... Charles Lucas prosecuted, his property ruined, Ids existence embittered, are some of its triumphs. It threatened the life of Grattan, it took the sacred lives of Tone, Fitzgerald, and Emmett. No man has served Ireland and evaded its rancorous hate. It laid ...

... Assembly the American Congress. We cannot suppress our shame and disgust, for example, when we find two Irish Members (Messrs. Grattan and Reynolds) amusingthe English Commons,night afternight, with scurril jests and stale libels on thsir own country and people ...

... who, in the present state of Europe, would refuse the righteous demands of a nation which, in the words of Grattan, is united like Ireland—armed like Ireland—and injured like Ireland. But if so, have cleared our own souls—we stand on the basis of just ...

... obstacles to national union. should simultaneously arm themselves, for armed men make short work and we cannot afford to wait. (Loud cheers.) Their ultimatum being adopted, and their ranks being armed, they should before the Queen of Ireland and lay down ...

... breath of time may defy, And they bloom when foul tyrant, lying, Looks his.last upon God’s starry sky. The good sword of Grattan is gleaming To wipe off the wrongs of past years, And o’er the dark hill side streaming The flag of the bold Volunteers. When ...

... had long hungered, and for the want of which tens of thousands of his murdered countrymen had perished—the formation of an armed national guard in Ireland, &c. (Loud cheers.)” 1 think it material to allude to report which I only saw to-day, and which gives ...