THE PHCEINIX.

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no day can be too early, no place, no time, no circum-
stance inopportune. For these things there is but one
beacon light, the prospect of success. That is our lone
star. When it sheds a propitious ray, all things else
must fade—sufi"ering, sacrifice, toil, death.

The day we celebrate seems to have none except
religious associations. But it has its counsels of hero-
ism, too—St. Patrick was brave as he was pious. Up to
his time, a fire festival was observed in Ireland, every
spripg time. From this festival, the month of May is
named, in the old tongue, Beal-linne. During its ob-
servance, all other fires, save the sacred one at Tara,
were extinguished : and a violation of this ordinance was
severely punishable. St. Patrick was aware of the law,
and the punishment of its violation. He was celebrating
Easter, in the neighborhood of Tara,when the Fire Festi-
‘val was held. He repaired to an adjacent hill, and there

‘dared the penalty by lighting the forbidden fire. The

Saint's courage, or what they may have deemed profana-
tion, challenged first the astonishment, and then the
respect, of the assembled princes, priests, and nobles.
They questioned him on the subject of his audacity, and
he answered that his authority was from God.. Gari
baldi’s descent upon Sicily was not more perilous, or
more successful. Courage was the first high incentive
to embrace the truths of Christianity. The nation could

_ not be said to be converted, but subdued.

Thus has it ever been with faith and courage. Cou-
rage is indispensable to faith, and when they co-exist.
they are equal to remove mountains, physically and
.1iW-rally, as Well as morally and metaphorically. All
human achievements depend on these two moral and
mental agencies. The hand of a child, directed by sci-
ence, and using the agencies and machinery science has
subdued to its will, can exert more force, in piling
mountains upon mountains, than the united might of all
the Titans.

May this flag be to you a lesson and a warning; may
it always remind you of the principles, knowledge, com-
mends, and honor, approves of look you well to it, that
it suffer no stain, and that your own hearts reflect its
purity. You may not be afforded the opportunity of
seeing it flutter over a field of victory; but it will be
always in your power to preserve its inviolability, and
never let it be unrolled, in an unworthy cause, or for
selfish ends.

“ A nation’s flag, a nation's flag,
If wickedly unrolled,
May foes in adverse battle drag
its every-fold from fold from fold.”

THE PHCENIX.

NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1861.

PATRICK'S DAY.

IRs:LANn’s national festival has come and gone.
It has been celebrated with more than usual
pomp, parade, and show. Hearts have been
-high, old memories have shone out anew, dear
-old thoughts of old times and places, and old
friends, have clustered affectionately round. all
our hearts, and made them lighter, and happier,
and kinder, in many and many an instance, and
sadder, and lonelier, and gloomier-, let us hope,
only in a very few. A holiday it has been, in
the holiest sense of theword, and so racy of
mirth and joyance, and abandon such as they
used to be in the olden time, that the nature
‘must be, indeed, a flinty one, which it could not
warm into congenial sympathy and love.

For those who took part in the festivity the
day was, of course, gladder and happier, more
smiling than for those who were mere spec-

;tators. So it is, too, on the government of the
“world. The actors, alone, have real enjoy-
-ment; the lockers on come in when the

principal feast is over,‘ and partake only of the
fragments. ,

But though these actors wereall jubilant,
and all showed a common sentiment, as far as
llove and reverence, to the fatherland, and all
the dear memories of home and childhood, and
‘friends far away. Yet there were other senti-

‘ .ments, which so impressed themselves on the

faces of those who entertained them that they
who ran“might read them there. The 69th
Regiment, in the van of the array, marched
-with that conscious self-reliance which discipline
inspires. Steady! steady! firm and staunch,
man by man, and rank on rank. You could see
-what they mean in their looks. Their first
thought is the honor of that grand old sun-burst
they bear so proudly; their next, the hope of
_.,gerving the country of their adoption. Next
rfollows the Pncnxxx Bmsxnn. How light it is!
__how wiry l—-how rapt in their collectedness I
‘They are entirely indifferent as to the lockers-
/.-on. They care not who see or who admire
-.them—their thoughts are afar———they are, in
xfancy, treading lightly over their native heath.
The next in order were the “Ancient Order
of Hibernians.” They too, were inspired by the
same thoughts of home-—the4 same living me-
mories of the past. They have more in them
of home manners, more about them of old asso-
ciations than in or about the military. They
yet preserve the thoughtful aspect, and knitted
brow, that their position at home imposed on
them. They have also their home associations,
for they are an affiliation of a parent society

there, having the same views, objects, a.spira-
tions and hopes.

We cannot here enumerate the other compa-
nies that took part in the procession. They are
given in their order elsewhere. Here we pro-
pose only to consider the morale of the celebra-
tion. There is not a city in the States united,
or disunited, in which there was not a cele-
bration of some kind. Even where there were
no celebration, hearts grew warmer and ties of
love were drawn closer, and in their day-dreams

‘the spirits of man and mind went back to the

old hearth, the chapel where their childhood
prayed, and the church-yard where it may be
it wept. There was a universal gathering of
the clans to the old standard of the Gael. Every-
where his nature was roused down its teeming
depths, and kindness, and emotion, and love, and
hope, swelled up there.

In all this outpouring of generous emotions,
there is one predominant sentiment--it is this——
it will be this for over : For ties of love, snap-
ped, for kindred scattered, for the long lone
wanderings over the earth, of youth and bean-
ty and strength, of decrepitude and of infancy,
there is but one sole canse——the thrice accursed
English Government. In this one sentiment all
agree, except perhaps the old fogies and young
trimmers who miscall themselves “ The_Friendly
Sons of Saint Patrick,” which being translated
means, the degenerate sons of Ireland.

