The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

when loyal Irish husbands shall separate from
weeping wives and IRISH fathers, leaving their
blessings upon the heads of little children, shall
march to the field of STRIFE and, at the cannon's
mouth, right the wrongs of centuries. ana wrest
from imperiOus tyrants the rights and liberties
so long and so unjustly Withheld from long
suffering and patient people.
But to-day, my friends, the patriot stands
contemplating the bitter sufferings of his native
country, from out the centuries hOary with age
roil up the words: Thus saith the Lord, let my
people go;" Vengeance is niue, saith the Lord.
I will repay" And, believe me, the words of
Goo shall surely stand, and His promises shall
never fail.
quartet. consisting of Mrs. Lynn, Mrs. Nor
rison, Mr. Andrew Smith, and DIR. Daniel
Thompson, then sang "old Ireland shall be
Free" which was received with warm applause.
Later in the evening. Mrs Lynn sang "Killar-
ney," which was enthusiastically applauded.
The speaker of the evening, Mr.. Thomas F.
Brennan, was then introduced to the audience
by Mayor Grubbs, AS he stepped forward he
received perfect ovation. When the applause
and in clear, ringing tones, his utterances being
listened 10 with rapt attention.
Mr.. BRENNAN's ADDRESS.
The speaker began with saying that it had
been proudly said that wherever an Irishman
lives his first thought is with his native land;
whether in prosperity or adversely his fondesG
hope is for the country that gave him birth. He
thought that it was to that feeling that his hearty
reception was due 1t may be expected. he said,
that the speaker mad come to tell Of scenes of
cruelty and horror enacted in Ireland, to
tell of confidence betrayed, promises
broken, and than that, of what
has seemed to have ever been the disgrace of
the Irish race-their miserable dissension. But
he came with no such tales. There is still many
| a bright-eyed child in Ireland that knows the
pinch of want-it is Atil a land of sorrow and
suffering, but more hopeful feeling is there
than has ever existed before during the long pc
riOd of English oppression and Irish resistance
"A feeling that mas been created within few
years-that cannot be restrained by prisOn-bars
or subdued by the blood of human sacrifices
And the Irish in Ireland are united There is
no dissenson there, and the sun of truth and
knowledge burns brightly in tine Irish sky to-
day Much has been accomplished by the Land
League, much by your assistance on this side of
the Atlantic; but much more remains to be done.
Years of sacrifice and sef-denial must be
portion as people before we achieve the liberty
we hope for. II is Impossible for you who have
not been there Tor few years to realize
the changes that have come there for the
better. The land act fails far short of being
solution of the agrarian question, but IL has
taken the people out OF the hands of the titled
idlers. Besides, the scnOolmasJer has been
abroad in Ireland. and they have full knowl-
edge of their rights and a spirit to maintain
them, ami they are prepared 10 carry on that
night until every institution that is not in accord
with the peoples Will is swept away. We think
we are now in a condition to look forward hope
fully to the beginning of the end of our great ma
Jional struggle. Do not think that enthusiasm
merely will 90 this No; it requires organza-
tion and arduOus labor, with the hiding of our
time and the prompt taking of every advantage
in all that will carry us forward in this struggle
and enable to vanquish
one, and we must be content to 20 by easy stages
and yet firm in seeing to it that there shall be
going back. 1t has been charged against us that
we talk too much. Let US snow that we Irish
are capable of something more than frothy de-
nuncatiOns of our enemies. Let us husband our
strength and strike only at the points that are vul-
MAJ inns
on which we have tried to right couu-
try's wrongs, and trusted to chance, there seems
some foundation for the charge of shallow i'm
puisiveness. Yet we have done what no other
people have done. We have resisted England
for seven hundred years. Under the Irish
National League, and the Irish people united as
they are TO day, it will be possible
to blot out the memory of past failures and
tainly leave Ireland better than We found her.
Our cause properly, truthtully presented, and
the justice-lOving, slavery-hating people of
America are with us, Notwithstanding the En-
gnsh lords who have been stamping over the
the country and the dudes who copy English
manners We can address the American people
as they addressed us in their struggle for indie
pendenee. IL Is now our turn to show how we
have been plundered, taxed and murdered by
that same government Famine and not the
sword is the speedest way to root out the Irish
people, wrote the Lord Deputy to Henry
the Second. The Lord Leutenants
then the Lord Deputles) do not write
home in that candid manner, but their methods
have always been the same. He cited the in
stance OF Lord Lugan, who, seized by freak,
whom was IN arrears for rent, destroyed their
cottages and used the enUire territory for graz
ing cattle. There was no such thing as justice
III Ireland. The government had everything its
own way. Out of a panel of juryDen the de-
Tense could challenge but twenty, whereas the
crown could object to an indefinite number-an
of them, in fact
Mr.. Brennan gave three or four work
house pictures showing the effect of Brit
ish landlordism. What sort of govern
ment is that that only MAINTAIN It's rule
over 100000 OF people by means of stand
ing army of 10000 menl A government
that has passed tifty-Uhree coercion laws in
fifty years2 government whose chief servants
are the infOrmer and the hangman7 And yet
you have seen that England, with all her wealth
and power, was not capable of protecting her in
former. Tremendous cheerlng.l 1t is a gov
ernment that has renewed all the horrors of the
InqulsitiOp, and actually sends men to prison
who refuse to give testimony against them
selves; government that keeps 1000 of it's
bring then TO trial IL is a government that
has abolished the right of trial by jury, and
placed that work in the hands of three judges,
because they will cary out the wishes of their
government Think of i'll After trial of over
700 years OF English rule there is not a sem
blance of liberty In Ireland to-day. The author
tiles of Dublin CASTLE protect murderers and
harass peaceful citizens. The English proud
of saying The blood of peasant is as precious
about Helen McDouough, poor woman bayo-
neJed by soldierq Why does not her blood
Frederick Cavendishq And they say
that the Irish are bl0odthirsty and
Vicious AS wendell Phillips says,
they crush humanity out with iron heel and
then complain that their victims are inhuman
In seven hundred years not one of her rulers
has been elected by the people. They En-
glishmen Irishmen who show unmist akable
evidence that their sympathies are not with their
people. All we knew of Earl Spencer when he
was appointed was that ne fond of fox
hunting, and that we were to pay him 81 90, 600
year TO preside over "A court that degrades Ire
land and Irishmen. The Irish judges are not APP
pointed by the government because they know
any law, but because they are ready to convict
Irishmen We claim for our people the
right of making our own laws
in legislative assembly elected by
our own people. We want the fruits of the soil
we ourselves TILL our own soil. Wewant liberty
that freedom which the people Of this country
won OF their enemy. We have every cause but
One-the prospect of successful give cause for a
revolution in Ireland. How We ever TO be-