New-York tribune., 1882-04-19
THE MEETING AND THE SPEECH.

The MEEIlNG AND The SPEECH.
| BALTIMORE, April 1S--The State Council Of tn,
Irish National Land League celebrated the Grattar
Centenary by mass meeting tonight at the Con
cordia Opera House. Mayor Whytc presided ant
made the Introductory remarks The Hon. Jere.
mah S. Black. of Pennsylvania made the chcfora
ton of the evening. He spoke as follows:
Are We, not, required 10 do something for the
| relief OF Ireland This is question on which,
think, no American citizen has right to be silent
Therefore, and not because would set myself up az
public instructor am where am tonight For
centuries Ireland has the yoke OF political bond
During all that time except short interval she ha,
not been permitted make any laws for the protection
they cali Home Rule or the privilege OF local selfgov
ernment. Is wholly denied them. Their affairs are en-
tirey directed by another power whose orders
ecued by agents and overscers sent upon them for thai
purpose ssch government is sure TO be administered
| without the smallest regard for the rights
interests feelings wishes OF the people who sub
nj @ anfe e er tSer to se
advantage and profit Any person who does not know
human experience and underlying the whole science Of
government not at all prepared to consider this sub
But he understands that much also knows that the
of Home Rule In Ireland ia the OF everything
pressed degraded nsued Stepped IN P"Sery TO Gs
very lips and overwhelmed with affections. which make
| the Island Of Sorrows"
| The general notion s that England ard Ireland are
united kingdoms; they called in the style and title
OF the Queen But there is no real union, and there
are pinned together with bsyonets" frclind is not
governed according either to the common or statute law
OF England but by special legislation made for her alone
An act OF Parliament passed for the general benefit Of
the Queen subjects does not apply 20 the Irish people,
unless they particularly included by The old
statutes and royal concessions To popular liberty
interpreted well the later ones Thus Ireland il
construed out of Magma Charta the Bill Of Rights and
otner great securities which make Englishmen safe
against injustice In effect. the British Government.
which is limited monarchy at home, becomes unre.
strained and absolute despotism when IL the
Channel and the exercise i Of pbo9nded power
with the coarses cruelty and the most hearcss
sion that this world has ever witnessed
II the had been inferior the which trampled
them down, their fate would seem less hard But intel
civilization sciences art and general intelligence were
much further advanced The deliberate and longcon.
and reduce her people much possible ignorance
and ilrterate barbarism is most shocking part Of the
90 back upon the past at all is necessary to
explain the existing state OF things.
caused by the unnatural relations existing between the
millions whose labor cultivses the SOIL and the landlords
small in number but great in power no stand ready
snatch away the fruits OF il they gathered
Perhaps il does not make much practical difference how
this domination of the few the many estab-
lshed but IL is some mental agerlvaton OF the
were themselves the owners full property OF land
which they cultivate only for the benefit OF their op
pressors The first conquefors simply and unceremon.
ousy appropriated the property forcibe entry and
detainer held to be good title and the original
owner was supposed to have lost his right merely
ReeTu'' Keep it. But the Whole island wa, con.
iscaed again and agan-some of IT five times OVERRIDE
fore got hands rapaciou and loyal enough to suit
of England. Then hOwever the landlord
tenn went into operation The great of peo
pie tenants, and every tenant was saveif IL be
rue az certainly is that the essence OF slavery
sists In making labor while another takes his
| earnings. lease was mortgage OF the tenants life
and the life OF his family without the equity OF redemp
ton Ii compelled him work necessarily, with every
limb stretched and every muscle sweed from morning
till night for the bit and the drop the smallest
possible quantity drink that he and his chik
dren could live onwith thatched roof above them and
little turf the hcarhstone Very often they did moi
get that months sickness reduced them 10 hopeless
want and if crop failed, starvation carried them of by
tem such it the present moment and the English
Government is doing all it can to perpetuate it,
You what Will about the sacred right or
propertynobody believes 1t more devouty than do.
Corcede that these landlords have title which cannot
now he questioned. Assume that Gn owner Of property
may rentit the hardest terms he can cxactsti the
existence OF that gigantic monopoly clothed with the
privilege desoatng country and starving the indus
Try people is the saddest fact III the history OF the
human race.
ENGLANDs GREATNESS AND INFAMy.
We must speak respectfully of England The vast
wealth Of her it eyerybodys interest TO
stand well with her Her armies circle the earth her
fleets every the long reach Of her diplomacy
perplexes where does not control the councils OF all
other States. This is power, and power is always
honOred It said of satan himself that be is sometimes
saipped for bis burning throne" But England mas
other and higher not stronger claims upon our re-
spec Her literature is and from her derive
much OF our science ana art. Ehghsnmtn framed
the best OF our laws and our most valuable institutions
habeas corpus and the Bill OF Rights are their inyen
tlOns. We cannot but remember that Chatban's Ian
HaInpden ranks only second to that Of Washington Nor
forget that the present monarch OF thaf country
than all the jewels her But those Ministerial
tools Of greedy arisOcracy who have done, and are
people To- whom they owe proeconEare they III 10 gov
erni No, to i've! II had the voice OF an angel
more loudly than the truth would warrant.
Except Ireland all the nations OF the earth have been
making some progress. improvements in political
well physical science aud the discovery OF new ars
have frightened the face OF the civilized world and gwen
nd.pa lanea aandcn he
habants But the condition OF the Irish people Is moro
fully true this During last forty years the p0pu
lation OF other countries mas doubled In some OF them
aothnr for each Individual is Two and hall times az
great But in ireland, with more genial climate and
from nine millions five, and OF those who survive
the great majority are are ru suffering the whess last
are the othe- four millions and their
multiplied osprngi What has become of the additional
twelve millions who. according 10 the natural rule,
should be living there now in comfort and plenty Famine
has thnned them out pesence has swept them away;
political persecution has driven them abroad. what 10
the cause terrible caamties All men, with
voice. charge them upon that atroclous msgovern
which bghts and curses them When the blood of
that unhappy people cries IRON the ground, the Brtsh
tyrant cannot answer like Cain, Am | my brother's
keeper e. The rulers OF Nation are lls keepers rSpOn.
sible tate, these nave awful account
render For every false drop IN their veins al inno
Bu il the irish could live by culliyatng the soil,
why did they not go TO some other employment ms
pertinent question: and the answer 90 1t covers Eng
land with an infamy that nothing else can match III
fact aud IN truth they dd DetaAe themselves " coa,
them o a perfect But their Engisn enenles
ruthlesly broke up their business by penal legislation,
ing their trade, both foreign ana domestic, oy
arbitrary prohDitons crushed out the enterprise aad
forced them back upon the land
MARTYRS TO THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY.
Then why don't they nghti They have tried that, too.
r,a, never .uk into tame submission. The most pa
passages history record the incidents OF their
trngg. their rights have been asserted with surpass-
ing eloquence purest poetry In language eele
brates their vaor long hne Of their most iustoue
men have suffered martyrdom In the o liberty and
the conmop fe OF the people maintain character for
turbulent disloy atty which ought " excite universal ad