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“VOL. XV. 2s .
- NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, BECEMBER 28,1839, 0 0 :
{For the New-York Truth Teller
. TME BANQUET. ’
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‘ sofone of my fair Alexandrian friends, and springing on the bank
{ was surrounded by the whole group; who insisted on my joining
atheir party in the pavilion, and flinging the tendrils of jasmine |
' which they had just plucked around me, led me no unwilling
{ eaptive to the banquet room.”—Moone’s Epicurean. |
i . 3. With their jasmine wreathsthey bond me,
] . And awilling coptiveled | “4
To the hall where mirth presided, os a
| O’er the costly banquet spread
i * To feast tbe sense and drown the soul,
. | In pleasure’s glowing dream,
And io the grapes encircling bowl
© ‘Yo drink from Lethe’s stream. *
| » From tips that breathed the soul of song
; “and music’s sweetest strain,
| T felt the bliss the moments gone
; t Nor did they pass in vaio | 9°)
. ~ The lute and eung and cup went round, ‘°°
{ And merry were we all, :
Pr , For pleasure had hervotariescrowned *; —* “
i ‘oe + « Within that banquet ball, . .
From lovely Greece fair maids were there
i In native veiis attired, 508 “i+
{ » "The graces which they seemed to shade
{ . Were but the more admired;
; Jy Slight glimpses ever were revealed»
i *. Like beauty’s eye that's bids) 5 i 4
! , Tu charm the more when half concealed
. Beneath its drooping lid.”
Botthere was one who sat alone, >- .
{ Unmoved by revel’s sound, 9) :
\ A chaplei of dark coloured flowers |...
5 Upon her bead was bound, \
‘Not once she spoke, nor once did taste,
j _ Of all that sparkled there, ,
} And hours that laughing pleasures chased —»
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What could have caused a grief
That pleasyre’s bright and sonny smile +’
J) Could not afford retief— 9 ' °°
° Lasked of one sat by iny side, |
Yo tell the reason whys= {0% oO) inn |
‘She strove methought, a tear to bide,
“s+ "But gave me no reply. .
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<r), Meantime the lyre'and cup went round |!) 7s
Mid feelings festive dow, ) of ar se
With all the bliss enjoyment gave '
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toe, And when a young Athenian maid
tr Sang to her lute sweet strains, °°) 8
i ‘| A eaptive was my soul conyeyed, oo Is
"Back to my native plains. 5
“'” Even there amid these present joys,
I sighed for pleasures Nown, Vit os
While she whose skill then toucted the lute,
Called forth its sweetest tone,
From memory’s store of vanished bliss
T culled the choicest flowers,
And felt anew the thrilling kiss abort a
Of former happy hours. ~ ve
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, With rapid wing, the time flew by ° “
: _Unnoted was its flight, oo .
_ Until the rorning’s purple beam , . :
cyt Surprised us with ite light,” «1 Hb as?
VY 8) °Dwas with regret, we then arose © + :
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Hastening to proffer my assistance, I soon recognised the voice |
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your countrymen from future. exertion, “an
Alas! how fleet time’s' pinion goes
Unrufiled by acare...¥ = Wie .
‘Eresyet our boats were well afioat
, Or sails‘had wooed the wind,
*T was said the young Athenian maid .
Had left her lute behind,— :
T lingered not, but sprang ashore :
That sweet toned Jute to gain, ;
‘Whose sounds I felt forever more
Were linked in mem'rys ehain.~ .
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‘With hasty steps I soon regained
‘That now deserted ‘hall,
‘Where late was splendour now was gloom ,
And silence slept o’er all— a
T turned aside to seek the lute
But felt a startling thrill,
For there all lonely veiled and mute
A form was seated still.’
That silent form whose cold reserve
Did not a moment share, .
‘The pleasures which our banquet gave
Yee still was seated there,—
A feeling which I cannot name, .
An awe,—a chill,—a fear.’ .
Stole o'er me as I'slowly came
To view that figure near.
“. There was ne motion—all was mute,
What e’er the spell that bound,
Not e’en the flowrets seemed to stir. |
Wherewith her head was crowned,—
And when I had removed the wreath
Yet heard no sound of breath,
I raised the veil,—and saw beneath,
- The ghastly form of Death. B.C.
“IRELAND.
TO WILLIAM SHARMAN CRAWFORD, Esq.
Str—Nothing could be more foreign fiom my purpose than
to make use of any expressions approaching to unwarrantable
aspérity in the letier which 1 had the honour of addressing to
you on the subject of the Repeal agitation; and if 1 had done
so imentionally I would consider myseif imperatively called
upon to offer the most ample apology. .
' But, Sir, allow we tw observe that in that part of my letter
npon which you seem to feel most strongly, 1 do nat yet (and
say, it with the utmost reepéct) consider «ny observations al-
together unjustifiable. ‘In saying “you would submit to the
eternal degredation of your country,” I cannot I'must candidly
confess point to any of your leners or speeches in which you
titerally wrote or spoke to this eflect; but my remarks were: in
the nature of an inference drawn from ihe tenur of your letier
on Repeal, and this inference or conclusion I am still disposed
to consider legitimate. .
Remember, Sir, that much of yeur political exertion has been
_Jexpended in proving the inefficiency of instalment agitation ;
but in your letter on Repeal you propose an instalment—thus
proposing what you would condemn—thes suggesting a remedy
for Ireland. which, if vou are still opposed to instalments, you
would not assist in carrying Qui—ibus holding the tantalising
cop to your conntry, but-leaviog her, notwithstanding, in
* eternal degredation.”” : . : ,
Again, Sir, and although you epeak of remedies, do you not
labour, by asserting the inutility of the various associations
formed by Mr, O’Connell, 10 sho that any effort which Iretand
may make must'be ineffectual? Do you wot, in fact, allege
that the moral power of Ireland is absolutely wasted? and
may we not infer from the allegation that you would discourage
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“eternal degradation,” believing thet future om eal be
useless: . .
