The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-05


whose sons to-day are leaders in the world
Premiers Of two nations and Generals in them
all. You produced but one great name in your
Napoleonic wars; his pictures are in your GAL
leries, his monuments in your squares. That
man was Arthur Wellesley, the Irish Duke of
Wellington. Who rules to-day in Spain? An
irishman-Marshal ODonnell. Wh9 won the
| great Italian battle? Stand forth Mcmahon,
| the Irish Duke of Magenta. Who won the bat
| tie Of Winchester, but the twice Senator, the
| shot proof Irishman, General James Shields?
And who rules supreme in England, beloved
BY his people? Have you forgotten that Lord
Palmerston is son of Ireland? Poor Ireland!
| How sad is the story of thy wrongs; every page
Of thy history is record Of robbery, pillage
and conquest! TOh bosh!] The gentleman
| has twice interrupted me; let me say to him
that when he applies that word to my remarks,
it signifies talent, brain and intellectual power
neither Of which will any one accuse him Of
possessing.
| SECESSION APPLIED TO IRELAND.
All the speakers here tonight have been
| arguing that the Southern Confederacy ought
to be acknowledged. Observing this, am
disposed for arguments sake to agree with you
and apply the rule to Ireland. Ireland would
be better by herself-more independent, more
free, more happy, less slavery, and would open
| her ports to all the world. You have no right
to interfere with her customs, her laws or her
religion. When the Romans made war they
adopted the habits of the conquered people
England. on the contrary, tries to make them
English. She is not happy; vegetation grows
| IN her streets and misery broods in the faces Of
her people. Let Ireland 90; let America
| acknowledge the Irish Confederacy. r..
HISTORY OF IRELAND.
AS Woods was historian of the Prince of
Wales, so Graldis Cambrensis recorded the
incidents Of Prince John in his Irish tour; call
ing the peasants goats and sheep, which would
become capital game for English sportsmen.-
Cambrensis Eversus was more caustic, yet
First, villifying the Irish people. The other
was Trollope the Second, piling on the agony.
| Centuries have gone since the armies Of that
old coquette, Elizabeth, cut through your peas,
antry. Long is the time since the old idiot,
King James, everran that unhappy land with
his perambulating scaffolds and ready made
excutioners. Poor Ireland! what life of con-
quest.
Then Charles came, with his packed juries
and confscation, followed by Cromwell, expa-
triating eighty thousand of thy sons and knock
ing down all thy churches, followed by the Sec
| ond James and his excuses and the treaty of
Limerick; and then comes the destruction Of
thy individuality. Thy Parliament Houses
turned into barracks, thy Custom Houses into
Stables for the King, thy squares filled with
monuments to illustrate the overthrow of thy
religion and your eyes blinded by giving you
eight millions hundred representatives to
Parliament, while England's eighteen millions
have over thousand. And this is the land
where Robert Emmett told Lord Norbury his
country's wrongs and Daniel OConnel stood
boldly up, and Smith O'Brien banished. and
The O'Donohue threatened if he dared to speak
of the wrongs Of his native land.
AMERICA THE FRIEND OF IRELAND
You say, let the South 60. I say, let Ire.
land 60. [Cheers and voice: "Ireland is now
prospercus."] Yes, said Mr.. Train, bat what
has made her so? America! Who have added
wealth to our land! the Irish. Who built our
factories, our canals and railways? the Irish,
And in their well-paid labor. because well.
earned, they fad large sums of money, which
they have been sending back to their people
tor many years! Ten millions sterling since the
Famine. A noble trait of Irish character. l
like the Irish people and your attacks ON Ire
land on account of the recent agrarian outrages
are most unfair. Look over your criminal
record and you will find more brutal murders
in England during the last year than in Ireland
Have you forgotten the Stepney murder and
the Road murder and that of the Nottingham
Forest and Coventry? or even last week, that
at Manchester and another in London? You
have as dark deeds on your calender as Ireland
has, and l cannot bear to hear land like so
much so unkindly spoken Of as she is in Eng.
land.
Let me say to the Irish people, come to
America, where you are appreciated, come
over in thousands and hundreds of thousands,
where welcome shall await you, for Ameri-
cans cannot forget your deeds of bravery in
the dark pages Of our war. You have Fought
nobly in our army, you love our Union and We
like your noble devotion to the land of your
adoption. Ireland for the Irish. Thomas
Francis Neaher is now one of us; and Judge
M'Lean was native of Erin the land of fair
women and brave men. Edmund Burke was
also an 1rishman. Would that you had some
more Burkes and more O'Connells to speak for
you in the nations councils The O'Donog-
hues, the Maguires and the Hennessys are not
asleep to your wants; but Irishmen must band
together to win their rights. My plea for Ire
land tonight is more just than yours for Sc.
cessna. If you think disunion in America ben
efclal, how much more so would be disunion
between these islands. Let me candidly say
to the brave Irish regiments who are fighting
our battles, what one Of their countrymen said
on another occasion:
| Whether on the gallows high,
Orin the battles van,
The fttest place for man to die,
Is where he dies for man.
Hurrah, then, for Mulligan and Kennedy
and the gallant Corcoran the worthy country
men Of the shot-proof hero of Winchester.
AMERICA AND FRANCE NOT so SENSITIVE.
Americans begin to be less sensitive. Troll
lope says We copy France in manner, speech,
dress and cooking. He should have added,
Americans begin to care as little for Engand's
opinion as Francedo France laughs at Eng.
land: America must do the same. England used
to pinch France, now France pinches England;
America is now copying the habit. England is
now thin-skinned, as we'll as thick. skulled.-'
NJ. Assclant, in the Courier de Paris cuts deep;
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