The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-05-18
RE,. GEORGE W. rErrEr.


As6sNb AFteA NVfAA 1GAG wa AG-
Gently delivered here, by the Rev.
Geo. w. Pepper. In Trinity Methodist
Episcopal Church, IN interesting
sermon on Ireland, an extract OF
which send you, ay follows:
stand here on this sacred Sabbath
day as an spoIogist, the defender OF
the suffering and UNANIMOUSLY oppress
ed Irish people. II has been asserted
that they are too far of, but our
voices and prayers can travel through
the wine and the waves and find q
pathway In every Irish heart. Sprung
from The same stock, redeemed by
the same blood, believing IN the same
God, and candidates for the same
Immortality, are not these Eve mil
lions Fadneed 10 starvation aRd driven
to frenzy by the tyrannlcai and brutal
British Governments ? Are they not,
inquire, entitled 10 our sympathy,
consideration, anil active co-opera.
tIon : would to esod that nnr words
to-day might Ice 10 effective ~ "a
csn-e the young men of ireland Z,
dap their virgin blades like virgin
brides To their hearts.
Who In this Methodist American
audience can think ofIreland without
tears : Who can remember her poets
her orators, her philosophers, heI
statesmen, her soldiers, and hel
saints. witiout wondering that lant
once ~ bright and 80 mighty In In
teilect should now be . prostrat,
wreck ? We owe much as Protestant
TO that unfortunate land. The frs
Methodist preacher In this country
Philip Embury, the flrst Presbyterial
minister, the first EpIscopalian dean
and the founder OF the church I,
which the lamented Garfield belong
ed, Alexander Campbell, were al
from Ireland. In every struggle 70
the independence, unity, and presai
walton Of this glorious Republic
Catholic and Protestant Irishme
poured out their rich blood In torrenl
TO strengthen the bonds and TO PEI
petuate the country OF Washington.
As Americans we love and almoi
worship the memory OF Robert En-
met. He had as much Of the spIrI
of God as any mortal that ever lived
The sentiments Of his immortal vir
dicat;on have penetrated into ever
corner of America, and ell Christia
colleges and schools pronounce hi
name in the same breath with that I
Washington. Jefferson, Lincoln An
I although for . hundred years the irc
!. hoof of Britain has with DEVILS
raaIignity tried to trample his prime
pies into the earth, yet, glory be
God, his memory lives In tho hear
of thousands and tens of thousand
and 1t Isl proud eulogy on the cha
0 acter OF the Irish people that, despi
Q all the. vigilance, all the Landlordisr
t all the hired soldiers, all tae cruell
3 Of England, the people Of Ireland a
more rebellous now than when youg
Emmet died upon the scaffold.
Among the first lectures ever d
:. livered was one in this city when I
!, the first time / was yonr pastor. 7,
,s received me with generous enthu
.. asm. Since then I have revisited 4
4 scenes Of my childhood. I have pr
: ed the same flag stones with thrilIin
emotions which were walked over
d Grattan, Curran, Tone, Burke, al
Emmet. Ihave travelled extensive
In the North and South of Ireiau
Never in any land have / seen 81
> pictures Of natural scenery. Ney
Z 4 did the pencil Of the Almighty Art
y appear 80 exquisite in ilsdelineatie
= as in that distressed and iandlol
cursed country.