Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-30

are of forgiving temper and have learned to say, England, with all thy faults," and we confess they are many, i've love thee still (Applause) Notwithstanding your English name and your English language, and what ever else there may be in you that is English, you are welcome. (Great applause and laugh- ter. )But though you are in some sense American on your mothers side, and in the same way En- glish on your fathers side, you are, after all, an Irishman. Gmmenss enthusi- asm.) Nothing but an Irishman. Laughter.) We understand that perfectly well Laughter The English historian, MT. Froude, has told us that by some strange thing, some subtle influence of our evil climate, an Englishman who happens to have been settled some time in Ireland inexplicably becomes Irish. Eng land has always been disappointed in her e1- pectations Applause and hurrahs.) They have always been changed into Irishmen. (Hurrahs.) But to us it is no mystery, what ever it may seem to John Bull. (Laughter.) There is similar quality in the soil and eli mate of America. At this moment I am speaking in the presence of our citizens. I am speaking for them, nsy fellow citizens, MT.
 Parnen, not yours. Daughter You have undergone similar change. We sometimes describe them as Americans who have the misfortune to be born in their native coun- try (applause and laughter)-Irish by birth, they are Americans by choice. (Great laugh ter and applause The rugged drops that visit their warm hearts are Irish blood. Applause They have the Irish accent perhaps, and entirely the Irish look, but it is their glory and their joy that they are Americans. Oaughter.) They are very apt to show it whom greenhorn comes over. (Great laughter and applause. They plant themselves upon our soil and breathe our air, rejoicing in our liberty and prosperity, and under the protection of our 1 laws they are no moro strangers, no more foreigners (applsuse), but fellow citizens with those whose descent is from the May | flower, and by the same right by which you with your American mother and your English | name and ancestry are an Irishman, and noth- | ing else. Daughter and applause.) We are all Americans and nothing else: (Applause They have their sympathy with the ancestral isle and their indignation at her wrongs, at her oppression, just as others of us have sympathy with Germany, Scotland, or with England; yet they do not forget that they are Americans by their own choice by their oath before God. (Applause.) But, my dear sir, 1t is not specially sympathy with blood or an- cestry that makes us speak tonight, but the cries of hunger, of starving thousands in Ireland that are crying for food, | which touch not Irish sensibiIities only,
 but all our human sympathies. The speaker here referred to Americas sympathy and aid | to China when hunger assailed that nation, and again when Ireland suffered for food
 some years ago, America was true to the doc
 Urine, Glove thy neighbor as thyself" Qm- | mense applause We do not compromise | ourselves with any particular measure ol
 methods in Ireland or with any other party 1T the United Kingdom. We do not compromise l oE,
 violence. Indeed it would be uncourteous 1T 1 the extreme to expect you to come to enlis | us in such enterprises, but we say, know l express the opinion of all thinking men ir our country, that the source of the frequent famines and misery in Ireland is the system
 of landowning. (Applause.) The speaker 1 alluded to the exodus of the blacks at tht South, and urged that where many instead oi
 a few were landowners, if only small patches society was the gainer. So would Ireland bs l happy and prosperous with such means o! 1 prosperity. (Great applause.)
 NIB PARNELL.
 l Mir. Bigelow now introduced MT. Parnell Great and prolonged applause and cheering | followed. MT. Parnel acknowledged ths
 honor with a bend of the head, his face indi | eating much emotion. At last the peopl'
 ceased and he said MT. President and la
 dies and gentlemen-I can assure that I an
 most happy at your reception. It is only tos
 kind. GA voice-.'Not bit.") Of cours' we recognize that this reception is not ac
 corded to us personally, but because we rep
 resent the cause of Ireland. (Great applause.
 In Irelanc at the present moment we are en- | gagged in the greatest struggle the country ha | ever undertaken. We are engaged il
 8 struggle to see if Irishmen can 1iv,
 in the land of their birth, and we think ",
 are sure to win the fight. (Great applause. We think the time has come to pluck up roo
 and branch the system which has degraded
 and impoverished our country. (Great ap l plause.) Great have been the evil consequen ces of this system. We say that the peopl
 of Ireland, those that cultivate the soil, hav
 always lived in a state of chronic poverty iron
 one end of the island to the other, and from on,
 generation to another. It is state of povert,
 whichin any other country would be called fam inc, but which we call poverty. All this despit,
 Ireland's fine soil and climate. Every nov and then came famine when hundreds O
 thousands died and hundreds of thousand \ emigrated. Why should there not be an out | cry against system producing such results In country favored, beautiful and with pro pitious climate, there must be something wrong l to have such results. The system of lanl | tenure in Ireland was just as much opposed
 by the Protestant as the Catholic. Faith mad
 no difference. Daughter Froude, the his
 torian, tells us that 200, 900 Protestan
 families left the North of Ireland dur ing the last century, driven away by
 the land system. The speaker went on
 to allude to the New York Herald, and spok
 several times of that paper and it's remarks re garding him. He said that it was preposter
 ous to claim that the Irish were too numerous ! and instanced case where poor men settled Il on 8 hitherto barren hillside, being driver
 away, and when their little patches began t.
 show signs of improvement down came thu
 landowners upon them and oppressed then
 with heavy rents and taxes. He feelingl, ' o,,l A1ra 4R TwnI
 and of vast sections of valuable land of Ire \ land where you might ride 8 day wit hou | meeting man or seeing house, and yet thu
 country was said to be too populous. He saiG | what was most needed was to emigrate thu (, ,O0O landowners. Gmmense enthusiasm.
 He with caustic words spoke of the man wht
 had offered f15, ,000to emigrate z, 800 families | @ to Q family. Now this is the way the land
 holders would have Irishmen emigrate. Irish | men had had to emigrate this way long enough
 and too many had had to come to new
 home with nothing and work in the
 hardest way to get living. Two pounds te
 a family. What way is this. "A voice
 ''Shoot 'em.") That is the kind of an outfit
 our people are to have. The speaker critizet
 the New York Herald as leaving out the essen | tial point in reporting recent speech, there
 by injuring the speech in vital point. Thil
 was his arraignment of the Mansion | House Relief Committee in Ireland which he
 stigmatized as composed of landowners Tht speaker quoted from the New York Nation al
 to the isle of Guernsey with 10, 900 acres sup porting a population of 3O,OOO. Ireland
 OqualIy blessed by nature with it's Is, 800, ,OOC
 acres ought to support population of 45,
 900. The speaker forcibly spoke of
 recent uproar on spot of Irish soil whsr
 150 constables in aiding the serving of a writ
 of eviction were beset by the women of the
 place, and bayonets were used against the wo
 men, some being half scalped. Now, contin-
 ued the speaker, there are 600, 900 tenant farmers in Ireland, and will leave it to the ! people of this country, who enjoy free school I education, to calculate for me the following
 sum: If it takes two days and 15O consta-
 bles to nail a writ on the door of one tenant farmer Qaughter), how many days and how many constables will it take to eject the 600, COG tenant farmers? (Great applause The speak l CT had great hopes of the result of an ava
 kened sentiment in this country for Ireland, l upon England. England shrank now before it. (Applause.) He was proud of the young Irish Americans of this country. It seemed to him they were more Irish than the Irish l themselves. (Applause.) He believed that ! when the time came to strike Irishmen would fight for Ireland to the last drop of blood. (Tremendous applause.) Now the task was to