The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1885-03-14
ST. PATRICK s DAY.

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nifies a church or sect holiday. -
However it may have been when
the day was first set apart as a hol
iday, it is now the accepted day OF
recreation and iollitication of the
Irish people, as is the Fourth Of
July to the Amercans-a day on
which the Irish can clasp hands
and swear anew eternal fondness
for Erin, and give expressions
OF aspirations that the day is not
far distant when the land from
which they sprang will be divested
of foreign rule-as also to rumi
nate upon the past, and empty
their hearts of theirpent-up freight
of detestation for the country, the
despotism, which for innumerable
years has exercised incalculable
deeds of stupendous despotism ov-
er the innocent and humble, the
babe and hoary headed, and to
pray that the tyrant's days are
numbered, and his power may
speedily disappear. And all Amer
lea should pray with them that
Erin may be free-that the dark
hours of horror and rapine shall
cease that vanity and pride shall
fee-that the rotton walls of both
shall tumble down from off their
tottering base. Surely England
should consult the oracle Of Delphi.
She is now on the bank of a prcci-
pice which is ready to break and
fall from under her feet. The OBJ
noxious reptiles, like poisonous
snakes, the aversion Of St. Patrick,
are writhing around their Shiny
coils, wild and trenzied in their
last contcrtions. They have pro
famed hallowed affairs, deprayed
the social morals of Ireland, taken
from a people VIII" have nothing to
do with them all that was dear and
precious, bereft them Of all enjoy
ment, and left them nude, with
sires and brethren banished to dis
tant homes, separated them from
birthplace and kindred, and
thrown out aspersions Of calumny
and slander with poisoned fangs
of pertidy. We say Americans
should clasp hands with Emerald
ers on Tuesday throughout the
land, and bid them God-speed in
their struggle for existence and
competency here, and for the con
and full fruition Of their
hopes tor the future of their ma
tive land, for the earnest sympathy
Of the American people should a.
wavs reach out toward the OPP
pressed. There are really none in
this country who can call them
selves Americans, outside of the
political sense, unless it be the In
lians and there are few, if any,
who boast of lineage with them
All of us were either born under
another flag, or sprang from an an
,estrv who made the United States
heir adopted home, ergo, there
should be no haunting Of foreign |
birth by those accidentally born
lere, or suggestions that it is not
meet in people who have crossed |
he broad waters dividing us from
he old world to permit their hearts |
o pulsate with love and affection
or the country from which they
Iprang, for it is a fact that a man
Who forgets or processes to forget
lis native land, will not prove a
rood or desirable citizen in the
and of his adoption, and he who
would not rejoice in the freedom of
III peoples yearning for freedom, is
lot made Of the stuff of which
rue Americans are composed.
Even students OF history who
ave never given the subject spe-
ial thought, would be surprised
N the unfolding of the importance