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the bulrush, they armed them with bayonet, and bludgeon, and marshalled them on to murderous, reckless and ridiculous conflict; that, whilst engaged in this silly yet suicidal strife, they might, vulture-like, pounce upon, seize, and swallow up both as a morsel of bread. You are happily, I see, unlearning the lesson they taught you, and beginning, to their great dismay, to enquire at length, with your old fellow sufferers of Mantua,

En, quo discordia Cives

Perduxit miseros! En queis consevimus agros.

He who is not "the God of dissension, but of Peace," will, I cherish the hope, bless your united efforts; and history will have to record that the sweet Mononia, that gave us a Boirhoime, a Cormac, a Curran, Fathers O'Leary and Mathew, and an O'Connell, crushed the head of a serpent more venomous than any banished by our great apostles from our land—a greater 66 monster" than the Kraaken of the northren ocean, or that which swallowed up Jonas alive; turned the dense mist of misery which shrouded our island into sunbeams; brought security, comfort, and gladness around the peasant's hearth; and made Ireland, what she ought to be, with all bounteous gifts of Heaven to her, the happiest kingdom on earth. Even the Patrician, whom you shall have forced to descend from the giddy and uncertain eyrie of domineering injustice to the smoother, safer plane of equity, will thank you for the service rendered him in giving him, at length, a resting-place, more noble and more secure than any he ever occupied, in the hearts and affections of a grateful tenantry. Posterity, of course, will point to Cork, whence the tenant league, like another Cornelia, sent forth its jewels, to redeem and rescue our com

mon country from the most galling link in the whole chain of her bondage. These hurried, scattered remarks on one of the most important subjects that have arrested the attention of Irishmen, elicited as they have been by your eloquent letter, you will receive with that indulgence they require. However faint and imperfect, they are still the approving echo of your own admirable sentiments.

Believe me, with earnest hopeful aspirations for the success of your committee, your most obliged and obedient servant, EDWARD MAGINN. W. H. Trenwith, Esq., Hon. Sec., &c. &c.

TO DR. MCKNIGHT, OF DERRY.

BUNCRANA, October 27, 1847. SIR.I have, in all sincerity, to express my deep regret that, from indisposition, I cannot realize the pleasing hope which-on my departure from Dublin, and even up to this moment-I fondly entertained—of being able to assist at the dinner which the tenant farmers of the North of Ireland, and the enlightened and respectable mercantile classes of the city of Derry, purpose giving this evening to that distinguished patriot— the long-tried and genuine friend of the Irish agriculturist Sharman Crawford, Esq. But few-very few in Ireland-have so well deserved such a compliment at our hands. His views, the most matured-the practical and benefical example he sets on his own estates commensurate with his views-his integrity so unbending— his energy and perseverence so indomitable; through good report and evil report it was with him "still onward," no matter how checked or contravened, to improve the condition of the farming population depressed by systematic misrule, and discouraged by the precarious titles on which their right, yea, their very existence, depended. He hoped against hope-unassisted, unbefriended; he battled still for justice, exhibiting in his person the most beautiful object on which the eye of heaven can rest—'The just man struggling with adversity. To do such men honour is meet, is just, and to omit this duty would be, on the part of those for whom he struggled, base ingratitude. Though absent in body, I am present with you in heart and spirit to pay him

every mark of respect. My humble but sincere concurrence you have in the cause in which you are embarked, and as far as my influence can go, it shall be cordially exerted to co-operate with you in bringing your praiseworthy purpose to a successful issue.

I further, in all earnestness, respond to the beautiful sentiment which your committee (composed as it is of the most respectable Protestants and Presbyterians) with a confidence I shall always highly value entrusted to my keeping. It is a delightful sentiment-ever the fondest desire of my heart. I longed-I sighed to see it real ized-a sentiment not less patriotic than Christian, which, if felt and understood, and brought into lively universal action, would shortly raise our country from the depths of unparalleled misery, in which she has been plunged, to that station which God and nature intended her to occupy among the nations of the earth. Union among all classes and creeds in Ireland-a blissful sentiment, and the only panacea for all the evils our unhappy country endures. And why, Sir, should we not be united in all things conducive to the common weal? By nature, we are all brethren; in society, we are all members of the same body. Religion, the loveliest daughter of Heaven, whose name is union, and whose mission is peace-religion given us by the God of love to bind man to his fellow-man, and men to the Being that made them, should not surely be made the occasion of keeping us asunder-that religion which sees in the face of an enemy that of a brother-which, not no matter under what dress or form she be presented to us, must have charity as the very soul of her existence.

Why should she be made a bone of dissension, or an apple of discord among us? Union, then, for every good purpose; but union especially among all creeds to remove the monster injustice that afflicts our country: union to adjust at once and for ever the rights of man, and the rights of property-to establish, on the basis of the strictest equity, the rights of landlord and tenant. Union in such a cause is blissful, big with hope and happiness for our country-for it is, undoubtedly, the cause of God-of patriotism-of charity in its purest sense, and of immutable justice! It is the cause of God, who never intended that creatures made to His own immortal image should be treated as the agriculturists of Ireland have been hitherto "in their own, their native land;" the cause of our country made a ragged, forlorn, and disconsolate beggar, by this system, at every gate in Christendom. It is decidedly the cause of charity; for if it be charitable to assist for God's sake, an individual brother man-to feed him when hungry-to clothe him when naked, and to shelter him from the pitiless storm, when a houseless outcast, etc., how much more so to raise a nation of paupers of miserable serfs-to a condition of comfort, security, and independence-to give thema happy home, and prevent them from being made homeless. Your cause, and the cause of your league, is the cause of immutable justice. Justice, if I understand it right, considering it as a virtue, is that which constantly disposeth us to give to every man his rights. And have not the tenant class their rights as well as the landlord. class? I fully admit the right of the proprietor of the soil. I deny his having any right, now and for ever, to

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