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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
THURLOGH , THE MILESIAN .
( Continued from page 357 . )
CHAPTER V . Having enjoyed the luxury of a happy night ' s repose , calmed by fatigue , and seasoned by sorrow , our hero met his host , the next morning , at the breakfast table , whence they adjourned to the study . Having lighted upon a copy of the " Hibernia pacata , " in which is given an account of the confiscation of some predecessors of his family , dming tbe administration of the President Carew , with the acts of heroism which they
achieved before they were finally despoiled , his countenance betrayed symptoms of inward uneasiness , and bespoke but too plainly an interest in the narrative . It suggested itself instantly to the good pastor's circumspection , that the curiosity which had been excited by the sagacious insight of his man " John , " might now be gratified ivithout any visitation of those delicate fears which ' hud repressed its first outbreak . Placing himself beside him , therefore , with an air of frank complacency , he darts an eye at the passage which seemed to
have arrested the student ' s notice , and observing its purport to have been an exposition of the inducement by which the great Earl of Clancare , or Mac Carthy-More , as he was more generally denominated , had been impelled to relinquish his princely chains , and the imposing accompaniments of titled vassalage , to plunge into the vortex of an unequal competition , and subject himself to the stigma of a refractory rebel— " hard times , my young friend , " said he , " were those , and such as we have reason to rejoice that we have not been allotted to . " " True , sir , " replied Thurlogh ; yet I cannot but think , after all , the present which we witness , are to some more severe . War , I admit you , no longer desolates our fields , nor exercises those
atrocities in which it loves to fatten ; but the dire consequences ofthe epoch show their effects in the descendants of the sufferers , uncheeved by any consciousness of having had share in the scenes , or in those contingencies of battle which would have given another colour to their fate ; or , finally , that though their fortune was to fall , they had embarked therein of choice , and with the inward sunshine in prospect , and consolation in retrospect , of having done so at the call of their country's liberties . " " You , surely , do not mean to say , that love of country , however strong ,
and sense of oppression , however indignant , could justify a recurrence to treasonable defiance on the hope of exemption therefrom ; when , too , the probabilities were so obviously in the foreground , and the issue , in such circumstances , more calamitous tenfold ? " " As to treason , sir , I would disdain the word , it being one which , obnoxious in itself , must entail odium upon every measure upon which it is brought to bear . ¦ But ideas differ as to what constitutes the act ; and while 1 view it in the light in which my judgment presents it , I may be permitted
to withhold my assent from the necessity of your deductions . For the tiling itself , whether in essence or in name , I hope no one entertains a more just aversion than I do ; but , certainly , when an umpire is invited to determine a quarrel between two contenders , either to further the aggressor or to redress the aggrieved , and when , the casualties of events favouring the lufthandeduess of arbitration , he loses sight of the sanctity of his original compact , and is blind to all dictates save those of selfish promotion , I see no reason , for my part , why the disputants should not join in one effort of nationality , and eject the common enemy from a post he had usurped . If , then , 1 be correct in my estimate of the grounds of the opposition which
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Thurlogh, The Milesian.
THURLOGH , THE MILESIAN .
( Continued from page 357 . )
CHAPTER V . Having enjoyed the luxury of a happy night ' s repose , calmed by fatigue , and seasoned by sorrow , our hero met his host , the next morning , at the breakfast table , whence they adjourned to the study . Having lighted upon a copy of the " Hibernia pacata , " in which is given an account of the confiscation of some predecessors of his family , dming tbe administration of the President Carew , with the acts of heroism which they
achieved before they were finally despoiled , his countenance betrayed symptoms of inward uneasiness , and bespoke but too plainly an interest in the narrative . It suggested itself instantly to the good pastor's circumspection , that the curiosity which had been excited by the sagacious insight of his man " John , " might now be gratified ivithout any visitation of those delicate fears which ' hud repressed its first outbreak . Placing himself beside him , therefore , with an air of frank complacency , he darts an eye at the passage which seemed to
have arrested the student ' s notice , and observing its purport to have been an exposition of the inducement by which the great Earl of Clancare , or Mac Carthy-More , as he was more generally denominated , had been impelled to relinquish his princely chains , and the imposing accompaniments of titled vassalage , to plunge into the vortex of an unequal competition , and subject himself to the stigma of a refractory rebel— " hard times , my young friend , " said he , " were those , and such as we have reason to rejoice that we have not been allotted to . " " True , sir , " replied Thurlogh ; yet I cannot but think , after all , the present which we witness , are to some more severe . War , I admit you , no longer desolates our fields , nor exercises those
atrocities in which it loves to fatten ; but the dire consequences ofthe epoch show their effects in the descendants of the sufferers , uncheeved by any consciousness of having had share in the scenes , or in those contingencies of battle which would have given another colour to their fate ; or , finally , that though their fortune was to fall , they had embarked therein of choice , and with the inward sunshine in prospect , and consolation in retrospect , of having done so at the call of their country's liberties . " " You , surely , do not mean to say , that love of country , however strong ,
and sense of oppression , however indignant , could justify a recurrence to treasonable defiance on the hope of exemption therefrom ; when , too , the probabilities were so obviously in the foreground , and the issue , in such circumstances , more calamitous tenfold ? " " As to treason , sir , I would disdain the word , it being one which , obnoxious in itself , must entail odium upon every measure upon which it is brought to bear . ¦ But ideas differ as to what constitutes the act ; and while 1 view it in the light in which my judgment presents it , I may be permitted
to withhold my assent from the necessity of your deductions . For the tiling itself , whether in essence or in name , I hope no one entertains a more just aversion than I do ; but , certainly , when an umpire is invited to determine a quarrel between two contenders , either to further the aggressor or to redress the aggrieved , and when , the casualties of events favouring the lufthandeduess of arbitration , he loses sight of the sanctity of his original compact , and is blind to all dictates save those of selfish promotion , I see no reason , for my part , why the disputants should not join in one effort of nationality , and eject the common enemy from a post he had usurped . If , then , 1 be correct in my estimate of the grounds of the opposition which