The New York herald., 1867-03-12

,,r mt even ,hat might be the means OF purchasing
the last round o. rmnnnu0n necessary 70 drive the
Brigader General BURKE late Colonel OF the Eighty.
egth regiment and who has only lately escaped from
next introduced He said he came ..,,. % anoeai %
them Irishmen not TO forget that their counrymen
at home were struggling against their hereditary enemy
He came there 70 tell them that the Irish insurrection
as the English called IT. could be suppressed He had
been on the scene OF action and he knew that
in England he was certain would strike also and ma
,er;ay aid their brethren II, however, the cause in
esOVs o saoad ssrts sur defeat they should
Canada, New brunswick or New Zealand. But he ven
ered TO say that the present struggle would succeed In
perienced American officers had gone there fight for
Freedom and they had not gone there for nothing II
lrishmen IN America would only do their duty oppres
sion and tyranny would be swept away from the land
Of their birth.
the Irish people had looked forward for hundred
years. was the uproong from IRISH soil Of the English
oigarchy For this cause thousands OF ir,shmen mad
yielded up their lives and he wished tonight to revive
In the hearts Of those present earnestness Tor this the
great dream Of their race He wished 70
raise his voice in favor of bleeding, downtrodden
Ireland Never there organization more perfect
or moro noble than the revolutionary brotherhood In
Ireland and its branch in America Never had
band OF patriots been more malgned raduced Every
scurrious penny -aner for the last year had vented
upon them his foul mouthed abuse Even the Catholic
clergy had poured forth upon them the most violent ana
indecent invecve Every liar, sycophant and traitor in
England or Ireland nad uaduced them; but they nsd
besn the enemy when II had been reported that stephens
had given up his scheme for the redemption Of Ireland and
/ that Fenianism dead Fenanism dead The brutal
Orxngeman the black North shouted out in triumph
in the midst Of his drunken orgies. Fenianism dead
Every cur around Dublin Castle gbiy uttered the false
| hood Fenanism dead Every Irish renegade cyery
/ bastard wretch, who was ashamed TO own himself an
1 Irishman in an ccstacy OF delight But that
night their countrymen weru hurting the lie
i back and procIaming, amid the whistfing Of the
bullets and tho booming of the cannon that Fcnianis
was not dead, and never would die. They could now
point with pride to tho result cf nine years of pacns
labor. Tho struggle had at length commenced, blood
had already been shed and the sons OF freedom had
again yielded up their lives for the sacred cause OF
freedom The last grand effort for Irish independence
had begun That night but aspiration animated the
hearts Of their countrymes, the discrimination TO be
| free, liberty or death. England's vampires and cor
moran,s her butchers spies and htrengs were in the
field ready to gloat over Irish misery and gfut 6he
vengeance irish blood On the other hand were ths
brotherhood with centuries Of wreng branded deep
their hearts snd with the long, black, and cunning
catalogue OF Engands tyranny ever present TO then
mind. The speaker closed oy giving an estimate
OF the chan in favor Of the ultimate success Of thu
| brotherhood In Ireland.
Mr. MnIs and other speakers also addressed te meet
ing after which the audience dispersed Several hundre
| dollars received during the evceing.