St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-25
THE MANCHESTER MARTYRS,
Whose Memory Was Celebrated
Last Night at Pfeifer's Hall.

Last Night at Pfeifer's Hall.
A large and enthusiastic audience packed
Pfeifer's hall last evening where the Irish
men of st. Paul had gathered to be stirred
again with Irish eloQuence and melody,
whose inspiration is always Irish liberty,
and whose shrine on this occasion was the
scaffold whereon the Manchester Mar
tyrs." Allen, Larkin and O'Brien, in 1867,
were executed as Fenans in the city of
Manchester. The meeting was under
the auspices of the Hibernan rifles,
who appeared in uniform. The exercises
were opened by the introduction of Gen.
C. NJ. MacCarthy by Capt. l.. Fahey of the
rifles. Gen. MacCarthy said in substance:
"a man dies, yet his memory lives, !"
said the greatest of Irish patriots and mar
tyrs. Robert Emmett This is true as applied
to himself, and it is also true as applied
to those patriots who gave their lives in the
cause of Irish liberty forty-three years
later. 1t is now scarcely necessary TO
speak of the Fenan organization of twenty
wears ago. no longer in existence. Unhap-
pily it fell short of the objects of its lead
ers. but ere its death it did force the enemy
to some measures of redress and relief.
TApplause. Fenianism is no more, but if
to love that hallowed isle of the sea and to
hate its foul oppressors is to
be a Fenian, then l am Fenian,
and I know there is not one here
tonight who has any use for an Irishman
who regrets being a Fenan." The speaker
gave an eloquent and interesting sketch of
the causes which led to the execution of the
three patriots, whose deaths were being
commemorated, and added that the Irish
National League is the Fenian organization
of to-day 1t seeks self government from
Ireland, and her efforts will not be
STAYED until she has met her arch
enemy, if necessary, in open fight,
A stirring song, Mother Land' by Mr.. L.
F. Martin was followed by the unnecessary
introduction of the Rev. Father Stanley
who said:
FATHER sHANLEY's ADDRESS.
1t was said by one of the early church
fathers, the blood of church martyrs was
to be the seed of the church and we may
change the words a little to-day and repeat.
the blood of Irish martyrs will be the seed
of martyrs. Martyrs there have been by
the million and their places have
ever been taken by others who
gave their lives for Irish liberty with the
prayer, God save Ireland! O God, hasten
the day of vengeance upon the oppressors
devote an evening to the memory of three
of lreland's sons, but my friends. every one
of the sos days should be held sacred to the
memory of Irish martyrs. The Manchester
martyrs! Why there is not an Irishman
who loves his native land, but suffers con-
tinual martyrdom as long as he sees his
country oppressed. If persistence and un-
RENTING sacrifice for the attachment
of course be sufficient reason for a pur-
pose to triumph, then should Ireland's free
dom be granted Already we can see the
beams of the bright sun of her freedom.
and the day Of her triumph is not far dis
tant. The war cry of her cause, uttered
by Father 0'Toole, archbishop of Dublin.
and taken up by later patriots, O'Connell.
Grattan, Emmett and others, still
lives. and to-day there stands
forth another leader, the great
est and most trusted Ireland has known.
Charles Stewart Parnell, long applause