The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-28

THE historic wrongs of Ireland, as
well as the present unhappy condition
of that oppressed country, were never
more temperately, ably and eloquently
( discussed before public audience than
they were by Judge jeremiah S Black,
in an address which he delivered in Bal
+ timOre on Tuesday evening of last week
( before the State Council of the Irish
/ Land League. Judge Black starts out
I in his address with the declaration that
no American citizen has a right to be
silent or passive when ireland calls up
on him to do something for her relief,
and then having made the additional
declaration that for fully seven CEN
turies, except one short interval, Ire
land has not been permitted to make
any laws for the protection of her own
people in .heir persons or property. he
proceeds with review of the cruel
treatment Of that ''Island of Sorrows, -
by the British government. He declar-
es that there is not now and never was
any real union between England and
Ireland, but merely a connection made
by force that England governs ireland
by special legislation made for her alone:
that they are ''pinned together with
bayonets" that Ireland is not govern
ed either by the common of statute law
of England, and that the exercise of an
unbounded power by Parliament over
her people has been a continued exhibi-
tion of the most heartless oppression
that the world has ever witnessed. We
will, hereafter. publish some choice ex-
tracts from his admirable address. linn
iting ourselves this week to the follow
ing
Moreover, we owe them (the Trfsbl a
heavy debt. which we cannot renudiata With
out dishnnOr They fought bv our side on
every battlefield of the Revolution and after
indeperdence they assisted TO frame oUr in
stitutions, At least five times since then
their eXileS. settled among rs have aided TO
save our liberty from destruction They
helped in 1909 to rescue us from the clutches
of Federalism, which was tearing ont the vi
tails of our GOversment. Supported bv
them, we went through the blood and fire of
1912. They stood bv Jackson in his dasper-
y
later day, and I'm another crisis. uniting with
the honest Germans and the decent part Of
our citizens. thew gave us strength enough
to repel the fOulest assault that rufflanism
and hvpOcriSv ever made uDon religions free
dom. They were foremost in the fight for
the Union when assured that the object was
simply to maintain the supremacy of the
laws and they had no share in that periur.
iOuS treacherv which suhvArted the Govern
ment instead Of defending It. They were
faithful TO the constitution when il had ONLY
seven friends in the Senate and its avnwed
enemies were two to one in the lower House
of Congress, when the President was i'm
peached for feeble effort to support it, and
the Supreme Court itself lodged and falter.
ed and hasitated to decide that free citizen
could not he arrested without a warrant. OF
hung without trial. I speak of them as 2
hody, and OF their general behavior Doubt
less there are many in dividuai executions. ot
which ! know nothing. But upward of fifty
years arn John Randolph said This Il ha w
seen white crow. and heard Of black swans
hut an Irish opponent Of American liberty
never either saw or heard Of "