The New York Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1853, Page 7

THE DINNER TO JOHN MITCHEL, Grand Demonstration for Irish Independence at the Broadway Theatre. GREAT REUNION OF THE IRISH PATRIOTS. Speeches of Charles @Goror, Jehn Mitchel, T. F. Meagher, P. J. Smyth, and Others, ko, . de. &eo. ‘Tho long-expected dinner to John Mitchel came off Inst pight at the Broadway theatre, and the demonstration ‘was one of the most brilliant and successful that we Jhave ever been called upon to chroniole. ‘The theatre was in the possesion of the caterers from fn early hour in the morning, aad the invasion was com- plete, The parquette and orchestra were floored over, fo a« tomake it, with the stage, a brilliant salon, At the background was disp'ayed the banquet scene in *Mfacbeth,”” while the side scenes, or “wings,”? were con- ‘pealed by embroidered cloth, making the stage appear Like a brilliant pavilion. In this saloon the tables were Qrranged with seats for six hundred guests— the chairman’s seat beiog just before the foot- Lights, which were invisible om this occasion, The gacred precincts of the gresn-recom were invaded, and the place where kings, heroes, dukes, and hero- {nes innumerable have exch: nged ben mots while waiting for their calls, was now consigned to a corps of waiters, armed with food for the expected army. The boxes ‘were draped with the American flag and the tri color. The stage portion of the saloon was lighted with two ohance! The time fixed for the dinner was six o’clock, and #* that hour a large number of persons were in attendance The dress circle exhibited a brilliant array of beauty, the sofas being occupied by about five hundred Indies, in- gluding Mr. Mitchel’s family, and other relatives of the “Men of 1848."” The dinnor did not really commence till seven o’clook, when Bloom ield’s United States Band ommenced to play, and Mr. Mitchel npon tke arm of Charles O'Conor, Towed by Thomas Francia Meagher, P. J, Smith, and others, The distinguished gentiemon were ressived with great cheering, and the company were soou seated at the tablez, as f2llows:— PRESIDENT, CHARLES O’CONOR, RIGHT. IRFT. John Mitchel, P. J. Smyth, Judge Robert Emmot, Richard O'Gorman, ‘Thomas F, Meagher, Jobn B Dillon, Mr. Colline, Michaal Doheny, Mr. W. Mitchel, Dr. Antusil, Capt. Reed, U. 8. A, Hon. Judge O'Connor, N. Bowaitch Blunt, Jadge Greene. VICE PRESIDENTS, Hon. John McKeon, Ex Mayor Kingsland, Mayor McCarthy, of Syracuse, EC. Weat, Ksq., George Ez. Tynch, Exq., Clerk of the Superior Court, were also pre- sent. The company at table numbered about six hundred Persons, including deputa’ions from every profession, trade or calling in the city. The scene wasa brilliant one, The floor of the saloon, with the gayly garnished tables, occupied by co many distinguished citizens—the display of beauty in the boxes, and the splendor of the theatre itself, set off by these alds— formed a grand speo- tacle, The banquet was profuse and well @tved_and in the distribution of the refreshments the Jadies were not forgotten, All was hilarity and enjoyment, and the “+ pill of fare” received full justice, and the frequent pop- ping of champagne corks chowed that the Maine law was ignore?, and a disposition to believe in the “bumper fair,” which one of Ireland’s poets has so oftea celebrated in flowing numbers. At a quarter past eight Mr. O’Conor rosé and said :— ‘Lapis aN GExtLEMEN—Ropresenting the liberal and en- htened of all sects and parties, without regard to reli- fous opinions or particular divisions of local and politi- eal sentiment in this great city, we kave assembled this evening, in corformity with the principles upon which pur government is founded, and which our people dehght to honor—(applause)—to keep bright the chain of between those of the Old World who seek and strive for liberty, d those in the New Wor'd, blessad with the en- joyment of it. We have assemb! for the purpose of destifying our high gratifcation—our delight—as the rival amongst us, as » candidate for the honor of citizen: ship in this great and glorious republic—(applause)—of our distinguished guest. He is the latest surject of kingly oppression who bas found a ssfe conduct from the ty- rant’s stronghold to the threshold of liberty. (Applause ) In 1776, the fatners of this republic presected to maa- kind the first tive attempt to establish, in » du rable and t form, the principles of liberty, and to consecrate, in defiance of tyrants, the rights of na, tions, (Applause) They here ted upon the sure foyndation «f troth and justice the temple of liberty. ‘They called hither to aid io giving permacence ard force to it, ol true men throughout the world (Applause ) Their {nvitation—their call--was heard: it was responded to, The lovers of right came bither with a1ma in their hands, to aid our glorious effort. Many left theirjbones upon our revolutionary battle fielas. Richa:d Montgomery—the countryman, and in almo:t every rene the the prototype of the ci tinguished gentleman whom we this night honor —was an Irishman by bit'h, a Saxon by descent, » Presbyterian in religion, and a patriot at heart—a be- er like him in the right of oppressed man to resort to ‘the sword for the establishment of their libarties and the overthrow of tyrants. He was the first distinguished man not a native of these United States, who sacrificed Dis life for American liberty. (Applause } In mid-winter he traversed the northern regions of this continent, netrated tothe strongest hold of British power in jorth America, and but for his death in the mement of apparently accomplished victory, would probably have marked the first efforts of the American arms by one of the most signal achievements that ever crowned the ef. fcrts of men in arms. (Applause.) Lafayette followed, ani served, I need bot say with what vast advan- tage, the cause of this infant republic, And fift; years afterwards he revisited our shored. New Yor Poured forth to greet him her thronging thousands, (Applause) They knelt down in gratitude to the Divine ‘Being who had ao long preserved their coun- try’s early benefactor, as we to night come forth to wel- come the captive just released from British power. (Ap- plause. ude to these circamatances. gentlemen, to show that we are but following in the footsteps of our sires—that we are bu: following the example of the past, in keeping bright the chsin of unison between the friends of uberty throughout the world. (Applause.) It were Jong to tell, and therefore | will not occupy your time with # narrative of how much we owe to men of other @imes, who have written for Be, a drawn us, spoken fe the sword for us. by he ve met on this cecasion, singling this distinguished gentleman for this mark of our great respect miesteem? It is because we would emulate the past sodadhere tothe principles that have heretofore = verned. The preliminary articles of peace igned in 17! alosed our revolutionary streggle, and ev the sea! our independence. It was then for the first time that the Irish people recetved some amelioration the pensl laws under which they had suffered for centuries. It eas then, gentlemen, that an tminent patriot dared to advocate in Parliament & proposition to allow Catholics to take leases. ba moderate extent, to a kind of land denominat~d “unprofitable bog.” That slight privilege was conceded, ‘sad it was the first fruit fer poor Ireland of American in- pendence. But further fruits had been realized, anda very considerable amelioration has subsequently taken Diace; all claeses have been at least admitted to the rank subjects, Persons of every religious denomination may tow sit in Parliament, and etill weription from o elevate her own nations, the has y ig men who have norably distinguished themselves as citizens of our public. The glorious thoagh unsuccesfal efloct of ’08, ich eventuated in adding to the roll of martyrs for liberty, the illustrious name of Robert Emmet, gave to this great city some of its m'st eminent citizens, (Ap- ure ) The most distinguished of hem all {a represented siting at the rigat of our Thomas sddis Eumet, the ther of ireland’s mariyr, was the londer of the Ameri n bar, and by far its moet eloquent member during his hole professional life. (Applause ) It also gave us Dr. Nevin, who stood am: pg the foremont in his profession. in tbat effort an important truth was developed; its courte ved that the straggies of Irishmen were for literty; at they were not the frult of religious feuds. (Ap: wenty victims, and condemned them to five years of Hgcrous imprisonment ia Scotland. Of these, four were man Catholics, six wore Presbyterians, and ten were ro\entants, That effort failed, but it was followed by an- ther. (Appiause.) In 1848 the spirt of Ireland again arose; Was thought under moie favorable circumstances, reat advances hal been made in establishing the righ te f men and in curbing the audacity of monarchy. Ne- jertheless, Ireland’s fortunes were not controlled by an wepicious star. Again Biitih power triamphes ; @ choicest men ef Irsland were selected and sen reed 10 banishment and bondage. They & remote and distant clime, almost beyond the le of human society. In that centest a