The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-03-19

rIr,cA. March 10, 1ss0.-A monster meet
a., was held here to.right Tor me PURPOSE
~ ,Ss contributing to ne Herald irisn Famine
Fund. Utica's large opcra'house was nl'ea
>, ia utmos' capacity. over TWO 'nourahu
nconle beI-,g present. Dlessrs. ,. ,. Lowery,
Enis Il Roberts, Judge Bacon, samneI
Camr'oelI. ex-senator Goodwin, anu o,nes
prr minent citizens and man! c'srIyu ieh oi
S,esrent denominations, occup'eu ,nc ,.'Se.
! Resides the above mentioned Were vuuge
slurpis. of Cooperstown; mnl.eu osA'es
District Attorney Martin !. I9wnsenu' VI
Troy: Father Murphy, OF home; III;
O'SnlIIyan and Father McLoueun,' VI
Garland. Mr.. s. s. Lowery, ope1eu ,ne
meeting by the introduction OF Mr. hol ,
Seymour as president, VINO was i''0 H. o.
usual. with continuous applau'sS' uv va
looking well. and apparently po'se, $3.50
,.',,;,a sneakIno was animated and his voice
clear and strong.
uonArro sEYMoUR's REMARKS.
GLOW weak and helpless" sa'd Mr.. Sey-
mour on taking the chair. "are llen wne"
death threatens them in Inc ioiin vi u ,'iii-
inc. At its touch all our s'Teng'h 'au,s ,'
II mocks at all human power. No.n,us
more appalling can crush Us uo"n VIII
mmItitudes OF our feIIow-men are suffering
wbat "a worse than deatll-the agony OF
watching IFS slow approach to nome, wbere
mon and women look in each offers races
with terror. and shudder as they think bow
their children must perish OF hunger. Ihat
great horror now oyershadows Ireland Ike
= gloomy. threatening cloud. But upon Inc
face OF this sad scene, when Mikes US ie'i
the weakness, and might say the degra-
dation. OF human nature, there shines tne
Iioht OF great and glorious trutn.
We can. II we will, make this dark
cloud glow with rainbow hues. We can,
il we VIII, make all this misery lit ourselves
M int, higher and more noble degree OF
moral condition. Weak as we are, we nave
some marvellous powers which SNOW 'ha.
we are akin 10 the Being that made us, ana
who governs the world. We c1n make eVii
min ster to good. The question which Is
now mt TO IL, and which concerns every
one IN this assembluge, is not Only 'Sball
furnishing men be fed; shall women ana
children dying OF starvation be saved from
the laws of death, but also shall we be
made better and more happy by acts OF
charityY, In the course Of human events
we have to deal with facts where our deci-
sions make us better or worse. We cannot
stand neutral between the two. Our changes
Howard virtue or vice are constant ana
swift, for our lives are running streams,
shifting in their courses and varying in
their aspects.
THE NOBLENESs OF CHARITY.
"When YOU hear tonight the eloquent
words OF Father Terry do not think his APP
neals are merely for help for suffering
homes in Ireland They will he broader IN
their purposes. They will embrace US all
within the scope Of their charities. They
will urge US not only to lift up Others out
Of sore distress, but to lift up ourselves
into higher sentiments Of charity and viz
tuc. so that we may leave this presence bet
ter and happier men than when we entered
into this asSembage. For charity. like mer-
cy. is twice blessed-'it bleSses him that
gives and him that takes We are told in
HOLY Writ that it covers multitude OF
sins But even these words DO not tel oI
the full measure Of its blessings. T1ev
reach out with influences higher and
broader than those thai merely concern
The persons WHO give and who take. It's
teachings are wide and varied. Examples
Of virtue are as potent for good a. are those
OF wee for evil. They make the l0okeIs-un
rs well ~ the actors better or worse. In
the worlds history there has rarely been a
time when a grand exhibition OF sympathy
and goodwill among men would be Tor the
benefit not OF Ireland alone, but for the
whole civilized world. A glance at The con-
dition of the nations OF Europe will snow
that a grand exhibition at this time OF man g
sympathies for his fellow-man Is not mere
matter concerning one people, but there
| will be in its nature elements OF statesman
ship.
HINT TO MONARCHS.
cit may in Il great and in good way give
n lesson to those who rule the destnies OF
NATIONS. tmay teach them that the charity
which seeks the welfare and happiness OF
mankind will give better security 10 mon
atchs and to thrones than armed men and
harsh restraints. We know that in our own
land. when the wounds OF civil war had
hardly been healed. when the bitterness Of
the strife was still felt. that when pestlence
swept away the lives OF those who but a
little time before had been armed enemies
i'm bloody contests, we sent to the suffering
cities Of the South relief and means tn check
the progress OF death. BY this we not only
changed the currents OF their feelings to-
ward Us, but we learned hat we did not hate
them as we thought we did. The kindly
feelings thu, begotten OF charity more than
all other things brought back those senti-
ments OF fraterual regard that make the life
and strength Of our Union.
THIS STATE OF EUROPE.
"NOx look to the stare OF Europe. Its
governments stand toward each other in
attitudes OF armed defiance. More than
two millions OF men are enrolled in stand
ing armies, trained in the destructive arts
OF war and taught 10 hate each other, their
appetites for blood whetted by arts of
diplomacy and appeals 10 passion.
Monarch, act and speak as If they were
robbers who sought occasion to invade,
ravaee, and seize the territories OF each
other. TIE civilized world is kept in
state OF fear and uncertainty that drama
Of war, OF bloOd>hed, and OF misery shall AZ
flct the people OF Europe. When we
mourn over the distress wiougbtby famine
or pestience. how light they are compared
with the evils brought by the passions, The
caprce-, and ambitions Of monarchs and
rulers OF mankind! Yet, while they look
with indifference upon the lives they
should protect, they cry out with
horror against attempts to destroy their lives
who have so wantonly wasted the lives Of
their fell,w-benes. While the world is
now waiting with hushed expectation OF
bloody struggles may we not hope, il there
shall be here a grand exhibition OF mans
| sympathy for his fellow man-one which
| shall reach from continent TO continent
across the broad Atlantic-that il will nuke
monarchs hesitate before they wantonly de-
stroy the lives and happiness OF those sepa
rated from tnem by mere line? III The
| ppoplp NJ America shall declare and nv not.