The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-30 00:00:00

Tha NORM YRIDfriEVININCt IRTNIVIBX A&

THE SPEECH AT
HOPPP. DUBLIN Of Ma. SATAN

We have already stated that a banquet was given
es Torlay evening last at Roblin to the Hoe. Charles
Oahu Deify, by abed two Wain& el his admirers, as the
suasion of his return to Bile eastrr from Australia often
en Absence of ten years. We now give a report of his speech.
Hori'Citensa GAVAI Berri rose amidst load ap-
plause, aria of " for ever" and "The Groan above the
Bed.' He said—l am rejoiced to stand caw more air '
J iramplattem surecviadod by old friseds and colored's. end
of an Irish audience. In the ten years since we petted
ft Ma been theMNlTollef secret pleasure to me to ranee. timid,'
whalers: small mesas I rationally attained wait lir
eireegtheo ouroommea cause. It went, I fancied, towards pro-
ving that wears atvisionary, orimpracticable ia OUT kilUe,
hat that they were sash as might have been worked to •
maeosesful issue if we oat y had had as fair a field for the
experiment in Ireland as there inlets is Australia. (Hear.)
All that streak for the Irish farmer—to possess the fruits
ad his own iodustry in pesos--has bum more than attained
in Australia. (Meer, hear.) All that we ask for the Irish
uatioe—to rule and posers their own country without ex-
terul isterfeeenoe--,W been completely attataed in Au-
*Alia. (Heer, hear.) 4ed whenever ISW soy of then
accesses won, whether I was a mere spectator or an
actor la as struggle, thews row to my mid the
adastation of Patrick Sarafield at Leaden, " Would
to God that this were for Ireland." (Loud cheers.)
Bleeding in this place, it is lard to rumen the memories
of the put ; of the twoally years in which I have had awe
share in Irish affairs, and of the generous friends with
whom I had the happiness of being associated—friends
sank as I sever met in the world. Bat I shall not be drove
tato that these; your presence here is evidence that you
its:64o4od favoimbly, on the whole, of my past life ; and
It bee bees muted, like most men's, with &headset
ernes ad omissions, I will be well contest if those who
are beet acepiented with it sue of opisioa that in choosing
my side in Irish &train I still chose that which I be-
lieved to be the eight side, whelks( the sue shoes or
the storm fell on rt ; and that I newer preferred any
selfish interests of my own to the interests of the Irish
people. It is still more difficult for me to stand in this
place and not to speak of the cooditioa in which I find the
Isometry returning to it after so many years' e beware. Bet if
I speak of Ireland I must speak of my own convictions
nakedly, whothee they an likely to find favour or the re-
am*. In whatever I may speak I have no temytatioe, I
think, to mislead the people. I am not a candidate for a
seat in parliament ce sup other mark of power or datioe-
lion which the Irish people ean confer. (Hear, hear.)
I have never sought or atieepted anything from their
haat*, to the value of a postage stamp, sweep.
the opportunity of sieving them awarding to my humble
capacity; and I shali. (Moore) And I positive)
declare that I would rather have continued to work
es • volunteer is their autos than enjoy the highest dis-
traction that any other eountry.ueder the sky could cooler
if they had only 'been true to thitoselies. (Mura) I am
addressing an Irish audience whips for the last time. I
Oen. lake the liberty, therefor*, of talking with the
frankness of an old Mood who has won the right of speak-
ing his mind: Now, In what mediat' do I find Ired?
In what condition does • stranger 'Who coma from • distant
isometry, and desires to judge fur himself, without prejudice
or exagganitioa, find it? I leap over details and take
the broad, facts. OD the far aide of the British
Manned he 'sees Ruched more prospo one than ever
she was aims the la *ud ; her people
more content than they were within the memory
of history, with resources that appear boundless, and which
seem to expand in proportion to every demand on them. In
Ireland, under the Davao sky and under the same govern-
ment, a aeivenal depreesieo, a nearly universal disuateat,
and the Bulk of ' the laduetrious population pouring itself
recklessly tato the bosom of a fameigs.hountry. I am evens
to ersgsgeration, as one of the worst viees of oar mac If it
was ever a eh of miss, I trust I am sobered by years and by
political respeueibility ; but I affirm that for any people to
endure this calamity, ea it is endured la Ireland, is shameful
and criminal. Why is it endured? Is there any law
'of nature by which the people of Ireland, of all people
cia the fees of the earth, are alone to be exterminated out
of their own country ? (Chun.) If there is no such law,
in the name of the benign Ruler of the universe, why abould
we endure it? I may be told that it is endured because
remedy is hopeless, beam all efforts to amend our coali-
tion have been made is vain. I deny that all remedy is
hopeless—l deny that all efforts have been made in vain •
and I affirm that the Irish people are In the present dis:
&stream condition mainly because they have never persisted
in any adequate effort to be relieved of it. Oppressed
countries do not obtain relief by simply wishing for It, they
must work for it—oome by maintaining saagumary
win—
some by arousing and directing publics opiuion--some by
I
long,
slow, persistent, active or passive resistance to mis-
government—but all by sacrifices and exertions. no Ire-
land won emancipation io a contest never relaxed fur forty
years. Look at what is being done in other countries of
Europe at this moment. In Hungary, after her overthrow
in 1848, the idea of armed resistance to Austria seems to
have been abandoned as hopeless, but the irreparable
desire of the people to possess the free institutions which
their fathom enjoyed, led them to use every means that
reuisieed to them, and year after year, without &Wag,
they have reserved their demands ; mad now it is said their