question we which excited great interast—it was whether lawful to resist the gowe- of tyrant: by the is question divided sentment—there were thot 1d it ize xpediont to resort to arm e avord In the right hand of a freeman was the only idote ‘or tyranny, and the only effective means of es. blishing the rights’ o Theno gentiomen advocated at doctrine; but if there was one whose advocacy of it more powerfal than all the rest, it was he who has t come amongst ur, and is this night weloomed by our guest of this evening, Jolin Mitchel. (Great plavre.) If there was one whoxe word went riher, ‘and whowe pen was more effective than y Other, it was our guest, But after passing rough the ordeal of a tial before a packed jury, mdemmation ton felon's doom, and itn} raleclony. (Hikses) Heth et lant, by the blessing Divine Providenca, delivered frou the hands of ia exe: os, and this might Is here mmongat ua our hono-od t, He is here, iaties aod geutlemed, banished f from his native soll; but his honda are broken. Behar here gathered around bm all thet is near and esr to him—his only brother—the mother that bore bim—the wife of his bosom—the pledge of their mutual Jcye—with vl these sources of epjoyment he is here in the lend of the free. He bas mad» our republic the home of his choice, He will soon enjoy and bonor the rark of an Ai citizen. To all the blessings and benefits of that station we ail unite in yielding hic. a heartfelt wel- co Mr. O'Cowor then read the first regular toast:— 1, The President of the Unitei States.—The monarch enforces by arbitrary power the homage of his #u’ jesta; the wisdom and virtue of ovr chef ruler seoure the re- gerd of afree people. President’s March. The second regular toast:— 2 2. The Governor of the State of New York. Ha‘! Columbia. The third regular toast:— 8. The Memory of Washington, Jefferson, and the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Jou McKxon responded, He aaid:— t given by the chair, referring to the dis- ished men of the Revolution, must excite in the i# of every person present an association with the ie which were inueked in the Revolution ef 1776. It has been well said that one age repeats another; that hue manity moves in @ circle; but to this rule there was an exception in 1776 Then, for the first time, the spell of tyranny was broken, and the declaration was made of the rights of man. (Cheers ) Up to that time the world had been feducated with the divine right of kings. In that year was enxeciated the great truth of the divine right of the people, (Applause) Upto that time the world had been educated in the sentiment that obedience was due from the governed to the governor. ‘Then was enunciated the great fact that the duty was ewing from the governors to the goverred. (Grest applause.) Upto that time governments bad been erganived for the purpese of—as they said—protecting the people; but on that occasion, and in the year 1776, the great doa- tripe was epunciaied toat for the benefit of the governed alone was any government crganised, (Cheers and sp- planee.) When the government ceased to bea blessing to the people, revolu ion became a duty. (Applause.) And if revolution can be secured by po other mears ex- cept through the issue of blood it must be attained by that. (Great applaure.) Far be itfrom me to advocate the doctrine of force; but fam not aman go sickly minded as te believe that men armed with power are goivg to yield it up williogly. Ihave bad bute very short experience on the other side of the ooean; but my soul siokened— born as 1 was ina land of freedom—to see the whole of Kurope one barrack, ani the bayonets at the threats cf the People, Should I not be proud on this occasion have before me, and t> have tbe honor of congratulating him on hin orri- val jm this country, the nan who ie here honored by «u—Mr. Jobn Mitchel. (Enthusiastic applause ) There suo betier meme connected with the principles of revo- lu'fen than that of Jobn Mitchel, (Continue 4 applause.) li vasetthat time the great fact was presented tothe weo.d of the sovereignty of the people. (Applause.) For what dié the principles of the Revolution shine forth most covspicuour? It was for the right of the independon:e of sation. What it that the people of the United States fought for, (with Washington at their head? The liberty of the land. Why, the historian of ‘the English people sald of this country that they fought te give hberty without licentionsnesa to their countrymen. And for thia, too, it was that Mitchel strove, and became an exile in the government colonies cf Grea’ Britain. ButI have one proud consolation: I know that the British felon is row abou: to become a proud American citizen, (Great applaure. If thera is one feeling within me which bar been /inculested into me from my childhood it fe antipathy to the British goveroment. (Intense ex- citement and applause ) When I stepped on the soil of theJand of my forefathers for the fret time I looked upon it with sorrew, I had trodden the desolate streets of Pompeii, dug from baneath the axbes; I had seen the squalor and misery of London; { had witnessed scenes which would have sickened the heart of a man bora in a country of plenty; but it was with a ceeper sorrow that I saw Ireland in her misery. (Intense excitement.) It was not wanting in fertility itwas not wanting in salu brity of climate; but when I asked what was the cause of the misfortunes of that coun'ry—and you will pardon me for addirg that my question was addressed to an English. man—(I speak of Mr. Cobden, the champion of free ‘trade)—when I asked him what was the cause of the troubles of that upbappy country, his answer was—and it does honor to his heart—our socursed legislation, (Ap- Jause.) I have, however, the proud gratification of Enowiog that that accurred legislation, which packed juries, which organized the whole executive force of the overnment against that mn who was struggling for fhe freecom of hie country, bas driven into exile the champion of that sxcred principle of freedom, and érivem to us ® man who can do honor to our country. Immense applause.) 1 hope that he will be received a no niggardly spirit, but in the genuine spirit of that great declaration of dependence which proclaimed to the world that we are the refuge of the oppressed. Let us bold out to him the right hand of fellowship, that he may have the full beasts. of the liberty which our foretatbers fought for. and that—to use an Irishism— we may have ali the blessings which liberty can bestow. I bave already detained you too long. This scene brings to my mind an idea which has presented itself, and which cu wili all feel the force of. How often have these boxes been graced with the beauty and the talent, much of which now adorn them! I can only ray, that for the frat time in my life I have turned my back ‘upon the ladies. (Laughter.) How often these boxes, graced—as [ have remarked—with beauty and with talent, have throbbed with anxiety for the entrance of a favoriteactor! (Hear, hear.) I kzow with what anxiety you await the coming of him to whem this honor has been extended. I know how palpitating each heart is, and I feel thet you are op- proseed with a deep earnestness to welcome him, I will, Therefore, not detain you from that pleasure. Mr. O’Cosor then said:—Gentlemen, you will please fil for the next toast—the tonct of the evering. (Grea cheering.) 4. Our Guest, John Mitchol—his services and sacrifices for hia country render bis name imperishable on the pages of its history; from the pricon and the chains to which tyranny conaigoed him we welcome him to free dom in America. Yanleee Doodle. Mr. Mircim rose, and was received with great chearing and waving of handkerchiefs, which continued during several minutes, We have hardly ever seen £0 much en- thusiasm in any public assemblage. Mr. Mrrouex said :— Mr. Cuamaan, Cinzxns or New York, Crrizexs or Awxri- ca—it ma} es my pulse beat stronger to Hind msself in the presence of free citizens, to speak to an assembly of men whom I can address by the nume of “citizen.” Often in my native country I have stood before multitudes of be ings, apparently human beings, having the gait and as- t of men, nay, having mapy of the attributes of man in bis natural state—the feelings, the pas:ions, the indi. vidual courage ef mep—but possessing none of the righta and dignity, none of the civic and political organization, the national pride, and power, and ambition thst set men above the beasts, and byt little lower than gels. Oh! I have stood in presence of myriads of my country men, and have not seen the face of one citizen, nor even of cue loyal subject; and, believe me, this ix = hideous sight. ‘True citizenship was out ef our reash there—loy- alty was impossible there; for law was not, yet by solemn award of what they call law, I who sptak to you was formally deprived of what they ‘call my citizensk ip; from that false law I have the honor to be ancutlaw; the indi- viduals who term themselves the government of my na- tive country, by formal procedure in a place purpo to be a court ef justice, divested me of my status and prerogative as an Irish serf, and thereby doomed me— cruel government—to be, for the rest of life, an Ameri- can citizen. This is more than rehebilitation—it is pro- motion. The monarchical East casta me out —the repub- lican West welcomes and embraces me ne lave the less in Kurope—‘'One freemen more, America, to thee!’’ Since I lanced cn your happy shoresI have enxiourly sovght to fathom, to gauge, to weigh, and to appresiate exactly the real meaning, the actual, availailo value of the public honers which havé been heaped upon me or offereé.to me; aud with all the predispositiun in the world to doubt and undervalue aud cispurage popular demonstrations in general, 1 cannot refuss to see in all this a significant, = portentous fact. I know well, in: ceed, what the Eaglish§press will say, ond will try to think ofit. The American’, they will say, (for I }now their slang by heart,) love a little excitement aud novel Mario and Grist not having arrived as expected, merry public cf New Yor oondescends to amuse itself in the meantime with the rantings of aa Irish rebel or two. Then, there is the Irish vote, ait is called. Scheming politicians they will say, wantto make capital for the ard shells or fcr the soft, and so \hey force themselves to enact a little Hibernian enthusiasm for cxe evening, But this explanation will not serve; though corfortable to the British mind, itis net true—there is something deepor. For, in the first pl I am no oratcr, that I should ¢raw ar audience enchaiaed through its ear, a8 the queens of song can do; neither can I be of the small ent service to hard shells or to soft. In political oon- chology | have uo skill —the mystery of huokerism ig un. known to me, and what a silver grayj may mean, aiks! I cannot tell. Let England think of tt well—in no single arti. cle can! minister to the popular apps ite for excite ent, Teannot prove the Pope to be Antichrist, as one Gavazzi, Tam told, csn do; neither am I able to demon that the Protentants are the locusts who were to arise out of the bottomless pit as Catholic theologians show clearly enough. The great Anglo Saxon idea, also, has ip me usither @ preacher nor # pupil. Though an Anglo- Saxon by blood end race, I con’eas that I derive no pride from tl ¢ circumstance; because, I abhor arbully, { would bang a robber I spit upon “‘manitest destiny,” I despise that Arglo Saxon cmrage and energy which is still for war, war with the weak, and cries ©, pence, when it meets its mateh; and on the whole { could find quite aa much to spy for the great Panslavic icea of Eastern Eu rope as for this Arglo Saxon humbug which Eogland of late yeare has been trying to cram you with, would have the British publis, also, to take note of the fact that ever rince I landed in Sam Francisco I have apoken unt- formly:f tbe British government with bitter and viodio- tive hostility. I would not receive the hospitalities of America under a falee pretence. I would keep back nothing of what was in my heart—and I knew that America was great commere‘al ocuntry, New York a great wading city—that Wali street and Lombard street are cousins and dear friends—that England is here regarded as @ rich customer, Ireland as » mendi- capt paupr end useful dradge ‘et here to-night within right of that Wall street, in the centre the great Emporinm of the West, and here J, an avow- ed extmy of English power, am greeted with heart and voice by the proud republicans of this prand city, and whitest hands have waved thei? gracious welscase te the banlabed outlaw: "Bere i¢ s phenome: pon vhich will asiuredly puzele John Bull, a8 he os lls Limself, How can they pcssibly, (John will aay,) m do)lais cut of him? For you know it is an art cle of faith in England that Americans worship nothing, be- Keve ix oothing, but the eternal doilar, Now I will sug- gest to John a colution of problem, which he can crnsider at leisure, The explanation, pirhaya, is, that Americans. much as they love excitement and novelty, inuch as they relish & epicy, religious controversy, or an impasetoned politics! harangue—much a6 they love dol Jars and chpper sbipe—love freedom wad justios more, Verbape it ia that ® rich and prosperous neighbor in likec well enong here ax ® custo ver, buts baftled, bevgered, outlawed votary of frercom {F loved as & bro- ber Perbape it is that the eloquent re mon prenehed by vbiveitg bollets from Bunker's Hill over the burning socte of Charleatown Jae funk ceep into the national Yemity end beging tof uotity ior eli nstions. At! per: hops it ia Gat. thestmawny child, Young Demoerney, bow 97 to the Dupio Of crashing rool-trees end ringing rifles, and baptied abnndantly in blood, has pow Be be a map, and begins to feel that he may one dey be called upon w carry the saving doctrine of that sublime christenlog sermon to ail the ends of the eerth. It t weil, then, that I emao orator, and no poii- ticiav, snd vo polemical gladiator; it is well chat | have no other claim om yeu than elmply as an adroone of li berty. Thus your pronouncement te-night for de moorat- io freedom, sour recognition of the cause 0° Ireland as @ legitimate branch of that ancred oanse. is the more em- phetic, the more unmitakeable the more pure aud simple, the more epooureging to crushed and strag- gling liberty all (he world over, But [know wiso thatthe mcLerchiea! press of Europe will farther asonse Amari- cava of & breach of lnteruatioval comity im thu matter— of the pelitevess that should reign in the intercourse be- tween well bred powers. Already Austria feels diegw ted at the rudeness of an American commander in carrying off the poor Hungsrian, Kosgta, out of the talons of her two beaded vulture, Great Britain must assuredly feel burt ibat ber political enemies, whom she has tried to bv and as felons, should be comforted and abetted in thsir felony by America. Ob! rude republicans, where are your manners? Is this your comity? Do you think no- thing of putting an affront upoma constiiutional, a liberal overmment, from which yonr own soveroment hes ro ceived assurances of friendly relations? International comity is a great matter; even some American statesmen cultivate that brarch of good mavners. I peresive that the Secretary of State at Washfogton, in his last note to the Austrian Minister, actuaied certainly by the nicest tenee of diplomatic courtesy, bas taken care to warn all eoventurérs and seditious propagandiste that the United Stetes will in nowise sanction or proteot them if they en- gege in fraudulent machinations for disturbing the inter- nl quiet of other nations; and he farther declares » that the United States will do as much as any of the European powers to promote tranquillity.” In all this there seems to me, I confees, more of comity towards the eceptred conspirators of Europe, and less of generority towards their exiled victims, than I shoold have thought befitting in the manifesto of an Amerlean ininister., Now, | have # wor? tosay on this svbject of international comity, The phrase contains a falsehood. Nations bave sothing todo with it. Inter menarchical comity would be its right neme a# an exam- ple ox two will gnfficetorbow. Louis Napoleon, you re- member, ordered the wandering Magyar not to net the sole of Lis weary {cot upon French soil, and he, & pasien- ger, too, on boaré an American ship, This, you might think, was disconrtesy. God bless you! it was true po: Iitenets—politeness, not, intee?, tothe homeless exile— not to the ration whose flag waved over him—bat pohte ness to the Kaiser of Austria; it was a delicate attention te the Czar of all the Russias, The Czar himself, nino, 14 the very pink and flower of this sort of courtesy and com: iny; it ix true he could flog the ladies of the Polisn con- vent or the bare back, but if you only saw himat a re- view in Vienna, with bis friend, the other Emperor, or im Ikndon, with his friend, her Gracious Majesty, it woulé do you good to witners the peack and love that reign amongst those crowned brethren and alstera Great Britain, howerer, is certainly the most accom plished master in thie species of politeness. You 10 member that, after the late Italisu struggle, oortain veether-worn’ refugees, with «price upon thelr heads, made their way to Mal'a and asked permission to land} bot the British governor sternly waved them off—the guns of the fortress showed their grinning muzzles, The poor souls wanted only shelter and permission to take loigings aud buy victuals—it is all very well, said the Gevernor, but you cannot stop here: and so they ponsed on to Barbary or Morocco, or—Hvaven kaows where. Strange to aay, the repulsed re‘ugee sew no po- literess in this reception. Yet it was true international comity; it was an act, Ido assure you, of the aweetest and most chivalrous courtesy—towards the royal jailer of Naples and the imperial executioners of Vienna, That was the most exquisite poliieness, too, which impalle’ the British ministers to place the foreign residsnte in London under police surveillancs, upon @ representation from the Austrian Court; it was ‘true courtesy that made them send coustablea, a few months aso, to break open Kossuth’s Louse, and search for arms and corfespon- dence. Above all, it wan ax effort of the most refined ur banity, that stealing of the Italian