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 81, he then gave
her more trouble than any man in her
realm. Froude asks you to look at
tho infamous ingratitude OF the
chiet, and says a volt, ii you treat
him like dog, will still be wolf
A similar story could be told oil
Robert Bruce and William the 81.
lent. They also behaved with lnta.
nous ingratitude, but they freed
their country, and the historians are
hoarse in singing euloyies over their
splendid names. But O'Neill was
an Irishman, so he was wolf
Laughter and chears.
The lecturer then went into an ex.
animation Of portions OF Irish history
treated by Froude, 10 show that he
was unconsciously prejudiced in his
manner Of adopting or rejecting sta
tistiss. just as they accorded with his
idea Ot the Irishman. At last he
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 seize the proper occasion, take
advantage OF circumstances aud
achieve his purpose. Oh no we are
told, because what should an Irish
man do with constitution God
never meant him TO have one, and he
wouldn't know what to do With it.
I Applause aud laughter Was
bread any cheaper asks Froude of
Grattan was rent any lower, or
wages higher, because OF your consti-
tuition Suppose some 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
answered, 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 a
slave. Grattan was expected to cure
500 years Of wrong in fv. weeks,
Grattan pills to cure chronic diseases
The lecturer passed on to review
Fruude5 utterances concerning
OConnell, tina, he was an empty
iemagogue, and showed how it was
due to his ag,tationa and that OF
Grattan that Gladstone to day had
meted out measure OF Justice to
Ireland, the first time England has
eyer done 40 from any other motive
than fear Even now she would not
have listened to Ireland it sho had
not felt that the power was slipping
from her grasp.
Advertlng to Froude's manifest
partiallty IN relating events connect
ed with Ireland's history, he in.
stanced his eloquent denunciaiions
OF the barbarism OF that chief who
set fire 10 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 netting
down to sign the warrant for tie
butchery OF Spanish regiment, and
and the other executing tho order,
one listens expecting to hear All
eloquent denuncia:lon.-
Shall their names be handed down
ter the execration Of poster,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
nationality in one hand and the CRU
cifix, the symbol of her faith, in tho
to-, and. summoning her opprcssor
to the bar Of civilized nations, com
pels her to cry shame. It does not
lie ia English lips to say that God
has lett her deficient in brains or in
blood.