The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-30


of character, under the most unjust
and trying circumstances. But is
there such race as the Saxon, any
how? And if there be, is it the same
race whose flaxen-haired scions CEN
turtles ago were sold in hundreds
along with st. Patrick into slavery
in Ireland? Is it the same race
whose spirit William the Cenqueror
in one single battle completely
crushed, and after having divided
their country among his followers,
reduced to a condition of oomplai.
SAINT serfdom A mere Saxon
why, it was to be merely Serf.
And this is the same race of serfs
which cries havoc on the Irish, in
support of the prerogatives of their
taskmasters, the descendants of the
bloody Norman peers, whose mis-
sion for centuries has been to rob
and enslave every nation which
found itself unable to resist them.
Oh England, England, what chance
!. was thine
When the last tyrant Of that ill-starred
line,
Fled from his sullied throne, and left thee
free,
To found thine own eternal liberty.
Hence all the i'll you suffer-hence re-
main,
Such calling fragments of that feudal
chain,
Whose links around you by the Norman
flung,
Though loosed and broke SO often, still
have cluDg;rtsr
Yet, say!-Could even prestrate tri-
bune's power,
Or 8 mock senate in Rone's servile
hour,
Insult SO much the claims, the rights of
As doth this fettered mob, that free
divan,
OF noble lords and honorable knaves,
OF pensioned patriots and privileged
slaves.
To place and power all public spirit
tends,
10 place and power all public spirit ends.
But what right have the Saxon
hOrdes in Ireland, anyhow? The
right Of conquest, the right of
might. They have always ruled
Ireland with a mailed hand, nor did
they disdain Ofttimes unlike Napo-
leOn) to make war upon and massa-
ere a disarmed and defenseless peas
antry, who were being yearly bar
OariZed by having to give all the
products of their labor to a licen-
.ious lot of. lOafirg landlords, while
heir oppreSSOrs were living in
style on the wealth robbed
rom Ireland and other nations
Rich in tie gems Of midas gaudy
zone, n
And pIander piled from Kingdoms not
their own,
Degenerate trade-thy minions could
despise
The heart-born anguish of q thousand
cries-
Jould lock with impious hand their tenn
ing stores
While famished nations died along their
shores.
Such was Thomas Campbell's
omment Oh British rule in India.
10 it seems that Ireland was not |
he only country plundered and left |
o starve without assistance by the
Ioble and civilized Saxon. Ireland |
or centuries has been the farm
ard and recruiting station for Eng
and. She has been the infant Her
uleS, phantom of whose mature
.rowth was sufficient at any time
0 produce nightmare in the hearts
f England's lords. They have
aiken good care that that mature
rOWth should never be realized, and |
ave by every species of ingenious
ruelty and injustice robbed, OPP
ressed, weakened, rendered hope
ess and laid PROSTATE the Irish
haracter. as
But alas! for his county, her pride
isgone by, ,s
md that spirit is broken which never
would bend;
Yer the ruins her children in secret
must sigh.
or It's treason to love her and death to
defend,
Tnprized are her sons till they've
learned 10 Detray,
Tndistinguished they live if they shame
not their sires,
nd the torch that would light them
through dignity's way
lust be caught from the pile where their
country expires.
Along the rivers where | was
orn are to be seen the remains of |
uined Irish industries, no less sug-
estive of spoliation than those
Their stately ruins, the history of
hose origin is lost in the destruc-
on wrought by the numerous
-arS to which the country has been
objected. But these ruins, are
ources Of inspiration to the Irish |,
naracter, sustaining it in its un-
Terving resolve that Ireland shall
nee more lead in the vanguard Of
rogressive nationalities, and pre- ,
,nt to the world such a picture of
Intelligence, virtue and prosperity as
ill reflect honor upon her children.
"Brltons never, never shall be i;
ayes" but when these lines were
eng penned the press gangs of !
ngland were fOrcibly taking from !
leir homes, knocking down in the | +
reefs of her metropolis and drag. ;
ng on board her war ships every
urdy Saxon who was not able fol +
eve beyond doubt his claim to be ,
'nsidered a gentleman, while the
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