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Meetings have been held in New York and Bal
tmore, and we believe other places, to express the
opinions of the friends of civil and religious liberty
and their sympathy in behalf of their Irish fellow
citizens in the city of Boston, who have suffered
many unproyoked outrages. The most recent of
these, was attack on the "Montgomery guards
while on parade in that city; for which conduct
the assalants have been punished according to law
The forbearance of the guards on the occasion a.
bove alluded to, was worthy of the highest praise,
and we pleased to find that their hopes of legal
redress were realized.


The proceedings of these meetings consist of
Preamble and Resolutions relative to the particu-
lar subject of the rights of foreigners who have be-
come citizens; rights which no one ought to dis
pute, as they sanctioned both by law and usage.
These meetings justly condemn the spirit of pro-
scription, engendered by bigotry, which is mani
tested in Boston particularly, and especially direct
ed against the emigrants from Ireland. 1t is much
TO be deplored that those who have sought refuge
in this land of liberty should be subject to the
pricious despotism of lawless mobs-snore frghtful
than the iron rule from which the victims have
escaped. ~


The press-the newspaper press, may come, in
for full share of the blame which attends the dis
graceful consummation of infuriated passion. The
press has failed to censure, without discrimination
the yioaters of the public order and the rights Of
man, by yielding to the 'respectabity" of certain
mobs, the independence of its character. The
press has done than this, 1t has incited the
people to riot and bloodshed. In almost every
warmly contested election, it has, in language moi
to be misunderstood, urged the different partizans
to violence-especially in our large cities--th
seats of learning wealth and arstocratic splendor


the seats TOO of RIGHTEOUSNESS and crime. Wher
the press shall raise its voice against all violations
of the public peace, and the law shall be brough
to operate equally upon aH-then, & not till thel
will this terrible spirit of insubordination be sub
I dued.