The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-04

1882. The people of Ireland rose in
Il last effort to regain their freedom.
The instruction was suppressed,
but it required five years to stamp
out the smOuldering fires of rebel
lion. In1S03 the people were secured
Ia sullen subsection.
Who fears to speak of 1finety-eight?
Who trembles at tAe name?
When towards mock the patriots fate,
Vino hangs his head for shame?
He's all slsve, or half knave,
Who'd slight his country thus!
But true man, like you men,
Will fill his glass with US,
Well drink the memory of the brave,
The faithful and the true
Some sleep far off beyond the sea
And some in Ireland too.
All, All sre gone, but still lives on
The hopes for which they died,
And true men, like you men,
Remember then with pride,
The dust OF some Is Irish earth,
Among their own they rest,
And the same land that gave them birth
Has caught them to her breast, etc.
While Ireland was mistress of her
own destinieS she advanced in trade.
in agric Ilture, in manufactures and
in everything that could enhance a
nations position in the world. The
act Of union blighted all this. Irish
manufactures since that time have
been nearly extirguished; four or
five famines have swept over the
land, and the restlessness Of the
people in their misery and destitu-
tiCn, has been suppressed by the
enforcement Of fifly-nine savage
coercion acts.
Twas then, my friend, thy kneeling
nation qusfed
Long, long and deep, the churchman's
opiate draught
Of tame obediencs-'till her sense of
right
And pulse of glory seem extinguished
quite
And Britons slept SO sluggish in their
chain
That Weakening freedom called almost in
vain,
But when the Constitution has expired
Well have such men like Irish walkers
DlG6Q
To sing old Ha6eas Corpus by its side
And ask, in purchased dItties, why il
died?
Boast on, my friend, whii- il our humble
isle,
Where honor mourns AM fred m fear
to smile,
| But oh! poor ireland, if revenge b
sweet
Fer centuries of wrong, for dark deceit
And Wilhering insult-for the Uniol
thrown
Into thy bitter cup, when that alone
Of savery's drAught was Wsntin g-if f.
this
Revenge be sweet, thou hast that dem OF
bliss
For Oh! Ills more than hell's revenge tt
TIL, t Eng and trusts the men that ruined
| thee
Ii Sc hacked and tainted tools, so foullJ
For the grand artisan of mischief, Pitt.
So usei s. ever but in vile employ,
80 We K to save, so vigorous to destroy
Ut tu.n awhile, and though the sham
rock wreaths
| Ny h0,nely harp, yet shall the song !
| breathes
D. e!aud's slavery, and Of Ireland
| woes
Live when the memory of her tyrant foes
Snail but exist al future Rnsves to warn
mbalmed in hate, and canonized By
scorn.
And dld'st thou know the spirit kind ana
brave
rha. warns the soul of each lnsultec
slave
Thv heart would buru," etc.
Has any other government pro
Tossing 10 be civilized ever treated
its subjects in such an inhuman
manner ?-"The ungovernable, the
anarchial Irish A few years a &C
thousands of English labOrerS were
locked out Of employment by the
farmers of Sussex, Norfolk anC
Esse Y, and had to go around begging
in large gangs, yet the forces OF civ
ilizati0n" were not applied to these
farmers to prevent them starving
their laborerS into compliance with
the tyranny to which they had fol-
ages been subject. What about the
anti-corn law agitation? The burn
| ing OF towns and the Sacking of vii
iages-the fact that on the night
that the antl-cOrn law proposals
were thrown out seven mansions OF
landowners were burned to the
ground-the meetings in London
and elsewhere, at which banners
with. Bread or Blood" on them
were displayed. But there
was one man who during
that agitation raised his pow
erful voice, and employed his
thrilling eloquence on behalf OF the
English people. Daniel O'COnnell
pleaded for them when they were
suffering from landlord tyranny
and maintained their right to live
in prosperity and plenty IN the land
| that bore them. In OCOnnelPs time
in Ireland, the discussion OF polltl
cal questions and the rights of thu
people was "treason-felony a!C
| the bastile; to-day it is reasonable
suspicion" and the bastile; and VIVA
| a cheering picture is presented 6y
the forces Of civilization" in tn
shape of $4,000 soldiers and 1905
| military police galloping all owe
the highways of Ireland, the BRUSH
Poland, engaged in the execution. o
despotic laws and the intimldatl0l
and terrorizing of a disarmed people