The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-02-17
4sruIng Star and Catholic Messenger.
gEE IRISH QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT
IoSea.s on Mitchell Henrys Amendment to tho
Address.
ELOQUENT SPEECH BY A. Nj. SULLIVAN.


Mr.. Redmond remarked that not only
had no member of her Majesty's Govern
mept spoken on this eubject, but not
aiDele English or Scotch member had risen
40 address the House in reference to IT,
The Irish people would deeply feel the
conduct of the House in declinin to discues
Irish questions. This prematurely old man,
who was actually dying, bad been sub,
Sected to the horrible punishment OF penal
ssryitude. We had been talking lately a
great deal of the unjust acts of people
abroad, but the ill-treatment which this
nan had received was most dlsgraceful.
Some people said that Home Rulers asked
300 much but they said 80 IN ignorance.
A vast number of the Irish people, let him
sell the House, said the Home Rulers asked
far too little. And they said the Home
Rulers did not ask it in the right way
They said that the grievances OF Ireland
would never be remeuied by constitutional
agitation. He himself wac opposed to
desperate courees, but he could assure the
House that the day would never come when
the people of Ireland would retire from the
demands he had alluded to.
Mr.. Cross said that there were c'rcnm-
stances connected with Davitts case which
induced the Government to release him,
and he denied that the act had any thing TO
do with the Eastern complication. AS to
Mccarthy, before the jury at the cor0ners
inquest Lad found the verdict they did, 1t
would have been wiser If they had heard
the evidence of some one from the prison
30 speak as to his treatment there. Nc
Carthy had been attended by the surgeons
of the prison, and had been treated more
3enienty on account OF bis state. The
Government would order q most searching
inquiry into the case, and when the report
was made il would be laid before the
House.
Mr.. Plunket said he had refrained from
speaking because if he did he knew it
would be said that he had been bullied into
it. This was the first timc on an Irish
question that honorable members from that
country had found fault because nobody
opposed then. He had heard of an armis-
tice among the party now known to history
as the obstructionists, but before this was
brought about one Of them was told that
nnless he was prepared to withdraw what he
had said he would be required to step over
the channel to Belgium, and see if he could
obstruct o bullet daughter. and cries of
~Name him.') There was an armistice.
Then It was understood there was to be an
amendment to the Address. No one knew
what the address was to be. No one knew
whether Home Rule was to be granted i'm
Dediately or not, but whatever the Address
vas to be they swore on the altar of COM
mon friendship that they would amend 1t.
He hoped he should not offend the honor
able member who moved it by adopting his
own expression, and saying that the time
chosen was hideously inopportune. The
grounds on which Mr.. Butt ence moved
m amendment 70 the Address was that the
freedom of the Press was restricted, and
1heTe were one or two other grievances.
.The Press WAS free in Ireland as in Eng
land, and freer than in any other country
IN Europe, and at this moment be rejoiced
10 say his country was freer from coercive
L. ela.~ - E,A
hundred years. Therefore it did appear to
him that the time chosen for this motion
VAS "hideously lnoppOrtune."
Mr. A. NJ. Sullivan, whose rising was
hailed with enthusiastic cheers by the Irish
@embers said:
-Ar.-The House stands indebted to the hon.
sEAble and gallant gentleman the member for
Waterford. His motion has broken "the cold
saain of elenoe" that hung over the Govern
Gpent benches, and has eliolted from the honor
able and learned gentleman who has just sat
3oWn (Mr. Plunket) speech which, Whatever
SOr its varied play of humor, eloquenoe,
and ability. He had no need to apologize to
mo House for the time he was occupying.
This is the business, and this OF all others 10
the sub bjeot with which the time Of the House
SNeuld most rightly be occupied. Parliament
has been assembled three weeks earlier than
uaaAl, and within these three weeks there
should be good time for discussing and oon-
SiderinR the Irish guestion-for fIlly consider
cd and discussed we are hxedly determined it
shall be. Mr.. Speaker, that hon. and learned
gentleman said of the men anidst whom l
stand that they were "mssquerading Home
BnlerS." Masqusrading The phrase is not
OSensive, l suppose, OF he would not have ap-
piled it 80 may uss it too, and say that the
1hing which 10 really intolersble is to see the
grandson of the great Plunket mAsqueradinR 9
Sn tho floor Of this House as an Imperialist
We are supposed to be concerned just now
with the Turkish que'tion. One of the orueleet
wrongs W hich the subject Christians under the
MoElem yoke were made to feel was that
oftsntimes the children of Christian parents
were seized and carried into the Turkish
lamp, trained up in Turkish ideas, embraced
abe faith and the banner of the conqueror
md appeared many n time, Soimitar i'll hand
~ wage war upon their kindred and then
noel Even 80 has it been with Us in IrelanC
iihrouGh many a sad chapter of our country
licty, Sometimes by forco, sometimes by
Hnlo, sometimes by one influence, sometimes
&y another, the British pow or has been able t.
ssAr away from children who bore grea
0ames, aud might have greatly served thei
aSnntry and we have these converts
- tonight, skilfnlly set in the forefront o
abe assault when their oountrymen were to b.
ont down. Who is our Rcouseri The voice il
sSe voice of an Irishman; the wit, the ability
the brilliant play Of fAncY and of 0oniua th,