wishes will be complied with, and the free constitution of
Hungary revived. le Prussia the whole power of the State
is wielded by • despotic King to .oeerpower the popular
branch of the legislature ; but the people of Prussia are not
to be cowed or dishier:ailed, and, after three diseoludows,
they have three amain-elected their faithful representatives.
In Fracas, under the hoof of &despotism which milght well
kill hope, wherever the smallest opening presents itself—a
local election, • parliamentary opposition of a dozen or a
soots 'pleat hundreds, an election to the itditute—they
seine the opportunity to »upset their °roams. (Chaste.)
This is the road to aneues. History bas broadly narked
upon it the truth that persistence like this in a just cause is
*seaweed with victory. But it le said we have only parlia-
mentary action to rely upon, and that it has always failed
and oaght to be relinquished. Idle talk. (Hear, bear.) We
mast do what all these natioes I have cited de—use the
means within oar power and mils the most of them. We
must accept our position, end act In it se best we
can. As regards parliamentary Lotion' I repeat that
the Irish people have never given it the shadow of a
chaos. For thirties years I have had daily ape.
Mose of what parliamentary government is, whet it
can do and what it cannot do. I know bow broken Ireland
is by famine and emigration, and yet I declare my solemn
conviction—l declare on my honour as a man and on my
faith as a Christian— that with the means still at their
dieresis], if the people of Ireland? or a reasonable majority
of them, were resolutely determined to put an end to the
system under which the population is periahiog, they could
do so. (Cheers.) The power of a small number of men in
parliament who are prepared to abandon all desire of
personal advantages from their position, and who
only demand what is just, is immense. Lees than
twenty honest and capable men carried through the
House of Commons in one session a measure of pro-
tection for the tenantry no extensive as no ,one seems
any longer to hops for—a measure which Sharman Craw-
ford, with the best intentions, had been subedits, is
parliament for 20 years in vain. Aad here is an opportu-
nity at head to do much more than this if we will. Wheat,
13..000 miles away, I read the bat mums of Ireland, and
the tragical emigration realms, and knew that a general
election was at hand, I confess I anticipated a very differ-
ent seem from any I fled here jest now. After an inter-
val of quiescent* long enough to regain worn%
long enough to show that there is nothing to be got by
submission bat contempt (cheers)—l thought the country
would hive braved itself for soother great effort ; that the
whole ramekin strength of the nation would be provoked ;
that our countrymen is England and Scotland would have
been awakened to aid you by exercising the franchise in
favour of friend, in Ireland ; that our countrymen in
America and Anetralie. would have been asked to aid you
with funds to carry on this contest ; that the same polky
which induced the Tessa Lague to proffer a seat
in parliament without expense to John Stuart Mill as the
most distinguished exponent of its opinions, would have
guided the selection of candldatee ; that this some pantry
which induced Heath, Wexford, and New Ross to retort
their members without the personal expenditure of a guinea,
Would again be adopted. (Cheers.) Tie most conservative
of statesmen might well declare as the principle of his
administration that if the Ladles* of Ireland cannot
msistain their privileges except at the price of destroying
the population, they cannot be permitted to enjoy them on
such terms. A man like Sir Robert Peel, whose aims in
the latter part of his life, at least, were lofty and generous.
would, f believe, have risen to the height on such se occa-
sion. He would have planned a social revolution el the
sort that has occurred either by the will and guidance of
statesmen, or by the rude force of the masa in
every mustry in Europe, to curtail and regulate, or
ha blot oat and abolish the remnant of • feudal system.
(Cheers.) I can well oonceive him framing a system by
which the Irish landlords would receive as rent only for the
future a reasonable fixed proportion of the produce of the
farm ; and to satisfy the most impale= theory of the
rights of property be might acoompany such a law with •
provision for buying out landlords who objected, and
ttic the frames in direct communication with the
as their only landlords for the future. Has
anyone the smallest doubt that, if it were asoessary to
do this in order to save the English people, it would
Dot bedons? Is there anyone here does not know that the
=1 of landed property in Prussia, Austria, France,
7nd Belgium has been regulated by much mere
emering ammo' ? Bat if we are to =AKA esything from
psalm:sat, we most set to week in • different spirit from
say which prevails. as far as I an perceive, at present. If
the Irish popular seas arebbebarteredfor money, or mouey's
worth, it is in vain to talk of an Irish party. The primary
Ida is raped to a candidate at present seems to be how
I much can be got rut of him in bonuses and subscriptioes.
You may rely upon its. • general rub, that you will sot get
both prof ass subscriptions and heart vines from the suns
man. Those who are compelled to buy their seats will think
they axe well entitled to sell them. And again, one of the
most difficult tasks in the Mild being given to Irish
members—to idioms a hostile legislature—eayma is
thought good enough for the task. It dm sot seem
to be rerizembelud Viet lie tunas, their stock of votes
is not mosey unless you oan alum increase their stack
of brains. -The MOM of • parliamentary campaign,
es mush as of • military one, depends upon the shill of
leaders ; end, if Prods:Moe spin sends to Ireland
pasibrasstary Imam like Frederick Lucie and Norge
Henry Moore, I may say, without bitterness, that I trust