Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-18

swept through the door.
He gone-she there still-a statue Of sor-
row-sbe the woman Of Bohemia, The sister
Of mercy, whom society condemns.
All alone now; even Bohemia is without
its charm.
Good as an angel, she is most angelic in
her womanhood.
She is weeping, o how bitterly
Nature has descended in a sacred shower,
and through the divine storm Bohemia floats
mistily away. JUNIUS.
lin our next Mondays issue we propose to
give a sketch Of ~Bohemianism in O~incinnati.1
FLAG P~resentntIon Mt the Cathedral.
The ladies of the Cincinnati Saint Pat
rick's Benevolent Society presented a splen-
did silk banner 10 that association at the
Cathedral last night Arch. bishop Purcell
officiating. 1t was of fine silk, elegantly Or
Damented, and containing a portrait Of
Washington, and the words presented by
the Ladies Of the ST. Patrick's Benevolent
Society of Cincinnati" on one side, and the
Goddess Of Liberty, and the Maid of Erin,
on the other, together with the motto,
"Liberty, Honor, and Virtue
The presentation speech was read by Miss
Sallie Redmond, in o clear and distinct tone.
1t compliments the association, as a noble
one, and it was in token of the high appre-
citation in which it was held, that the banner
before them was presented.
1t thus proceeds; ITO symbolic this two
fold relation Of you and yours, as Catholicsto
Patrick, and as citizens to Washington, has
been the design of this banner; that when it
sways in the breeze Of this glorious region of
liberty, as you collectively move along in
your mission of good, you can look up with
out a blush in the face of the American peo-
pie, to those emblazoned Implications Of
your native and adopted countries. Free,
just, generous, ~broad-acred Columbia extend
ing the right hand of welcome and hospi-
tally, as sincere as your own Celtic-'Gead
mill Fedttha-to poor, virtuous, expatri-
ated Hibernia, is far the most conspicuous
fact in the modern history of you, and it well
becomes the warm, generous, Irish heart to
give this fact a conspicuous recognition.
Hence the design on the field of this SOU
UenoiT, and what more appropriate for the
adverse than the portrait of him who THAT
free America may embrace you and the
down trodden of the world) tore from the
long-prostrate form of his country the ra-
pacious and degrading incubus Of that very
tyranny which crushed you at home in the
name of liberty, which robbed you in the
name of justice, which enacted the penal
code against your religion in the name of
conscience, which prescribed you in the
name of truth, and which, finally, flung you
out, with the same consistent hypocrisy, in
the name Of progress.
"And as all human duty, as we'll as human
interest, must relate to ones self, to his
neighbor or to his Creator, what three terms
more significant of this three. fold relation
than those of our motto, Liberty, Honor
and Virtue; , Liberty in correspondence to
the Divine gift of free will; Honor in social
relations; and Virtue that a pure conscience
may walk with us here, and usher us here
after to the heavenly promise, Blessed are
the pure of heart for they shall see God.'n
1t then proceeds to speak of the great love
OF nonor and regard for virtue which charac
terizes the Irishman, and the deep seated
ness of his religious convictions, and closes
with this paragraph:
"To your charge then, gentlemen, we en-
trust this memento. Take it, aud may it
long be unfurled above the heads of YOUR
undiminished ranks in the march of religion
and beDevolence, swaying in the breeze Of an
answered empire, and may no member of
your body so far disown the land of his birth
or the land of his adoption as to belle, by an
unworthy act, the veracity of a symbolism
so sacred as this"
The banner was formally accepted, on be-
half of the Society, by Matthew Shay, the
Vice President, after which addresses were
made by Michael Gallagher, the Archbishop
and others, and the performance closed with
a concert. The banner will be carried by
the procession to day.