The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-27
FROM CORK I'D VENICE.
Lecture by Hon. Thomas Eiich. OF
nevada, ut Brandon

On Wednesday evening last the Hon
Thomas Fitch, of Nevada, delivered his
popular lecture, From Cork to Venice.
before the Lecture Association at Bran
don. lie was introduced to the audience
by Prof. J. s. Cillcy. and proceeded at once
to the account of his journey in Europe
On the 10Th of April last he landed at
Queenstown, in ireland, for brief tour in
Europe. AS he first set foot on European
soil he felt no disloyaty at heart for that
among the literary countries OF the world.
What American can fail to appreciate. Of
all races, the statesmen, authors poets,
and scientists Of past centuries? In the
memory Of Greasy and Of Hampstead
IIcath-the land OF Byron. Shakespeare,
Moore and others The name cf Newton
still burns in the sky Of ancient history IKE
fixed star The speaker said he shuull
never again smile at the patriotic arlor of
the lrishman Their traditions come from
every nook and rookery from Cork to
Dublin. and in every aAamanIine pile In
Ireland. These distl opiates that drug
incrcdulity TO sleep, and we are made To
believe any story told, and would fan to
bind upon our brow the traditional kettle
of Irish tradition. Poverty jcsts at It's own
rags and laughs at misery. That wild
galop known as the steeple chase has been
improved to the trailing of vcnison over
the route, taking a just pride IN leapiny the
highest storm-walls and hedges, the hounds
are put to the track Of the ycnison express.
| The horse is supposed to 90 wherever dog
can, and the rider to 70 wherever the
/ horse can run, giving plenty OF employ
/ mcnt to surgeons to make the chase a sue
cess. The speaker here told an amusing
anecdotc of two bod carriers who disputed
| the respective merits of their s'eddl-
I ness of foot, and tested the same
/ by one of thcm carrying the other up
a three story building ON his back. In re
gard to the Fcnian cause, lie said he was
full of sympathy for the Irish. Ireland
had sufficient cause fol grievance in the
great wrongs committed against her. This
none can deny. She had always had an
unsatisfed desire for a separate national
existence, and the only country where the
Irish had no political voice in governmental
affairs. In Wales the traveller could fancy
himself in some parts of Nevada, Colorado
or Utah, by the oyerhanging cliffs and
other bits of natural scenery In one
place the train passes through the castle
where Richard the Second was imprisoned,
History had burdenei these scenes with
much of Fictitious interest. The speaker
then tacetiously remarked upon the CON
trast that could be made between the men
of the past and those of the present Viii
liam the ConQueror with General Grant,
Robin Hood with Captain Kidd
with Ben Butler
Much that is loycabe in london was
told in books. It's people are narrow and
painfully continental Nothing considered
true except with the stamp of the British
Lion upon it. The peeragc especially has
survived its usefulness. Its ability had
dwinded in regard TO those who fill ii in
comparison to those names of future his
tory-thc statesman who had pioted the
country through danger and peril the
soldiers who had set the flag of their country
throughout its domain, the sailors who had
borne it over the seas, the authors and
poets who had guided the pen of the nation
and struck the chord of harmy- all coming
from the body of the people. Occasionally
the peerage have come to the people, but
seldom has the people come to the peerage.
The earl has the reputation of being an
exclusive class without influence or enter
prise.
Our Minister to England, Gen. Schenck,
was next remarked upon as wearing q
dignifed manner and stiff uniform to
strangers, but who often unbends in the
presence of his friends rails at humbug,
His experience on first arriving at England
was amusingly told by the recital of a story