This may account {or our disagreement “on discriminating
between the policy of a revival of the Repeal agitation and the
actual Repeal itself." You, who seem to despair of Ireland's
fiiure strength, would not org :
general, and peaceable discussion, her right to be again a na-
tion, nor advise her to put herself, by such discussion, in a posi-
tion that would enable her to demand justice or independence
with effect; but T, who cannot doubt the moral energies of nine
millions of people, would give this advice, and woult not cal} it
an empty sound, because, as I have sai?, Ido not despair, and
am confident that justice or Repeal should be the result. ~
As to the Canadas, you-sli!l confound the queerion, and make
Ireland and Canada the same, and ask—as 1“ detend the right
of theimperial parliament to apyily the revenues raised in Cana-
da,” how an Irish parliament, created by the British legistature,
can be secured, if an invasion of its rights be attempted? - .T'o
thia; Sir, I answer, that Ireland must be excepted from the rule
regulating our colonial possessions. , Ireland is, or ought to be,
a “distinct Kingdom,” and bistory informs us that her right, of
holding a separate, distinct, independent parliament. is as a
aient as the present constitution of the British legislature itself,
and twice, or thrice, or ofiener, between the year 1172, and the
passing of Poyning’s law did this parliament declare its inde~
pendenve tothe world. .Even under the operation of Poyning’s
law, the best authorities held her to be a nation. Swift asserted
that afier reviewing all the statutes relating to the subject, he
“could find no law by which Ireland depended upon England, .
any more than England depended upon Ireland,” and, Sir, this
doctrine was gloriously .confirmed in 82 by the repeal of tre
6th Geo. 1,¢. 5, when England herself virtually declared thet
her Lords and Commons had no power to make faws to bind
this country. - See By
If these things do not make Jreland something more than a
Canada, I am ata loss to know what antiquity and indepen-
dence mean... At all events, Sir, I would take the liberty of
*| suggesting, that in speaking of Repeal we should rather use the
word “revival”. or ~‘restoration” of our. own parliament than
call ita creation of the British legislature; aod I would also
add, that the restoration would be accomplished under the aus-
pices of reform, which, with national independence, would place
Treland in an attitude te defend berself against an invasion of
her rights. ‘ -- ,
Blackstone states, that previous to Toyning’s law, the Trisit
Parliament made what laws it * thought proper,” while, in enu-
merating the provincial charter and municipal governments of the
colonies, he lays it down as a principle that those governments
can make no law repugnant to those of the mothér ‘country. ,
In the colonial case a special authority is delegated for a special
end or purpose, tothe furtherance of which purpose (expecially
in chartered governments) their laws must tend ; and for these
reasons their power in taxation is] apprehend on the same prin
ciple of our own imperative grand-jury _ governments, and the
frequent exercise of the power of the going judges of assize, ana~
lagous in principle to the recent interference of the bome }e--
gislature in the fiseal affairs in Canada and Jamaica. But how
different must the case of Ireland be in the event of a revival
or a restoration of that parliament, which is shown to be as au-
cient as that of England, which had “been as independent and °°
distinct, over'which the Lords and Commons of Englaad de-
clared they. had ‘no contraul, and which would, as I said before,
e restored under the auspices of reforms! 9? i
} would not defend the interference of the home legislature
with any of ber colonies, unless in the most extreme cases.”
merely contend for the existence of the principle, te shaw that the
case of Ireland and the colonies are different.) And now, Sir,
without for the prosent. presuming to instruct by, according to.
your request, giving you a whole history of Canada,’ perhaps
what I have said would satisfy you thai you should not consider
the situatian of the two countries as the, same. , Ifso, 1. shall+
feel most hoppy—Hf not, T shall still bey 8 ei rt
Sir, your most obedient, very humble servant,
_ VALENTINE BLAKE.
EXTERMINATION, OF TENANTRY.
The work of desolation is going forward most prospercusly:
We ‘hear daily of melancholy instances of its progress in the
Queen's County, Kildare, Carlowy Kc. Houses are inade te-
nantless in all directiona—the war of extermination, is carried
on against the, unprotected widow, aad her helpless orphans,
as well as against the fathers of families; and those who might
have more, resources to inspire them wih foritude. To. Iw
sure, a man may do what fe likes with his own,” bet with
sueh acts of harless babarity--rsuch scenes ‘of suflering huma-
nity before one’s, eyes, scenes which, make the blood Url witli
indignatio:, that is a doctrine dangerous to, speculation. ub
lic opinion is’ set at defiance 5 and at the same. time that they
seek to stigmatise the country with the outrages of the deluded
victims of their tyranny, they proceed to test beyond the, limits
of humane endurance, the forbearance of the poores and most
uneducated of tne people. The Leinster Jadependent tells us
that the system has been introduced with vigour frow the coun-
iry parts to the towns, aod that_in the, borough of Carluw such
scenes have lately been witnessed as the turning. houseless on
the world a’ poor woman with nine children, her husband being
in England, and,his only fault being that of having voted, for
Mr. Gisborne, at the last clectiod !” Such facts need no: com-
ment; but we would place one of them vis-a-vis agains! a do-
zen exaggerated outra es in the lying columus of our Tory ca-
lumniators.-- Freenan’s Journal. ,. etd bas att
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Sunemehiautiamhamaentibamen stor macane crak ae
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