Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-05-25

ing. or deadly poison, shall. in nowise !
escape, and the business Of killing people
will not declare as large a dividend. /
wish the Irish Constabulary all success in /
the arrest Of the two unknown men who
put out Of life Lord Frederick Cavendish
and Mr.. Burke. But will not wait for
them before / fix upon the two despera-
does, TO whom belongs the responsibility
for this world -resounding diabolism,
namely political desperation and Nihil-
ism.
But every practical friend of humanity
will ask. "What is TO be the result of all
this massacre?" Last Friday a week was
the brightest day for Ireland in two CEN
turies. The next day saw the pendulum
of the clock of destiny swung to the op-
posite extreme, and despair take the
place of congratulation. Either Mr..
Gladstone will stand up 70 his policy OF
ten days ago, and Ireland will come
to happiness through that road, or. as
some think is indicated by the new move
ment for the suppression OF crime in Ire
land, he will surrender his plans and in-
stitute more rigorous coercit n, and that
will fail, and then some new Ministry
will start where they and we were ten
days ago. The wave of peace and pros
perity for Ireland may recoil, but come
up again it will as certainly as that God
lives, and He means all nations to be
happy and free. The beautiful banks of
the Shannon and the Boyne, and the
Foyle, and the Blackwater, and tie Bar
row, and the Liffey, were not intended
for the rolling down between them to
the sep the tears of domestic and nation
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Causeway, piled up like organ-pipes or a
great cathedral, were not made TO sound
forever the dirge of Ireland's lamenta-
ton. The sorrows of centuries do not
roll into the tosom of God, like the wave
into the rocky caverns under the castle
of Dunluce, only to be dashed back.
The rich loans of Meath and Langford
and Limerick shall send up richest har-
vests, and her luxurious pastures shall
swarm with the cattle of a thousand hills
and the eloquence of Grattan and Burke
and O'Connell,.. ,...-long ago hushed, will
awaken in the shout of Ireland's regener-
alton.
The time will be, perhaps in our own
day, when the tide of emigration coming
, this way from Ireland will turn back to
the land from which they were starved
. out, finding it one great emigraDt farm
! field inviting their industry. The al
most depopulated counties of Ireland will
be filled again with returned emigrauts,
gone back to their native heath. By the
, time that you young men and maidens
! of Ireland now in America go back to
3 your own land your fathers and mothers
( will be gone, for with their gray hairs
! and weakened arms they can not fight
the battle much longer. But their graves
will be pointed out to you, and you will
} pull away the heather to plant there a
: flower of richer hue, and you will lay
/ down slab or rear monument to your
} beloved ancestors; and, though too late
! for the parents, In time for the child, it
i will be demonstrated that, as there is
room ins America for Americans, and
room in England for Englishmen, and
10 I'M in France for Frenchmen, and room
in Italy for Italians, so there is room in
Ireland for the Irish. 1a&E
But meanwhile let no one entertain ass.
assination on either side of the sea.
] When people kill they almost always kill
the wrong man. John the Baptist ass
, assinated! Paul assassinated! Peter
, assassinated! Cranmer rassassinated! Pol.
carp assassinated! Latimer assassinated
, Christ assassinated! Best friends of the
race. While the enemies of the race live
| on unhurt, And there is the devil, the
father of assassins. stronger and stQuter
} and healthier than on the day he was
tumbled headlong out of heaven. I wish
: the Archangel would give him fatal
clip. But no, it is the inoffenslve and
the good that for the most part are hurled
out of life by the desperadoes. Yet out
J of this present evil good will come, and
( "God will make the wrath of man tc
| praise Him" They who speak or write
+ disheartening things are no help in this
: crisis. Get out of the way unless you
i believe in God and the worlds emanci
patton. The graves of patriotic martyrs
is the high-water mark of the rising tide
of civilization. Without the shedding oil
blood there seems no redemption, nc
: achievement. For the establishment oil
) every great principle some one must die
But, Lord God of Nations! Lord God oil
Sabbaothl are there not graves enough
+ Have there not been wounds enough
tears enough, blood enough, agonies
: enough, massacres enough, midnight
centuries enough? Hear thou the wall
! ing of mothers with starved children or
J their withered breasts, and the smoth.
c cred groans of sunken-eyed, ghastly anG
. delirious multitudes, and shriveled arms
, clutching for bread that was only 6
S dream! Lord God, wei put all the wall
ing and more awful silence of the fam
/ ines of three hundred years in one sol
/ against Thy great heart of sympathy
: and again, Is 1T not enough?
Before we close let us turn in prayerfu
sympathy to Chatsworth. Do not b,
| among those unreasonable people who
; have no feeling for those high up. 1t ii
no harm to be born affiuent or to achieve
afhuence. What if you had been bort
: the Seventh Duke of Devonshire, woulC
Q you throw away the estate and divide
Q among the people Lesmore Castle, Ire
7 land, Hudwick Hall in Derbyshire, Boil
/. ton, Abby, Yorkshire, and Devonshir,
House of London, and forty other grea
+ estates? No, you would keep them al
! just as does the Duke of Devonshire
r Have prayerful sympathy for him 1t il
. an awful thing to lose son, whether h,
g die in quiet bed or'in struggle with ruff
r fans. That great house is just as sad to
day as would be your house bereft Of /.
, son or daughter. May God comfort the
e aged father, and, walking through tht
0 sketch gallery of Chatsworth, when b,
9 sees Holbein's Last Judgement ma,
, he think of that day when all wrong
: shall be righted, and when he sees Raph
. aefs Virgin and Child, may he think O.
4 Him who in sympathy for the sorrowint
i parent said: Behold thy mother!" an(
/. when he beholds the sketch of "Haga
T and lshmael," may he think of the vel
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