lettera in the English post office, copying them for the use of the King of Na- ples, snd rotealing and forwarding them, as if nothing ad ho ppened, whereby the noblest hearts in Italy were bog to their destruction. I have observed that an t P If the writer over the Parliamentary Reports, he would haveween that it was not on isolated case, bat merely a detected and clearly exposed example of the avttled system of British post Gilice espionsge—he would have seen that thero was hardly a distinguished staterman of Britain, these thirty years back, who dic not stesl letters, and that amongst them was the truly liberal Lord Morpeth—his present title I forget. Ho would bave seen that Parlia- ment did not dirapprove the practice, but distinctly ap- proved and sanctioned it, by throwing out, with large ma- jorities, a rerolution condemvatory of it—he would have seen that detective eaves droppirg i- atill the lew ani the practice; and, finally, he would have known that the liberal Lord John Russell, in voting against all irquiry into the practice, and all interference with it, could only regret (Leite bie own words) ‘ that the practice could not be co effectual now as before the expssure had been made of its existence, which woul’ act aé a kind of warn: ing’ Mr, Secretary Marcy says that the United States goverrment will do as much as acy of the Euro- pesn ations to maintain tranquillity. And he shows hia good feelirg avd courtesy towarce the crowced heads by lerming their fugitive enemies adventurers and seditious propagandi+ts, I would that I coald know whether this secretary does truly herein reprevent the sentiment of the pation. Has America indaed as deep an interest in the tranqu lity of Ireland, and Hungary, and Garmsny, under tteir several Emperors and Kings and Gran Dukes, as those Fmperors. Kings and Gand Dakes them- selves? Ard if America has a mind to engage in this con‘ est of politeness, where will she etop? Will you placa detectives to watch our houses, ard to dog our motions? ‘America will ¢o #8 much!’ Will your Postmaster General (forgive me foc imeginicg the bare possibility of it) soften the seals of our lettecs, and imitate the impressions, and copy the contents? Shall we never take a letter from the post- wan without carefully examining to aee whether any comity has besn practised upon our realing wax? But what sm [speaking of? Am { not in Amstica? It was not for this the farmers and traders of these colonies fought and conquered. The courtesies of this country I believe are dus to the people of EArepe, not to the peo- ple’ masters and enemies. And how deeply those poor pecule necé—how riebly they deserre—your sympathy | Yo you knew who and what manner of men are they?— the refugees of 48, whom that aecretary calls adventur- ere azc seditious propagandiste? They are the very flow- er of Europe, and the very salt of the earth—the proud, thovgt tful stucents, the inspired poets, the knightly soldiers of freedom acd right. A French officer has well said that the genuine representative of ancient Earopran chivalry is now the chivalry of young demociacy—the chivalry that goes’ as gaily to the barricade, when duty calls, tos fete champetre—with the courage of a lion to face nts, and the gentle cou:tesy of a woman to the wesk and the poor. And where are they now? In ‘he swemps of Cayenne they tend the a are cane, or they ‘are hoeing corn in the penal farms of Alvezia, Same- where in Ohio, wanders and feeds his hogs, the Geman Ubland. © heaven! Apollo is once more among the herdsmen of Admetus, and the herdemen know not that it is the sungod. On some tropical palm tree hangs pow the silent harp of Ferdinand Freiligrath; in silence he devours bia heart, and so1g comes to him ever, never more. These twomon were members of the Fronkfort convention—their triculor ie trampled down, ard by the rivers of Babylon they sit and weep. Gari- baldt moulds candles, or curries hides, or commands a trading brig. Pacing the forest paths of Van Dieman’s Land, listening to the murmuring Derwent, or studying with the zeal of an undergraduate, I see tho stately O’Brien. So calm is hia mein, so bavghty is his eye, no man can see that bis heart iabyeaking. Americson, will you call these men adventurers avd # ista? Will you warn them against tions tending to disturb your genteel friends, the sove- reigns of Kurope? Once more pardon me the question. Tbe Mayflower pilgrims were sdventurars—Benjamin Frapklin was a seditious propagandiat, and if Washiog: ton had been taken, he would buve been sent to Bo'an: Bay. America, I know, will no: be false to her own hig! traditions and to the immortal men who mads her his- tory. Ané I do, indeed, believe that time is coming when America will kaye todecida, once for all, whether sho will be an sily of the tyranta, or the people Who can Coubt which? No thisking man now imagines that the present order of things in Europe can be eustained by multiplying bayonets and heaping or taxes forever. The Creator of the world did rot, asuredly, kindle the no- blest spirits, and crown with intellect the most godlike brows on earth, only thet those epirite should con- sume themselves for ever in vain; that those lofty in- telleots thouid be dragged con into ivivoy or wiung into insanity forerer. in an eternal and hopeless ovntliot with curelers wrong and slavery and falavhood Ne, I believe in a moral and intellectual electricity. 1 beliave that noth'ng, of all the theught and passion expended for this caus, has been Jost, but that it is heating, kind ling, even now, the atmosphere of the'world. I believe bat not a solitary captive hae sighed forth his foul alone im the durzeons of Naplee—not # gallant soldier has fallen with hie feet to the foe on the ficlus of Hungary. or Lombardy, or Baden—not an imprisoned #tudent h: grown prematurely bald, or prematarely gray, or has gone med in the culls of Spielberg. but his spirit liver, and moves abont ur, helping to swelland kindle the leavening, heavi i mass of that fluic which nd bin ligtnings. Citizens of k yon; and I have repaid your kindness ay least with cancer. No secretary or man shall charge ie with frend, Tama professed revolutionist now—an acventurer—a seditious propagandist. I mean to wake ure of the freedom guaranteed to me as acitizen orinsho ate citizen of America, to help and to stimulsce the move- went of European democracy, and espeo'ally of Irish ia depencence, I meen to claim for the revolutionary re ~ fgete bere, not only the horpltelity and the comity of America, but alae her #: mpathy aud active friendabip— vay, I claim for them that America shall be to them the very standing-ground prayed for by Archimedes, whereon they may plant a lever that shall move the world, All the prominent parts of Mr. Mitchel’s apeech were reecived with great applause, a t ite close three cheers were given for Mr, Mitchel], three for Sraith O’Brien and three for Meagher, Judge O’Conon then read the fc lowing letters LEITER OF BISHOP HUGHES. New York, Bec. 18, 1863 GyatiemPN:—I have received your letter, inviting me to atterd @ benquetin honor of John Mitchel I kno# not whetber. uncer apy circumetances, it would be proper for cne in my poriticn toastend Gemonstrations that take their rise in poviticn, At the present time, however, the stale of ry bealth will be reecgnized as ev ficient rea- ron why Il mey not necept you kind invitatioa, But. ic) or well, there is no reeron why I should Lot offer the waimert weleomé of my keart to Mr, bitchel Icon. gratulate him on his ereepe from a jand ci worre than © ere Civil bondage; and] wish bim in thin country sil the prosperity ane happiness to ehich the manly incgate of bin ckarecter end he diriwterest dnerk of Liv pairiotion in bie metive Jacd give ue sf] reanon to nnd! ® ta hih re- gard. Teo rot revtiiet this impression of my yinlies to Mir, Mitchel wlone bot T wend extena {t to mil ter of bie family, Thanking you for the complan the invitetion, Trewnin, very faiohtolly, your (bediont servant, 4208, Areh ot hop of Sw York, Judge B O'Ccwer and ot LETTER OF BISHOP WAINWRIGOT. New York, Dec. 14, 1858. Gxvtimmv:—I thank you for the invitation with which you have favored me. but have had for some time an en of official duty for the evening of the 19th inst., b= will — my hay the honor of accepting it rea] ly, your cbedient servant, Bay ‘ JONATHAN M. WAINWRIGHT. LETTER OF THOMAS 0 CONER. Fort Wasuiaton, Des. 17, 1853. Gexrtevam:—I have your kind invitation to be present | ats public dinner tendered te the shivalrous Irish patriot Jobn Mitchel. My advanced years and uent infir- nity must deprive we of the gratification of uniting with you and thore you represent on the stirring occasion. My body must be necesnarily absent from your /el*; my beart vil be with you, I gloried in the bold efort of my countryman, Mitchel, to release our country from its threlérom; I grieved ‘in ite failure; I eympathised in his sufferings; I rejoice at bis escape from the fury ef & gov- ‘pment which ni sought and attained favor but to use it; never raled but on the psinciple of despotism; whore utmost effort to degrade apd enslave man had its fie reest develope ment in Ireland. With millions 1 weleome