, 1876-03-25
ST. sAfsIck's CELEBRATION.
Father Duffy. AddroSs

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Owing TO the ssorm on St. Patricf's dav The u,u.l
parade was emitted, tut in all other respects tn.
Rrosrarnme was carried out In the afternoon III,
knights Of Sc. Patrick. and large number Of N.
sons and dsughSeu Of ireland, assembled in the hal
sdsssesae the esssEs' Academy, where after beins
called 70 ords, Asv Father Duy, orutor of tbs d,y
uas iaszodaesd, ssd delighted his audience h, IN,
delivery Of ae allowing
ABLE AND PATRIOTIC ADDRESS.
After prelinissry remarks. the ,nssksr
Pfosessed sgrsfnM the invitation OF The 70.
cleties requesting him to be btief, be said /:
with the stars and stripes of Liberty here
before me, that glorious banner which has
now for one numbered years foated like a
guardian angel over this great home of cher
ished liberty; with tbs red white and blue of
ohiVairous Francs here before me !; The war
battered veteran laden with the trophies and
the glory of a thousand battIs-feds; and
last, but dearest of all, with the IMMORTAL,
unchaneing green of my own native land
standing IN exile by my side, q fitting type of
a tried and trusty friend. with objects like
these before my eyes. calculated to draw
eloquence, if possible. from the mouth of q
dumb man, let me assure You it is hardly
consistent with reason TO ask me TO be brief.
THE MEMORY OF. ST. PATRICK.
Fellow countrymen, | hail with delight
yonr presence here to-day l am glad to see
you here, for think your presence tends to
perPetuate the memory uf st. Patrick. who
fifteen hundred years ago cast the light and
the tlre of faith On our native soil who then
commenced TO make Ireland what she was
afterwards, the garden of Christianity and
the school and the light of Europe in the
| dark ages. | am glad to see you here because
| you add another link to the immense chain,
the beautiful green belt of Irish societies,
which to-day encircles our globe; belt
which extends from the Pacific coast to The
most distant prairie of Australia Yes, be it
known to all, that as our earth to-day re-
wolves upon its axis, there Is scarcely hsb-
| liable spot upon her surface that does not
unturl to the orb of day its green banner to
the honor and the memory of the little isle
beyond the Atlantic.
IRISH NATIONALITY.
am glad again TO see you here because
| you perpe'u uate and preserve the personality
| Of the 1ri>h nation, and in doing 30 you build
| up the national edifice, which all the efforts
| and powers of England have been combined
to destroy for many centuries past To crush
and dismember the nation, to reduce her to
| the state of a colony. 10 blot ont her person.
! ality. that she might no longer lay claim to
| the rights of nation, has been the cherished
object of England g ambition. This il why
England by her penal laws, and unhesrd of
cruel,ie-, scattered the best bone and siuew
of the Irish nation TO the four winds of the
world. This is why English vandalism over
ran ind pluuderrd the country This is why
the crow-b4r brigade levelled to the ground
the once happy homo Of your forefathers.
leaving not one stone upon another. Aud
again, this is why at the moment ! address
you, Engli-hmen are pasturing their herds of
cattle upon the sacred spot where your mothers
rocked You in your infancy.
THE IRISH IN OTHER LANDS.
But has England succeeded in destroying
the personality Of the Irish nation? No;
the very means she employed To do 81 have
prcducrd the opposite and an uDhOPed for re-
silt. England, by her cruei'ies, has extended
the limits of the Irish nation t. au extent
they might otherwise never have reached,
and has unknO 0,ingiy created nations Of the
Irish people in other lands; and to-day Eng
land finds after centuries of shameful efforts
she has still the Irish nation TO contend with
at home snd not onl that, but nations of
the Irish people in other countriss-a nation
in America, in AustrAlis, in pain, France,
Scotland, and another on her own threshhold
in England.
THE CELEBRATION JUSTIFIED.
Nv American fellow citizsna may now ask
me, what right have the Irish in America to
preserve the personality of the lrirh nation
They are now American citizens, identified
with American interests, have their homes
In America, and have sworn their allegiance
10 the "s,ars and STRIPES" All precisely
true. The Irish in America are citizens and
faithful citizens. They have sworn their
allegiance 10 the American republic, and
have gallan,ly confrmed that allegiance on
many q hard fought battlefield They are
identified with American interests, and never
have they been known 10 turn their backs
upon them AND Furthermore. never have
they been known to turn their backs 10
the enemies of America, from the day
the first sword wss unshesrheG at Bunker
Hill till the war cry was hushed al the
surrender of Richmond. They cheerfully
gave the best bone and sinew of their nation
to raise up the flag of Independence in
America. and when once raised, as history
will show, they did no, hesitate 10 lay down
their lives by thousands 10 kerp
THE FLAG OF LIBERTY FLOATING.
And I must hers sny, and | say it with
prids for the record of tie Irish 10 America,
thai never has the day yet daNned that wit
messed the American and Irish flag at va
risnce. They have been friends together
"a in Sunshine and in shade;" they have
fought side by side in the cause OF freedom,
and in those days rs the green banner OF
Erin showed itself in the vanguard Of lib
erty's ranks where ragged the deadly storm OF
hattie. she was hailed as the dsy-star Of hope
and the terror of the enemy. She was the
ons who lent her right hand 10 crown the
stars and stripes the queen of this republic.
And If the queen of this republic in her ma
;ss,v and nsgnsnimity allows the hands that
/ did 40 much TO raise he, to her present dig
ri,v TO float :heir national banner once In
| The year il, memory of their native country,
she Is rendering sn act OF generous gratitude
g., mast fsyors. And the craven who could
take exception to such an act of generous
,,,.,iruds' must evidently lack the capacity
Of soul which is required to grasp and enjoy
the privileges of our glorious republic. To re-
,n,n 90 ths poiut The Irish love America.
hu, this does not necessarily exclude their
fiction for their native land. The poet u1-
.-a.saj this idea well when he said:
.I;ves there a man with soul so dead,
Nbo never 30 himself hath sad,
This Is my own, my nEIIVe land
II you ask me, then, what claims have the
LIN N Ireland, or her freedom, ! answer,
that the day has never YET daWned that vii.
- he Irish as q nation surrender their
claims upon Ireland and her freedom Ever
since the day when tyranny first put her foot
,,,.,D the sacred soil Of ireland, the voice Ot
- T-;.b nstiOn has been