A SPECIMEN OF TREASON. (From the United Irishman, April 22.)

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 242, 23 September 1848, Page 3

A SPECIMEN OF TREASON. (From the United Irishman, April 22.)

Now, it is not the repeal of the Catholic Emancipation Act, nor yet the repeal of the Union Act, by itself, thta will cure all this. Nothing w ill cure it save the total overthrow of the aristocratic system of government, and the establishment of the people's inalienable sovereignty. We must have Ireland not for certain Peers in Col* legexgreen ; but Ireland for the Irish. I scorn and spit upon. " Repeal of the Union." The Queen, Lords, and Commons of Ireland" will never be seen in bodily form upon this earth ; " the golden link of the Crown" is as great a humbug as the great Peace principle of the " mighty leader of the lihh people." * * * # j What need of more words ? The Irish people have found their way, and this premier knows it. They are once more on the true path, disused now for fifty yean, and can see to the end of it. Blow, then ! blow, ye the blacksmiths' bellows! Let the stalwart for^e hammer lest neither by day nor yet by night ! '' Re« peal" is on the anvil ; the " battle oi the constitution" is to be fought in the forge first, and afterwards in the Melds and in the streets. * * * * It is sdi'l, indead, that L>rd Clarendon intends shoitly to ordii a general <li»nrrei ing. Sh.»ll we {Jive up our weapons? On this subject we refer to a letter in another column, signed " Aughnm." It contains a pertinent question and one that oujit speedily to be answered. We will return to the subject next week for the present can only say, we are not providing ourselves with arms and ammunition for the use of our enemies, but for their destruction. Meanwhile let 14 Felony" thrive 1 I am firmly convinced that individual resolve and presense of mind are about to be tented in the most trying

i manner. If, ihtn, any penon be foicnl to destroy life in defending his arms from secure, or his person from arrest, the people must make common cause with that man, and eveiy man should immediately be asiured that ihe people will so stand by him in any inch peril. I believe that such an assurance is most urgently called for at this moment. Put the following question to my Confederate :—": — " If a policeman — lawfully, and in the execution of his duty — attempted to posseis himself of your rifle, pistol, cut-and-trust, dirk, or pike, would you instantly (hesitation would insure defeat) shoot him, lay his skull open, or run him through ?" I make answer for myself, and in all candour acknow* ledge, that I, for one, would not do ;,o. I dare not. Yes, that's the plain truth — I dare not slay the fellow. And why? Because I have no assurance that you or any other Confederate would make common cause with me. But let the Confedeiates pledge themselves individually, and as a body, to stand by one another under such or any like circumstances, and then let the Preler look out — that's all. If he then mada the slightest motion to " do his duty," I'd whip my dirk into him, sir — up to the hilt, sir — one plunge, and away. You understand ? If this pledge be not made and given, and that speedily, I tell you, sit, we shall have to unbuckle ! We have received nurabeilesa letters about surprises and attacks of the several military posts in this city. Once for all let us say, attccks on the military potions of a garrison, by the inhabitants of any city, are only to he made when the small and defensible street 9 are barricaded, and fought successfully. The first thing to be done is to stop the thoroughfare •— to cut off communication, to entrench liberty in the heart of the capital, to split up draw into fastnesses, make powerless, and slaughter the opposing troops. Street by sheet the barricades should be advanced from the heart to the extremities— from the narrow streets to the squares, bridges, and large thoroughfares. If military posts are outside a city, the barricades are advanced up the streets leading from them in all directions, so as to cut oft' the posts from the troops within and the troops without the peoplr within. If the post*, are within a city, barricades should bead, vanced in the streets round about them, nearer and nearer, every instant, so as to 6unound, dore up, and tempt to vain salliei the troops in position. Then, and then only, when revolutionary citiz us can advance under the fiie of barricades and houses in their possession, and retreat on thee if repulsed, »huuld attacks bemade. Gas-pipes and railroads should, of course be cut up ; but these are matters of no difficulty. So much for attacks. A great number of people are getting serious about the quantity of troop§ which the Castle or&am tell vi have been for several weeks thrown into Dublin. Keep never minding them. They are too wise to attack the city, were then ten times as strong as they pr< tend to be. There is no city in Europe, not excepting Pans or Vienna, so defensible by the citizens, as this in which we have the happiness to live. Every house in this city is provided with a mine before it, of exquisite construction for the blowing up of a squadron over head, and at present used as a coat cellar. The cellars of nouses opposite to each other are often seperated by narrow streets by a wall merely —in wider streets they communicate with each other by sewers, large and high, ruuning from each to the main sewer ot the street. The owners of one cellar could thus easily blow up the street right across— thereby, first making a mine ; second, a covered way ; third a ditch , in front of a barricade, if bo chose to throw up one behind it. Or two citizens, living opposite to each other, who fear the attack of troops, could with great ease make an underground passage from one house to the other be used, first, as a means of communication or escape; and, secondly, as a mine.