The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1873-03-06

her court, and when she let him 90
back to Ireland at q, he then gave
her more trouble than any man il her
realm. Froude asks you to look at
tho Infamous ingratltude OF the
chiet, and says volt, ii you treat
him like a dog, will still be wolf
A similar story could bo told OF
Robert Bruce and William the ST.
lent. They also behaved with mta.
nous ingratitude, but they freed
their country, and the historians are
hoarse in singing eulovies over their
splendid names. But O'Neill was
an 1rishnan, SO he was wolt.-
[ Laughter and chears.l
The lecturer then went into an ex.
animation Of portions OF Irish history
treated by Froude, to show that he
was unconsciously preju'iioed in his
manner OF adopting or rejecting sta
tistss, just as they accorded with his
idea ot the Irishman. At last lie
comes to Henry Grattan, whom he
comedies to be an honest man. The
spell is at length broken, the listener
begins to imagine, when lie is told
that Grattan hadn't any common
sense. Grattan marshalel $4,000
men into arms and compelled Eng.
land to grant ireland a constitution.
Well, one would say, that was a
pretty smart piece of business of his
to seizo the proper occasion, take
advantage OF circumstances and
achieve his purpose. Oh no we are
told, because what should an Irish.
man do with a constitution God
never meant him to have one, and he
wouldn't know what to do with it.
Applause and laughter Was
bread any cheaper asks Frouls of
Grattan; was rent any lower, or
wages higher, becanse OF your cons,i.
tuition Suppose somo one had said
the same to John Hancock, who
wrote his name on tho declaration
big enough for King George TO read
it across the Atlantic, he might have
we have no bread, and
there is nobody able to pay rent;
but, he would have aided, that any
one who valued liberty for anything
but its own sake was born to DO
slave. Grattan was expected to cure
500 years Of wrong in fivo weeks,
Grattan pills to cure chronic diseases
The lecturer passed on to review
Froudes utteranoes concerning
O'Connell, that he was an empty
iemagogue, and showed how it was
due to his ag,ta,iona and that OF
Grattan that Gladstone to day had
meted ont a measure OF Justice to
Ireland, the first timn England has
eyer done 40 from any other motive
than fear. Even now she would not
have listened to Ireland il she had
not felt that the power was slipping
f. ON her grasp.
Adyertlng to Froudss manifest
partiallty III relating events connect.
ed with Ireland's history, he in
stanced his eloquent denunciations
OF the barbarism OF that chief who
set fire TO the cathedral in revenge
for the murder OF his ancestor.
Froude says his name should be exc
Grated by all generations. On the
other hand, when he speaks of the
elegant poet, Edmund sponsor, and
Raleigh, the poet, historian, states
man and soldier, the ono acting
down to sign the warrant for tie
butchery OF Spanish regiment, and
and the other executing tho order,
one listens expecting to hear All
equally eloquent denunoia;lon.-I
Shall their names be handed down
ter the execration Of posLer,ty? No
Mr.. Froude only says Of this. in his
quiet. soft English accent, all mus.
regret that such things could ever
have happened
Mr. Philips closed his lecture with
a telling peroration. saying that Ire.
land stands to day with the flag OF her
in one hand and the oru.
ix,the symbol OF her faith, in tho
to-, and, summoning her opprcssor
10 the bar OF civilized nations, com.
pels her to cry shame. IT does not
lie iu English lips to say that God
has lett her deficient In brains or in
blood.