happen to give 'The harp that wanst,' why, its the sweet, soft air
they'd be admirin, and the poethry of Tom Moore, rather than the low
wail for vingeance that was smothered in the heart of the song
itself. What could you expect from sich a St Patrick's Society as
that of Toronto, with a gintleman at its head with the freedom of an
English city in his breeches pocket, and a desire to emulate English
statesmen and English institutions in his heart! Look, also, at the
able and larned Irishman who stands at the head of the University of
that same methropolis of the West, and whose eloquence so mystifies
his faithlessness to Ireland as to confuse you, and almost lade you
captive, until, on cooler deliberation, you find that his response to
'the toast of the evenin,' is naither more nor less than a superb
burst of oratory, robed in green and goold, but with a heart as
purely English as that which throbbed within the breast of the
renegade Wellington or the late wily Lord Palmerston. Oh, no! the St.
Patrick Societies of America, and of every other portion of the
globe, are simply whited sepulchres, or false beacons erected or
fosthered by the English governmint to mislade the unsuspectin
portions of our race from the allagiance due to their own counthry,
by studiously inculcatin sintimints and ideas favorable to English
supremacy, which can be paraded before the world as the thrue
expression of the Irish people, in relation to the red that governs
them, and their willinness to remain as they are, part and parcel of
the impire. Sich min as the two I have jist mintioned do more to
perpetuate the thraldom of our country than the most unfrindly and
subtle statesman that exists on the other side of the Atlantic
to-day; bekase they are powerful inemies, by their example in our own
camp, and bekase there are those amongst us who are aisily led, and
who consequintly fall a victim to their influence and example."