Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1869-08-05

soFEy' as TOT iae queen at nrSe She was
very angry and then she began to cry.
"What reward do you expect for all
this said the king 10 the doctor.
"Tonr gracious aud excellent majesty
has PROMISED ME a place above all the
ministers of state" answered the doctor,
''because I have shown myself clever in
caring for your majesty's honor and dig
nir7."
Then tie kire gave a signal to one of
his servants, and they put strong rope
round the neck of the court doctor, and
swung him ur tc place above the minis
80 oF state, and there he hung until he
was dead.
! Aud this was ali the king said to hin
before he was hung up
what is the use Of curing a man Of
his happiness =
! LIBERTY .-During a stay of few
mo,,ths abroad in 1862, | visited Ireland
and spent day in Dublin. I felt spe-
cial interest inshet city, connected as it
/ is with the history Of the many struggles
nRs the liberty loving Irish for political
/ freedom. Moreover in the day when
! O'Counell and his compatriots plead for
'the Repeal of the Unoa," / tried my
Yankee tongue in advocating the claim
of Ireland Hence I felt the greatest in
tereSt in anything connected with the
memory of 1.-THE Great Agitator," and at
my earliest moment paid a visit to the
ground whore he lirs buried. 1t WIS
plain vault in a hillside in the cemetery,
although was told by the old sexton
that beautiful monument, then in coarse
of erection in another part OF the yard,
vas for UConnet.
AS I stood in front of the Iron door
| which hil all that was mortal of the
Great Commonor,' | noticed mound
close by with cheap, plain slab ct the
head of it, on which was this inscription
sacred to the Memory of Thomas Steele;
who departed this life-, areI-
years | will remember Tom Steele (for
we nickname those whom we Iove-as we
say Tom Moore and Robie Burns, y and if
my reading was correct, he died a mar
/ tyr for liberty. remember still more
that he was Protestant. SO, | turned
to the ola man who stood by as I read
aloud the brief rec RI on the stone, and
asked, with an assumed tone of surprise !:
| WAS not Steele hereto 2
Faith, lie was p responded the man
with great emphasis.
Aud said I, Is this not consccrated
ground ?
'lndade it is, he answered.
And was not Daniel O'Connell a good
aud faithful son of the Holy Mother
Church 2 | continued
He was, he responded, didn't he
have the blessing os the Pope hinself?'
Now said |, 4 am hereto and a
heretic priest but judge you from your
own stand point Why do you let her
etic lie in sdcred ground Z
never knew the quick wit proverbal
If the nation to fail III an answer but
never heard hotter answer than that
day fell from the lips of tie sexton.
You see. sail be, Daniel O'Connell
was for liborty.l
lie was tn great icitator,' Ireplied.
And YOU know Tom Steele was for
liberty
He was martyr said |.
And then with look and tone beyond
my scription, he added:
'11u hnon hJerty mahss brothers Of
rs all ?
I to,k the dear old PATRIOTS Roman
Cath lie hand in my Protestant han l. and
shaking hands over Steele's gravt, | re-
pcated the eloquent declarati n of my dear
brof her 'Liberfy makes dr@hers ~ rs
all ?
That is the grand keynote Of true po-
litical union-North, South, East. Wcst
Aud the heart which does not echo tn
voice sounding from the cemetery in Dub
lin, whether it throbs under fu,tian OF
satin, IS the heart of traitor and a ty-
rant | thought the old sexton hac
sounded the wltchword for our nation
aud not for ours only, but all vh0 lov,
liberty -Erchange