DYING FOR COUNTRY.
Ma. O'Cosnterm has been for many weeks performing to nume- rous and admiring audiences for the benefit of his Repeal exche- quer; so framing his words as to make the Irish believe that be intends something very striking and revolutionary in case England should refuse Repeal, and yet to avoid saying any thing that the authorities can pounce upon as punishable treason. Thus, be is continually implying a threat that the Irish are all ready to fly to arms, and yet making out that nothing of that sort is meant. He talks about "dying freemen "; then he says that there will be no dying, and imputes the phrase to his own "oratorical phrensy." Some of his friends are not so adroit at this thimblerig. Mr. ROCHE, for instance, tried his hand, at Skibbereen- " We have a country to live for, but we have also a country to die for ; but we won't die for her until they won't allow us to live for her. I don't believe they will attempt to drive us to that desperate alternative."
Now this was a very lame conclusion : the ball might have been kept up much longer ; as thus—" We have a country to live for, but we have also a country to die for; but we won't die for her until they won't allow us to live for her : but if they won't allow us to live for her, of course we are ready to die for her ; unless we can contrive to live for her in spite of them; and in that case, although they won't allow us to live for her, still it would be better not to die for her, but to live for her : for certainly no one would die for Ireland but the Irish, and no one has a right to live in Ireland but the Irish; so that if the Irish die for Ireland and the Saxons live for her, the very object of Repeal would be lost ; which proves that it were best in no case to die for her, but that the only patriotism is to live for her. Yet again, in order to get a living, it is very ne- cessary to make out that you are ready for dying ; a truth illus- trated by men who dye for their living : and that too disguises and covers the Repeal gold ; for Goldsmith says, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray'—the only art her gilt to cover,' to ring the changes, is to dye.'"
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