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February 26.
xlublimtions imtcibtli.
E'V‘El.A'l‘lONS um
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D. Owns-ltIAr>nr:x, Fsq. Dublin: McGlashnn.
El): Glnitrtl iirisljnitn.
Rank clay fattening over a skeleton in Kildarc-in
Michan‘s vaults the mummicd trunks of brot
th above them “-relies cold and unhono
scattered over the world in graves an ‘arr ts
Fitzgerald starving in an alley of the capita
s e ruled a Rcpu '
amen
Snxuh Curran, yielding up “the broken heart” far off In
Sicily.-such has been the fate of all they loved and all
who loved tl in.
IC
These were our predecessors. Before foreign rule had
finally clenched its gripe upon the 111-05, they 513105 “P
die, and died. And now a halfa century ad (1
from their holy graves we take their p
es! lift t.
gone, and
again. Y y long years ago, “Ri h
Freed m
our swords,” were the only words of truth in Ireland; and
fifty years of lying and cowardice, and tra.itor's leading,
and of tra.itor's rule have not changed their u uth a tiule.
‘ o i‘ The
men y c
fought for freedom by men who talk for pay
truth, denounce devotion, repudiate self-sacridce, nndh
virtue and manhood into contempt for a little-but ye
little, and the rnnligners and the cowards,
seekers, will be gathered 05' the earth, with the truthful,
'ng soul of man
the brave, and the devoted, and the unerri
t tru h
truthful as when they lived-and, in the other, lie sil
, h and trick stale and tint, and
death, kept
hundred tons of talk and
stone.
Yilhat think you of the Sclave, who, within hearing of
the graves in Cracow, or standing on the Vistula
repudiatcs the memory of Kosciusko? or of th
wh unce ' f
tioncd, because Kosciusko fought for her.-the
daed, bcmurc the Sandwirth stood u to die?
infamy of Illli what think you of the people, of the nation
-ofthe millions, ho n on Inn: ,7 ' ‘ '
er who would love and trust th an
insult of their dead. S for half
lndm.
c ve st
“patriots" for fifty years maligne thos
for our freedom lives, wives, sweethearts, h
mothers, all things dear to man. So have w
dec 1
Ireland too hot for English rule, let us
rccomiizc t
labors and sac-riiiccs of those who were the last that really
meant the same. Let us covet their devotion, assume their
virtue, if we a it no , a c or we fail or conquer,
be worthy of the land where their memories shall yet reign
trium hant.
nd, wh th
Above all, let no man henceforth dare to utter or listen
to a calnmny against them. Blush for the cow
which held you silent so dong; but be silent, or hypocri<
tical, or cowardly no more. You do love these glorious
THE UNITED IRISHMAN.
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rlarlrnn s and the splendour, the treachery and the her
the baseness and the greatness, equally immortal. o
1 trace. 0
h c, while his relict rolls in all the delights of polite
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with a wife, “he obtained his last premium
in rcenarics so strong as the stronger arm of
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’ ' ‘ the oppressed native-no right to rob in a government so
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lllilll
It had, too, a wider social effect’. 'The ideas of ev
class, but one, changed ;, prejudices of shundred y ars’
owth were, for the first time, c aotic, contradictory,
visionary in somemvanishing in others. For a long time
can nntinn nfn “ ' Tmhnd luui nrnvruilm-I
it ong the sturdy “spawn of the old covenant’.’ in th
North, dreamily, rather than in cxpresse intent. The
Presbyterian religion, the memories of Scottish strife, the
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nwn
R ‘ “ “ bv their
right arms, broad lands, and walled towns by the sea, con.
reload, “the bar." Circumstances of one kind o
Vmr ‘ ' ' ‘
3’
d dl .
oaths of interpreter of English law to Irish serfs.
Ch 1)
pithicst, and truest judgment of any Chancello
all.
ever, it was not over-profitable. Besides, the law
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a ct
pending election petition for the borough of Dungarvsn.
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unions with the witty, the elegant, but true
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tinned to influence and guide the Northernmcn. Since they
A ' ,‘ “ p , else, filtered
through Molyneux and Lucas, and every orator and writer
bat whole century, reminded them yet‘ the liberty for
which they had fought, and which they had not; and from
the beginning of the reign of George III., were pictures of
.s
I l ;
and Wilkes, and Tooke, and a thousand others, kept up the
Earn
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e
against st
the weakened trade, the tottering commerce, the unwilling
poverty, hilt; wurpui ury emigration inseparable from every
enslaved land. In the late war, they of the North had
risen to defend Ireland against invasion from France-.not
nern Cl
liberty," the hotbed of Popery, the enemy of Pro 9-
tantism, their enemy. That one, the struggle inArncrica.
