The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-02-26

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two centuries ago, when there was famine
In New England, and shlplosd of bread
BtufS came from ireland TO Boston SO it
was proved In 1861, when car national
troubles broke out, and In the front rank
OF armed courage flashed the Irishman's
bayonet, and from the first cnnfict 10 the
last was heard the 1rishman's battle
shout. Some of you know the name Of
Thomas Francis A1eagher, and what he
did at Malvern Hill and Cold Harbor.
| Did the Irishnnan prove himself self.sac.
riiicing and brave and true 10 the flag
under which he had come 10 live i'm our
days ofcivil strife? Let Chickamauga,
and Antietam, and South Mountain and
Gettysburg answer.
| Moreover, the patriotism and eloquence
Of Ireland have been inspiration TO ora
tors and heroes all the world over, md
| Ireland has in that way brought ali na-
| tipns under obligation. In how many
crises of our national history have opv
great mln got inspiration from the names
of Grattan, and Edmond Burke, and Frs.
kine, and Daniel O'Connell, called by
many the Washington of Europe7 Why,
tirs,. there is in one passage of Robert EN-.
NETS dying speech enough eloquence to
kindle the eloquence of q century. The
day before he was fist hung and then
beheaded in Ireland for the sake Of his
principies-tho day before. on the road
70 the scaffold, he waved a last adieu to
Sarah Curran-of whose broken heart
Washington Irving wrote 30 wonderful
l!y-.she in carriage along tho road wav-
ing back the farewell as he went out to
die. The day before the execution, a
young man only 25 years of age, Robert
Emmet, uttered speech as he looknd in
TO the face ofan indignant court, speech
lucnce it has hardly been eaualed:
"You, my Lord, are the Judge: I am
the supposed culprit. am man, you
are man also. BY revolution of pow
or wo might change places, though we
never could change characters. If
stand at the bar of this court and dare
not vindicate my character, what farce
Is your just: %. If l stand az this bar and
dare not vindicate my character, how dare
You calumniate it? have but a few
words more to say. My ministry Is now
ended. am going to my cold and slen'
grave. My lamp of life Is nearly extin-
guished. l have parted with everything
that was dear 10 me in this lie for my coun
try's cause, and abandoned another idol
adore in my heart, the object of my af-
fections. My race is run. The grave opens
to receive me, and sink into its bosom.
[ a'n ready TO die. have not been .ls
lowed to vindicate my character. have
but one request to ask at my departure
from this world 1t is the charity of its
silence. Let no man write my epitaph,
for as no man who knows my motives
dares now vindicate theri, let not preiu.
dice or ignorance asperae them. Let
them rest in obscurity and peace, my
memory be left in oblivion, and my tomb
remain uninscribed until other times and
other men can do justice to my character
when my country takes her place among
the nations OF the earth, then, and moi
till then, let my epitaph be written.
have done.W
Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, wrote
the songs which afterwards became the
war songs of Poland, and wrote elevated
sentiments for all the world. Hande
declared that he would rather have writ
ten Moore's "Aileen Aroon" than to have
written his own greatest operas. Thomal
Moore's "Lalla Rookh" made the heart
J los the earth to tingle with its matches:
rhythm, and Lord Byron, writing to the
Irish author, said: "I shall not suffer
the Misses Byron to read your poem, les
.hey find out that there is greater poe
than their father" Yet 80 simple O
heart and so unpretending Of life was this
!. Thomas Moore that he was ruled out o.
royal circles because, when the Prince oi
Wales asked him, care you related to tn,
peer by the name of Moore9" he said
mo, my lord my father was q rr1cel
in Doublin!" Oh lthe brave words ant
the barve deeds in Ireland that have
been inspiration to all the world. / dt
, not know any passage in history more
thrilling than that when the men o
!. O'Brien, wounded in the hospital, unable
to rise, when they heard tho battle was
going against them, begged that stake
might be driven in the ground, and thew
, might be brought out and lashed fast 10
the stakes, so they could stand up, then
with the right arm fight for their country
And so it was 1cne, and these wounded
men were carried out on couches, and
the stakes were driven, anIi these men
were fastened to the stakes, while with
their right arm they fought for Ireland,
and fought until they died. But Ireland,
has sent her magnetic men to this shors..
There are many here who remember the
oratorical charm that thralled the court
room when james 4. Brady bowed and
said May it please the Court, and gem
tlemen OF tho jury And there may he
here and there ono who remembers so
far back rs the day ofThomas Adds EN-
met. who closed his career. as an associ-
ats in Ireland by pleading for client
| who must dio becanse of o political oath
he had taken closing his speech by seiz.
ing the Bible and pressing It to his lips,
end saying: Il go down with my client !;
l take the same OATH" Then coming to
this land to become the compeer of vii.
liam Writ and John Randolp, rising
higher and higher in his influence at'the
forum until his falling dead in an apo.
pletic fit in The Coust-honHe at Snug Har-
bor. All the Supreme court rooms of
the land went into mourning, and learn
ed ehlogist declared that for purity O (
life, and greatness of soul, and magnifi-
cence ofeloquence, Thomas Adds EN-.
met was unriyaled. By heroic words
Ireland hes brought all lends Under
obligation. Now che sits in tho
shadow of death, the scenes OF 1915
about to DO repeated unless relief
comes speedily. brief picture of, 1916
In ireland
"As we passed along, groups of suualid
beings weso seen at road. .cornefs, or run
els, huts, or cavefns dotting the slopes
and in the bottoms by the streanlets sides
tn aee the meal ac INST them afftfer the
protection Of bullets, bayonets, and eayaI4
~ swords, on its way TO feed people be-.
You'd the mountains hunger-stficEe like
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