The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-01-08

temples resouaI with the praises
Of the living God.
Through successive ayes. from
the invasion and repulse of Dan
isil sea kings to the successful
settlement of the Anglo Norman
robbers, Ireland has exhibited
two qualities which ahsolves
Our Irish Ancestry from re-
i proacil in having lost the indie
pendence OF their country.
The first of these is the pass
;. ionate love the Irishman, where
ever the sun of Heaven shines
vpon the children of the Gael
exhibits for Democratic forms
of government-for the equality
of man-and the second is his
characteristic championship and
advocacy of,he oppressed against
the oppressor.
Subdned by sheer force Of
numbers, the Gaelic spiri5 to this
very hour worsiips at the shrine
Of liberty AID defes with a lofty
contempt of death, OF chains ard
of banishment, the ruthless plnn-
derers who have robbed and i'm
povcrished his sainted isle.
In these characteristics, the
Irish of all generations are simi-
lar in spirit and in feeling. When
Brian's giaive rung death upon
the shields Of the Danish war
riors at Ciontarf, when O'Neil at
the head of Ireiand's chivalry
cut to pieces Bagnalls army at
Bencurb, and when the brilliant
victor Of the Pass Of PIumes
waved his dripping sword above
the bloody corpses of England's
slaughtered hosts. the Irish bat
tie cry was Liberty and Native
Land" And through the sue
ceeding ages to the legalized |
eonfiscation of Irish indepen,
dence on the first of August, 1S-
90 when Ireland's orator. states
man and patriot, the noble Graf
tan, for the last time encirclesl
with a wreath woven from his
immortal eloquence. the sorrow-
ful brows of weeping, and be-
'rayed Erin, liberty has had ever
at her shrine, among her most
dOvOtees, the nncon-
luOrable children of Innisfall.
Though in her tomb Ireland lies
helpless and mo,ionless. still
here is on her lips a spirit of
IF life, and on her cheeks
Low of beatty:
Thou art not conquered beaty,s ensign yet
S crimson on thy lips and in thy .-heekS,
And deaths pale flag is not advanced there.
So sang the poets and rec1ted
he orators of our ancestry and
such were the sentiments trans
to foreign land by our
,Xpatriated fathers. The hero
whose memory you celebrate to-
hight and. whose Irish parents
anded poor and forsaken on
hese hospitable shores, early
nculcated in the breast of this
patron saint of American Dem
'cracy, the Democratic princi-
lies and doctrines of long line
If Irish ancestry. Through the {
.loom Of defeat, through the dew
lish malevolence of his enemies. 9
Trough sorro W and :,
through danger, as :
yell as in the embrace of vicIo- t
V, this great Irish American G
Democrat, Andrew Jackson, ex- !
ibiied the fortitnde, the cour-
ge and sterling Democracy of :
he liberty loving Gael. In the r
florida swamps ba :tIing against II
he treacherous Indian, at New C
;rleans riding knee deep in the p
lood of England's defeated " .
Rivalry, the heroic sou! of this Il
rish American ancestor, was n
animated and inspired e
'i'h the hereditary i'
we for "libe7ty ana ma.ivs la1.I," !" i"
'ansmitted through the nnsul- u u
ed Gaelic blood Of a thousand O
eneraiions. p
Gentlemen and brother Demo
'ats of Hooking County, l join W "
Oil in spirit this night in com
of Jackson and in
,lebration of the victory his "
secured on the first
uesday Of last November.
IN fraternity and Jacksonian
emocracy, Yours truly and al
merely, WM. j. ELLIOT.