The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-10
Wendell Phillips on FrOude
A SPLENDID LECTURE.
The American Verdict GIVEN
Concluded

,.r;aLen sc,urced by war, robbed OF its
soii and still Il had trebled in population
~ bout tbirfv-eight years, when with all
n,,r ,n,ltifndinous and uncOunted emigra-
tion. with all our swelling prosperity, with
an our industry and peace, with all our
fruitful lands and no touch Of war. with
all this, II took our country more time than
that IN treble. II took France l66 years
to treble, but this poverty stricken, war
ridden, dccimated starved race treblcd IN
n quarter that time However, having
put down that point, the advocate goes on
in order b exagreratc the treblcd immor.
atty aud iriVhtful frutricidal nature OF
Irish life and tells you that in the next
nine years this curious population, which
had trebled four times quicker than any
other nation in Europe, lost bOO,OOO, IN
the wars. How the wars became so much
more dangerous and bloody and exhaustive
in these nine years than in the thirty
eight before nobody explains lie tells
a. there were QOlO0O men, women and
children, when Cromwell came TO Ireland.
These 100000 were the old, the young, the
women, the dccrepid the home keepers
Cromwell landed with 1900 men. and
how many did he meet? How many ma
this population send out 10 meet nun
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN
Every other man ou the island went Out
When France elevated herself with giuan-
tir energy IN throw back the utter disgrace
Of German humiliation. how many men
did She nut into the field Cine in fifty.
When Germany moved o. the contest for
the imperial dignity Of Europe, raised all
her power o. crush France in that terrific
struggle. how muuy did she raise? One in
thirtyfyc. When the South, in her terri
Die conflict with us. was said ~ have emp
tied everything but her graveyards into
the camps. how many did She send out
One in twenty But this poverty stricken
dccimated, women and children pJpuia
ton went out one in four Laughter
Massachusetts, stirred ~ the bottom, Gle
tatcd % heroic enthusiasm, in the LATE
war. sent out how many One in sixteen
Massachusetts, swelling, earnest, pros
porous, peaceful for forty years, full o.
adult robust men sends out one in six
teen, or one in eighteen it is hard to say
precisely but ireland wasted by a hun
dree years war, sent out one in four it YOU
will believe Mr. Froude There never wa
such a nation ON the face Of the earth
Well all ! can say is that ifqO0, OOusir in
iJntS men aud old women cnutriyc tppu
an army OF 2uu.OOU into the field % fight
nationality that is trying o. crush then
God crush the nation that ever dared q
lilt hand AGAINST H. applause Bu
that Is the idlcst tale in the world, %
course. She never raised the army M
Creditablc authority ever SuppuseS It. Sht
had probably 10000 or 10000 men in tn,
field IN different parts Of ireland, aud tha
would give her "a much larger army than
any other nation OF similar size was eve
supposed to send into the field and Mr.
FroudC says they all united against Crom
well. whereas they were about equal
divided among themselves and that dis
cusson was worse than English arms
But you see IL was necessary u make uu
the picture that we should get u larg
army Of 22j,uDO men, because OthCrwis
1t would not have been possible for On
brilliant cssayist o. end of with his usul
figure that after one or two stalwu
blows they all disappeared like a snow
drift before the sun. Yes that is favor
itc phrase. it occurs half dozen times /
describing the defeat oi the Irish army
and if It is wanting then comes anothc
that they were like straws set on fire
Cromwell went t. Drogheda and massa
cred every living being, he went 10 Wes
ford and met with stalwart resistance. an
then fieshed his sword in blood with
barbarity which even Macaulay hesitate
10 describe. AT last Ireland kne
down at his feet
ESELT DID IT.
Well the next city he went To was Cloi
mel and she resisted sn CALAMITY that /
granted her honorable terms In kilkel
ny nothing but the troachery Of some pc
sons inside the walls would have got CrOn
well inside. and hc himself said. Il new,
could have touched YOU, If you had not
traitor tothCr side Of the walls TIN
did not look much like a snow.drit 81
Scotland is the great ideal of our eloquci
friend 1t was Scotland that never made
misstep; It was Scotland that exhibite
the finest qualities Of national unanimit
Well this great English soldier went
Ireland. and had spent a year, and aftt
massacrelng, hutcherinc two cities. an
having hard fight with two more an
leaving them with compliments and hOl
ors, and then unable, even then, 10 leay
Ireland till the PrOtestants betrayed the
own Ireland, this same soldier went
model Scotland, heightened, chivalrou
united, brave, ideal Scotland, fought tv
battles, took one city, had no butcher
and in six months left it subjected
Is THAT A ow-DRTFT?
Rather it is more of a snow-drift thi
Ireland ! claim no praise for Irear
especially. She did make no very galla1
resistance, broken up in races, divided
sects, worn by centuries of oppressio
When Grattan, with his heroic energ
and by the power Of his simple life m
eloquent tongue elevated Ireland into ii
union OF 1882 taking advantage wit
statesmanlike insight Of the great oppo
tunlty Of Englands affairs Mr. Froul
has no praise for him and he tells Us tn.
the constitution he founded if allowed
live would have amounted u nnthin.
because every Irish member Of parl.
ment was corrupt and he told I
of this man offering himself f
sale, and another taking an ofiic
and another asking for a thousar
pounds. and when he had painted the i
fanny Of the traffic he said, where is Ora
tam IL was o just and honorable testimor
against political corruption and did hon
10 him who made it, Cannot we see tn
this effort is made to prove that that natl,
Is unfit to be trusted with self government
cannot we see that the man points to Il
Irish Parliament with such leader
Grattan, and says it is unfit 10 be trust,
with a constitution, until some wiser pur
minded race is allowed to intervene az
save them from themselves? May we n
ask where is that race 10 be found and a
you sure that you will find it in Londo
composed IN equal parts of Scotch al
English members Of the House of Con
mons? Scotland sold Charles | 70 h
enemies the old English nation for 4OO. IN
pounds
THAT Is ANGELIC
daughter and APPLAUSE The French mi
lister Of Louis XIV. reported TO the Fren,
government the names Of the men wi
took money 10 sell their country in d
time Of Charles Il.--eyory great name c
cept that of Russell, the younger Ham
den, Algernon Sidney and all the gre
names that figure in a boys rhetoric
College. Will you 90 down little flu
ther2 Walpole after being expelled fro
the House Of Commons, becomes afte
wards the prime minister of that respect
bic body and boasts that he knows Il
price Of every man in it and dies the i