7. THE CONDITION OF IRELAND.-T. F. Meagher. (0) The war of centuries is at a clòse. The patronage and proscriptions of Ebrington have failed. The procrastination and economy of Russell | have triumphed. Let a thanksgiving | be proclaimed from the pulpit of St. Paul's. 1fRO (AO) Let the Lords and Commons of England vote their gratitude 1 8 R O f h to the vicious and victorious economist! Let the guns of London R C shRC back h R C Tower | proclaim the triumph which has cost, in the past, coffers of s R C prone gōld and torrents of blood, and, in this year, masses of putrefac 1 во tion, to achieve. England! your great | difficulty is at an end: your gallant and impetuous enemy is dead. Ireland, or rather the remains 1 ВО of Ireland, are yours at last. (GO) Your red ensign floats, not from hs RCF h RCF the Custom House, where you played the robber; not from Limerick 8 R wall, where you played the cut-throat; but it flies from a thousand | RC Ft on waist C prone W to 1 RO graveyards, where the titled | niggards of your cabinet | have won the battle which your | soldiers | could not tèrminate. m SRC and down (AO) Go; send your scourge | steamer to the western coast to SRO convey some memòrial of your conquest; and in the halls where the flags and cannon you have captured from a world of foes are grouped SRO snatch Ft to waist together, there let a shroud, stripped from some privileged corpse, W 8h RC be for its proper price | displayed. Stop not there; change your war h C pr and falling h RCF crest; America has her eagle; let England have her vulture. What emblem more fit | for the (G) rapacious power whose statesmanship | WRC Ft tr to br Ft to RO depopulates, and whose commerce | is gorged with famine | prices? w RC to m S C 1 RO (0) That is her proper | signal. But whatever the monarch | journal ists of Europe may say, (AO) Ireland, thank God, is not down | yet. (AG) She is on her knee; but her hand | is clinched | against | the (0) Last year, from the Carpathian heights, we heard the cry of the Polish insurrectionists: "There is hope for Poland, while in Poland there is a life to lose." (AO) There is hope for Ireland, while in of our comrades have fallen; but thousands upon thousands still ВО BO h BC с survive; and the fate of the dead shall quicken the purposes of the drop and lift h с living. The stakes are too | high | for us to throw up the hand until h C prone h C w to f br C and the last card has been played; too high for us to throw ourselves f C prone swindled C in despair upon the coffins of our starved and swindled partners. (0) A peasant population, generous and heróic, a mechanic | population, honest and industrious, is at stake. 8. AGAINST CURTAILING THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.-Victor Hugo. (Page 168, Orator's Manual.) 9. RESISTANCE TO BRITISH AGGRESSION. Patrick Henry. (Page 170, Orator's Manual.) 10. THE WAR INEVITABLE, MARCH, 1775.-Patrick Henry. They tell us, sir, that we are wèak, — unàble to còpe with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disármed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and ináction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual | resistance by lying supínely on our w tr C Ft to 1 0 br C Ft and w to 1 BO bácks, and hugging the delusive phantom of hópe, until our enemies W 1 B C shall have bound us | hand | and foót? Sír, we are not weak, if we make a proper | use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of Péople, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight hLO our battles alone. There is a just | God who presides over the desti nies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles fòr fRO The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, 1 RO Ft us. W m s RC W m 8 C the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no elèction. If we were w tr RC to br C wms RC base enough to desîre it, it is now too | late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slàvery! Our chains are ILO forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The fLO ВО war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! 1 LO It is in vain, sir, to exténuate the matter. Gentlemen may crý, m LO m LO m SLC C péace, péace! - but there is | nò peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! 1 R 1 O 1 LO Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What LO would they have? Is life | so | déar | or peace | so | sweet | as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, h B C drop back BC 1 Almighty | Gòd! I know not what course others may take; but as for drop BC 11. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.- Supposed Speech ‹ƒ John Adams, in the Continental Congress, July, 1776.-Daniel Webster. Sink or swim, live or diè, survíve or pèrish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote! It is true, indeed, that, in the beginning, we aimed not at indepèndence. But there is a Divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms; and, blinded to her own interest for our good, she has obstinately 1 R Ft persisted, till independence is now within our grasp. mRO 1 RO to reach forth to it, and it is oùrs. We have but W 1 s RC Why, thén, should we defèr the 1 RO snatch to waist C Ft declaration? That measure will strengthen us. It will give us IRO SRO character abroad. The cause | will raise up armies; - the cause | 1 RO The people, the people, if we are true to them, will carry ús, and will carry themselves, gloriously | through | this struggle. Sir, the declaration will inspire the people with increased courage. Instead of a long | and bloody | wár for restoration of privileges, | for redress | of grievances, | for chartered | immunities, held under a British | kíng, | set before them the glori h BO h B ous | object | of entire | independence, and it will breathe into them C falling BC pr m R anew the breath of life. Read this declaration at the head of the O waist tr C Ft h C to WRC ármy; - every sword will be drawn from its scabbard, and the solh C falling C pr to emn | vow | uttered, to maintain it, or to perish on the bed of honor. Publish it from the púlpit; — religion will appròve it, and the love tr L C and to 8 L с m 8 L C 8 L of religious liberty will cling | round it, resolved to stand | with it, or fall with it. Send it to the public hálls; proclaim it three; let them | hear it who heard the first | roar of the enemy's | cannon,-let W tr R C them | see it who saw their brothers and their sons fàll on the field to m 8C m 8 RC m 8 RC of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord,—and the very walls will cry out in its support! Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs; but I see | clearly | through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rûe it. We may not live to see the time when this declaration shall be 1 LO fLO w1 L C W made good. We may die,—die còlonists; die slàves; die, it may be, wms LC wlL C w1LC 1 LC ignominiously, and on the scaffold! Be it so! be it so! If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sàcri fice, come when that hour may. But while I dò live, let me have a во h BO wide 1 BO country, or, at least, the hope of a country, and that a free country. But, whatever may be our fate, be assured that this declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood; but it will slowly lift fRO 1 R 0 stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick | R C to h C h R gloom of the present I see the brightness of the fùture, as the sùn in heaven. w 1 When we во We shall make this a glòrious, an immortal day. BC 1 ВО m BO 1 are in our graves, our children will honor it. They will cèlebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations. On its annual return, they will shed tears,— còpious, gushing tears, not of subjection and slávery, not of agony and BC h BO m BO 1 BO distress,- but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy. Sír, before God, I believe the hour is come! My judgment approves this meas ure, and my whole heart is in it. h RO and all that I hope, in this life, drop bk R C 1 RO fRO All that I have, and all that I am, f RC pr I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave óff, as I began, that, live or die, survive or pèrish, 1 am for the declaration! It is my living | sentiment, | and, by the m BO blessing of God, it shall be my dying | sentiment,- INDEPEND 12. NORTHERN LABORERS.-C. Naylor. (0) The gentleman has misconceived the spirit and tendency of northern | institutions. He is ignorant of northern | character. He has forgotten the history | of his country. Preach | insurrection to the northern | láborers! Who àre | the northern laborers? The history of your country is their history. The renown of your coun 1fRO LC and try is their renown. The brightness | of their doings | is emblázoned W m tr 8 LC 8 LC on its every page. Blot | from your annals | the deeds | and the doings of northern | láborers, and the history of your country preand to m fs BC sents but a universal | blànk. |