The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-11

it, they object to even a resolution of inquiry
as to what the president is doing to mitigate the
suffering of your people But even this they do
cover.ly-they were afraid to be known openly
as objecting to SO reasonable proposltlon.-
Hence the reporter for the associated Press was
requested not to give the names of the directors,
so that the Irish might not know who objected,
and thus keep up the attempted delusion of radi-
cal support of Irish freedom. But the members
of the house knew who objected, and the Gto6e
of Tuesday, the Goth, notes the whole proce-
dure.
The fact is, the Irish "a a people, or the fen
ians as organization, cannot rely on Puritan
ism, the chief support of radicalism, for any aid,
countenance or friendship, unless so far as radi-
calsm is to be benefited thereby.
Laying aside his notes, Mr.. Hogan said:
have read that much, my countrymen, and yet
feel like-tcries of $50 on, go on" Look at
the Irish in America, look at the necessity OF
their organizing themselves power in these
United States for sixty years, by their prowess
and power, have, to great degree, sustained and
aided In carrying forward the principles OF this
government
In 1875, which gave the world declaration
such as the history of man had never seen before,
the Irish and the immediate descendants of
lrisnmen predominated in that convention. There
was Irish intellect, and Irish courage, and Irish
prowess; and there, too, in that immortal con-
ciave, sat man who, but a few years before,
had came, poor, helpless, almost forsaken, to
this country, and had to apprentice himself in
order to pay his passage over but he, with the
industry, with the skin, with the courage and
will of trueborn Irishman, not only paid his
passage money, but advanced to greatness; and
when that immortal conclave was elected, he sat
proudly among the magnates of the land, and
gave assurance to the world that Irishmen were
MEN.
And where has not Irish bravery illustrated
itself; on what battle field from FonteDoy to the
bloody Wilderness? Wherever men have
fought, there lriahmen have barred their bosoms
to the shafts of death, and never knew what it
was to turn their backs upon foe, They have
spread all over this land illustrating all sciences
and all arts, found in all the learned professions.
He who fills the chair at this meeting is a sur
geon, and you were among y9pr speakers to have
Richard o Gorman to-day. Everywhere they
are found and now let them unite and build up
an Irish-American element in this great confed
eracy of states; let them sweep out the destruc
tive radicalism that is seeking to overturn our
liberties You love that star upon that green
flag, that reminds you of the shamrock, and of
the lovely isle which, for hundreds of years. has
been opposed by power that ought never TO
have been laid upon it. But here, on the other
side, there is flag. W hat are those stars upon
it? They states, and the whole thrty-siX of
them are to be restored to the republic OF the
United States. Cheers.
For this, my countrymen. we have shed al
most oceans of blood. For this Corcoran,
Mesgher, and others fought. For this lrishmen
tore off every stitch of clothing, all but their little
breeches, and into the fight they went Great
cheers. You recollect the story OF Fontenoy
when the Irish came, came victory and tri-
umph--and they will rise again from that lethar-
gy and by the ballot, as by the bullet they will
go forth to rescue those glorious stars and
stripes, and to vndicate the declaration that
their Irish ancestors made in Phladelphia III
1916. fCheers.
have detained you longer then l intended
There are several other gentlemen to speak,
There is great work befor YOU. Every man
should put his shoulder to II. Let every man
constitute himself committee of one. and move
on the glorious column. Let unity of sentiment
be all over the country all for our country, and
nothing but our country, and when that is restor-
ed then for Ireland next.