Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-03-06
]. N. A..
GRAND CELEBRATION or ROB-
ERT EMMET'S BIRTH BY
IRISH NATIONALIbr rN.

House, last evening, by q grand demon
.tr,tion and u banquet afterwards
congressman William Il. Robinson, o
New York, arrived early In the after
nron and registered at the Unite,
states Hotel. About 3 o'clock Genera
Thomas +. Burke arrived. Both gen
ilrmen were met by reception com
mittee, consisting Of Colonel Franci,
Mrrloskey, Colonel Thomas Ford, Pat
rick Cahill and Councilman John NJ
Newell.
The committee and guests in car
riages, preceded by the First Regimen,
band, left the hotel at 73O. for the Opera
House. The large audience assembled
received the visitors with applause
James Z. Burke called. the meeting tt
order and nominated Charles b. Lore
a, chairman. Seated upon the stage
were Colonel McCloskey, Colonel Ford
Councilman Newell, Collector Kyne
prtrrJ. Ford, Thomas II. Lally, j, L.
Malone, NJ. A. O'Connor, =. j. Duffy,
p. j. Long, Thomas Kane, William
Condor, John Doordan, John Joyce,
Peter +. Matthews, John Meyers, Thomas
Holland, William Mccarthy, James
Mckenzie, Patrick Calill, Michael
Sharky, Daniel McKenna, Hugh No
Ian, Henry Ward, and Frank Kane OF
wilmington; Patrick McGerry, James
Carin, Frank Reynolds, Patrick Toner,
John Fitzgerald, Charles White,
Hugh Duffy, and James Finnegan, of
New Castle.
Congressman Robinson was introduce
cd by Mr. Lore and made an eloquent
and stirring address. The speaker is
known by the name OF Richclieu, !"
having, when a young man, been a
newspaper writer under that nom de
/ plume. He became widely known dur
| ue the last session of Congress as the
earnest advocate Of the Irish cause, and
the attacks mHde upon the State De
partlncnt and Minister Lowell for their
iaxty in the matter Of Irish-Amercan
citizens confL Ell in English prisons.
The speaker is about six feet in height,
stout, has a prcpossessing appearance,
and large crop of flowing hair, almost
white He addresses his audience in n
conversational tone Of voice, and is an
extremely leasant speaker. He spoke
of the achievements Of the Irish people
in various ways. He related eloquently
to the starvation and suffering Of Irish
peope while Ireland has full and plenty
Why" said the speaker, 'one little
Irishman came to this country in l74O
and only h:M five children, which is
quite an unusual thing for an Irishman.
He generally has 10 or 90 that is the
reason there are so many of them
Well, he came here in l7i0, and though
the number of the children were small,
they showed that they were here of the
descendants ofthose children: 10 became
Governors Of Virginia, 5 members Of
the Cabinet at Washington, 10 Senators.
IL or 20 members of the House Of Rep
rcsrnfaIives, 2 Ambassadors and Minis
hrs PlrniI"tentiary to France and
Spain, "A half dozen ID. ID. 5, one Vice
President, two candidates for Vice
President, under Seymour and Greedy
respectively, and contributed innumer-
able Gchrrals to both sides in the late
war.
His name was John Preston, and
from him dcsc' nded your Brcckenrid-
g"S, Brownsand the Blairs Americas
first Declaration Of Independence, that
at Mrckltnherg, was written by ALI Irish
man, Ephriam Vcrard. Why, il Gods
name, was she left out Of this country"
Why can we not take her fromunder
the hoor of this bull; take her in our
Sstrrhood and let the stars and stripes
wave proudly over her. You do not
know how they love that flag in Ire
land; a small fragment will keep an
lrNhnan alive for a year" The speak
et then paid 4 high trihutetO the Ameri-
can flag, during which he recited
verse, which he composed on his first
arrival in this country. While coming up
Ncw York Bay he saw tho flag flying.
"Nnc-ten,hs of the American people,
continued The speaker, . have, if they
wi! investigate, Irish blood in their
veins" Mr.. Robinson spoke of his
satisfaction in having to rcnonncc ale
glance to the English King, and relat-
herewith. The oath was put to him
in this style, and rapidly; 'Do you
"Iemnly and truly renonnce all alleGi'
anr" To any foreign power OF potentatc,
particularly the King Of Great Britain
Ireland give me a dollar" He asked
the Judge to please put'a comma after
Ireland if he did not care to place a
prod.
Til" Judge snuhbed him off, and told
him to keep quiet they were making
Democrats and they were in hurry to
get through,
"Whcn | went to Washington,
said Mr.. Robinson, 81 found the minds OF
the people poisoned with English no
iions and ideas, drivers in English
livery, snohs apeing English manners,
and America insulted at Yorktown by
saluing the English flag. People call
me crazy for protesting against these
things perhaps it is, but | hope God
will let il continue When | went 10
Washington | found the American
eagle drngged and drowsy, her wings
wet with the mildew of monarchy, her
b"ak filled with Lowell garbage, salut-
Ing the British flag. aroused her from
her ignoblc slunber, | brushed the mil
dew from her wings placed the Amcrl-
can flag in her beak, raised that Amrri-
can eagle and sent her soaring proudly
t. tn skies.
The speaker continued in this strain
for sometime and then said: Whr',
cam" home to my constituents o' me
Second brooklyn District, they sal"
they would defeat me for twisting the
English lions tail said to them !
would wiring his neck if they sent me
back They did not defeat me; was
sent back by eight or nine thousand
majority larger than | had received be-
fore" - Congressman Robinson con-
cInd"d lis speech by a brilliant picture
OF the benefit of Ireland being united to
til" United States and advocated its p'lr-
chaSr, as England could not govern it.
MIR. Robinson was greeted with trclneli-
duous applause at the conclusion OF his
address, ~ he was also during its de-
livery.
Congressman-elcct Lore advanced
and said: owe are not quite educated
up to the point to annex Ireland, aS
there are 5000 miles between US. lhall
Efforts TO annex Ireland to the ear oi
liberty, Ireland will find Delaware =
representative in the right place.
Mr. Lore then, iutroullreu General