Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-28
Barney Googhcgan,s Home Rule speech

Och but the house of commons was a picter
that same afternune whin me motion for home
rule for Oireland was to come on. The lohbies
was full and the quantity ov Numbers that wint
in to prayers was beyant the averige. For, ''Tis
by prayers We get a safe in the lower house as
well as yer reward in the higher place." say me
friend Mr. Nee
The binches on both sides was Glled Mister
D-y an Mister G-n sat facin ache other
widout a wink. "Why, sure, wild half the fains
ireland wild soords an pistols!
Whilst the questions were bein asked, an the
pramier and Mister Ayrton who, the more be-
tokens, are very popular to be asked questions
oy, was bein pOttered wild livery sort of interro-
gaShun the bar an the back ov the spaker's
chair was film up wild Numbers, an the whips
on both sides was walkin about talkn contiden-
TALLY all over the house.
AT last, whin the question was cOnclOoded
the clark al the table called out, "Mster Geogh-
cyan" an | rose on me legs, after putin me
hat under the safe this time. I'd bane consid-
herring the properist way oy cOmmncin, an l
bowed till the spaker, but at wanst the houl
house began TO 'yaw-yaw" like a pack ov
houns.
'Mister SPEAKER" says l, ''Pve got spache
till deliver, but, SAYS l. "will We PLACE kape the
house quiet while deliver ?" says |.
As they wint on laughing more than before, /
THOUGHT I'd take no motifs ov theribad man ners,
so | rased me voice TO the hoighest pitch an be-
gan me spache-ye see it was Father O'SwilPs
spache, only I'd got it by heart.
"Misther SPEAKER! This is a green day in the
history ov Ould Ireland. Wan ov her wakest
sons, inspoired wild no native elegance, sthrong
in no strength but the glorious moight oY truth,
liberthy, an right, STAINS here to-day before yes
all till protest in the soieht ov hiven agen the
injustice of centuries. IT'S the death knell ov
Sassenach tyranny" says l, wild shout, "I'm
gOn to sound tonight Widin these four walls
The hans of desthiny has already written upon
thin the fate ov the English Bellshazur (the
yaws an the laughin was defenin, but | sthroye
agu thin wild all me lungs), an out Of the fun
neral pire oy Sassenach umbiShun shall rise
the PhaniX oy Orish freedom wild halin in its
wings"
Between the yein an laughin 'twaSn't posi-
BILE to say another wurd for five minutes, an |
was that dhry wild shoutin that | says to the
spaker as sumo as | could hear meself-
"Bedad, Misther SPEAKER, if Pm to go on in
this way, I'll require some Stmulantl viii We
send out to Tully O'More's nevy at the counther
for some whiskey an could watherP
The spaker tried to stan up, but he couldn't
for laughin, an the house was dissolved in hyS-
ferries. detharmined to stan it no longer
will ye be quiet, twiceP says |, wild the same
effec.
''Will ye be quiet three times2" says whin
the house shook and Shivered like cOrnfield in
a thunderstorm.
chin" says |, solemnly, "Barney Geoghegan,
wild the help ov the Vigin Mary, do yer dewtyW
an took off me coat, an givin' wan bounce
Until the middle of the tlOore, | sazed the great
goulden mace out of its rack, an swingin' it
rOun' me head, shouted
"Orland for liver an death TO the SaSsenachs."
Twas heavy instrument that same mace.
But when got it swingin, the cOnfuShun in the
house was terrible. Misther D-y made the
first boult to the right, an AIisther c. to
the left followed by the spaker himself an the
clarks, an all the binches began to Imply afther
thin in the twinklin oy an eye Wild wan blow
| smashed the box to the fore ov the Prime
MINISTER'S safe, and thin tnrned lroun TO see
how many oY me cOuntrymen had rose to me
support; but the cOwardiy thrators had all
scattered along wild the other Numbers lawn me
an the mace to the pOSsesshun Oy the house.
Whilst was thinkin what to do wild me victory,
suddenly livery doore in the place opened an
polishmen began to Swarrum in on livery side.
There was two or three coming from the bar,
an made lape at thin, swingn the big
mace (thlnkin TO smash thin entirely, but not
bein used TO it, it was that heavy it carried me
clane over, an, fell fiat on my face. 0v coorse
the cowardly Spalpeens sazed me in a momint,
an tied me hans behind me back. Thin the
sarlint-at-arms, little iintleman wild silk stock
les, and soerd an buckles, came in after bein
the hrSt TO run away, an puts han on me
shouldher, an says to me
"You are in my custody for breach of the
peace and contempt of the house."
II IT'S contlmpt oY the house., says l. aye
might have taken me up for the same the day
afther came Until it."
Atther time the spaker returned to the chair,
the mace was picked up am put in its place, an
the Numbers crowded Until the house. The last
mao that came in, wild pale face, afther lookin'
roun' the spaker's chair, was the lader ov the
oppoSishun. There was a dead silence in the
house whin the spaker rose.
"ln the whole course of my experience" SAYS
he, 81 never witnessed scene like that which
has just taken place, and hope never to see such
scene again. Perish rather the tigment of
free and popular government, if such incidents
asthese are TO be tolerated in the national as
sembly-if this is to be the result of popular
representation cannot trust myself at present
to speak of this painful exhibition, nor do
think the house is in a condition to discuss with
any calmness the proper mode Of indicating its
outraged dignity Meantime, in virtue of nv
powers as speaker ] consIgn the honorable
member Tor kashklllen to the custody of the
sergeant-at-arms, whom l command to keep him
safely TO await the determination of the house.
--Geoghegaf d. r., IN st. Pdaps for august