Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-08-30
Grant and the Irish.

~ ~ ENT APrsAL BY As IRISH ORATOR.
IRON q s.,e,h 81. Or. J. f. Keo-hdeIivered a. Nil
tlcp5rt, IA.
Before lie c'ais o. the present yesr you will
he called upon to exercise the highest privilege
which the laws Of your sioptei country can
confer, thst e voting for e.ocu Of lis future
President. Without introducing any matter IT.
relevant 70 u7 lecture. or veuJilating any opIr-
ions 20 which you might be sloS 20 subscribe,
feel ths, whilst tracing the lives Of those Of our
c0untrymeu who have climbed The steep asc5us
Of isUc. ard On the - sands Of tine have left
iaeic footprints, nay not appropriately a.
iuie 90 Size ccurse which, IN ny opinion, ought
% be pursuci ty those who sre willing TO emu
late their deeds .li follow their noble example
Iou vho know me- know that the grandson OF
ga joan Ksoch Of '2s would IS coon cut of the
good right am which gives him tus;enance AZ
express toutimsnts 10 which NY heart did
not throb Iesponsively, OF council Al Ec;ion
which might tsrnish the character o; cur race,
which seven centuries have LEFT unsullied
LCheers.l 10 no men ought the issues At stake
10 tie coming contest be clesrer or the result enc
Of more paramount Importance than to our
selves. " They jest at scsrs that never felt
wound. - but We who have been, snd our father,
the victims CT every indignity sad degradation
pertaining to t'Avery, caa or ought itly 10 esti-
ms.e and hG10r the lsb0rs OF those who efsced
thtt foul, dSsk Blot on our Institutions which in
ye-ts1 ihe DEGREES Of God and degraded the IA
tu7e Of His and marks, who Imperfect life TO
preserve be integrity Of this glorious republic,
for whose Independence with Spartan heroism
the New E1glAnders in l775 fought and blei.
(CheeFs) You, repeat, Of all in tee world,
ought 70 honor anu prove your gratitude to these
whose stout hearts and strong arms struck the
letters Of millions Of feloN-beings ere they
buIst Themselves, and to the ruin Of the co1a-
monWealth armed Themselves with tSe fragments
lGIeat cheering fer independence My ccun
'FyIaen. We have n;&ny fAults, We lack many viz
tues. But one vice 10 nan ever dared charge
Is with. enc grand national virtre we pge-emi-
neutly possess and that Is gratitude to those who
held ont to e s helping hand IL the hour Of
peril And now, If you are true TO the cause Of
liberty, for which OWeu O'Neil and Ssrshed
fell, for which cur fathers blood made Wexford's
harvest grow, ard impurpled Limesick's historic
Shannon, il you are true to the great land Of
your adoption, you will turn With a losthiug
from the men and the csute which are kept
saoat by tie putting Of lev literary footpAls
Lnd disappointed politician, Of the Sumner stamp
vac rzise cry alike sAyisa sc1 coatemotibls
sgsiEs. the soldier President, whose clear brain
and keen sword ssvel the Union Hexr the
ltAl Anl AEuIt ui MS tuGulln1. - lie IS only
soldier" they cay. biz military habits and
martial training unfit him for his ofise' Hear
it, you descendants Of Hanpden and the Ply
mouths pilgrims. Hear it, you sous Of the
men who held Limerick's rsmparts and Derry's
breaches. snd what ia your manly AMI indig-
nsntsnsEerl
Do you thiLk that the mAn who bears tie sci
Gier's dauntless breast cannot possess the metal
for statesman Despite the soldier ruler
WIS; wss it that msde Greece the paragon Of
obedience TO laws AMI excellence Of arms but
those sho drove the Persian hordes od her sa
cred soil and raised at Marathon moral nonu-
meut for posieriiys veneration, the soldier con-
.uls Lsonidas aud initiates Despise the sol
der ruler Who Was it that moulded the mot |
ley mass, vsgrsnts and ortcssts from every land,
that constituted the population OF ancient Rome
into a nation which became the mistress OF the |
world The soldier consul Julius Caesar. De- |
sui,e the soldier ruler Wao Was it that placed /
the shield Of his genius as = siatesman over the |
mensced freedom Of poor Poland. and at whose |
fsll that Is freedom shrieked'i The soldier /
sta.esmsn John Sobieski. Despise the soldier 1
ruler Who va, it thst gave the world the Gel /
ebr.ted code Of laws which bear HE name, but l
he who broke forever the sway Of the vandal /
barbari,ns, he whose life was on the tented