The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-01-15

Say murder ri in the streets of Manchest
| England. in which the world waa fought q
| lesson OF the highest elfsacriicc. On tina,
/ Gay tnree brave Igishmen laid down their lives
ior tneir country and their country's friends
ana greater love than this man hath, thar
that he should lay down his life for his friend
L1lii not attempt to give expression to the
eternal hatred or the stern resolve that tool
root 20 millions of Irish hearts on that nom.
oraole day when the martyred three gave their
oodiea to the executioners and
l. THEIR SOULS TO HEAVEN.
/ Applause.) Bot shall never forget how Ire
iand marked ber appreciation of that act OF
British vindictivenese. by which those three
young men were sacrificed on the public scat.
fold On the day that q procession, number.
lpg sone hundred Thousand persons, walked
honor to the Manchester martyrs, 1 had an
opportunity of witnessing one of those ex-
hibitions of national feeling which occur only
on rare and important occasions in the history
of any country. On that day I pushed my
way through the crowded streets of Dublin to
that spot in Thomas street which 10
coNsEcRATKD BIT THE BLOOD
OF Robert Emmett [applsusel, and there await
preached the hallowed place with q tread
grand and steady rs that of an army advancing
In battle arrav TO fight for q nations freedom.
lApplause.l There appeared to be some dou BIT
on the minas of the marshals to whether it
would not he more appropriate to pass By in
solemn silence but when the front rank of the
mighty column arrived at the sacred spot, oh !.
there was doubt no longer: the full tide of
patriotic feeling burst out on the evening air.
shout arose from that sublime mass
THAT SHOOK The OLD CITY OF DUBLIN FROM END
TO END
and rolled, in long sounding echoes, along the
river and bay. LApplausel.
And thus the principles OF 1908 and leo. were
shown to be identical, aud Ireland paid dou bic
reverence 10 the martyrs for Irish liberty.
CApplauseI
1t does not become us, for we are men, to
shed tears over the fate of those who died for
Ireland. There is more practical work foR
Irisbmen to do. We must take up the struggle
for Irish liberty, which the martyrs only
abandoned when they abandoned their lives.
We must adhere to the faith of which they
were the glorions apostles, to the faith which
teaches us that Ireland mnst first become free,
then she may join the brotherhood of nations
in laboring for the freedom of hpmsnity. APP
plansel
Let not the servile and unworthy, the self
loving, God-forgetting crew hope TO understand
that noble creed. tell you, the creed of Irish
liberty is the very aptipode of sel6shness 1t
Is held in all it's purity and fullness by those
alone who are convinced, as Ireland's martyrs
were convinced that individual happiness is
impossible so long we are confronted with
the sight of national misery. And the one great
duty of lrishmen, as we'll as of all members
of the human family, is to sacrifice self for
conntry-sye, and higher still, country for
humanity. And thus help to bear one auothers
burtheus as best we may on the road to that
state beyond the grave, where, thank God,
oppression and slavery shall not reign any
more. [Applsusel.
Oh There are many who call themselves
friends of freedom and lovers of their country.
and who are careful to exhibitit on convenient
opportunities, but who shrink from the ranks
when hard work is TO be done and disaster
threatens the national cause. 1t was not so
with the men whose names 1 have uttered
here tonight. Theirs was the spirit that
might be broken, but that never would bend
They advocated their country's light to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as
proudly in the dock the public platform
They confessed their political bent with
dauntless courage, in the dungeon and Oh the
scaffold, ADD am sure that when the bistoTi-
an finds his path way illnmiued by
THOSE STARS IN GLoRYs SKY, 4
he will pause in the record of their heroism
and he will say Oh these were the men rho
when great times came, endeavored to nee
them, and who, despising alike the threats
the tyrant and the miserable scofftpg "f Save
songht faithfully TO elevate aud purity the
country and to epcircle her brow with adiade
of national glory. lAppause