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FRAGMENTS OF A.\'EXILE’S THO UGIITS
ox run ANNIVERSARY or 1118 LANDING IN AMERICA.

Eleven long, weary years have passed,

Since first I saw this mighty land,
(Upon its teeming bosom cast

By failing Fate's unkind command,)
Aye lingering through their dreary round,
As if I trod forbidden ground.

I’ve never looked into its sky,

Impenetrably deep and blue ;
I have not felt as though an eye

Of scorn had pierced me through and through,
And left, within my lonely breast,
A tortured spirit of unrest.

I’ve found where’er my footsteps strayed

A brother’s hand and welcome look,
And eyes as smiling as the glade,

With voices soft, as murmuring brook,
Inviting me to join their glee,
But gladness, it hath none for me.

I’ve listened to the thundering cheer,
The wild immeasurable roar,
_ With which, on each recurring year,
The air is rent from shore to shore,
Towelcome, and to bless, the day
That dawned with a redeeming ray.

I’ve listened, but my heart the while
Sank into gloomier loneliness,

Nor could tumultuous revel wile
Away my memory’s distress;

And I beheld in all the scene

Not what I was, but might have been.

If we could fancy what the dead,
In their cold narrow dwellings feel,
When revelers, above their head,
In reckless exultation reel,
We could, it may be, realize
My feelings mid these joyous cries.

I’ve tried the arts, they say, dispel

The o’erladened bosom’s deepest care,
Have worked for bread; and, sooth ‘to tell!

Of, even success, have had my share,
But ah! my heart! no change could e’er
Shed light upon the darkness there.

I’ve been in Camp, in Mart and Hall,
Have had my conflicts, friendships, joys,
And seemed to feel them, but through all
The one untiring memory cloys,
I am an exile and, alas!
Am mirrored such, in every glass.

They greet me! ’1‘is eompassion’s hand

Is stretched to welcome the distressed;
They give me cheer, I understand

’Tig pity, to my lot, addressed,
They. oh what mockery ! bid me share
The Freedom other hands prepare.

Ah, curse and spurn me, so ’twere best,
I have no title to your cheer,
"With scorn receive the exile, lest
He may conceive his home is here.
While oh, that home is far away,
Seen only through the battle fray.

The path of exile tends to two

(Or one or other) fatal ends,
The lull, as if of summer dew,

of pitying symp ithy of friends;
Or worse, the wretched thing that crawls
Like mendicants to festive halls.

Oh far from me ! forever far,
The criminal forgetfulness,
My fondest hope’s eternal star
Still circling o’er my loneliness.
Let fortuneor disaster come,
Thy course be true to the Island Home.

HOW THE IV.-IR GOES ON AT I1 OME-
THE pncnsrx on run WING IN 1B1r.°L.4.ND.
A voice FROM coax.

HAVING occasionally read a stray number of the Pncnmx, in
which I am more fortunate than most of my countrymen here,
it may not be unimportant to offer a few suggestions to those of
them on the other side of the Atlantic, who are its readers, and
who still hope for the regeneration of their native land. The
Pmnxnx being the only journal which advocates the cause of
our nationality in a proper spirit, which teaches no sneaking
“ moderate” course to those who have, for centuries, been in
various forms “civilized” according to the approved systems of
the Anglo Saxon, it is to be regretted it is not more generally
read by those of our countrymen here who are still ready to
wield a lance for life or death in the good old cause. In the
establishment of an agency for its sale in this island of ours,
blessed as it is with a model “constitution,” I admit there may
be difficulties, from the anxious care taken tofexclude all manner
of literature tending to turn the current of our thoughts in the
wrong direction ; but, nevertheless, there are the means of
placing it in our hands still, in the use of the Post Office, or, at
311 events, in necessitating the keeping up of an efficient staff
there, for certain “ constitutional" purposes. That there is an
agency for its sale in Dublin I am aware, but to those not liv-
ing there, every number Will cost la cents of your money,
which, however, is all fair, I suppose, in the way of trade. Al-
low me, however, to say that there are those here, who, not hav-
mg the fear of treason—felony and a packed jury before their
eyes’ would only think it a laudable task to act as agents, gratis,
and such of these as may get packages for that purpose have a

eculiar instinct which would guide them in its distribution, in
what they conceive would be the right direction.