recalled the old dream of a Protestant Republic. The
aristocracy, driven into the combat, aided the Ulster
Presbyterians, until b finesse, and tine-talk, and grim
. aspect, and fanfaronmle, they got Ireland into their hands,
“constitutionally." Then liberty was cushioned. The
to attain electoral reform. But alone, deserted by the
“ patriots” in parliament-not staoping to solicit, or fearing
with a vain fear to trust the chained “papist," they
fa’
But that Bastille-burning cleared oif much rubbish. The
Frenchman ta 'ng aim ong a cannon, match in hand, and
shooting down monarchy and aaistocracy at twenty rounds
an-hour, was a. very respectable citizen, and no slavish
enemy to Protestant liberty nor Ulster Republicanism at
all. nun clan u u, was very diffe-
rent from France of the Pretender, from Dance of
J esuitry, from France of monarchy, and slaves, and
unseemly priests, and over pious eopl swanning there so
as to make the Ulster gorge rise. These ireful Ulster-men
began to think of the great aid Catholic Ireland would be
or a
came to him; he learned to regard the little politics of
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to them in a struggle f ree , only they were so
nangerous to liberty, so ruinous in the event of a
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not ‘In ‘ ' L " ‘ " ‘ ‘ c' izen, as trueare ub-
tl it
lican as one of these French papists, to whose praise they
were mingling their paean with the universe. Just then
one Thomas Paine wrote a book; and not long after, some
ol " ' ‘ ‘ ‘ they wouru resist another
French invasion, or whether they ought, for their own
sakes, to keep, in scrfage, under the aristocracy they too
hated, such materials of libel by as the co-rcligionists of the
French nation.
And these co-religionists began to waken, too...to shake
themselves in their chains, and feel the gripe and weight
that grilled them. The “lower classes“ had lost their hold
of the html, under the “ penal laws"-.r'.e., laws enacte
y the aristocracy, making it enal for one of the people
0 own anything. Throughout the south and west, for
an
ong years, partial insurrcctions had wrestled with these
awn ' ‘
. on us ,
neutrality. So thought Tone, clinging, as all young in
ts
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rice ; you do admire their acts. Avow it, without shame,
or fear, in the morn, or even, or midnight; in the street
‘ca has raised over some of them
i ns of stone; Is'r‘a.nee hm’: given others mausoleum: ;-
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or the closet. Amen
co um
even in distant Venezuela a young Republic tends ‘the
graves of the United Irish ;-shall home be the only
of earth ungrateful?
And
that you may know them and their times, their
' es, we mean to set forth in order a
relation of hat they strove for, and how they f
e, an ot faiL.th.-ity m
strengthened from their failure, and having .1e;u-ned
trust only to the weapons they used, who
aims and their sacniic
end that on may striv
In 1 nation. may meet, once more, their enemy and ours,
NARRAT r: rounonn.
In the year 1785, two sister named Wctherington,
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some students used every evening to wall:, and of ti
one, a scholar of the University, a spare, middle-sized,
and wife
Some years after, the younger sister, too, was wedded.
I ch o b ld
thinker. but 3 fifelmef. a sincere, clear-headed politician,
Was. however. coming up with him; and the
din ithe hat .
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ic was “ beautiful as an angcl;" he
“wild," clever, frank, insinuating in manner, and without’
08> The)’ run otl" together one morning
and Wolfe Tone and Matilda Wethcr-ingtnn bee
and mum ..... ruling
M0 Mtinnnl institutinvw hetimes. The French revolution
urst on this people in the very depth of human slaveryj
'“ ' u nau aggravated, instead of alleviating,
miseries. Clearly something more must he done,
hey could benefit by it. Some means must be taken
give them a sure spot to dwell in and tillacithcr a
suffrage which would make them valuable slaves, to be
kept and fed by their landlords; or else a tenure making
, rm ‘ , ‘ lnmllnril: 'mv
heir
ere t
to '
more.
A further repeal of the penal laws, for which some mer-
chants of Diubhn hml beep agitating, without success,
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Ulster might attain the second. Tonwlhe man before
his trmgsaw this; and further, that the former was cs-
sentr lto the latter, an that by combining both move-
ments: he could attain his end-entire independence of
Engidndy English mic, law, crown and connexion;
un er any form of native government whatever. but inde-
pendence at all hazar s. .
. Such were the thoughts coursing before Tone, haunting
him hke a passion night and day, in the sunlight and the
shade, when, at the desire of Russell, he sent to the
helfast Volunteers a political declaration again English
mllucnce.l‘or :1-Electoral reform, and for the extension of
elective franchises to the Catholics. The last portion was
rejected (July, 1791.
In the ensuing September, he published his defence of
Q19 0311101105. addressed to the Ulster men, and si med.
A orthern Whig. re merchants of Dublin throngcd
round him-the Volunteers of Belfast (of the Green Com-
Pan!) lrlnde Iran, with Henry Flood, an honorary member,
““‘1‘“V"e'3,h15nV)%I!sn:1 some days with th . He ac-
cepted the invitation in pctober; wrote udeclaration con-
taining fully the three points stated; and then and there, on
uzsday, the 18th, the first club of United Irishmcn was
as
The declaration contained these sentences 2...
“I hink it our duty, as Irishmca to come flI'W’Il’i and
state what we feel to be our hea ' v’ ‘ ‘ xi
tu be its effectual remedy. vy 8-ne“mw' and “hm M I “W
. n rmvn no N.u1o2mr. OOV'El'LX.‘IEXT' we are rulel by
Inghshmen, and th servants of Euglislrmcn: whose object isthe
1 tercst of onothc-“r --vrtry--w osa instrument is cornrpziun, and
V hose strcn his the weakness of Ireland; and thcscmcnlmvt‘
is viholeo the power and patronage of the country, nsmcans
‘ ‘ er
. ' in the an
nth uniform force a ‘a direction too fr
2 of our obvious interests, on an in-;srsrr: ' "
steer souzrx nr lINA.VDll1'Y, DECISION, Am, gpum. .5 ‘run:
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