Jobn Mitchel to this Isnd—a land there the people are sovereign; where large standing armies are not employed to enforeé ‘nvoluntary allegiance; whose salaried jaries are not packed to eoavict the inuocent. Way Jobn Mitchel enjoy unalloyed happiness in this the ylom cf the opprersed of otber nations he live to see bis native land, like his adopted, ‘free, sovervign, and inceyendent.” spectfully, gentlemen, your obedient servant, 4 fy THOS. O'CONER, LETTER OF GEN. CASS. Wasnincion, Dec. 15, 1853, Gryruew:—It will be out of my power to accept your invitation to atiend the public dinner proposed to be given t» Mr. Mitchel, asa testim ial cf approbation for his efforta ia the cause of political freedom. His princi- ples and course entitle him to the warm sympathy of the American people, and he will meet it wherever he goss emong them. Though I cannot bo with you, I shall par- ticipate in your sentiments of respect and regard for the exiled heer ll : ; 1 am, gentlemen, respectfully, your obedient servan' LEWIS CASS, LEITER OF GENERAL SCOTT, ; New Youx, Deo. 15, 1858, GRNTLEMEN:—Major General Scett bas had the honor to Tecrive an invitation to the dincer shout to be given by the friends of republican freedom im thia city to the cistipguished Irish patriot, John Mi chel, which Gen. 3. regrets to decline, as h® declines all pablic entertain- ments, LETTER OF MR. SEWARD. Wasuincros, Dec. 18, 1853. Gavrizaun:—Your letter invitiog me to attends publis dinner to be given to John Mitobel, a fugitive from the penal laws enacted by a British Parlisment for the en- slaving of bis native lanc, has been received; and I give you any sincere thanks for your kicd remembrance of we im connection with an occation so honorable to tre city o’ New York, and 60 interesting to the friends of liberty throughout the world, My engagements here wil) prevent my availing myself of this courteous iavitation; but I shail héartily concur with you in all your demonstrations of eyapathy, hospi tality, and congratulation towards your distinguished guest, £6 | have always concurred in all the efforts which generous wen have mace to prodace the amelioration of the rigors and an early termivation of the punishment be and his compatriots have suifored for loviag liberty too well. Tam, very respestfully, Your obedient servant, WILLIAM A. SEWARD, LETTER OF HAMILTON FISH. Ww. Dao. 15, 1853, GuxrtemEn:—I lerire to return my cordial acknuwledg- meuts for the lnvi'a ion which you have been pleased to extend to me to participate in the proposed testimonial of the friends of republican freedom te John Mitchel Deeply sympathizixg inall movements, wherever made, in resistance of tyranny and oppression, and looking hopefully for the ‘advancement cf republican freedom ard constitutional liberty until these blessings be univer- tal, snd “cover the earth as the waters cover th I am ever ready to rejoice in the success, or to lament the failure, of these who devote themselves to the o: ot republican freedom, Whetier successful or unsuc: oerriul, their Gevotion demands our admiration and de- serves our praise. I rejoice that John Mitchel is no lo: victim of oppretsion, buta freeman, and among the T should be happy to be with you in your dempnstration ia honor of ope who bas dared much ano done muod for his country amd for freedom; but am constrained by the as iy of my duties here to decline your kind invita jon. With very great respect, your obedient servant, ij HAMILTON FISH. LETTER OF GENERAL SHIELDS. Wasuincton, Deo. 14, 1858, Gaxsimwar —I have received your polite invitation to at tend the public dinner to be givén in New York on the 19th instant toJohn Mitchel, by the “friends of repul lican freedom,” and I regret exceedingly that it will not be in my power te accept it. I am oniy recovering from a protracted illness which, aa well as the precsure of public business, prevents my leaving tbia city at this time, or 1 would be happy to unite with you on that cccasion. “y It would afford une the most sincere satisfacticn to be able, in this or any other way, to testify my admiration for the character of your distinguished guest, and to join in giving him an enthusisstic welcome to the free shores of America. With sentiments of esteem and regard, I am, very sin- cerely, yours, &c, JAS. SHIELDS, LETTER OF POSTMASTER GENERAL CAMPBELL. Wasuinctox, Deo. 16, 1863. Grxtieatev:—I baye received your letter of the 12th izst., honoring me with an invitation toa dinner to be given to Mr. Mitchel, at the Broadway theatre, on the 19th in While Iam gratified with this mark of your resect, I banten ‘o say that the exigencies of my official duties, at thia time peculiarly exastiog, will reader imgossible for me to be in New Yerk on the occasion re- ferred to. 1 am, very respectfully, gentlemen, your obedient ser- vant and friend, JAMES CAMPBELL, ‘The PRESIDENT announced the next reguiar toast :— Ireland and the Oppressed Nationalities of Europe— May they soon enjoy the advantages of free government. The Harp that once through Tara’s halls, Mr. Tuomas Francis Mracuzr, io rising to respond to this centiment, was enthusiastically received. Ha said:— Mr. Presipent, Lapies anp GuntLxxen—I was one even- ing on the Obio—sn evening I shall not easily forgot. The river had been swollen with recent rains. The cur rent win pacing quickly, but with the placidity whish reminces one of the old proverb, that “smooth water runs Geep.”” It was esrly in Mey. The sky was pale. Thia clouds, with softened outline and mingling gently with one another, were moving towards the north, There was something in the sir, which, if not vivitying—i¢ not ge nial— wae quieting. "It was such an evening that good hearts might have been touched with great tenderness, if not with mourpfulzess. Not with the mournfuln spice comes from anguish and pervades our nature as h the faint puleations cf a endsiding struggle. but with that mournfulnees which accompanies the recollection of and is tempered and sweetened, and Iit up with of old scenes and faces, and the hope of seeing them onee more. From the various incidents that were going en in the boat about me, and the varying features of the scene through which we were gliding, I turned ject, which, far more foreitly than the rest attracted my attention. [t wan a sycamore tree— a. noble looking tree—noble in its proportions noble in its profusion, noble i its promise. And the birds werein it, on its topmost branches, striking cut theic light wings, and uttering their quick notes ¢f joy Oh! with what a sweet trill came forth the Hquid song from that waviog, rpsrkling (lage; and how confident it made the l.oker on, that the tree from which it gushed in a hundred mingling streams would stand. and flourish, and put forth its Leauty, and rejoice in the sragrant breath of ths summer, and stoutly defy the shock ef the winter for mapy years tocome! It'wass dream. I looked down- varde—the roots were stripped. The earth hed been Icesexed from them, and they gi «tened like bones—whit ered, as they were, with the water which tumbled ti rough them, and about them, and over them. One held alone it seemed to have. But the sleepless element was busy upon that. Eves whilat I looked, the soft 1 ould slipped in flakes from the solitary stay which held the tree erect And there it stood—full of vigor full of beauty. full of festive life, full of ;romise, with the grave, perhaps a fathom deep, opened at its feet The uext flood—and the last link must give! And down must come that lord of the forest, with all his ho- ners, with all his sireogth, with all his mirth; and the remoreelers river shall tons him to the thick slime, and then fling him up again, teating hts. tangled finery, ond bruiting ano Lreahivg bis proud limbs—until, two thousand miles below, on some stagnant swamp, tired of the Cead prey, the wild pursuer, chafed asd foaming frem the chase, shall cast a shapel:ss log ashore, shall be the fate, ’ Ieaid, ‘of tbe European kings!’ It ia bow eummer with them. The sunbeams gild the domes of their palaces, The helmets, with the s:imson manes, burn along those white lines, withir which legions, countless as those of Xerxes, are evesmped. Prayers are giing on im ion 'on the field It ia the camp near Ojmutz. golden lamps, and cross, veres of the votive OM the air, like the branch Iter, of avernus, with « yellow lustre; and the silver trawpets, stovrding the thapkegiving, findh tir shadows on the purple curtains of the cha, Elsewoere~I belirve w Paris— bridal feasts are going on; old cathedrals hake from vault to beifry with swelling organs, end surgicg cholra, and rolling drums, and clanging chimes; and tho sum, streaming through the painted windows, mingles its rays with the per- fumed smoke of thuribles, and the colored haze of em brotoered copes and chausadles, and pennons of silt, and flowers frerh with looicus fragrance. Beauty is clustered there in srowy veeture; and the princes and warriors of the cities, Fearded and plumed, ar¢ barvessed for the field; anc there are sena'ors, and councillors of state, and (aard wmonere, and doctors of the In, and mini-ters of police. aud other functionaries, aseembl-d thare likesixe, tu holidny costume, The market places, ani the pablic rqueres. and all the public offices, are decked out with floval wreaths, aud painted shielis, and pendant flags And there are gay processions through the streets; and sket chornses; snd barges with oa:ved and gilded plows, And silken awnings fringed and tasselled richly, and all Isdep with reveliy, glicing up sed down the riv The tun gee Cown, yet the eky ix bright—prighter than atnoon, There isa broad avenues, wrlisd on either side end arched with fre. There are fountains 0! fire, pillars of fie, templen of tire—-‘'temple+ of immortality”, they cull thermearches of fire, pyrainids of fire. The table of we Plomx ix more than realized. Above that nae «nd maze ef fiame ap eagle, feathered with flames, spreads bis gigantic wings, aod mounts aod ex parde, until tower, and dome, anv obvi sk are spanned. Vieione Of Arabian pighta visit the earth sgaia. The wealth and wonders of Nineveh are di-entommed, The fowivel este one million +x bundred thousand fram Alisone to order, It is summer with the kings, Aye commer with the king’, diignt laaves wpon the tree, #14 rife and song smooget then—bat death is at the root. "The next flooc, and the proud lord of the forest abatt be oprco-ed, apd the waters shal! tear kim away, and wher they Pave stripped bim of bis finery they shail Hing Biro in upon the rwampto rot. Sugh sali be the late (i the Eoropean kiegn-furepewn — arutocraciea— Puropeap de petians. Who. will Jament itt Who Wratarerich, et pages uaa, and wrat they have to rey, They wi tarent It ene they would strive te averb iL #ho day thet cercer ta tobe maintained?!’ Arcetping | thereby. to abo! THA ch ILO! prerersing Creme, aud | to iepublicaniem imputing the iniquicy of vte violation To biicaniam i ‘its violation! For asthe word rar” oon egal im truth, the craserre- tiom of aristocratic and lo pever, in like manner “republicanism” ia ‘used by them to denote the subversion of society, moraliry, the arts of peace, all'the precepts of religion, a1, the ex- cellencies, proprieti+s felicities of life. Order!—Re- ublicsnism! use the one to expound their para Tise—they use the othor to exprers the confusion, dark- ness, and agonies of the ab; “Even #o,’? said they it the Convention, “did the Targuine call the Sena Rome an assembly of brigands. Even so did the vassals of Porsenna regard Sewvols a« a madman. Thus, accord ing to the manifastors of Xerxes, did Aristidys plunder the treasury of Greece, Thus cid Octavius and Antony orealo—with their banda fullof spoils and dyed with blcod—ihat they alone should be deemed clement—slone just—aslone virtuous.”’ To resume—Urder must be maia tained! Abeclutisn is order Republieanisin fs chaos So rays the dictionary, published, dy royal approbation, at Pa is and Vienna—the corrested edition, with 4 new preface, by @ late prisoner st Ham. It is compiled from the Greek version of the’ bible, the original belpg for many yewrs in tue possession of the devout sebi-mutic of Russia, Order must bé maintained! The streets swept with lancers in white cloaks. The press set to work in mans cles. The key of the publio treasury given up to a deaps- rate spendthrift. The men who will not brea their oat! soust be khipped cil co swamps teeming with pestilenc ‘The men who will ot surrender the charter they have sworn to defend, must be lashed togethar and shot down in bales. A swarm of spies must be let lose, Like locusts, throvgh the land. There must be a thief, wich a nove book, commissioned to every house. The national so. yereignty wss not inviolable. Neither sia the bovse hold gocs, with their traditional sanctities, b and worship. Menacs, terrify, paralyze the peopls, aud, with a soldier at the ballot box, call upon them to exer cise the franchise. Legitimize the tofamy. Proveribe posterity. Pronounce that it aball be born dumb. [rect hrone on the suffrage of seven millions, Boast thatit is erected by the peopie; and, then, to prove your mag- nanimous submission to the pational will—how dutifully you respect—how profoundly you reverence ~how sia cerely you regard it an the source of all legitimace au thority—declare that it shall rpeak, that it snall act a0 Je more, Non inate the inheritors to the throne. Cireum- scribe, arrest, annihilate the power to which you refar your crown and acaptre, by williog, dvelaring, and enact log that the gorgeous furniture, title and traypings, shall be ircevecable, and to your furthest hoirs tracs- mi-sidle, Do this. Do it boldly. Do it without pause. Do it with utseruple Do it without any meroy for the living, without any Cecency for the dead—heed lees of the past, indiferent to the fature—despite of the oath that biods you—reekless of the Gid who watches you! Doit! Do it with the hardened heart and the savagearm! Doit! O.der must be maintained! Order! ‘Tnere is order im the hospital; there is order im the poor- house; there {s order in the jail Order! There is order in the mins, where men, and women, and childrem drudge hike cattie-—where the breath of morning nuver comes, and the sin bell never shine. Order! Tuere is czder jo the veults, where the cead hare been stored, and the terrible silence is broken only by the acrambling of the vermin, or the thick inoisture trick ling dowa the arches on the coffin lids and pavement. Order! There is order in the desert, where no brown brook tumbles, and no vercure drinks the dew at sunset. Oat upon such order. It ip insenribility, decay, Cerslation. It is sterility—stag- mation—death. Where, in such a condition of life, are the activities of the mind, the grand passions of the heart, ths adventurous purposes of the soul? Where, we find them here, are the poble sympathies which ii one nsion to anather—link them together in adyarsity, in affluence, in ruia, ia martyrdom, ? Where the expansive fire of intel- fed by the sages and poets, by the sculptors and painters, ané riatesmen of the old re- publics, mounts to meet the beams of the sun, snd, made glorious by the contsct, distributes and communicates iteeif to other Iande—dispelling the shades of nigh;, d quickening the spirits of those that ars in captivity, ¢ darknean of bondage? Where, aa we find it here, 1 the intrepid epirit which penctrates, reclaims, aud po: pulates the wilderness; by which the valley is filled, and every mountain sné hill brought low, and th» crooked is made straight and the rough ways made smooth; be fore which the reptile anc the wild man recede; ia whose breath the golden grain multiplies; where the hawk, and, the sour weed, and the bitterm have been; at whose touch cities, wealthier than those the gates of which were of bronze, apring up; at whore mandate fleets whiien the wilderness of ocean, bury 1he harpoon in the snows of the north; gather the frui's and shells of the coral islands, outstrip in capacity and speed the ships of the oldest comm nwealths, knock at the gates of the Ama- zon and demand admittance, through regions of untold wealth to the rampert of the Andes; threaten the wooden walls of Austria, and from the muzzle of their murderous gun reecues the ‘orlorn worshipper of free¢om; and, at last, consummate the magnidcen! design of the Genoene— breaking the mystic seal which has #0 long ehut out the world from that emptre which, we are teld, is fragrant with the camphor, the cedar, and the laurel—than which Chins has not been so inscrutable, nor India more opulent, nor Athens better skilled in the gen- tler eciences and arts, Lifeis to be a labor—life is to bea +truggle—life is to bes waifare. Such the necessity of msan—such the ordination of Providence. In the mate rial world—in that world which men callimanimate—tho KS ati of this law to the least thoughtful is ever sible. Behold the forest!—it never slumbers. Each da chronicles within it s fresh growth. Bahold the se: isin motionever If it ebbs it flows in again, replenish- ing the waste from which for an interval it ret Aad thus it is, and has been, and must be, with the vitality of pations—ever active, recuperat.ve, progressive. Sush the law. Where this law is in foree there is health and beauty, and great glory, and vast advantages. Whore it the law ie checked there is decrepitude, decay, bitter ness, imbecility, corruption. Look to Austria—look to America. Look to Italy—look to America. Lock to R:ssia, wih her territory, traditions, fanati. cirm. millions. Place her beaide America. Who will have the temerity to say she stands the competition? Avd why? Because the vitality of the one is the vitality cf freedom. Because the vitality of the other is no more than that with which anenormous mechanism may be beg endowed. The one is the original soul. The other but the temporary | impulse, I eho"! ~ ee history to substantiate ‘nese views, When nation is fred the nation is active, adventurous, ovcupied with great projects, competent to achieve gieat ends. When & vation is enslaved she is epiritless, ine:t and sluggish— is stirred by no proud conceptions—her strength ener- vated, she is unequal to an industrious career. The most Prosperous day# which rations have enjoyed have been those in which their free om was most conspicuous. More than this. The consciousness of freedom eadued them with a vigor which