The suggestion put forth in a late number had already been
conceived by certain of us here. To its subscribers in America,
having the cause of nationality at heart, it may not be too much
ask them return to the office of the Pncnsix their numbers after
perusal, whence they could be sent to Ireland; or transmit
them to some friend, or even acquaintance, yet holding a firm
grip of the land for which our fathers fought and bled. The
dates are a matter of no importance with us, the teachings are
everything, of what avail is it to preach the adoption of a certain
course as regards the Tyrant of Doon, or the many others who

I‘ H E">“P‘_'E[ (E N I X.

play the same game, when our people never read the salutary
advice there given for their self preservation. Could our friends

abroad only see with what avidity every number of your jour-
nal is sought after here, when other are either totally disre-
garded, or only perused with the knowledge that no better is
available, they would, we feel convinced, only deem it a plea-
sure, a sacred duty, to tempt the ‘* Civilizers ” in the Post Of-
fice. Picture to yourself our parish chapel-yards on Sundays,
or some such place where crowds of eager faces hearken to some
honest fellow who reads aloud your startling “ leaders,’-’ and if

' you have a pure drop of the Gzcdhel blood in you, won’t it go

careering in your veins. By all means, then, spare not the
Post Ot‘fice—the Pnossix was not intended for waste paper.

In the absence of a Phoenix prosecution or an Italian cam-
paign. there appeared during the last few months much dearth
of interesting news. Invasion panics and Volunteer Organiza-
tions disturbed and pacified the minds of “loyal” people in these
realms: but the peasent looked on rather indifferently, it was all
the same to him whether the intruders came from Cherburg, or
the Tartarus; he had nothing to lose, and might gain something
from the former the annihilation of his crusty old landlord. An
anxious interrogative might be made as to the position of his
hereditary enemies, and no more. Like spoiled children our
young men of twenty and upwards have been getting sulky, and
appear to doubt the sincerety of ‘ popular” leaders and news-
paper men; they are even charged with being “self opinioned,”
which, to say the least of it, is very bad manners, seeing that
they thereby refuse to lend their aid in the aggrandisment of
sycophants and panderers to West Britonism. “ Independent
Opposition” has been going to the dogs. One section of Hon-
orable Independents had their votes recorded for Lord Derby

because he had certain “intentions to ameliorate” the condi-
tion of the tenant farmer in Ireland. What those “intentions”
were, let the people of Doon answer?
Ultra Honorable Independents voted for nobody in particular,
but against everybody in general whereby the Advocate for
Green Crops, and Patron of fat cattle, now lording it at Dublin
Castle came into power. "' National ” Journalists got a fit of
clelirium tremens, and roundly abused certain of the Honorables

Another section of the

which was productive of subsequent very edifying squabbles,

Everybody knew, except “National ” Journalists, that Honor.
ables would use their “privileges,” and to the people of Ireland,
the “ Government” of Lord John is as balmy as that of Lord
James.
grand theories of their Independence, condescend to dine with
my Lord of Green Crops, (how blandly one smiles with a tum-
bler of punch!) while others of them independently ensconce
themselves into a twelfth rate Government situation.
al ” Journalists become indignant, assail the Independent
Champion for betrayal of confidence, (bless their confiding
hearts!) and bring on his devoted shoulders all the odor of the
public opinion of which they are the exponents! No indeed;_

