Indiana Republican, Volume 1, Number 8, Madison, Jefferson County, 20 February 1817 — Page 1

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mM reft; 9?V3 REPU "where liberty dwells, there is my country.". VOL. I. MVDISON, (INDIANA) -THURSDAY, FERRUART 20, 1817. No. 8.

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Frnm late English papers,' PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. HULL IPS. Liverpool, Uovember 1 1. The dinner in compliment to this gentleman on 'Iris passing tluough Liverpool, took place on lhar-idAy j;cenight. The rev. W. Shepherd, presided. The muver was limited to i2p, who sat down at 5 o'clock to an excellent dinner. It would be impossible to convey an adequate idea of the fascinating effect produced by the admiral)! srv.prh nf M;. Phillin

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ihs chairman prcpo.-ed the ticalth of counsellor Phillips. A ft it the applause excited by :his tf-st had subsided, counsel Hr Pliihips rose, and addiessed

?hf meeting as follows :,

iklievc me, Mr. chairman I

let I too sensibly the hiah and un

limited compliment you have

paid me, to attempt any other return than the simple expression of my gratitude to be just, I HiiJir he silent; but though the or:"je is mute, my heart is much

Imoie than eloquent. The kindciis of friendship the testimony

" crass, however humble, :arncs villi it no trifling gratifiration 1 lilt Ctnilirdr -n I ntn r

be so distinguished in this great pty, whose wealtli is its least rcpommendation the emporium Pt commerce, liberty, and pubic spirit the birth place of taJour the lesidence of integrity jhe field -where freedom seems to pave ralli.-d the last allies of her hmsc, as if, ,vh the nobie con-r'-JouMicsi that though patiiotiiiiii

could, not wreathe the laurel face with a people, brave, gen--the native was bu. a.) ii.v.t.i n to round her brow, genius should at erous and intellectual, literally plunder and his non-acquiescence least raise it over her ashesto be forcing their way through the the signal for confiscation w hen -so distinguished," sir, and in such disabilities of their own country religion itself was made the oa place, does, I 'confess, inspire into the highest stations of every dious pretence for every persecume with vanity which even a other ; and well rewarding the - tinn, and the fires 1 of hell were : . sense of my unimportance cannot policy that promotes them, by a- alternately lighted with the crosv entirely silence. Sir, the minis- chievements the most heroic, and and quenched in the blood of its terial critics of Liverpool, were allegiance without a blemish, defenceless followers ! I speak or" right. I have no claim to this en- How have the successive govern- times that are passed :--but can thusustic welcome. v But -I can- ments of England demeaned their recolfections can their connot look upon this testimonial; ; themselves to a nation, offering sequences be so readily eradicated? so much as a tribute to myself, as such an accumulation ot moral Why, however, should I refer to an omen to that country with' and political advantages! See it periods that arc distant? Behold whose fortunes: the dearest sym-, in the state of Ireland at this in- at this instant, five millions of pjthies of my soul 'are entwined, staut in the universal bankrupt- her people disqualified on account Oh yes, I do foresee when she cy that overwhelms her in .-the of their faithand tint by a shall hear with what courtesy her loss of her trade in the annihila- country professing freedom ! and most prctentionless advocate has tion of her manufactures in the that under a government calling been treated, how the same wind deluge of her debt in the divi. itself christian ! You (when I that waits her the intelligence, sions of her' people in all the say you, of course I mean, not will revive that flame within her, loathsome operations vf an odious, the high-minded people of Eng. , which the biood of ages has not monopolizing, hypociitical fana- land, but the men who mis. ' been abie to extinguish. It may ticism. on the one hand, wrest- govern us both) seem to have ta- ' ' be a delusive hope but I am glad ling with the untiring, but natu- ken out a roving commission hi to grasp at any phantom that flits rai reprisals of an minted ppu- search of grievances abroad, across the solitude of that coum lation on the other! It required whilst you overlook the calamitry's desolation. On this subject no common ingenuity to reduce tits at your own ;door, and of you can scarcely be-ignorant, for such a country to suc h a kituation. your own inflation. You trayouhave an Inshrnan resident a- But it has been doiu man has verse the ocean' to ennncbte the niongst you whom I am proud to conquered the fbcnefi nice of the African you cnss tlie line to call my friend--whose fidelity to Deity his.harpy touch haschang- convert the Hindoo vou hurl Ireland no absence can diminish- ed the viands to corruption ; ard your thunder against the savage who has at once the honesty to that land, which you n ight have iUgerine but, vour own brtth. be candid, and the talent to be possestcd in health, and wealth & ren at home, who speak the same convincing : 1 need scarcely Suy I vigour, to support you in your tongue, acknowledge the same allude to Mr. Casey. I knew, sir, hour of need, now wjithes in the king, and kneel to the same Gd the statue was too striking to re- agonies of death, unable even to cannot get one vit.it from your quire a name upon the pedestal, lift the shroud with which famine ilinerent husranitv! On such ills! Ireland has little now to and fatuity try to encumber her a system is almost too abominable console hei, except the conscious- convulsions. This is what, I see, for a name it is a monster of imncas of having produced such a pensioned piess denominates piety, impolicy, ingratitude, and men. It would be a treasonable tranquility. Oh! wo to the injustice! ' adulation in me to deceive ) ou. land threatened with such tran- The pagan nations of amiquity Six centuries of base misg ivern- quility solitudinem faciunt pa- scarcely acted on such i barbarous menu ot causeless, ruthless and tin appellant it is not yet. the principles. Look to ancient IcT.e, ungrateful persecution, have now tranquility of solitude-.it is not with her sword in one hand and reduced that countiy to a crisis, yet the tranquility of death -hut her constitution in the other, at which I know not w hether the if you would know what it is go healing the injuri s of rhe confriend of humanity has most cause forth in the silence of creation quest with the embrace at rrothto grieve, or to rejoice; because when every wind is hushed, and crhood, and wisely conv.rtng the I am nut sure the same feeling every echo mute, and all nature captive into the citizen. Look which prompts the tear at human seems to listen in dumb, and ter- to her great enemy, the glorious

