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VOL. XIX.
THE DEATH OF SARSFIELD,
[Sarsfield was killed at the battle of Landen, in the Low Countries, on
the 29th of July, 1693. . In that battle William 111. was beaten by
shal Luxembourgh, with heavy loss on both sides. ].
©) Barefield has sailed from Limerick town—
oe He held it long for country and crown;
nd, ere he yielded, the Saxon swo
To spoil our homes and our shrines no more. |
Sarsfield and most of his chivalry
_. Are fighting for France im the Low Country—
‘At his fiery charge the Saxons reel;
They learit at Limerick to dread his steel.
mL
Sarsfield is dying on Landen’s plain,
His corslet had met the ball in vaio—
As his life-blood gushes into his hand,
oe e says, “Oh! that this were for Fatherland!”
Iv.
'” Sarsfield is dead, yet no tears shed we—
je died in the arms of victory.
» And his dying words shall edge the brand,
i _....... When we ehace the foe from our native land.
[ Nation.
. REPEAL IN ULSTER,
ce SPLENDID MEETING IN CARRICKMACROSS.
. [Brom the Dublin Freeman's Jourual.]
Cassidy’s Hotel, Carrickmacross, Tuesday evening,
. April 25. 1843.
The town from which I date this has been made the theatre
of one of the most imposing Repeal demonstrations that I ever
Temember to have witnessed. “ Long accustomed though I am
to sights of this kind, I yet have no hesitation in stating that the
splendid manifestation of popular feeling which bas been just
exhibited io favor of Repeal at Carrick macross has been seldom
equalled aod never surpassed by any previous simi!ardemonstra-
ton ia Irelaod. © To call it a meeting of the people of Carrick-
macross were to a to it an appellation exceedingly erro-
neous, and quite disproportionate with its true character and ex-
; teat, for not only were the men of Carrick and the adjoining lo-
| calities present, but thousands flocked into the town from the
most remote districts of the north. _ It was the firstdemonstration
of the kind that has takea place in Ulster since the commence-
meant of the Repeal year; aad if the cause continues to progress
here atthe majestic pace in which it is at present moving, there
can be little doubt but tbat the men of tbe north will, ere long,
} rival, io the ardor of their enthusiasm, the inhabitants of Meath
.( or Tipperary, or those of the most patriotic of the southern dis-
‘ triets where O'Connell is the god of every one's idolairy—where
They! **from rosy mora to dewy eve,” the theme of cuaversation is
no evermore Repeal. The weather was exceedingly unpropitious,
‘but this untoward circumstance had no effect in damping the
enthusiasm of ihe people, for from Monaghan, Clones, Ballibay,
Contebill, Ballyborough, Kingscourt,’ Castlebleaey, Armagh,
Newry, Dundaik, Louth, Ardee, Dunamoine, Crossmaglin,
Drumcondra, and a bundred other localities t60 numerous to
mention, the inhabitants flocked into Carrick by the thousand,
and the countless multitude continued momentarily ta receive
fresh accession till at length the towa was literally blocked up,
and two hours before the business of the meeting commenced,
the Maino-street was crowded to such excess that to walk from
one side of it to the other was a feat impracticable to any man
unless of indomitable perseverance, who could afford to expend
g full hoor iv the completion of the task. The remark is as old
as Will Shakspeare, that * he is but a bastard of the time who
doth not smack of observation,” and that men must, jodeed,
have ‘no speculation ia his eye,” who, on witnessing such a
“scene, could forbear from reflecting of what enormous impor-
~ tance that question must be which could excite such enthusiasm
ia the popular mind as to make thousands of men disregard the
* toils of travel and defy the terrors of a sky, almost Siberian, ra-
ther than lose the opportunity of expressing their feelings. Nu-
“merous arches, very prettily designed, were throwa across the
~oad in various directions—green boughs were displayed in al-
‘most every house, and as much laurel was exhibited as would
“ eerve to make garlands for the brows of all the poets from Ho-
‘mer to Coroner Wakley. There were nearly 200 police in the
= towa, who, by the way, made themselves very absurd by the
= ostentatious display of their muskets, besides a number of rifle-
~< meo, and @ party of the 4th Dragoon Guards, but nothing occur-
© red to occasion a necessity for their services, and the day passed
otf in great tranquilily, “The meeting was held in the Bishop's
'2Field, ovarly opposiie Gallows-bill, of infamous memory, a0)
° upon the platiorin we observed great numbers of Catholic cler-
+ gymen, aad, among other, the following :—The Rev. Bernard
*¢ Moddeo, Rev. Mr. Baonon, P. P., Louth; Rev. Mr. Boylan,
y Rev. Mr. Murphy, C. C., Maghera-
eloon; Rev. Mr. M’Mabon, C, C., Magheracloon; Rey. Mr.
