Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-06
SULLIVAN SPEAKS.
THE DISTINGUISHED EX-MEMBER
OF PARLIAMENT IN ST. PAUL
A Royal Reception rendered Him Last
Night-Large Attendance and Eloquent
Speeches-The Wrongs of Ireland and
Now to Remedy Them.

Notwithstanding the inclemency of the
weather and the muddy condition of
the streets, the demonstration last evening
in honor of one of the most distinguished
advocates of Irish liberty, Hon. A. NJ. Sui
Ivan, member of the British parliament
from Meath, Ireland, was an ovation that
| any stranger, no matter from what coun-
| try, might well be proud of. Mr.. Sullivan
arrived in the city yesterday morning, &C
companied by his wife and daughter, and
! took apartments at the Merchants hotel.
He remained very quiet during the day,
only few of the leading citizens being ad-
mitted to his rooms as he desired rest
after his journey. One object
| of his visit to this country was the bene-
| fit of his health, but he has been prevailed
upon to speak several times upon the
Irish question, and he consented to do so
in St. Paul, and the demonstration at
Market hall last evening must have con-
WINGED him that his name and reputation
is as well known upon the banks of the
Mississippi in America as it is on the
banks Of the Thames in England or the
Shortly after p. n. the Emmett light
artillery, the Knights of St. Paul, st. Pat
rick's benevolent society and three divisions
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, met
at the corner of Seventh and
Jackson streets, and led by the
Great Union band marched to the
Merchants hotel where carriages were in
waiting to convey the distinguished strang-
er to Market hall.
Upon the platform was seated Mayor
Rice who presided; Governor Hubbard,
Bishop Ireland, some twenty five clergy.
and number of leading citizens besides
| representatives of the press. Every seat
| in the spacious hall was filed and after
music by the band Mayor Rice arose and
introduced the distinguished speaker as
/ follows:
arXYeR RIuE's ADDRESS:
| LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It affords me
| more than ordinary pleasure to introduce
| to yon the distinguished gentleman who,
| at the solicitation of our most respected
Irish American citizens, comes here to ad-
dress you upon the condition of Irish af-
and prospective. No one has had greater
opportunities to become conversant with
the laws By which his countrymen arc
governed. OR understands more thoroughly
their needs.
AS he proceeds in speaking to you. I am
sure your good dispositions toward them
will be strengthened and you will be ready
to respond with such substantial
sympathy as comes from generous hearts,
And new have the honor to present to
you the eminent member OF the British
parliament, for Meath. Mr.. A. NJ. Sullivan
At the conclusion of the Mayors re
marks Mr.. Sullivan arose, and his appear
ance at the front of the platform was
greeted with loud and prolonged applause
Mr.. Sullivan is clear and distinct
speaker. He makes no attempt at what
would be called stump oratory. He spoke
quietly, distinctly and deliberately, and
held his audience from the beginning to
The close of his address, with the exception
of the interruptions made by the crowded
audience in spontaneous applause at fire.
| qnent intervals. He commenced by
speaking of the past history of Ireland
alnd rapidly-sketched how she lost her in
dependence through the perfdy of the
king, who did not keep faith with the peo-
pie.
He then spoke of the limits to which
British rule went in the government of
Ireland. Her children had been denied
education, and afterwards parents We've
forbidden to send presents to their Off
springs in he,schools Of France.
! Their OrIavcncoS xvaro NOT haSaI ,1nor,
the loss of material property; they were
Inundated by the fact that they could rot
visit the nations of the world as citizens of
their ewn country. They were struggling
for civil liberty, but would rather see the
! isle buried than give over to religious
bigotrs. and they were not the wild reli-
! gious -bigots that the English falsifers
represented them to be. lIr. Sullivan
then cited instances in which Catholic con-
stituents had sent .Protestants to Parlia-
ment.
Charles Stewart Parnell was an instance
of this kind. No bishop or priest would
think of eatechising Parnell on his relig-
ion; all that was required of him was that
he represent his country in parliament.
The same eonditionprevailed in the NUM-
cipal governments where mayors of the
Protestant belief where chief magistrates
of Catholic cities; this was a clear refuta-
ton of the English bugbear that it was
necessary teoppress Ireland to pnevent her
from expressing her own citizens
He paid tribute to Gadstone's personal
intentions, but said it counted for naught
when his government could not sustain
him, or he carry out his wishes. There
had been scenes enacted, scenes in Dublin,
that would put to shame the worst acts
perpetrated in Moscow. Despots never
acknowledge that they weHe despotic FOR a
love Of crueltys the excuse was alwaysthat
their acts were for the maiRtenance of law
and order. The Irish were not trying to
spoliate the landlords; they have tried to
show them that 1t was for their best inter
est to compromise, in vain; cow they pro
posed to pay zthem out in their own coin
and let them. GO. He was nok as extreme
as some of his brethren, but he wanted
to show the world what the people who
had been denounced as lazy and shift
less couid~I2o. in making that land
blossom ASA garden if they were al
lowed t0liAAORn in their cabins without
fear Of thD'csowhaF or the landlord agent
at the door. Mr.. Sullivan then read an ex-
tract to show that the tenements had made
the property Of the landlord valuable, and