The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-12-27


sensation story OF the person In question Yours re-
spectfuiy, JOHN BURKE, Emmett Circle p. b.
Lecture IN the Cooper Instituss On Ma
tfonsl Regeneration by II. Rogers, Esq.
We have seldom witnessed larger audience than that
assembled last night 70 hear Mr. Rogers lecture The
platform was sastefuy fitted up with flags and banners
with the Irish harp occupying central position Near
1t placed large portrait Of Colonel John oMahony
Several gentlemen, among whom noticed the centres
OF various circles, and company OF tho Ninety ninth
New York State Militia, occupied the platform
On Colonel o'Mahony rising to introduce the lecturer
he was received by perfect storm Of cheers.
The lecturer commenced his subject by abiding to the
destruction Of the host Of Sennacherib when marching
jerusalem and TO the and fall of the Assyrian
pre- He alluded the sack Of Jerusalem by Bel
shazzar. He then gave graphic account Of the rise,
progress and decline Of Persia Rome, Greece and the
other great nations Of antiquity, and this national
decay was owing to luxury and degeneracy. he then
came down 10 modern nations, showing how the
same destructive GAUGES were undermining them, and
c0ntnued:-But closing the books and discardng the
Kingdoms bordering the Mediterranean, and which
seem TO discard the existence OF religion civil pOty and
laws 70 other peoples come We to land not IN
people and a race whose record, although by their
enemies Intentionally concealed from those who would
acquire knowledge Of ancient times and traditions
yet bears an authenticity second only TO thai
OF tho Bible and the corroboration Of some
Of the most nIustrious historians OF antiquity
That land is Ireland that race the Irish race Did any
OF her dngs like SenRecherib inflated with human
pride, make war upon the chosen people Of Gods No.
Or like Bclshaxzar rob the Temple Of its sacred YES
sells and poute them by unholy rites and fsstivaisf
No Or IKE the Jews set up golden calf in repudia-
ton OF the true Godf No Or like the Per6ians sink In
luxury eempacy foreign and domestic treachery
No. Or like Alexander, lead forth vast armies 10
quer TO destroy to noxicate and to rob vast territories
and defenceiess peope9 No Or, like that same prince,
set himself up as a god to be worskpped and adorcd
No. On the contrary, they had ever been distinguished
for being people. although unconqueable in warfare,
fond of the Of peace and holding in detesation
policy OF aggression upon neghbong territories races
They had from most remote antiquity, held In strctest
whether Pagan, Druid Christian They had ever &C.
customed themselves to manly bodily exercises and the
most difficult intellectual labor They cannot in all their
history, be charged with one vice as national
characteristic Long before the epoch when
TIL that system en-. Of rtae and honor to which
the astrologers Of Egypt and the lbertines Of Rome
long before the nations better known had accorded to
woman her true dignity IN political and domestic life,
the Irish race had acknowledged her dignity and truly
noble character to such extent that we read that at
The trennal Pariaments Of Tara the ladies' had
she was far more civilized than any other nation in
The world at the dawn OF Christianity which added
uvlns priancy to her previous greatness She cod
paed e improve. 70 progress to advance until the
Arrival OF l9e S2rman paTite Henry the Second her
soil was the eaac-tor Of European nations In re.
gion, in diplomacy and in war. cf sons ,.1 gone
;r 90 ny ne, enhea anu 70 All tne na.
% IN Europe had existed che had passed through
urles Of Independence every century had left behind
very king excellng his Predecessor ID ,yor,on "a ibs
people and obedienceto their law was 10 snch na
,on 70 such people, to such Institutions that Henry
OBJ recon. came y ysurpcr lypoerte and
Vas sucn kinss orturn. Il was for such =
Norman desired 10 supplani ana adsr desired to sub
hn and interruptions pirates who opeyed his
orders. All the wckedness " -,.nacherib, all the
profanity Of Belshazza all the excess Of Alexander the
Great al the robberes OF ss Numbering and drunken
army all the exactions III Cesar all the prosecutions OF
the Roman empire pave been perpctrated century after
century by England upon the Irish people. II the
kin robbed one temple every English
arch has robbed 4 thousand Irish churches; il the Per-
so ha 1 e and again Is
OctaviusN burned the library Of Alexandra, Cromwell
burned the library Of Droghcda; If conquered provinces
were PEELED to pay heavy tribute TO the empire Eng
land under the name OF TAXATION has utterly impover
ished a whole people; il processing Christians we're
ho Irsh 0 On e sccon, Of them Religions belief were
driven into then round towers where fires lit under
them aud they were burned by the hundred. Concen-
ancient Kingdoms and smrires during space OF fifteen
Centuries aud YOU have not equaled the enormies OF
You viii IN the Irish historyor the last seven hundred
years find old crimes renewed, repeated and initiated;
you there will lind parallel for every offence against
God and man. but, alas you Will find II impossible 10
discover either precedent parallel In the history Of
any other portion OF humanity Tor many of the shudder
ing horrors pcrperated by England the Irish people
Where can yoa find either precedent parallel for the
devastation. the starvation, the nutlaon OF the popna
ti6n Munster by the poet Spenser during the reign
Of Queen EIzabeths And has not every province, yea,
every county in Ireland ss dark record OF crimes crying
heaven for vengeance against the tyrantY Does not
England in the pursued by her 10 her subjects
her allies her sister nations resemble the empires
OF old9 Is she not repeating to-day, In every land
where her bloody flag floats all the wrongs possible on
unprotected and unofsnding people, Behold her plum
der Of India, her slaughter OF New Zealand and her
butchery Of Jamaica behold her open and avowcd
perndy TO the rest OF mankind, and ssy whether
the exibe law Of God, who decreed destruction TO
Assyria TO Persia 10 Nacedon and TO Rome for acts
not 20 sinful hers will not be enforced upon her also
Vast are source OF strength 70 GOOD ana VIZ
tuous nation but they the most powerful weapons
against when her rule bad and vicious Her apparent
strength Is to-day her greatest weakness II nothsne
we're done by her outside Of Ireland she would deserve
the condemnation and the rapid the consuming vengeance
Of both God and man. MAKE bright the arrows
gather the shields The day OF vengeance IS ~ nand
You Fenans are destined TO be The instrument IN the
hands Of God 70 exterminaie nos only British RUE IN
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