Rey. Mr. M'Neil. Rev. Mr.
of Creggan; Rev, Mr. Kinellao, P. P., Eoniskeen ;
dJtev. Mr. Maghee, C. C., Kings-court; Rev. Mr. Mulligan, P.
»—P,, Farbili; Rev. Mr. Tierney; Rev. Mr. Goodwin, P. P.,
~~ Ballybay; Kev. Mr. Gormley, C. C., Ballybay; Rey. Mr.
© Brenona, P. P., Anoamullen; Rev. Mr. ‘Tiernan, C..C., Ao-
4onamullen;: Rev. Mr. Quin, P. P., Mallivilly; Rev. Mr. Mla-
© guiré,° : uffy, Dunamoine, and many
a
NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1843.
and graziers, and several independent gentlemen. ‘The respec-
table householders of the town attended almost to a man, and,
amongst others, we observed—Dr. M’ Mahon, Messr’s C. M’Ma-
hon, James Gartlan, W. Jackson, H. Banin, E. Magenois,
Cassidy, Joseph Ledley, W. Page, W. Kenny, Plunket
Kenny, and ard, the secretary ; Mr. Eland, the Repeal
Warden of the town, was also present, and to him much praise
is due for his energy in the Repeal cause.
Mess'rs Hughes and Malony, with a deputation of twenty
gentlemen from Dundalk, arrived at Carrick at an early hour
to invite Mr, O’Connell to visit their town.
Several tempesance bands were in atiendance, the members
of which walked in procession before Mr: O'Connell's carriage
ftom Moynalty to Carrick.
On the motion of the Right Rev. Dr. Kernan the chair was
taken by Thomas Seaver, Esq., of Heath fall, Newry.
The requisition having been read, Mr. George Gartland moved
the first resulution, which -was to the effect, that the Union was
effected by means the most unjustifiable, and that the meeting
was resolved to use all legal means to procure its Repeal.
ev. Mr. Boylan, P. P:, of Monaughancloon, seconded
the resolution in an able speech.’
he motion was put from the chair, snd carried unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. Mulligan, of Farbillagh, proposed the next
resolution, repudiating on the part of the Ulster Repealers the
idea of separation from England.
W. Jackson, of Raymills, Ballibay, an independent Pres
byterian gentleman, came forward to second the next resolution,
and was received with the warmest demonstrations of applause.
He warmly concurred in the spirit of that resolution, and thought
that in passing it the meeting was only giving vent tothe feeling
by which the [rish people had been invariably actuated through
all the wild viscissitudes of a most oppressive fortune doring
600 successive years (hear.) It was against tyranny tbat the
Trish people had always combatied—tor they were a people
most devotedly attached to justice—but strenuously though they
resisted the oppressions attempted upup them by a number o!
English adveoturers who came to this country to achieve power
aad independence at the expense of our lives and property, they
never breathed a thought of disloyalty to the reigning sovereign.