Certain of the Ultra Honorables forgetting all the

“ Nation-

they have become so habituated to this sort of game, that they
give what they may consider a satisfactory “explanation,” and
people, whether they would or no, have a right to be satisfied.
Notwithstanding all which everything has been going astray,
and society wants a readjustment. By whom can this be
brought about better than “ National” Journalists, “ Independ-
ent ” Honorables, and “ Popular” Leaders. ' But how? There
is the rub. Agitation and even a grand gathering of newspaper
men were suggestions likely to be productive of much spouting
and pen-and-ink campaigns, but it is rather questionable » ii LL;
“ Civilizers,” and their accessary myrmidons would be so much
taken aback by this system of warfare, as by an array of stal-
wart pikemen. Both have been tried before, unsuccessfully to
be sure, but with what peculiar effect history telleth. People
did not appear to appreciate the .s*ucce.s.~ful results that were to
accrue from the proposed means for ameliorating their condition
—in fact I have said our young men are obstinate and refuse to
to be led by well intentioned "’ leaders.” The greatest agita-
tion the world has ever seen was ignominiously strangled on the
plains of Clontarf; and as to our newspapers, Heaven knows
they have already had lots of stufi in them. It is not then mat-
ter for surprise, that our young men who have been thinking oi‘
something better did not deem these suggestions very €ffiC8,ci0us_
The old institutions of Europe having given indications of
toppling on the heads of the tyrants who upheld them, the
minds of the masses began to expand with the dawn of a bright-
er future, and every stroke that was dealt in Italy bespoke the
advent of the Peoples’ Freedom. It was in the general hubbub
that some ill-mannered fellows in a part of the Papal States
bethought there of acting on their own responsibility, and dia_
Our newspapers—except very few sterling West Briton and in

' dependent hangers on—became uproarious, and those few (Na-

tional Journals) had more “leaders” on Italy and the Italians
than Ireland and the Irish. Yet we were not forgotten. Paral.
lels were drawn from Volunteer Organizations, and conclusions
from contemplated invasions. ,So also was “Tenant Right with
retrospective clause for Compensation” politic.

Some ingenious persons having discovered in the tribulation of

His Holiness the Pope, a means whereby to raise the wind,

“respectable” people, and Editors forthwith set about rectifying

his house. ’Twas an opportune moment for a grand demonstra-
tion, as well as tending to keep us for an indefinite period under
the benevolent patronage of the amiable Saxon.
say that “respectable” people including the aforesaid “popular"
leaders, are seldom, if at all tenants-at-will, in fact that they
possess a portion of this world’:-5 wealth; that Editors drive a
smart trade in their line; and that Priests (as aCatholic, I mean
no offence to the Catholic religion) are not indifferent to the
good things of the world. It is asserted even that that body at
various disturbed times proved a useful auxiliary to “civiiiza,
tion” in bringing the Irish to their .s'c2z.scs,- in fact, certain Eng
lish newspapers, whose mission is to calumniate, boast they
have proved the best police for England in this portion of the

Permit me to

globe. Not having attained my majority in these days I may

not judge, but certain it is, that in the year of grace 1848, they
did a little in that way. It may be concluded then, that

amongst those classes there may be good men and true, they
could very well afford to remain just as they are—~an integral
part of the “United Kingdom ;” a revolution in Ireland which
would change the condition of the masses, would bring about
an amount of risk they would rather avoid. He, who doubts,
may wade, if he have patience, thro’ the “sympathy" speeches
as a ‘confirmation of the above fact.

In this case the leaving of the people to their tlzoug/eta might
be conducive to the endlooked for by 1’/zaenlz boys, but such a
result was not exactly desirable. Spouting would be “constitu-
tional” so long as no e;rt’ran«ou.s‘ subjects would be alluded to, and
stump orators could gloriously “hold forth” so long as they
avoided saying anything ungracious to “oursovereign ]ady7s,~-
servants. So “sympathy” meetings have been as numerous as

bonfires in the days of the “Liberator;”'and illogical speeches

tending to drowsiness, have been as numerous as locusts in the
plague of Egypt. Editors, “respectable” people and priests, are
“the voice of Ireland” that is doctrine to terrify the cabinets of
Europe into an acquiescence to their “loyal, legal and constitu-
tional” demands.

The arguments were}convincing—-to him who.would be con-
vinced. .

The Romagnese, and other Roman States, were well and
paternally governed; it was “only a minority, and that minor-

ity a rabble, who opposed the Papal authority.

