that the
: down-trodden
spiritOrliberty, raised he sign of 4fstress- to' arils
you, anti that the 'Wrongerlatid the opprCesett can
confitlently_appeal fur help, for justice and redress,
to the free and pourerful republic e t A m e r i ca .
tbetik you' 'gentlemen, for - >ttie -patience 'with
Wiiiellyou hives listened, during this torrent of rain
to my bail speech.
, lt shows . . that -your sympathy
is warm and ailicete.7.. or.ewhiet cannot be cooled
down or wasl4l away by shower:4.. (Ile
inetalocs cheeying.)
- 4 ire. Veiee:ls, like a paivoi Iskates, With which
i•an ttf ligiiily ovpr 'lie eni
.feee korsitlf ou'ap et4i
uary toads
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MIZE
TIZS accacr.—" I noticed," said Franklin, " a
mechanic among, a number tif.others, at work on
house erecting but a little - way:lmin our office, who
always appeared to be in a merry humor, who bad
a, kind, word and a chl4 -- ful smile fur every one he
met. Let ilie - dat be givhr so cold, cloorny or str.
less,.a happy smile danced likela sunbeam on his
cheerful doimuinatice. Meeting him one morning
laskedhlmto tell ntellte secret of his constant
happy flow of spirits., !iNo secret, Doctor," he.re.
plied; I have got one .tif_ihei bilist of wives, and
when 1 - go to work, slutrilways has a kind iVord of
encouragement forme, and when I go home she
meets me with a Smile fluid a kiss, and then tea is
sure to be ready, and she has done so many lititiga
through the day to please me, that I cannot find it
in my heart to speak an unkind word to anybody."
What en influence then.histh woman over the heart
to soften it and make it the fountain of cheerful and
pure emotions! Speak gently, then; a happy mulls
and a kind word - of greeting, after the toils of the
day are over, costs noth4g, and go fat towards ma
king
a home fraipy
,and peaceful."
Tire Eva or s Ban TEMPER.—A bad teinrer
a curse to the possessit", and its influence is most
deadly wherever if is Pend. It is allied to Marty r
id be obliged to litie with one of a complaining
temper. To heat one eternal round of com Paint and
toormoricg, to have every pleasant thought J
,scare
away by their evil cirit, is a sore trial. It , is. like
the sting of a scorpion—a perpetual nettle, destroy
ing your peace, rendering life a burden. Its influ
ence is most deadly ; and the purest and sweetest
atmosphere is contaminated into a deadly miasma
'wherever this evil genius prevails. It liars beets
said truly, that while we ought not to let the bad
tempter of others influence us, it wuu, 1 be as unrea
sonable to spread a plaster of Spank flies upon the
skin, and not expect it to draw, as to think of a f :
milt' not 1317fiefillg because of bud temper of any tit
its inmates.- . One string out of time will destroy the
music of an instrument, otherwise perfect ; so if all
the members of a church, neighborhood, and fami
ly do not cultivate a kind and an alectionate tem
per, there will be discord and every evil pork
DISCOVERY AND USE OF A LCOII 01..—The fu/IoWiug
curious account ol the first use made of alcoholic li
quors, is tmnslaterYtrom a French work moiled Ld
"Semour : An Arabian Chemist, in searching after a
universal solvent, by means yf which he could
transmute metals, was the first discoverer of alco
hol, and the originator Of those spirituous liquors
Which have entombed hecatombs of victims. It
did not really issue horn the domain of eltruistry
till tot girds the end of the .13th century, whim they
began in Spain and Italy, - to sell the spirits of wine
tinctured with certain herbs, as a powerful remedy
in various diseases. Later still the Genoese ex
tracted a spirituous liquiir from grain. Passing it
off as a powerful specific, they sold it in small vials,
at a lii2h price, under the name of aqua vi , e, water
1 of life, or eau de iiie. Till the end of the 1 th cen
tury, it was considered but as a medicine. nd was
sold only by the apothecaries. About that ime the
thought was sugg - sled of famishing it tot miners,
who labored in the mines of Hungary, as a preset.-
1 i
against heat and damp. The custom almost
at the same time was introduced into !rebind.
O: I•. M'ORAL BICAUTY.—Wnat is heanty of nature,
but a beauty clothed with moral associations? what
abwo -hicbuet oesury - ot literature, poetry, fiction,
and Melina arts, but a moral beauty which genius
has bodied forth for the admiration of the world ?
And what are those qualities of human character
which are treasured up in the memory and heart of
nations—the objects of universal reverence and ex
ultation, the themes of celebration, of eloquence,
and the festal song, the enshrined idols of admlra
lion and love I Are they not patriotism, heroism,
philanthropy, disinterestedness, magLarninaity,mar
tyrdom f
Evens bitter has its Sweet. Poverty brings go( d
appetite, while hold . work makes you sleep and
snore like a humming top. If-you live on cold po
tatoes, just recollect that 'cold . potatoes are in no way
related to the gout.. If an acquaintance cuts yod
merely because you have fallen frbm purple to cor
duroy, don't get in a passion about the nincoMpoop,
but return thanks that the number of asses you are
compelled to nod too, has been redaceiny ono.
Ott." Sir," said one of riu•o with
great dignity to the other, timing a dispute that had
not been confined to words alone, "you have call
ed me scoundrel arl'a liar, you have spit in my
face, you have struck me to ice ; and I hope you
will bat carry it any further," for if you do, you w ill
arouse that sleeping Him in my breaA, and I cannot
tell what may be the consequeaces !"
Kr. the ChineSe seem to think dancing a use
less fatigue. When Commodore Anson was at Can
ton; the officers orthe Centurion had' .a bal wort
some cowl holiday. While they were dancing, a
Chinese, who iMeveyed the open i vi,,u; sail „ o fily
to one of the Flirty, " Why don't you let yhur ter
vauts do this 1 - 01. youT'
Otii".`Otd Girt—" You see, my dear, that the
earth turns on its owls all., and (ip revo.
lutitln round the son each year." Yowl' Rerolcn
-"Then pa, does Prince turttma Its 11‘16 %lien .t
mak& its revelutient.r' (111 Grult—'• No my tics(
turn'i 'on itsehayntrets. tfu'vresyr, peat's not a quer , .
two in asttetto•rlY:' ti
says tae cure feir
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'opinion, there is inviting Itk:e 110.,..2 a, ow hi Lzety
the-nervous F•ysteel bev.m21,.....,
Women think they Want a iqty7 , i.•ta , i, hi! a 4) I.iet
they need a iongtittee2
lueti:.;.tt: Hi a 'ioit;tt , ertleyki,,e
1.•. fear you ihied !Pi IN AS Li ikm.lee, f
Theic i. itt.)4lUNitOlUVlio,le ,
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