No; they left that to England. The people of Eagland took
one king's head off, and banished another into exiie, when both
pursued a course of conduct which they did not approve; but
frequently though Ireland had been trampled in the dust by the
iron hoof of tyranny she never furfeited her allegiance; she pre-
served her loyalty unshaken, and ifthe sceptre were ever to fall
from che house of Hanover it would not be struck from it by the
Trish hand. © But it was a part of the wily policy of England to
defame the character ofevery country that she designed to up-
press. "T'was an old adage—as well hang a dog as give him
a bad name,” and the English, by representing us in the most
edious and repulsive colours possible, conceived that they would
estrange from the Irish people the sympathy of foreign countries,
and thus facilitate their disgraceful purpose of enslaving and op
pressing us (cheers.)’ But they well knew that it was a rank
falsehood to attribute disioyalty to Ireland, and he threw the
calumny indigoantly in their teeth. ~ What interest covtd the
Irish people have in changing the throne of Eogland?’ That
they had an joterest—great, impurtant, most vilal—in manfully
asserting their right to make the laws by which they were them-
selves to be governed, he could easily imagine, but he was at a
loss to conceive what earthly interest they could have in desir-
ing a change in the throne of England. But the idea was so
preposterous that it carried with it its own refutation, and to
argue the point would be to invest it with a fictitious importance
({hear.) It argued a most lamentable deficiency of intellect and
discerament to place any retiance’ on the promises of England,
who sever made a treaty which sbe did not violare (a Voice—
“Limerick! Limerick!") They had nothing but their own
exertions to rely upon—it was their only hope of political satva-
tion; but if they would be but true to themselves they might
rest confidently assured that they would succeed in achievin,
the great object of thei ambition—their legislative independence,
for a leading English organ bad, with great truthfulness, declar-
ed that ‘nine millions of people were too strong tu be dragged
at the tail of any other nation.” ‘
The motion was put from the chair, and carried unanimously,
“Mr. Peter Hoey, of Carrick macross, seconded the resolution,
which was one expressive of the meeting's gratitude to, and
confidence io, the Liberator.
The question was put from the chair and
most vociferous applause.
Mr. O'ConneLn thea presented himeelf in the front of the
plaiform, and was received with thunders of applause, which
were repeatedly reiterated till the s srounding bills and valleys
resounded again and again to the enthusiastic acclamations of
the ass: mbled thousands, When silence was at ‘en2th «b sined,
he proveeded to say that he could not find language eufficieatly
emphitic to convey anything like an adequate idea of the sen-
(iments of gratitude which be entertained towards them for the
magnificent demonsiration which that day met his eyes.
carried amid the
desired. however, that they should vot mistake his words.—
When hz spoke of bis gratiuce, it was no feeling of puerile vane
Wy thal Mauve bim rejoice at We comptimentthey bad paid bia;
for whatever there was in it of personal kindaess towards him-
8-lf, was to his mind, *swollowed up and lost’, in the reflec-
WO. 21,
be found in their inherent spirit of patriotism aod indomitable
determination to serve the cause of their native land. [Cheers.}
He was thankful to them for this reason, that they had afforded
him an opportunity for addressing many thousands in the north
of Ireland, who were not perhaps heretofore very familiarly ac-
quainted with the details of the great political project which the
heart of Ireland was set upon, and of explaining to the many
ho, oa no previous occasion had listened to bim, the nature
aad character of the measure which be proposed to the conside-
ration of the Irish people as the only ellectual remedy for the
misfortunes of their country. The struggle in which they were
engaged was worthy ofthe countenance of universal Ireland ;—~+
for it was not a movement which was in the sligbiest degree
susceptible of a sectarian complexion. It could never be re-
garded as a triumph of a party or section, for they were strug-
gling for the Protestant, Presbyterian, and Disseoter, fully as
much as for the Uatholic [hear, hear, and cheers] | He was
not fostering in iheir breasis a spirit of political animosity to any
other class of men in the community, nor wes he ioflaming any
sectarian passions.» Fer be it from bim; tbe desire to exhort
the Irish people to do what in former years hed been a thing of
too ordinary occurrence—to hate each other in the name of the
God of Charity. Such was not his policy. From the day whea
first he started upon his political career to the present moment,
he had invariably inculcated the doctrines of conciiation and
friendship ; wherever he wended his way he carried the clive
branch in his haod, and lest any misconception as to this fact
might exist in the minds of bis oppenenis, be wes delighted
that 60 opportunity bad been efforded him for fully explaining
to tbe men of Ulster what was the purpose be had in vii
what he was looking for, and what were the agencies by which
he proposed to achieve the object of his political emvlation.—
[hear, bear, and cheers.].. He regretted that the weather was
80 Uapropitious on tbe present occasion, but it was delightful to
find that nothing could cool the ardor of their patriotism, and
they saw in the severity of the elements a proof of the old prov-
erb, that it raineth alike on the just and unjust.” [lavghter.]
