The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-16
JOHN mitchell IN IRELAND.
An Address of Welcome and a Torchlight Pro-
cession in Cork.
WHAT M.ToAEL MEANS TO %
Correspondent New York World

Correspondent New Y ork W criuI
Cork, July 26.-Yesterday Mr.. Mitchell ar
rived in Cork Harbsr from New York, by the
Guion steamship Idaho. Nobody expected he
would have landed at Queenstown, but he was
fatigued after the voyage, and did. There was
much speculation as to whether the British
Government would modest him-his coming
being straight challenge to them to seize
him-but not n solitary policeman was there
to interfere with his landing. He came direct
to Cork City, where the news of his arrival
spread like wildfre, and set the whole city
afame with excitement. He was waited on
by crowds of his old associates of '48 and young
disciples of 81. At night the streets were
alive with bands of music and bonfres, and
there was d vast torchlight procession to his
residence, in which 5000 people took part.
His arrival is hailed as one other stormy petrol
in Irish politics. His mind is quite made up
to offer himself for the representation of some
large constituenoy-Cork OF Tipperary-and
carry the war into st. Stephen's. The Nation
alists presented him with the following ad
dress:
Long tried and elltrusted Friend Of our Native
| Land-We, filled with emotional happiness,
give Won cordial welcome on returning after
! your long exile to these shores and this land
| for which you have so nobly suffered: The
tickle and tyranntCai policy England, FOUL
misnomer of Justice, by which our expressions
| must be bound, forbds US to mete out our trne
opinion of your sacrifices, but no bond or tie
can prevent from thanking Heaven, and
feeling proud that, though pure aud unsullied
you entered on your novitiate of suffering, yet
grander and prouder you emerged from its
cloud the purity hallowed by the length of
the ordeal, the unsullied character ennobled
by the solidity of accomplishing manhood.
And now, worthy following, you throw
over it halo of sublimity by the stern, manly
attitude you hold to-day 1t is unnecessary to
say how your unselfsh life was watched and
| loved. Your departure from and return to Ire
| land form worthy brackets for the life of love.
Leaving it manac1ed for attempting it's saliva
/ ton, and now when, in the far West, you had
attained q position that commanded for you
the respect of the world, revered with affection
that emporors might envy, you resign all and
! retarn to devote the remainder of your exist
| ence to the service of your own beloved island.
This eyer-to- bered pleasure was not
| 80 soon expected, and our pent-up feelings can
not find time to take vent, being weighed
down by the happiness consequent on your
presence. We can only again and again bid
You welcome, assuring you, if the merited es-
TEEN and the deep, Gndylng love OF your coun-
| occasioned by Your long absence, part of the
penalty is wiped ont. Under the exceptional
| circumstances of your coming, and the uncer-
| tainty of the stand to be taken, we deem it
neither wise nor prudent to speak as we would,
but, trusting long and many opportunities OF
SO doing will yet be ours, we then old, noble
non Ireland, aSaIu Sou C"Su
Jailthe.
Mr.. Mitchell replied as follows:
Sir and Gentlemen Of COrk-1 can scarcely
realize to myself aud to my own senses the fact
that am standing this day upon my own feet
in the city of Cork, after tweuty-seven years
of absence. The excitement that have labored
under from the moment arrived in sight of
Cape Clear has incapacitated me from duly
feeling, approaching and comprehending the
grandeur Of this reception you have given me
Tonight You have welcomed me in the most
nobls and priucely manner to the land of my
nativity. This is the land was born in. |
have a right to stand upon the soil of Ireland.
NV father was born here and all my people,
and think / have right to be IN Ireland.
AS to the pretended sentence-the conviction
which made o felon of me-perhaPs you are
aware that have never acknowledged IL.
was not tried l was not convicted. L was
sentenced bssely, fraudulently and foolly, and
although my sentence Is not worked out, L
choose to come back here. OF course have
an errand-I have soma business here. sup
pose have Some of my countrymen have
given me to understand that might do good
here-that might do something effective in
the struggle of our country against foreign
domination, and am willing. When L was
asked-as told the company outside the gate
just now-when l was asked by ocean tele-
gram, 'Will you come here if elected for Cork ~
what could say7 1 could have only one an
swer, " If am elected for Cork, 60 there in
stantly." don't care one straw what the
British Government may think of it. OF course
they can arrest me- They can arrest you, sir;
you, sir--any of you-Without rhyme OF reason,