The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-01-25
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The funeral demonstration on Monday, under
the auspices of the Fenian Brotherhood Of Of
tawa, in honor Of Larkin, Allen and O'Brien, the
Fenian martyrs recently executed at Manchester,
England, was very imposing affair, and consid-
| ering that the whole was gotten up in less than
two days, proclaimed more emphatically than lam
guage could, the profound sympathy for Ireland
aud her cause that pervades this community
The procession numbered in the neighborhood of
two thousand souls, embracing Irishmen, Amer
leans, Germans, and other nationalities, as well
as men, women and children. The secret of this
success lay not wholly in sympathy for the gen.
eral cause of Irish freedom but arose ALSO doubt
less, in some measure from adherence Of British
cruelty in the treatment of the "martyrs," and
from general conviction that Allen, Larkin and
OBrien were, in the sense IN which they were
punished, innocent men. The facts of the case,
as most OF our readers remember, were about
these: Two American citizens, Col. Kelly and
Capt Daisy-charged with Fenianism, had been
arrested at Manchester, and placed in the "van
to be taken to prison On the way 25 or 30 Fem
ians, armed with revolvers, drove the policemen
away that guarded the van, and, ordering the
door of the van, which was locked. to be opened,
were refused, when one of them fired his pistol at
the lock and broke it. But the ball did more
1t also killed sergeant inside who had charge
of the prisoners. Kelly and Daisy were then
rescued, and have since arrived safely in this
country. OF the 25 or so Fenians supposed to
have been engaged in this rescue, Allen, Larkin,
| and OBrien only were tried and found, or rath-
er pronounced, guilty-though there was no
proof that either of them had fred the pistol,
while the proof was positive that Larkin was not
| even there at the time. - -..5-i o. .a.'t
The funeral services on Monday took place at
the Roman Catholic Church at 9 o'clock in the
morning, consisting of requiem mass, the Ger
man priest, Father Nolte, officiating, after which
there was an grafton by Father Terry. .a ~
The procession thea formed in front of the
| church and marched across the canal bridge to
the r. r. depot where it was joined by num-
Der who had arrived on the train from Peru, La
Sale and Utica. Marching around the depot,
the procession returned to La Sale street. marched
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Court, north on Court to Madison, east ON Mad
ison to Columbus north on Columbus to Supe-
rior street, and thence east and via the aqueduct
to the Roman Catholic Cemetery. At the Gem.
etery, tho concourse was addressed in few i'm
prsssive lremarlss by John Forristal, Esq, of La
Sale, Head Center Of the state, and then all
knelt down in the snow and repeated q prayer
for the souls Of the dead nsstyH a Thss pr1ess-
sion chen retasesd te re ceyEt HauxS n ottazs.
! ana having been addressed in few feeling re-
marks BY Mayor Clancy, who had acted as chief
marshal, dispersed. aaavhw '.ss.',. '.ss,..',
The order Of the procession was,-martial mu-
| sic, with muftied drums, in front, playing the
Dead March in Saul, and other dead marches
| and then three hearses- -one for Allen, one fer
Larkin, and one for O'Brien-their names res.
pectively in large letters on the outside and each
hearse drawn BY four horsea Then ladies and
children on FOOT then citizens generally on foot,
and carriages in the rear. At the head was
borne the American flag in the center the Irish
| flag, and towards the rear beautiful banner, on
| which were inscribed the dying words of the
martyrs" God bless Ireland"
The order maintained throughout was perfect,
and if the actual corpses had been present, the
solemnity could not have been moro profound