Why if they were a set of paltry recreanty whose pride and glory
it would be to sell their country instead of the honest fellows they
were, the rain and hail could oot fall more heavily on them.—
(lavghier). But these were matters over which they could ex-
ercise no control, and to repine was therefore useless, as be
would retura to his subject.
Mr. O'Connell—But the men on whom he depended for the
achievement of this splendid victory were the Repeal Wardens,
ellingion conquered at Waterloo, not by bis colovele, generals,
and field-marshals, but by his corporals and sergeanty, who look-
ed to the drilling of every man in the British forces. The Re-
eal Wardens were his corporals and sergeants in his morat
fights and, although he was not as good a general as Welling
ton—whom, however, be beat once—still he had no hesitation
in predicting that if they gave him active Repeal Wardens in
every parish the day would not be far distant when the bright
sun of freedom would beam on ovr land. He called on the ba- *
rony of Farvey toenrol themselves with him ia the Repeal as-
sociation (cries of * we will”). But be could not conclude his
address without again exhorting them most earnestly to remem-
ber that no one who advocated the use of violent measures or
physical force could ever be enrolled in the same ranks with
him. Since he bad arrived in Moneghan he bad been informed
that a Scotchman and an Englishman bad come to that towa
for the purpose of swearing the Catholic population to Ribbon-
ism. ‘He implored, he supplicated, be conjured them not to
have anything to say to them; secondly, the Socialists were
men who scorned all religion, and the true character of the
;Chartists was eloqueatly demonstrated by the fact that they
were the allies and confederates of such men. These invidious
counsellors knew well that ifthe Repeaters took his advice, and
enrolled themselves under bis bloodless standard, victory was
assured to them, and for their own malignant purposes they en~
deavoured to dissuade them from a course 60 prudent and judia
5 jciaue (hear. hear.) But he forewarned the Catholic peasantry
of the peril in which they were placed. He implored of them
|as they loved Ireland, a8 they adored the living God, as they
felt any interest in their own welfare, and that of their wives
nd families, not to bave anythiug to say with a Ribbon Society
{cries of «we won't, we won't”]. These rascals wanted to seit
| their blond, or, at all events, to rob them of their liberty. He
| exhorted his bearere, by all that they held most dear in this
world and in the next, to hold no commerce with such men.—
Love and conciliation for all meo—let that be their motto, but
po Ribbonism {cries of ‘no, no.”] Let them tell the Orange-
men of their acquaintance that they mistook him [Mr.O'Con~
j nell] most fatally in supposing that he wanted a triumph over
| them. He bad vo battle with them [bear, hear.] He had ear-
ried a point which was io dispute between them and the great
masses of his countrymen; but he was now engaged in a strug-
\gle which was not susceptible of the slightest unge of sectarian
{eolouring, which would promote the best intereste of all classes
of Irishmen, and would restore ta them their native land. The
jhon. and learned gentleman again taok occasion to warn bis
hearers against the machinations of Chartist emissaries, ood
having alluded tothe many high and ennobling qualities of the
Irish character, concluded by observing that such a people were
tco Virtuous, loo moral, and too intellectual to remain in a state
of thraldom to any nation of the earth, and resumed his seat
tivn that the grand motive wich bad influenced them to con- | emid the most tumultuons applause.
gregate around bim in thousaads aud tens of thouguads wasto| Mr. Meary Kelly, of Tullydrum, moved a yote of thanks ta
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