not osly repelled bat appalled their evemies. Prustia, when it was less than Portagal in population, encountered succewfally the greatest of the European’ powers. Holland, with an area of a few thousand equare miles only, and resources ia proportion, bore up against the empire of Spain when Spain had at her command the mines of the New World, and the chi- valry of the old. Switzerlard, without s colony, without snally, without ® gun upon the seas, stands secure in the midst of foer—e citadel of freedom impregnable as the Aipe. Carthage reckoned more years than the Macedonian States; Venice had a longer pedigree than kingly i'rance. So raid Thomas Davis, from whom, on the sudject of frea- dom, I ever love to quote. And, in spoaking of the change which the acquisition of freedom wouid effect in the con- dition of Ireland, this young and noble writer has said: “She is sow impoveri-Led, derided, and diarmed. Oo a nation, most of there ills would vanish. Soil and sea, head, heart and hand, wielded by native ‘rulers, would rencer her a8 unlike what she is now the starved ard chained eagle is from the haughty and vie torious bird, which breaka from the mountain top and soars from sea torky, uprivalled and resistleas.? I am not 60 blind « worsbipper of freedom as to maintain that the condition of socie y where it prevails—even where it most widely prevails—is perfect; or that the acts and im pu)ses which proceed from it are immaculate. I am not £0 prejudiced a commentator on republicanism as to with. hold the fact, that when freedom hay teken that shape, or when freedom strives to resolve and realize itself into that condition, there are snd thera have been errors; there are, and there bave been violences; there are, and there have been crimes; there are, and there have been— and may cer:ainly yet occur, in the transition of a people from the lowest to the highest state of civilization—many sertous irregularities, many great mischiefa, many grave calamities, from the evil which abides upon this ¢arth, iscorporates itself with, and breaks out more or less vividly in every traveaction of life 1 do n>t, fom the cause of freedom, nor from the progress of republi- canism, insist upon’a miraculous exemption, Let the apologista of abaolutivm be equally impartial, Tne rlime of the serpert is on the fairest teatures of creation It is thecommon curee. When we find it on the tri of knowecge, planted by God himself, cam wa be sur- prised that it sometimes will oe traced upon the tree of liberty which mortal hands have reared? Every astior hasits eviltusceptibilities Lock to the sea, of which wa spoke a jittie while ago; it has i suxiliary of commerce, it What rays Henry Grattan! means iy inseparable from the excess. Such sre the great works of nature—such is the sea But, like the fea, the wasteand excess are lost in the advantage.” What raid DapielO'Conaell, he who was no republican, who proved } imself as staunch a monarchist as Edmun: Barke himself, and became notorious for his incesssnt repudiation of the natural agencies of revoluti - t said Daniel O'Connell? “The more pure and honest any man msy be in the adoption of his opia ions, the more likely and the more jastified will he be ia the ardent support of them, whieh goes by the name of intemperance. In short, though political intemperanse cannot be deemed by oold calcwiators an a virtue, yet it has ite sources in the purest wisbes of the human heart, and it fiequently prodvers the greatest advantages to the public. “ Hew would it,” he aeks, “how would it be portible to overcome the many obstacles which self inter- ect, and ignorance, and passion bave th-owr in the way of imyrovement, without some of that ardor of temper apd Gisporition which grave men call intemperance.” “Something murt be pardoned to the spirit of liberty ’’ raid Kémund Barbe, the greatchampion of the old Frensh monarchy, And what seid sheridan, speskiog of the Frerch revolution—‘ Great enormities, at which the heart thad Jered. and which not merely wounded every feoliog ot humanity but sickered the very aoal, hac been com mitted AJl this was most true Bat what did all prove? What but the unalterable, and eteroal t uth, that « long establianet despotinm #9 far degraded end Ceossed buman pature ss to render its eubjects, on the frst resovery of their rightr, unfit for th» exercise of Such a government as be had alluded to might be t uosible for thy miseries and calamties of ita eubjects; and should a Gay of retribution come, and the tyranny bo dea royed, it wan +quaily to be charged wich all the enormities which the folly or the frenzy of th who overtu i thovld commit.” Preetrely ro. ‘i xplonion will be ever eqnal to ihe repression it war so in Fran-e, It woul have been :oin Ameria lind the ¢ been oiber taxes besides that one on tea to ne reprak d; hax there been a flagitious nobility to shake off, ape afortrers an hateful ax that of the Bastile to do ish. Kings give the exemp'e of atrocity to those They bold in vasss’age, When, pacting from their flight, they ¢t down in their London garrets sad wandder at ths rn a-racren of Sep'ormber, Lremnd them of the butchery in the Champ de Mara, When they epeak of the nornies Lyon, Lyefer them {o the fowlades at Man. When they poirt the palsied floger to tho guillotine in the Place ce Ie Revolution, | bid them tell me who pas reared that grcecy gibtet inthe market placeof Pesth. Let them btribe theiy breaate in horror of the asea ainations “hich oved We robe of Rome, I naine tiem bythe \ ate om, Shrough the hor: rer leproms t tzaroni lot ho ; acc by order cf that Gourbdom Gerd, reeking wit their knives o devastation which Bethlehem kaew net of, eves: whea the prophecy ample of moderation is it strange that the people, 40 imy ble, should do likewise? Or has it this, that the interpreters of the moral law drum, that what is execrable in the people is virtuous im the ki ? That the commandments against the com- mission of theft and murder are applicable only to those ‘that are baptivec in the waters of ailliction? That they are less privileged with vengeance, who to the perpetra- tion of vengeance are the most provoked? That bloo® will not stain the velvet and the ermins, but leaves am indelible tinpression on coarse linen? That in the Books of Judgment there can be no red marks scored againg® those who seb with » jewelled hand, but that every blow giver by itis a damning spot recorded against the band that is rough and black with labor? Is tnis the Diving arrangement? This the desres of Him, by whom the daughter of Merari—she who was exceediogly besa- tifal—was commissioned to go forth and slay the Ase syrinn under bis canopy of guld and purple? This the decree of Zim, at whose beck the sun «toed still over the velley of Ajalon until the people revenged them selves om their enemies, and the chiefs of the army set their feet on ihe necks of the kings, amd ibe kings were hanged upon five gibbets, ard ‘hung there until evaning, when ihe sun was dowa’ This the decree of Him by whose will the muliitudes ulsed in Bssheura, amd wv was cat out, and coming up against Judea we the tongue of the wi given by pleces to the bir» ne hand of the furious man hanged up over az aple? Let not the apologists of their kingsnips attempt a monopoly of Ged. The sacred book disowns and covtradicts them, Reasem protests, conselence revolis, hictory gives evidenee agniost and repudiates the impious spprcpriation. But Lealumeiste the people by striking a ba ance betweem them and their kingsnips. Tne people ia Europe have taught their masters an unpsrdosable lesson, They ave taught them to be forgiving; they have tanga them to be xenerous ; they have taught them tobe 3 they have taught them to wash the vlood from off thelr nds, and, in conformity with the teachings of a kindlier ament, to make the ways of vietory the ways of peace, ‘breaking the engines of barbarism whilst they subjugate its passions. Standing on the smoking ruina of the throne of Orleans, what was the first act of the people of Paris? What their first act, when, all about them, there were #0 many provocations to retaliate, amd, in the delirium of victory, excesses seemed inovitable, tnd even by the least tolerant might have been em- cused? What, at that moment, was their first act? A covenant of prace—an obiation to the recovered gioy of humanity! The mivisters against whom armed, and aguinst whom eo grave an account was tered, they invested with impunity. They were free come’es tho ugh they bad never sinned against the —were free to share in the honors of the republic. What next? The guillotine was pulled down. No more heads rhall fall for political delinquencies. Conscience shall be free; the tongue free; the press free. Republicantaan r.quires no axe; it is no imponition—it is an emanal the sctive, spontaneous sentiment; not the const working of the nation; the central fire whith propagates itrelf, and stands inneed of no stipendiary agents for ite diffusion, Revenge was thus, in a glorious fraternity, extinguished, and faith in the progresai power of the republican principle, with a fearless mag- napimity proclaimed. Thusit is that republicanism eom- tradicts its asssilants—thus asserts itself not more ful, but more beneficent than ‘ship-—thus demons itseif the architect of order—thus out of chaos it evokes a rew creation, and spans the rescued people and the arm which contains their liberties with the symbol of « bee nigvant promise. 