Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-25

other; that if one Irishman was to be /
roasted alive, another was ever ready |
to tuln the spit These charges have !
been repeated and reiterated SO often /
by the malignant enemies ana sDailoW- /
minded friends of Ireland that even
some wealS-minded, unthinking Irish
men themselves have admitted and .
even asserted the same infamous
SANDER. ISLANDERS? Yes. Ireland has
had traitors, yea, hundreds, thousands
of them. So has hud every country
that has a history. Sust MS many and |
us vilIaii o IS in proportion to the cir
cumstances Us Ireland has had 1t Is
circumstances and opportunities lhat
produce and e IL forth the hero ana !,
patriotic; also TIE traitor and " iarIn,
en-. IL was circunstag!gfIo5..ical l,rn.
tunities that creatss55h1eopo lv = and oppor-
" as ~ more Y ,.rd called forth II
-otilttle, If noH,s', cram n Lee. 1t Is
m ,,o,sl.- s,.ui, II Slhut, -, ~
VI ~ circumstances also that produced lhe
I, Arnolds. the traitors, the informers.
No other country ON earth has ever
. been SO peculiarly situated for the pro-
, duction of traitors for so long period
rs Ireland. For dreary, weary, piooh'
| stained centuries Il captive IN CHAINS
/ at the feet of tyrant power, wrlthinS
i'm agony under the murderous lnillc
a lions OF an alien desp0tism--a deapot,
/ ism that degraded her By penal
i statutes, gagged her by prosciip' V
n enactmeuts and robbed her.by imam
|, Gus laws. Then turning to the
wretched victims Of her vlllainies ant
= vile edlcts. with gold in the one hanc
il and pointing to place and power witt
Il the other, she ever critd
p "There are the rewards o
~ those who serve me - thos
who betray their country ana race
&c Is IL any wonder that there Were in
10 formers and traitors under such GU
f cumstunces--suc poverty, such pre-
is miums on perhdy? The wonder
II that there were not hundrediol
NJ more.
q "unrewarded her sons, till they have iearne
og neutrality-suspicious. they I've II they shame ne
en- their sires.'
in Would any other people or race SO c
A cum noel have pro iuced fewer? An
NJ. vet TO hear the structures of som
,o. American writers and speakers, OF
n would imagine IL was nationa. wea
m. ness Il national CHARACTERISTIC OF Iris
in men--and of Irishmen only--to
er- false TO each other and traitors to con
VS. try Let those Americans read the
At own history, and they Will find IN
ny, the only time that Americans m
he ever an opportunity TO betray the
to country--the time of the revolution
on there were as many traitors 70 iiper'
of independence and country in propt
M ton to The whole people as any 9th
il country ever produced. Now Il
ey. writer of this Is as keenly sensitive
4 the fair name and fame of, Amerl
ore and rs appreciative of her glerles
,ch any man who lives within her co
Mt. finea to-day. But the truth must
the admitted. Read the story of tiiestrt
un- giles of Washington and his ragged !
ned uiots from Lexington to Yorktow
un- through the long weary years OF I
try told hardship and infinite sacriis
lily through the smoke of their sack'
as. burning cities and the murky gloom
aud midnight massacres; through
nee Long Island swamps and the iloati
lnre Ice of the Delaware everywhere I'll
de- had not only to contend against u
lity aims regular relocated myrmidt
ates aud mercenary Hessiana, aud me
zen, less Indians IN front, but the mufd
his ous Tories and other purchased trait
was in front and rear. These souiless harE
tfai- planned and plotted against WASN'T
ma ION and his furnishing men at Val
.ish. Forge; they menaeed and worried
eng suffering, discouraged Con'inen'a'f
rep- Morristown; they bounded ,-iter
all lion-hearted Montgomery over
snowy wastes of the North, /
vii harassed the self-sacrllicing Mar
wifi IN the gloomy Southern solltut
the They ins,igated and aided the saw
4 Of Indians In butohcring the defensel
lea American colonlsts along the bord
For When Burgoyne surrendered at s,
lpon toga, among the spells captured by
more American army were SOME bales
orm- human scalps-the scalps OF Am
= to, cans. Attached to each scalp was
erty. receipt for the amount paid by
nj agents OF the British government
e,.rb the murderer for the ghostly troph