But let them go. From the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and from the Kennebec to the Rio
Grande, no society, and no man, woman or child,
drinks the health of the usurpation in Ireland,
under the title of “ The Queen,” but those beg-
garly loyalists and traitors to manhood and no.-
tionality. Let them go.

In all the rest, there is sameness and sound-
ness. The hatred of England is as unanimous
as it is deep. The desire to have a hand in its
overthrow is without an exception. This is
precisely the state of feeling, aspiration and
desire, that is anomalous and unintelligible.
There are two such lines of Irishmen in the
States, who would be prompt and proud to be
the last red drop of their heart, to strike down
‘Epgland’s felon flag; and there are as many

more men and women who would‘give the last

cent for the same holy purpose. Why this
strength and eagerness cannot be used in the_
question awaiting its solution. Oh, that some
strange will would mould and direct these
waste p6w‘ers,’”so~that.the,sun of next Patrick's
day may shine on the green flag ‘fluttering in the
liberated island.

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rnomnx BSRIGADE.

THE First Regiment of this Brigade paraded‘
on Monday, the 18th inst., in force, and were
preceded by the company of Zouaves, in full
uniform. This company, which has been lately
organized, attracted much attention by their
picturesque appearance and soldierly hearing.
The new flag of the Regiment, with its green
and gold, and ancient Sun-Burst, was for the
first time ‘unfurled over armed Irishmen in this
country. The Regiment was frequently cheered
along the line of march, and made a display
alike creditable to both oflicers and men.

The military companies all turned out in great
strength. There was on the streets of New
York the raw material for an effective army-
an army that could, in a week, sweep from the
shores of Ireland the last vestige of foreign rule.

and enroll themselves under the flag which their
ancestors bore triumphantly over many a red
battle-field, and through many a shattered column

of the enemy.
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ST. PATRICK'S DAY.

PARA PHRASED FROM MOORE .

A human, old friends, to the Spirit of Freedom!
Now vailed in the war cloud o'er Europe that lowers;
Oh, there never were boys, if their,“ leaders” would lead
them,
So fierce withgthe musket and pike as ours.
But cowards and knaves,_'
Have kept them slaves,
While chief after chief to the Saxon cowers ;
And the beggarly brood
Have that drop of blood,
Which they hawk in the place-hunting market, by turns,
And flaunt in the face of poor Eire each day.
No wonder the heart of the wanderer burns
With sorrow and shame on this Patrick's Day.

Contempt on the minic-n who says you are loyal
To Sassanagh ruler, or Sassanagh land,
When hell’s work isjdone for a despot that’s royal, —
The God of our martyrs sees blood on her hand. ,
If fealty to thee,
Graid/ze gal machree,
And courage to right all thywrongs, be disloyal-
Oh, then by the light
Of the coming fight,
Which dawns on the grandeur of MxTCHEL’S devotion,
And quickens the spirit of Museum for’ the fray!
We Irish are rebels, on land and on ocean,l
The wide world over this Patrick’s Day!

O’Manoxv, Donsnr, Room: the unweary,

And HALPIN, the patriot star of his clan ;
These Papist and Protestant exiles of Eire,

With legions of volunteers, true to a man,

Have faith that the day,
For which we pray,

Will see the Green Flag of their love in the van.’
And France, as of yore,

With aid ga loer,

Her squadrons in flank on that glorious morning,
To sweep the last “ law-loving” landlord away!
The Sun-Burst and Eagles in triumph adorning,
Keep castle and seaport next Patrick’s Day.

RICHARD O—‘——--—.

To James Roche, Esq., Editor of the Phoenix.

MY DEAR vnrnun will excuse the freedom I take in
addressing him and in dedicating to him the following
simple yet heartfelt lines. I know that there lives no
man in either hemisphere whose devotion to the freedom
of his native land is more securely planted nor more
sincerely felt than that of J amas Roche, for the libera-
tion and regeneration of Ireland. My only regret is,
that I cannot contribute to that devotion and that sin-
cerity in a more deserving and meritorious manner :-

THE MAIGUE AND DEELS4‘

To see the Maigue and Deel
I wish I now could steal,

And move among

The joyous throng,‘j
In minuet or in reel.;

To hear the skylark bring
Glad tidings of the spring,
When at the dawn
From lea and lawn,
‘He soars aloft to sing.

To see the bound of deer,’l,

To hear the hnntsman’s cheer,
To guide the steed
When at full speed,}

Nor flood nor field to fear.

To see the young lambs play
On the daisied field in May,
. And in the prime
Of harvest time, ‘:
To smell the new-mown haygj,

To hear the thrilling thrush,
From the blossomed thorn bush,
When forth from home
I chose to roam,
At morning’s beaming blush.

And where those waters glide,
Along to Shannon’s tide,

May brave and bold,

Ere long, unfold
A standard on bill side.

More pleased than all I’d feel
To see the foeman reel,

Before the crash

And onward dash
Of Fenians’ flashing steel.

God send the happy day !
And speed it soon, I pray,
When Saxon foe
Away shall go,
And scatter as the spray.

Srarnrssu FANACH.

 

* 1lIaigue—pronounced Maig. The Maig and Deel are
two rivers which have their sources within a few miles of
each other in the county of Cork, not far from the cc. of
Limerick. Those beautiful streams receive considerable
accessories in their devious courses through many of the
fertile plains of the latter county, and finally mingle their
waters with those of the limpid Shannon, not far from
Limerick city. The ltlaigue and Deel are justly famous
for trout-fishing; nor is the “Monarch of the Tide” a
stranger to their waters. When shall we bait a hook for

those pfolific floods again ? .

A Washington, D. C. \

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