THE IRISH PATRIOT.
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In the county of Galway in Ireland, there lived
IA young couple, the children of two neighbour.
ing cottagers, who were betrothed TO each other
from the earliest period OF infancy. They had
been educated in the same rude retirement, had


partaken ofthe same fare, had shared in the same
amusements, and were now anxiously waiting the
period OF their union Their parents were OF the
lowest class OF the Irish peasanry, and possessed
mo inconsderable share of the natural virtues and
vices. With dispositions naturally good, their
passions had been inhamed by the civl. dissen-
Itions OF the period, and embittered by the pres
sure OF acute poverty; and finally induced them


Ito join in the i'll fated rebellion that terminated
in the death ofpoor Emmett, and his associates,


1t happened one night that the father and mo.
ther of the young girl, with the youth TO whom


she was betrothed, were sitting round their little


tiresde, gloomily awaiting an increase OF poverty
and misery, when sudden knock at the cottage
door reused them from their revere, and induced


them to hasten to the gate. tall, elegant stran-
lger, closely mutied up in military cloak, enter


ed their humble dwelling, and without waiting


for the consent of the party, seated himself in a


chair opposite, and through the folds OF his robe,
|attentively surveyed the groupe. lie appeared
young and noble, but wrapt in gloom, and worn
down with anxieties; which, at the period to
which we allude, were felt more or less by al


most every Irish Patriot. After long pause, he
RELAXED somewhat in his scrutiny, and addressed
|himselfto the young man, and his intended father
|in-law, and having insisted on the departure Of


the females, shrouded his face more closely in


his mantle, and in blended accents of pity, shame


and indignation, commenced an animated recital


of the civil dissentions of Ireland, of ITS shameful
|subjugation by England, its decay of public spi.
rt and private worth, and terminated his dis.
course by solemnly conjuring them if they vau.
led their rights, their liberties and their principles
Ito join with the constitutional warmth Of Irish


men, in rebellion that was yet in embryo. and