Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-03
Islander on the Irish People

Islander on the Irish People.
Considerable dissatisfaction is felt
among our Irish fellow-citizens at the
utterances Of Mayor League at the St.
Andrews banquet. he said in his
speech:
The Irish at home, and by the way
they are never anywhere else, are in
dustrious and loyal to their government.
Her Majesty has zone within her
realms, though seldom honored, more
faithful to their trust. The people Of
Ireland, Mr.. President, do not, | believe,
desire separation from England and
Scotland, but they do desire Home Rule,
with a Parliament in Dublin, and that
should be granted to them. This right,
though, will not be conceded through
Home Rule politicians in Parliament,
nor by the interference of Irishmen who
have cast their lot in other parts Of the
world.
Mayor Logue slandered his country
men in that speech, and had be read
Irish history correctly be would have
known that his countrymen had been
struggling for liberty, separate independ-
ence, for three hundred years, and that
nothing else will ever satisfy the Irish
people. They are not loyal to the Eng.
lish Government in any sense, except
that portion of the population residing
in Londonderry and adjoining counties
in the north of Ireland aud known by
the appelation Of 0rangemen. The Hon.
John 0'Connor Power, a Home Ruler"
and member of the British Parliament
representing Mayo county, Ireland, lee.
tured Wednesday night at Nashville be-
fore a large and cultured audience and
was introduced by Governor Porter. Mr..
Power, during the course Of his able
and patriotic lecture, said;
he stood upon a political platform in
Ireland which admitted no religious dis
tinctions-namely, self-government. He
compared the forlorn condition o fIreland
now under English rule with her condi.
ton in the palmy days Of her proud free
dom under Irish government. and said
that Ireland could never be at peace
until she again erected the grand struc-
ture OF self government. Mr.. Power then
infinitely defined the policy Of the Irish
people at home, saying first that while
he had no projects for revolution, or in
surrection, or violence of any nature, he
did not despair Of Irish independence.
He said the whole nation Of Ireland had
been collected within the Home Rule
Association, and that Ireland's future
depended on the power represented at
home and abroad. He knew there were
millions Of Irishmen in America and
Canada whose greatest ambition it would
be to die on the hAlsides Of their native
land, with their swords in their hands,
driving off the robbers Of their country.
Mr.. Power declared that, SO far as the
controversy between Ireland and Eng
land was concerned, it was brute force on
the one hand and the moral power Of a
nation struggling for its honor and indie
pendence on the other. The struggle o.
Ireland for freedom was similar to tina.
which made William Tell and Georg,
Washington immortal in the hearts o
his c%ountrymen. BE said that the causl
must eventually triumph il lrishmer
we're true TO themselves and the princi
pies of liberty. In conclusion he sail
the time would come when patriots woul,
rise with the cross of Christianity in on
hand and the sword Of justice in tn
ether and strike oppression down, thel
in the majesty Of her strength apd honor
Ireland would arise from the degradation
tyranny and misrule and take her placl
among the proudest nations of the earth