Loudon Free Press

Thomas F. Meagher—War and the Irish.—In a speech the other day at Jersey city, Mr. Meagher, said:

The banks of the Danube are whitened with the tents of the Muscovite and Moslem. There are steeds tossing their foam upon these waters, on either shore, impatient to plunge in and breast the flood, and top the steeps before them.—[Loud cheers.] What is the news of the morning? "Great news from the Jerseys!" [Loud cheers.] War is inevitable! Let it come, as Patrick Henry said—let it come! [Continued cheering.] In the real blaze that spreads from the first gun on the contested frontier, future opens to my view. Amid the tumult of the gladiators I hear the breaking chains that have galled the slave. Above the hot dust of the arena where the fight goes on I see the spirit of Liberty ascending, the clouds opening, and the crown of victory replacing that of martyrdom upon the head of the emancipated and expanding spirit. [Great cheering.] Let it come! War is the resurrection of the dead!—War is freedom! [Tremendous applause continued for some minutes.]