lonies of the industrious, patient, brave, and
honest irish: give them means to begin the world; and in a few years, the
grateful irish will be happy, bless you, and pay you back the hundred per
cent, with their lawful, direct taxes: and then, the government of this
Union will be the richest, the most powerful, and most blessed, and
examplary in the world. Money is an element, like rain, or free air; it
will come back to you, because your land is the richest, and your laws are
the best; I mean laws, the most adapted to render the people happy. In
kicking out the naked, who come to you, you kick out your own fortune. Do
you not know that the miser robs himself? If you want your ruin, you have
only to wall yourselves up, like the chineses of Pekin.--Look at the poor,
honest irish girl: if your heart is that of a dutiful son, think that your
mother, now in the grave, was, at the time of the american revolution, on
this far, distant land, like that poor suffering irish girl, who works
very hard for her daily bread--she is your faithful, devoted servant. It
is our duty to respect the poor; and if we cannot ameliorate their
situation, the christian must, at least, neither undervalue, nor contemn
them. And why the word Beggar became in the english language a term of
contempt?--Because, we do not think, that, society, not providing for the
poor, they are forced to steal for a living; and could we have the justice
of God, we would see that many beggars, who terminated their painful life
on the gallows, might have been the most useful members of society. Have
charity towards the poor--Jesus Christ was poor. Respect the rags!--Were
it only, because your fathers' virtue shined brighter through their rags.
Your blood (so much the better for it) is not from lord's blood: it is a
blood from noble, poor republicans, pure as heaven; a blood which passed
through the furnace of poverty, and misfortune. Your fathers left their
old country to escape the oppression of lords. But, now you are the lords
of this country, you wish to lord your very brethren who feel as you the
right of man.

As you might think me, here, an interested part, I will say nothing else
on this sacred subject. But, when the geniuses, and great men of this
country will be supported by a national justice, you will have then a
National Literature, with which they will tell you these truths, couched
in a better language. The National Literature will prevent you from
committ