Oh, never mind, quoth Wide Awake, the Italians should be
the bestjudges of that, and we ought to leave the matter entirely
to themselves. As to the other assumed facts, it stands to rea-
son that aflinority without arms, can’t overturn all the power
of the majority, and the accreditcd'governing power with arms,
and if they are a rabble in Central Italy, so were they who
fought from time to time behind the Parisian barricades, and
struck terror into the soul of every gouty old tyrant in Europe.
And, sir orator, more “respectable” people figure in the revo-
lutions in Italy than the mouth loyalty of the same class would
lead us to expect would here.

Again. It is England, Sardinia, and Red Republicanism that
instigates these dutiful subjects to rebellion. It may be true,
quoth Wide Awake, that philanthropic and Christianized Eng-
land may send a supply of Bibles, with newspapers articles, and
beat her breast in compassion for the oppressed everywhere,
(except where she is concerned herself) but catch her giving a
penny only where she expected to gain four. Her propensiuies
are so well known nowadays that few would expect her good_na-
ture could be approached by a squall or two from a discontented
Italian. Sardinia may, or may not, have certain ulterior views,
but unless those people wish it themselves, they have nothing to
fear from that quarter. Why quarrel with people who have
gained their independence for doing that which best beseems
them? Did France, or America, or both, connive at, and give
arms and money, for certain purposes, to an Irish rabble, think
you would they refuse them ?

The Papal power is the oldest in Europe, and should, conse-
quently be upheld. So be it, quoth Wide Awake. The Bour-
bon family enjoyed the fat of France a long time, so have our
amiable friends, the English, this Island of ours. In the one case,
history tells us what has happened ; in the other, what would
happen, if the wherewithal were forthcoming.

And thus they go on till we reach the climax :—The English
Laws and the English Constitution are the finest in the world——
in fact we have a gem of a Constitution. Yes, quoth Wide
Awake, with unusual ferocity, Tenants-at-will, pampered and
grinding Landlordism, ejectments, periodical famines, coerced
Emigration and poor houses; Church Establishment, Absentee-
ism, Protestant Ascendancy, Grand Juries, Arms-act, Treason,
Felony, and J ury-packing, and forthwith vanishes.

I have dwelt upon these meetings because there is a section
here whose feelings upon the matter are not at all represented
—a section that believes it is the business of the Italians to
mind their own affairs, while that of we Irish is to mind our
own. This section does not at all believe the voice of oppressed
and unarmed people can be so potent in the Cabinets of Europe
as mob orators would pretend to believe; and if heard at all, it
is with either pity or contempt: the clash of swords, or the bang
of a rifle, it is conceived, would be a more effectual way to make
ourselves heard. This section, which includes many capable,

an} I dare say willing, to use dangerous weapons, are not at all‘

represented by our Press, or only in so faint a light that their
real wants are left hiden “under a bushel.” I may be, there-
fore, allowed to give a few peculiarities as to those gatherings
and that section.

It has been apparent that all the orators, priests and laymen,
with slight exceptions, are sterling West Britons, (at least their
ideas are West British, which is just as bad), inconsistently
abusing England for certain assumed interferences in Italy,
while the British “Constitution” (constituted as aforesaid) is
held up as a model to be imitated all over the world. Every
resolution begets a man whose opinions tend not Phoenixward
.which you may include in the objectionable section) lest the
“harmony” of the meeting might be disturbed by ‘-irrelevant”
matter. West British newspapers expunge all the disloyalties
and other marks of disapprobation, in their endeavors to plaster
on “our friends the enemies” our affection for them. In no-
where, perhaps, was this carried to such a length as in this city,
where a Rev. Catholic Bishop, an honorable Independent, and
a West British Cawtholic, J. P. and D. L., with some others of a
baser metal, found it necessary to back up the West British
print, toward the contradiction of the High Church organ; and
after all. I am sorry, for the credit of poor human nature, (alas
that it should be so !) to record my vote for the latter. Amend-
ments to resolutions, unless of the right sort, were point blank
refused by distinguished chairmen, who would declare “self—
opinioned” fellows, attempting to be heard, (objectionable sec-
tion again) “out of order” at all seasons.

