Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-19
St. Patrick.
Ireland's Patron SSint.

1r6lauO dtIpI SSAut'
The 18th day OF March, 1888, is among
the things of the past, but the pleasant
membranes connected with the observ-
ance Of the day IN st. Paul will long live
in the warm and legal hearts of the SONS
and daughters OF Erin's Isle, resident of
st. Paul.
A warm sun,soft air,and an almost cloud
less sky marked the day-one of the most
perfect of the present spring and in
happy accord with the feelings of the
thousands of people who throngeS the
streets of the city and joined in the time
houored obserEances of the day.
From Sixth street the procession moved
down Wabashaw to Third, down Third to
Jackson. up jackson to Seventh,up Seventh
to Wabashaw again, down Wabashaw to
Sixth. and thence to the bishops residence,
in front of which the line was massed,
about which crowded thousands of specta-
tors. filing all the available space between
the parallel streets, gathered there for the
purpose of paying their respects to
the venerable and greatly beloved
bishop of the diocese, Right Rev. Bishop
Grace. The dignitary having appeared in
response to the call, he was addressed by
HON. WM. L. KELLY,
who spoke as follows:
Revered and Rt. Rev. Bishop: 1t is
with feelings of unusual pleasure and
emotion that [ am privileged to present to
you today the testimony of the flial love
and homage of your spiritual children, the
Irishmen and sons of Irishmen in St.
Paul and Minneapolis. Instinctively it
carries me back to the past, thirty years
and more, to scenes in q far Southern
state where you were won't to be at my
fathers house, and I, the privileged boy
then, learned from your lips and his, those
lessons of love for Ireland and her cause,
which have become, for my manhood, an
absorbing rule of faith and action. We
are here, Reverend Sir, in accordance with
custom, sanctioned of the centuries, to
celebrate in becoming manner the festi-
val day of Irelend's patron-Saint Patrick.
As true sons of Saint Patrick we have laid
our homage first at the altar of God, in
grateful thanksgiving for the divine gift
Of faith which through Saint Patrick,
came as an inheritance to our race. With
thanksgiving deep and heartfelt that God
has given US and our fOrefathers, the
strength to keep that faith, unchanging
and Interchangeable. through centuries of
expressions most foul and of prosecutions
most bloody-in spite of confscations; in
spite of gibbet and dungeon; in spite of
famine darker than the wings of the angel
OF wrath; in spite of death, aye, and in
spite of exile, which has more terrors to
the sons and daughters of Erin than death
itself. We thank him especially as Cit
zens of this great republic for the bless
ings and liberties assured US under It's
laws-for the happy homes made ours IN
der Columbia's stars, but which were de-
intellectually denied Us or our fathers in
Ireland. We came, sir, to pray for the de-
iverance of our motherland, that in his
good time God will iftl from her the heavy
rod of oppression, and that the time may
be shortened. And in each recurring fes
tival we trust we are nearing that happy
day when we may celebrate not alone the
deliverance of our race through
st. Patrick from the righteousness
of the pagan, but also the
deliverance of Ireland from worse thai
pagan barbarity, inflicted upon her by
so-called Christian people. A prime
among poets, writing of the once Histres
o. the world, styles her
''The Niobe of nations Alone she stands,
Crownless and childless in her voiceless woe
Ireland is the Niobe of modern nations
Cr0wnless she is, and her woe for ages la
been and still is so deep, SO terrible, so lii
tie deserved, and yet so unending, that tn
human tongue can find no words sufficient
strong to give it expression. But, than
God, Ireland is not chiJdIesS. In every lanC
beneath every sky, among all tongues an
peoples, when this morning
sun ushered in Saint Patrick
day, it found Irishmen an
Irishwomen and Irish children, SONS an
daughters, instinctively turning to til
mother land with prayers, with tears, wit
grateful memories prepared to honor he
to suffer for her, aye and to die for her,
opportunity occurs.
Reverned Bishop, have the honor I
present TO you the Catholic Irish focietie
from two cities. We beg your blessing o
our associations, on our banners, on tn
purposes and aims, on our families and o
our country. And I do not hesitate to e.
press the heartfelt hope and belief that th
day is not far distant when the bishops an
priests of Ireland will lead the way in hoI
orable fight to do or dare everything that
necessary to be done or dared for Iris
freedom. For TO quote from the most ell
quent of my grace II can!conceive no spe,
stacle more sublime than that of the etern;
''cross red with the blood of martyrs an
radiant with the patriots hope borne b
''priest patriot and soldier hand high in tt
van of universal freedom"
RESPONSE OF BISHOP GRACE.
At the conclusion of Mr.. KelIy's aG
dress, Bishop Grace in response spoke sui
stantially as follows:
thank you, my dear friends, for thi
honor you are pleased to do me, and espt
cially thank you for the just sentiment
that have been expressed with reference t
the sacred cause of religion. I trust thes
sentiments will always be your guidin
principles. not only for your private ind
vidual conduct as men, but as we'll also fc
your public acts as citizens. For the:
principles, holy in their nature and etern;
in their application, were inculcated by tt
word and the example sf the glorious sail
whose memory we honor on this day. The
embrace the principles which mark Il
distinction between the right and IL
wrong under all circumstances and whiC
can never be violated with IMMUNITY, n,
can any real good ever come from the
violation. No good can ever come fro
wrong doing. trust you will ever pro-