Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 10, Number 47, Vincennes, Knox County, 20 November 1819 — Page 5

WESTERN SUN

in their dungeon vaults, invoke your retribution ; the graves oi you bia Wj

countrymen, trampled by if ran y 5 where they died for freedom, ai e clamorous for revenge ! fio plant the GENERAL ADVERTISER,Extra Zrztt5?&S ' mercy ever follow it ; if you should

SATURDAY, .VQFEMBER 20, 18i9.

MR. PHILLIPS SPEECH, At a Public Dinner given to Gen. D'evercux, at Dublin Mf Lord and Gentlemen I sincerely thank you ; to be remembered when my countrymen are celebrating the cause of freedom and humanity, cannot fail to be grateful to be so remembered when a personal ami valued friend is the object of the celebration, carries with it a double satisfaction ; and you will allow me to say, that if any thing could enhance the pleasure of such feelings, it is the tonciousness that our meeting can give offence to no one. Topics have too often risen up amongst US whe c the best feelings were painfully at f rience ; where silence would 1 .ve been guilt, and utterance wac r-';ry. But shurely here at length, ,9f occasion where neither sector rty are opposed where every man in the country may clasp his brother by the hand, and feel and boast the most electric communication. To unmanacle the slave to misccptre the despot to erect an alter on the inquisition's grave raise a people to the attitude of freedom to found the temples of sience and of commerce to cre-.ite a constitution, beneath whose ample arch every human creature, no matter vl?at his sect, his collour or H- clime, may stand sublime in the dignity f manhood these arj the glorious ubjocts'of this enterpi ize, and the sOQl must be imbtuted, and the heard must be ossified, which dose not glow with the ennobleing rym patliy. Where is the slave so abject as to deny it ! Where is the statesman who can rise from the page of Spanish South America, and affect to comrnisserate the fall of Spain! Her tyranny, even from its cradle to its decline, has been the indelible disgrace of Christianity, and of Europe it was born in fraud babtited in blood, and reared by rapine it blasphemed all that was holy it cankered all that was happy the most simple habits, the most sacred institutions, the most endeared and inoffensive cus turns, escaped not inviolate, the accurst invader the hearth, the throne, the altar, lav confounded in one common ruin ; an J when the innocent Children of the sun confided for a moment in the christian's promise, whar! oh, shame to Spain! oh, horroi to Christianity ! oh ! eternal stigma on the name of Europe I what did they behold ! the plunder of their fotune. the desolation of their homes, the ashes of their cities ; their children murd -red without distinction of sex ; the ministers of their faith expiring in torture! ; the person of their Ynca their loved, sacred, heroic Ynca quivering in death upon a miming; furnace; and the most natural, and most excusable of all idolatries, their consecrated Sunbeam clouded by the murky smoke of an inquisition, streammg With human gore, and raided upon the ruins ot all that they held holv ; The.e were the feats of Spain in South A-

merica ! This is the firey 8c demoniac sway for an execrable tyrant who solicits Brtish neutarlity 1 Ireland, at least, has given an anwer. An armed legion of her chosen bears it at this hour in thunder on the waters, and the sails are swelling for their brave companions. 1 care not if this tyranny was ten thousand times more crafty, more vigilent, more ferocious, ti.an it is ; when a people will i,jtheir liberation is invitable ; their Inflictions wjil be covnerted hit the instruments of freedom ; they will turn their chains into the weapons of their emancipation Hit were possible still more to animate them, let them only think on the tyrant they have to combat tnat odious concentration of qualities, at once the most opposite, and the most contemptible ; timid and sanguinary ; effeminate and ferocious ; impious and superstitious , now embroidering a petticoat, now imprisoning an hero ; to-day kneeling to a God of mercy; to-morrow lightning the hed of inquisition ; at noon embracing his ministerial pander , at midnight starting from a guilty dream, to fulminate his banishment ; the alternate v ictim of his fury and his fears ; faithful to an infidel priestciaft, which excites his terrors, and fattens on his crimes, and affects to u orship the anointed slave as he tremh'.es, enthroned on the bones of his benefactors. ho can sympathise with such a monster ! Who can see, unmooved, a mignty empire writhing in the embraces of this human Boa ? My very heart grows faint within me, when I think how many thousands of my gallant countrymen have fallen to crown him with that ensanguined diadem ; when I think that genius wrote, an eloquence spoke, and valor fought) and fidelity died for him, while he was tasting the bitterness of captivity, and that his ungrateful restoration has literally withered his realm into a desert, where the widow and orphan weep his way , and and the sceptre waves not to govern, but to ci usn ! Never, my lord, never, whether we contemplate the good they have to achieve, the evil they have to overcome, or ihe wrongs they have to avenge ; never did warroiors march in a more sacred contest. Their success may be uncertain, but it is not uncertain that every age and clime will bless the memories, for their swords is garlanded with freedom's flowers, and patriotism gives them an immortal bloom, and piety breaths on them an undying fragrance. Let the tyrant menance, and the hireling bark ; wherever Christianity kneels or freedom breaths, their deeds shall be recorded, and when their honoured (lust is gathered to its fathers, millions they have redemed will be their mourners, and an emam ipa'ed hemisphere their enduring men uncut. Go then soldier of Ireland ( turning to general D-ver-tux,) ' Go v here glory awaits the Montezuma's spirit, from his bed of coals, thro, the mist of ages, calls to you vtngance -t the patriot Cortes,

triumph, the consumation will be lib.

erty, and in such a contest should you even perish, it will be as martyrs perish, in the blaze of yrUr own glory. Yes you shall sink like the sun of the Peruvian whom you will seek to liberate, amid the worship of a people, and the tears of a world, and you will rise reanimated, refulgent, and immortal ! New Goods. WINTER ASSOSTMBMT DICKsON a W ILSON, espectfully beg leave to acjRL quaint the public, that one of their firm has just returned from Philadelphia bringing with him their fall and winter assorntment of GOODS Consisting of Cloths & Cassimeres of every description. PI nneis, Red, WM'e & T ilow. a large supply. Rose Blankets, Bombazetts, in variety, Calicoes, of all kinds, Tickens, 3-4 Diapers. 5-4, 6 4, 9 4 and 10-4 Table Linen; A beautiful assortment of Irish Linens, brown and white, 5-4 Irish Sheeting, Cambrics. Fancy Muslins, .Sream and Power Loom Shirtings, Waterloo Shawls, Cotton and Silk, do. Grey and Blue Cassinets, of a superior quality, Super Hair cord pink Ginghams, Check & Blue, do. Cords and Velvets, Kwansdown Vesting, Guernsay Frocks; Super Lambs' Wool Shirts, Striped Woosted Crevats; Mens1 Womens' Hosiery Cotton, Woosted and Lambs Wool, Irish Thread An Extensive Sufif.ly of Domestic Manufactured Articles, viz. 3-4 & 7-8 Cotton Shirtiu;, Brown and W hite, 78 and 9 8 Cotton Shirting, 3 4 and 7-8 Checks, Furniture do. Fartory Plaids & Stripes, of all patterns, Chambrays and Denim. Cotton Yarn, for chain and filling, of the different numbers 2 Cases of Superior Beaver, Rorutll and Castor Hats martf ufactured by Shaw tx Lobucli of Philadelphia, Black Silk Handkerchief! Flag. Bandana &. Iladrats do. Cotton & Woosted tuspea-