Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1861-10-24
ADDRESS

1ooscLuDED.1


ties of submission. these propagandists Of
national dishonor and ruin. when they ask
me how.it is possible that while contend
ed for the independence of Ireland am
opposed to the Independence of the South.
answer this:--and | trust there is not a
single lrishmau here who will gainsay it
had Ireland been under the enjoyment of
such privileges and such rights and such
guaranteed independence as South Carroll
IA enjoyed. ! would not have been here
tonight. the scatfold would not have been
stained with one drop of martyrs blood.
and Ireland would have been spared many
. generation of misery and defeat.
s But not only By the apologists Of the
South. bur by Southern gentlemen them
selves. BY writer's. similar to those which
have mentioned. AMI yet more personal.
perhaps. have been al dressed to mo. 1t
would seem from statements which ap.
peared in some of the Southern papers. be-
fore the postal communication was cut off.
as If were unler soma obligation to join
tho South and pledge to them my sword.
My friends know that have a somewhat
retentive memory. AMI | nave taxed and
vexcd this memory to know by what means
have incurred the slightest obligation to
the South. unless it indeed be this,-that
one winters day took the steamer from
New York to Charleston. AMI there gratui-
tously delivered a lecture which added
eight hundred dollars to fund for the
erection of monument to the memory of
Calhoun. Perhaps. indeei. that act of
mine in attsstation of my respect for the
character and abilities of John G. Calhoun
imposed an additional obligation on me.
and must also give my blood. whatever
value there is in that. As the South have
distinguished themselves of late by their
financial transactions, will not pretend
to differ from them on this question of f.
nance. but ! am not prepared to draw my
sword with them. shall only do so on
enc contingency. and that is when the
South joins the North (applause.) l have
hal. inised. many true anil devoted friends
IN the South. and have spent many pleas
ant days there. Some of my countrymen
have done me the honor there to enroll
themselves in q military company under
my name. but the moment organized a
eompsny in New York in favor of the
government. they passed series of indig
nsnt resolutions, stating that, inasmuch as
had proved recreant to the principles
which had endesred me to my fellow-coun-
trvmen and the world, the name of the
"Mesgher Guards" should be blottel out
from the colors and the books Of the COM
pany. and that of the Emerald Light
Il I H. L. 81
bernian Benevolent Society" of Charlie
ton. saw by paper. passed q resolution
erasing my name Us IN honorary member
Of the Society. which was the first intima-
ton | had that such a membership had
been conferred on me. 1t must have been
very honorary. inasmuch as on one or two
occasions. when in Charleston profession
ally. had to pay a considerable rent fol
the use of their hall. | speak OF these
things in perfect good humor. l must add
that no hospitality or honors which coull
be lav;-hed on me would justify ON my
part even Inactivity, where the Federal
Government. stricken at by Southern
friends. was in peril. In such case m,
duty to the Government supersedes- al
other considerations.
Hence it is that | have appeared in arms
TOR the National Government; and hence i
Is that have already and do now invok
my conntrymen to take up arms in tn,
same righteous cause. Will they not obel
this invocation? Will they not press oil
and initiate their gallant countrymen VIII
recently. under the gallant Mulligan. witt
only 900 men. sustained themselves fou
5 days against 4 900. and surrendered at last
because for two days they had no water
and who thereby gave the most convircin,
proof of their iielity to their country!-
Ought we on the Eastern frontier to be le>
decided in our devotion to the country, o
less generous in our evidence oft?
= ] will not appeal to the gratitude O
Irishmen in this invocation to arms.
will will not remind them ,at. when driv
en- from their own land, when their hut
were pulled down or burned above thei
heads, when turned ont by the roadside o
into the bitches to die, when broken i
fortune, and when all hope was lost. tn
Irishmen came here and hal new life in
fused into them. fertile soil beneath thei
feet. . fsvoring sunshine over their head,
and found thousands to give them encoul
aging and sustaining hands. l will nc
remind my countrymen OF the sympath
and substantial aid which the people {
America have given them in all their pr
litical struggles. l will not remind the,
ofthe sympathy then sloquently AMI cnth'
r siasticslly expressed. what thousand upo
thousand of dollars they showered into Il
popular sxchequer. when, under the chan
pion~hip of 9 mighty tribune the gre
contest for Catholic rights. and the reno
oil Of Catholic disabilities was raging.
will not remind them that. while Braz
Buenos Ayres. New Grenada. almost al
country with favoring soil OF climate
eanallv omen 10 them. this is the on
eoustsy whore the Irish people can reco
struct themselves and become power
I will not remind them that, whilst
home no Irishman, however bold. da
speak in public the name of Robert E'
met, to do that name the sacred hon
which it deserves (great applause);-he
in America his last speech is to be foul
in nearly all the sehool-books of the col
mon schools. so that the American b
8 may be fired into patriotism by the reri'
ton of his words and the remembrance
his death (checrs); will not appeal ev
u n