The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-08-22

people would scarcely uubelt themselves
until they had put other questions right
/ cloud cheersl They feel sore, they feel
that their national dignity has been at
tackled that in the moment of their trial
and Of their difficulty, an ungeneToUs at
tack was made on them; and they have
unfortunately, treasured up the memory
Of that attack with q feeling of revenge
am sorry to say 1t, but it IS wha; | he
lieye in my conscience to be the truth
(hear hearl. In the present difficulty it
would be entirely a waste of time If sAod
attempt an explanation Of how tits is; 1t
IS a fact that everybody knows (hear,
hear In that difficulty the country that
was one not more than three wears ago IS
now divided into two. that IS, on the bat
tie field, but not two in the civil order
Clear, hear. 1t is one country still, and
must and Shall be one (great cheering).-
/ No matter what may occur, no matter the
foreign interference, whether military or
naval, that may destroy the cities round
the borders Of that country-no matter
what may occur, the question must end as
I have described, that people shall re
main Tcheess and il the party that is
nominaly called "rebel the term |
DONE use in respect Of them at all hear.
hear if that party shall triumph, til I'm |
Will transfer my allegiance to that party,
not as party, bat as the legitimate GOV
ernment Of the United States Tioul cheersl
The newspapers On his side, English an1
French, and sometimes even Italian, re
peat each other in .he sense the war is car
ried on by the American Government at
the expense Of Irish and German blool.-
That is q mistake Pat an end to it
The writers know it is not fact The
Irish and Germans ming!e in it scarcely
in proportion 10 their numbers in civil life
but ;he army, as body, is composed Of
real, thorough Americans from genera
tons past, and the Iiish come in as a
sprinkliDg, and the Germans not much
more. There is another thing. The Irish
besides discharging what rhey consider
their duty to their own legitimate govern
ment-and they are ever loyal if you give
the opportunity Thcar, hear, and cheers
besides that, the Irish have, in many
, instances, as | have the strongest reasons
for knowing, entered into this war partly
to make themselves apprentices, students
as it were, finishing their education in this
the first opportunity afforded them of be
coming thoroughly acquainted with the
. implements Of war cheers Alusion
has been made in terms so complimentary
that they would be almost overwhelming
r to one who had not seen so much of the
world as | have, to my presence on the
occasion Of laying the corner stone OF
| your Catholic National University.
Now, il is fact that there are things
which would not attempt to describe,
t simply because the more would describe
them the smaller they would become. |
remember three, and select them from
amongst othef5-three objects which
= would become less the more | would
describe them, or any one else attempted
tc describe them, the author on his parch
: ment the painter on his easeI-one Of
these objects is the Falls of Niagara.
When you see the Falls of Niagara let no
9 one be near you-let the world and its
f thoughts stand aside, and look at and thipl,
} only Of the Falls. In the same way when
you 90 to St. Peters in Rome, let no one
fritter away the whole impression which is
S made by the full spectacle of that magni-
3 ficent-I only make it little when [ say
| agnificent-temple And last Sunday
! was another of the same kind Cloud cheers
5 What say, gentlemen, is not figure OF
/. speech; it is sentiment that rushes foI
Etterance to my lips, and I have expressed
il. | will not, therefore. dwell at all upon
{ it but it was so to me, almost uaC0nnect
| ed with the majesty, uuconnected with the
: enthusiasm, and with al, that appeared tc
: the eyes; and it was from the fact that
; this old nation, which others imagine to
!, be gradually sinking to its fnal extinguish.
} ment, has had the coura9e,in the year 1862
: after passing through so many orleals OIL
e trial and affection, and Of exhaustion, to
+, think Of the Catholic University ihear,
S hear, and choars) From that simple f5c
c [ would infer that if Ireland IS not vigor
: Gus, she is at least filed with generous
r and impulsiye vitality. The old veins oil
] this Catholic nation are now flied With
r Youthful blood, and she will 90 forward,
, if her people sustain this undertaking as
t they should do and it will be found, when
1 they thought she was dead, that she was
only sleeping under the doses Of opium
= which government unworthy { such a
. people had administered 10 her loud
! cheering
| Education! Oh, what Troublesome
= matter to have launched amongst the 2eo~
r pie. It has made mischief in Prussia,
where was pat into operation this late
modern innovation Of the linked system, "
: believing in nothing like a principIe-no
reIi@ OHIO controversv-eycry man
5 bowling to his ncighbor on the same
ground "a Iaugh). The system came into
France, and this inditierentism almost ru-
, ined the French people, even after they
were recovering from the injuries of the
first intilel revolution. In the United
t States 1t has made a great noise, and il
there IS one country in the world in which
| this system could thoroughly succeed it
2 would he there, and it has succeeded in a
I great measure, the difference being. that
, although 1t gives the children halls almost
as elegant as this, supplies every appurte>
| nance Of elementarg knowledge, the most
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