our countrymen, who afterwards met her at Fontenoy, as the Irish
Brigade, and trailed her bloody and broken in the dust. The wrongs of
the past were with them. The cruelties of the Henrys, the murders of
Elizabeth, the confiscations of Cromwell, and the perfidy of William,
so nerved their arm at the period, that their charge upon the English
is mentioned as one of the most memorable and destructive on record.
But if they had more than sufficient grounds for dealing a death blow
to the power of the tyrant then, how must this debt of vengeance have
accumulated since; when, to the wrongs already enumerated are to be
added the atrocities of the Georges, as well as those of their worthy
descendant--that traitress to humanity, whose hands have been just
imbrued in the innocent blood of Allen, O'Brien and Larkin, and who
now holds in thrall, within the gloom of her noisome dungeons, some
of the noblest spirits that have ever breathed the vital air in this
or any age of the world? How, we say, must this debt of vengeance
have been heaped up since; and may we not, under its terrible
pressure, the next time that we have a fair opportunity of meeting
the enemy face to face, anticipate a repetition of that glorious
charge in every individual descent we make upon her ranks, until we
shall have ground her into pulp, and avenged the blood of our
martyrs, which has for ages been crying aloud from the ground, "how
long, Oh! Lord?"

We have said that the misdoings of nations are, in the order of
Providence, attended with a corrective or reactionary principle,
which, sooner or later, exerts itself in restoring the equilibrium of
justice; and in no case has this been made more apparent than in that
of Ireland. When under the frightful pressure of famine, murder and
robbery, her children fled her shores, and sought refuge in the open
arms of free America, the tyrant who had caused their exile, never