Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-27
ST. PArRICK's DAY AT MENDOZA.
Address by M. Hsgrer,y. 1

EcLOW OitiAcuS. LII Is HOW one year
since we were gathered here to celebrate
the recurring of the festival of the 18th
of March, of interest to Irishmen as to
the occasion it commentaries, but to
Americans of special interest, because it
perpetgates the important historical
event of the evacuation of Boston by the
British, March II, 1776. ~
An event which brings to recollection
the hard struggle for freedom against an
ungenerousa foe, being one of the first
victories achieved by the patriots in the
revolutionary war, and one which al
ready foreshadowed the tragic surrender
Of CORVALLIS at Yorktown. !.
The exile, IN his roamings, always
looks back on the land of his birth with
affection, and his broad heart brims over
with generosity when the remembrance
of the land from which he was reluctantly
forced rushes back to memory; and this
is true especially of the Irish exile, be-
cause devotion to his fatherland is deep
seated and becomes more ardent and in
tent the more it is beset by adversely and
chained down by the oppression of a .ty-
rant ruler.
Therefore it is that he halls
with delight such an occasion as
this, when the ardor of patriot
ism is rekindlcd by the pathetic
strains of the ssMinstrel Boy, Harp of
NY Country and the immortal "Harp
of Tara whose vibrating tones de-
| lighted to linger in the vast and yenera-
BILE hall of olden times. Keenly, indeed,
did the poet feel the wrongs of his I'M
fortunate countrymen; for his great
soul was trammeled with the burden of
their grief.
The laws, recently enacted in the
English parliament, for the better gov
eminent and discipline of Ireland, would
be foul blot on the statute book of any
nation, even the most uncivilized; and
the land act, so cunningly devised by
Gladstone, is imperative and nothing but
hollow mockery of right; for out of
seventy thousand cases which al
ready clog the wheels of Justice
excuse the expression only three
thousand have been acted upon.
Then it would take a period of twelve
years or more to hear and determine the
balance, and afford relief such as it 49,
John Dillon, Michael Davitt and John
Stewart Parnell are hemmed in by strong
prison walls, without a trial or hearing of
any sort, which the worst felon is en-,
titled to. Why, Mclean who shot at the
queen few days ago has already had his
preliminary examination before q Justice
of the peace, and the van in which he
was conveyed whilst in route to the
prison, was attacked by crowd and the
prison van almost upset. 81.
If that man had been a fenian or q
land Lacquer he would have been launch
ed into eternity without getting time to
say his prayers, and the prison van re-
duced to smlthereens, more expeditiously
than 1t would take to relate it. .
There are to-day about six hundred
suspects, the recipients OF Anglican pris-
on hospitality, subject to the most cruel
treatment that refined brutality can de-
wise. And what crime have they COM
mitted? None, but that of patriotism
and the idea of furthering the condition
of their much abused brothers, if those
be crimes. $50.
The women leaguers have also to par.
take of the bitter cup. Forster, the Irish
secretary and sordid spy of an alien gov
eminent, fitted up temporary prison and
having secured some females disloyal to
majesty ran them in for safe keeping.
He went there to see for himself and as
he supposed incognitio. Some of the in
mates, however, recognized the viper and
he had to beat as, quick retreat as con-
ception suggested.
The return of evIctions in Ireland for
1881, as given by the Boston Psl0l
amounts to 3.4I5 families, consisting OF
II, 341 persons. Of these 1874 families OF
10 persons were readmitted as tenants
and 1855 families, or S,977 persons as
care takers, leaving 1886 families, or
1876 persons, to be accounted for as
turned out of house and home.
Michael Davitt's election IS strong
vindication of his principles blythe peo-
pie, signal victory for the land league,
and although annulled by sweeping
majority of the commons; it nevertheless
shows that the idea of self-governmcnt is
| making vigorous strides throughout the
land. 50 ,aiiars s
The coercion act is scheme gotten up
to strike down the land league and Grip
pie the organization. Orderly meetings,
proclaimed seditious and reasonable, are
dispersed at the point of the bayonet by
| brutal military forces. Men, women and
children are taken off to their poverty
stricken cabins, covered with bleeding
| wounds, but with imprecations on their
dying lips for the oppressor. Rum ex.
tends her sable wings, and the shadow Of
misery broods over the land as in ls4t
and AT, when five hundred thousand able
bodied men were hurled into premature
| graves by organized and ghastly famine.
Slaughter wields his red arms and
| gorges himself with the helpless VIC
Tins of his frenzy. Evictions are rampant
everywhere through the island, and this is
what Mr.. Gladstone calls successful
working of the coercion act.
"Ill fares the land, to Fastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulatcs and men decay
| Amid thy bowers the tyrants hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green"
|. regret to say that we have lost an
active CO. worker in the noble cause; one
whose soul centered in the welfare of his
countrymen, aud owing to his broad
views, courtly manners and integrity,
was much esteemed by all classes and ali
nationalities. How often was his IA.
miliar voice not heard advocating total
abstinence? How often did he no. bring
comfort to the wife and scatter JOY in the
family rendered destitute by the intern
perate habits of a hayward husband.
Nav he enjoy the lasting recommends