with a cry that rends the very earth, they dash down upon their
deadly and relentless foe, and smite her hip and thigh as of yore;
dealing her the last fatal blow that forever seals her infamous doom.

In the order of Providence, a great corrective, or reactionary
principle, attends the misdoings of nations, that, sooner or later,
exerts itself in restoring the equilibrium of justice, and avenging
the infringement of any of those laws, human or divine, constituted
for the welfare and guidance of our race. Whether on the part of
governments or individuals, no act of palpable cruelty or barbarity,
has ever escaped the censure and reprobation of all good and true
peoples since the world became civilized; so that in this connection,
the oppressed or injured party has always had the countenance and
sympathy of humanity, at least. True, that an effective expression of
this sympathy may have often been chilled or embarrassed in
individual cases by political considerations or unworthy interests;
but then the tendency to illustrate it was there, and in this sense
alone, it has often exerted a benign influence. Hungary, Greece,
Poland, &c., have all, in turn, had the sympathy of mankind; and so
have had the oppressed colonies and people of Great Britain. The
cruel treatment, treachery and fraud practiced in the name of justice
and religion upon the Sepoys of India, by England, have awakened the
deepest commiseration in the bosom of all good and true governments,
and aroused, at the same time, the strongest indignation even on the
part of nations not over-scrupulous of chains themselves. In like
manner, the condition of Ireland has, from time to time, commanded
the attention of the world; and, through the cruel expatriation of
her children, made itself felt more widely perhaps than that of any
other nation. When England perjured herself for the hundredth time,
and violated the Treaty of Limerick, she exiled to France a host of