80 much for one objsction to republl- cerism in Europe; so much for its incompatibility with public order. Now for auother, and I have done. It is fre- quently urged,even by men remarkable for the liberality'ot their politics! opinions, that the American people—the people of these United States—are the only poopie ada) lo vepublicanism. Now, there was a time, not very 8g0, when the Americans themselves wera thought unfi for the same, There was a time when the notion of their being able to get on in ths world withont the sisterly ee- licitude or the motherly tuition of Eogland was laughed atimmensely by the astute speculators of the day, bis speech from the throne, 1776, after charging “the leaders of sedition in the colonies with having infased into the minds of the people » system of opinions re nant to their constitutional sabordination,”’ and wie having in view ‘the establishing of an independent em pire,” the kind old gentleman—the disappearance af whoce likeness from the sigubsard caused Rip Van Winkle to ruband doubt bis eyes so grievously—concluded theas gracious remarks of his with the assurance that ‘the royal mercy would be given as soon as the deluded malti> tude should become sensible of their errors.” In the debate on the address to the throne, subsequent to the reading of the speech just quoted fiom, great stress was Jaid upon “the 4mericans seeking for independence,” am@ their leaders “boasting of their new: modelling their gow- ernment.” It was said that “the future fate of the British ‘empire, and of ages unborn, would depend upon the firmness or indecision of the government;”’ aad Amie # dismal picture was drawn of ‘the consequences would atrend America’s becoming indepsncent.”” inter of the crown--I forget his name (laughter)—maim- tained that ‘America, without money, without without resources, could not continue to prefer a ruinous war and a precarious isolation to the blessings of pease and a happy depencence on Great Britain.” Az hea it was moved by the Duke of Richmond, in the “that Mr. Penn should bs examiced upon the Amerieam question,” the motion was agreed to principally for thie Leis clit Bake eee mats ‘could not be a sam picion of his partiality in favor of American independeno®, aa the great fortune of his family, if not wholly loot, would be much impaired by auch an event.’’ os last, to end the matter for the present, we have the of the Annual Regist aig in reference to the Fourtia of July, 1776—the fatal day at length arrived, whiek, however, the final consequenoms may be, must, be deeply regretted by true friend of this empire’ —by every true friend of the British empire, cf course! A fatal day, “when thirteen English colonies in America declared theus- telves free and indepenceat States, abjared all coneeqnenses of civil’ confentico. Ruch tne that may proeeed from too great a power “2 the ome. ride, and too ill-timed a doubt of obedience on -—* other.” But it was not only implied or aflirmed, insima- ated or insisted on, that your good fathers were tent to make their own laws, manage their own appropriate their own moneys, and realize, on their owm botiom, an independert fortune. It was confidently ag rerted that they were incompetent to keep themselves tm decent clothes. The idea of Americana flourishing in the manufacturing line—knitting their own stockings, amd weaving their own coats—this idea was tossed about by the most sedate sages even with an exudrrance of r Some short tie since Llit upon anarticle, copied during the Revolutionary war, into the Maryland Gazette, from @ Loudon cotemporary. It is written with the view to gerate enormously, and so to explode the idea ‘that te colonies, as they called them, could Turer of their own. “I; is objected” —thus runs the artl- cle inquestion—-by superficial readers, who pretend te some Knowledge of those countries, that auch establiaie- ments (manufastories) are not only improbable, but tm- porstble, for that their sheep have but little wool—not im the whole sufficient for s psir of stockings » year to eaela inhabitant. But such is aot the fact (obser res the gente. satirist); for the very tails of the Amorican sheep are so laden with woel that each has @ cait or a wagon, on four little wheels, to supfort am keep it from trailing on the ground.” Then weare told that “they caulk their ships.” and 4 stuff their beds’? and ‘litter their horses” with this wool; and, in the end, irat great preparations are making ‘: for a cod and whale fishery on Lake Erie during the ensuing summer ” Cit#- zens of America! it is mot mecessary for me to remind you that your fathers outlived these sarcasms and predie- Uons, and not only proved themselves ft for republienm= ism, but likewise and moreover, proved that repabliesm ism was the precise condition of society and laws in whiahs they could most prosperously operate. It is al: a. Whena people eome to the determination of sei ae loftier region and a wider Geld of action, it is certain thas there ever will be—as there ever have been ia suck events—certain inauspicious birds hovering about them—= Ferching uyon gibbets, and tombstones, and Cakre=croaking night and day, with an interminable as- tidvity, their dismal prognostications. They whe at this Gay maiotain that the people of Europe are unfit fee republicanism would assuredly have said the same of the American colonists, had thé creatures ved when (ea-totalim prevailed in Boston harbor, amd the ladies of South Carolina became Sisters of Charity to the soldiers of Sumpter and Marion. If at present they express the opinion that these olf colonists were qi for republicanism, it is simply ent arsents to every existing arrange d sanctions indiscriminately all successfal a ‘Their proy of the pediar, thanks, wait on fortune. amongst the loudest sceffera by whom Columbus was bee t on the eve of his Jauuching out on the untaown sea, They would been the most profuse amongst the sycophants, who, on his return, kissed the feet that he@ lett their traces on the sands of San Salvador. “The very same men’’— wrote Robert Emmet, the night before his execution— the ver; hat after success would bave fisttered, will now cal e ~ste—Iet us look the matter closer, ly adapted ts republicanism —they alone—that ia the: position! And whoare the Americans’ Are they not tap ebik’ren of all climes? To this immense living mass haw not Germany sbipped her contibution? Has not France? Italy ? Have not the Rhine, the Zuyder Zee, the mingled their waters with the Hudson snd Miesouri? Treland— (burst of ap lauve)—has not Ireland? (Tremem» dour cheers ) It was but yesterday | heard of the old mam «oing on board the emigrant ship anchored in the Sham- nov, and puttinga sod of turf into his deal box, with thie ineeription on coarse brown paper round it—'‘To be pu in my coffin if I die abroad.’” Wat in fact, is this ce- lossal repablic? Some one will aay that it is of some twe end thirty freo and sovereign tes—an indissoluble: confraternity, And so it is, and to ths Judgment may t% so remain. Sosay we all But is it mot more—more. than a confrate: nity of States! Of numerous national. tiee—each distinct—eaeh strongly individualized—te ot the imperishable incorporation? And hea it, beem difficult to reoencile, adapt, habituate the strangers to the laws, custon a, institutions, practices of the repablie? —difficult to estrange them from the institutions of Austria?—difficult to wean them from the iestitutions of Italy *—ciMicult to divert theirlove from institutions of Franee?—difficult to alienate their alle venerable institu:iona of Old Ei dicate thei: affection for the apies of and jury jobbers of Dublin?= the drill sergeants of Berlin? —the flagellators and bangmen of Vienna? Difloult few them to abjure the censorship?—the secret examination? —in the pare of religion, interdictions the ae pressive ?—in the name of public o ing without notice, and massacres without mercy ?—da the name cf political economy and Christian civilization—« as we found it unde Hagllsh rule—laws that deel mate and devastate? From these masters, these prae- tices, there Jaws, in it difficalt to seduce the gentle strenpers? Does it taka long to obliverate the lit ims Pressicnw which theic fe amongst the kings and erocies produced? Long toaffilia's them wih this grew» ing ond glorious family of the New World, and with the (ld stot, kerein #0 majestically multiplyiag, to make thi m one and lndivisible? Are, not the fire hh lore’ Ave not the noyloes impatient under tI — tion? Ase ‘hey not citizese the very day they etizens in heart, ia aptly by conyiction—citizens, Ifmo8 ty baptism, purely thas e cicuracision whichmsey ci tuem have ondergene fa tha ten: ple com-ear: Wierty? And if tena, by an tustantancous tran they feenti y themretves with the iutereata, the ho spirit of republicaniem here; if tuus ina dagtinely, to the British crown, snd renounced ali pol om connection. Such ‘he meralizes) arg the ur’,