of thy departure? All that breathe in life's green spring, and he who goes t when thy summons comes to join t like the quarry slave at night, his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed tering trust, approach thy grave 10 wraps the drapery of his couch and lies down to pleasant dreams. V.-EMMET'S VINDICATION. 1. MY LORDS: What have I to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me, according to law? I have nothing to say that can alter your predetermination, nor that it will become me to say with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce, and I must abide by. But I have that to say which interests me more than life, and which you have labored to destroy. I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it. 2. Were I only to suffer death, after being adjudged guilty by your tribunal, I should bow in silence, and meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur; but the sentence of law which delivers my body to the executioner will, through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy; for there must be guilt somewhere-whether in the sentence of the court, or in the catastrophe, posterity must deter mine. The man dies, but his memory lives. That mine may not perish-that it may live in the respect of my countrymen-I seize upon this opportunity to vindicate myself from some of the charges alleged against me. 3. When my spirit shall be wafted to a more friendly port; when my shade shall have joined the bands of d heroes who have shed their blood, on the the field, in defense of their country and my hope-I wish that my memory and mate those who survive me, while I look nplacency on the destruction of that per ment which upholds its domination by the Most High, which displays its powers er the beasts of the forest, which sets man er, and lifts his hand, in the name of God, oat of his fellow who believes or doubts a less than the government standard-a govis steeled to barbarity by the cries of the he tears of the widows which its cruelty by the throne of Heaven, before which I ppear-by the blood of the murdered pae gone before me-that my conduct has all this peril and all my purposes, governed onvictions which I have uttered, and no that of the emancipation of my country inhuman oppression under which she has -patiently travailed; and that I confidenty hope, wild and chimerical as it may ape is still union and strength in Ireland to noble enterprise. try was my idol. To it I sacrificed every dearing sentiment; and for it I now offer acted as an Irishman, determined on deountry from the yoke of a foreign and |