suiierings, ougtit not to inumpn rmeu, ana urcaimess expectation (Jarthagcnun, at the loot of the in that increased infliction which go forth in such an hour, and Alps, ranging his prisoners round may at length tire them out of see the terrible tranquility by him and by the politioopinion of endurance. I trust in God a which you arc surrounded I How captivity or arms, rccruitm" liIe-

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change of system may in time could it be otherwise

for gions with the very men whom he

anticipate the results of despera- ages upon ages; invention has fa- had iite.aliy conquered into gratition, but you may quite depend tigucd itself with expedients for tude. They laid their foimhion it, a period is approaching irritation when, as I have read tions deep in -the 'human heart.

when if penalty docs not pause in with horror in the progress of and their success was propoi tionthc pursuit, patience will turn my legal studio, the homicide of ate to their policy- You cornshort on the pursuer. Can you a 44 mere' Irishman" was consid- plain of the violence of the Irifi wonder at it? Contemplate lie- ercd justifiable ; and when ignor- Catholic can you wonder he is land at any given period of Eng. ance was the origin of all his violent? It is the consequence land's rule, and what a picture crimes, his education was prohib- of your own infliction -does she exhibit !--Behold her ited by act of parliament ? when The flesh will quiver where the created in all the prodigality of the people were worm eaten by pincers tear, nature with a soil that antici- the odious vermin which a " The blood will fo low where the pates the husbandman' desires church and state adultery had knife is driven." with harbors courting the com- spawned; when a bad heart and Your friendship has been to him mercc of the world with rivers brainless head, were the fangs by wo; se than hostility he feels the capable of the most effective na- which every foreign adventurer embrace but by the pressure of vigation with the ore of every and domestic traitor fastened up- t tetters! 1 am only amazed metal struggling through her tur- on ofliccwhen the property of iAw is not Bmch more violent, tfc