But “leaders” reached the climax of enthusiasm who sug-
gested to support His Holiness with armed force, which would
be a quiet way of getting rid of any “surplus population” now
on hand, by means of a crusade or a Quixotic expedition be-
yond the Alps, with the gratifying retrospect of knowing their
mercenaryébones would bleach on the sidesfiof the Appennines,
with scarce a passing prayer from ‘true men at home, and with
the execrations of a people whose chains they went to bind,
with, too, an oppression grinding the hearts of their “kith and
kin” to be first attended to. It may be believed as the fact that
few of the many, who for curiosity, or by entreaty, attended
those meetings, would voluntarily offer their services for so
ignominious a purpose: clergymen and “popular” leaders may
be very efficacious in their own way in smashing revolutionary
Romagnese cut-throats (if they will it so); but there are young
men in Ireland who deem it a far more commendable duty to
be hewing and smashing brigands of a different character.

And so while Europe is in the throes of a change, likely to
materially affect the estate of inheritance created by the feudal
forefathers of its present tyrants; while people, long trodden on
as animals of an inferior description, are whetting their swords
for the long delayed vengeance that is to come, we would have
here the minds of ‘ our people turned to long speeches and
drowsy articles as the only means of redemption. God help us,
if at this time we are to put our trust in such frail means:
’twere better we consented at once to become a nation of con-
tented slaves, utterly prostrate at the feet of our masters, be-
cause then, for the sake of supplying the bread of life to John
Bull and his heirs, we may be treated more kindly.

Cork, January, 1§3)V.N_ WMWWWWM U1 MAXI.

THE SECRETARY of the N. Y. Ossianic Society has remitted
three pounds, fifteen shillings ($18.75) to Ireland, by the steam-
ship Asia which sailed from this port of Wednesday the 15th

Inst., in aid of the parents’ association in Dublin.

was complete, the defeat stamped its indelible

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LITERATURE.

 

HOME SCENES.
o’coNNnLL’s nmsr snssrox IN PARLIAMEAT. .
Captain Rock was, at this time, busy in the County of Cork
So were his enemies. He was on their track, and they were
upon his. They suspected some of his men,
them. The “Donerail conspirac
The object of the presumed conspiracy was to murder Mn Bond
Lowe and several others. A man, named Da.1y,WaS subomed as
a spy. On his information, nine or ten were arrested. A
special Commission was issued to try the “conspirators.” The
Commission sat in November, 1829. Doherty, Green and Ben.
net prosecuted. The presiding judges were Rnnefeather and
Torrens, and the defence was under the lead of Mr. O’Conne11
On the first trial, one man, named Leary, was convicted and.
sentenced to death; but his punishment was commuted to trans]
portation for life. On the second trial . that of Lynch, Connors
Barrett, and Wal1is—the jury differed and were dischargw»
Then John Burke and John Shive were put on trial. The evi-
dence was the same against them as against the others. The spy
came on the table for the third time. He was almost fire-proof
He wore’ among Other things; that a paper, containing thc
death-warrant of the victims of the conspiracy, was handed about
by Burke and Leary, at the Fair of Kildorry. At this point
Baron.Pennefeather called Mr. O’Connell up to the bench and’
showed him that the spy’s information, sworn the day after the
occurrence, did not contain a syllable about either the paper or
the Fair. In posssession of this fact, O’Connell’s cross-examin-
ation thoroughly exposed the informer, and the prisdners were
acquitted. Not only this, but the supposed victims of the con-
spiracy were covered with ridicule, and the
restored O’Leary to liberty.

and set a trap for
y”-was the result of this trap.

Government at once

The charge, O’Connell preferred against Doherty, was that he
knew the fact of Daly’s discrepancy when he obtained a verdict
upon it against O‘Leary, and early in the session he put anotice
of motion on the book for the production of the judge
on both trials, and Daly’s information. This motion he
repeatedly postponed. Doherty was in the house, and taunted
him with cowardice. Others, of whom he thought more, did the
same. He was accused of speaking there in a sneaking, and out.
side in a bullying tone. To this he at last yielded, and on the
12th of May, 1830, he brought on his motion. It was 3 simple
one : the production of the minutes of the judge on both trials.
One would imagine there cou‘d be no objection to it. Ohjcc-
tion? It was met as a motion of impeachment would he_ It
was resisted on every imaginable and unimaginable ground_
There was no precedent for it ; it would be an interference with
the liberty of the judge, and a blow to his independence ; but
the real defence was, that O’Connell had diseutitled himself to

the interference of the House, by his appeals to public feeling
out of it.

Doherty’s defence of himself was that the judge had the in-
formation before him on the two fiist as well as the last trial,
and that it was his duty to call the attention of the prisoners
Counsel to it, if he thought the discrepancy material. A great
many members took part in the debate, impelled, mostly, by
ill-surpressed religious animosity to Mr. O’Connell. His reply
was very short; but nothing could be more crushing or com-
plete. He dealt with each of his adversaries in turn. The
bigots-he treated with measureless scorn; the English Attorney.
General he reasoned with and complimented, while he confuted.
But, for the Irish Attorney-General was reserved his most
crushing reply. He said: “I take issue with him on his only aue-
gation of fact. He says the information was before the judge, on
the first trial: if so; when the minutes are produced it will 50
appear, but his refusal to produce them shows that in h
allegation, he is lying and he knows it.

The motion, however, was negatived by a vote of 70
and though, morally and intellectually, Mr. O’Connell’

’s minutes

is only

to 12,
a triumph

and dam '
character on his parlimentary career. agmg

It was a great mistake to provoke this quarrel, for D
was a debater of great ability and was sustained by an array
of angry passions, against the man who had brought the parlia-
ment to his feet. Theretofore, his powers were measured by his
success; and those whom that success awed and angered would
of course, delight to see him matched, and fancy him overmas:
tered by a man of no name, or rather as, in this instance, of 9,
negative character. They consequently cheered Doherty who
was eloquently unscrupulous; but they were really cheering the
levelling of the giant to their own proportions and positions.
In whatever rank, in whatever walk, a great man makes himself
a prominent; mark, for admiration by his achievements; he»
arouses more jealousy than good will, and hence there is a

sneaking desire in every vulgar breast to see him brought to the
common level.

oherty

This natural instinct, was heightened, by the anger of more
than one-fourth of the members, who saw in Mr. O’Conhe1p8
presence among them, their own‘degradation. And worse than
all, perhaps, he himself felt and spoke as if in an attitude of
defiance. And tho’ it were otherwise, it was not prudent in
him to make almost his first effort on a personal question. Had
he gathered his strength around him, and waited for an new.
sion, when the question, under discussion, would involve’
lic principle, and excite popular sympathy he wodld have kept
aloof the cars, that barked at him, in this personal rencontre_

But however much it was to be regretted, that he gave them
the opportunity, of measuring swords with him ; his friends and
admirers had good cause to be proud of the marvellous aptitude
with which he met his assailants, on their own ground, and
flung their own weapons back at them, It may be well doubt-
ed if another man ever entered the house who could meet. as he
did. such astorm, and quell it. '

The next debate in which Mr. O’Connel1 found himself en-
g cred was also of a rather personal character. He presented a
petition from the town of Droheda, praying for a repeal of the
Union, He made no remarks, but merely stated the substance
of the petition. Instantly several members started to their legs
and denounced the petition, the petitioners, and the promoter of
the object it prayed for. Sir C. Wetheral suggested that it
should not be received. This gave rise to a debate, in which
much personality was mixed up. Sir Robert Peel, while con‘
demning the object prayed for, strongly deprecated the rejectiog
of the petition, as a dangerous precedent. Mr. O’Connell’s 1-en
ply is a model, of brevity, force, and clearness. I cite the en:
tire, because it contains the germs of that terr
in which his life was involved.

a pub-

ible struggle

Mr. O’Connell was very sorry that the discussion whg
place on another petition, should have been mixed up with the
very important question now before the house. He believed the
honorable member for Drogheda was not present at the time
that petition was presented. If he had been, he would have

ch took