Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-03-20
From Bnsi a pa,ly Globel
AFTER MeKLNNA'S ADDRESS.

From Dnsl paIy G.obe.l
FATHER MeKLNNAS ADDRESS.
AN ABLB AND ELOQUENT DISCOURSE On
IRELAND's WRONGS UHDER ENGLISH
RULE.
Father McKenna said Gentlemen, your
chairmau las stated that his voice would
not be silent, and that It would be raised
IN Fcnenl Hall whom u was a question Of
devotion - the Irish cause. The Irish
cause could not be opened on a better OF
more sluT,ioiQus occasion. We arc Assem-
BLEED here this evening 90 recall the fame,
10 admire tho devotion, the bravery, sin
gloncss Ofplrpo-r, h.gh resolve and eXalt-
ed purpose ol Robert Emmett. England Is
in ,Iilcudty. She i, faced in the Soudan
hs q people who, like Ireland, are defend
ing their iuaiicuable rights, aud when We
remember that Ia that struggle for thor
nights Gordon was the alder and abettOr VI
human slavery We feel that whene, ', a
Gordon falls before the spear Of the ma
tivcs, or any other miniOn IN the cause OF
tyranny, there is not an Irish heart but
that reiOices at the fall, and remembers
that the voice Of the nation Is heard. Ger
many also has slgniiied her intention OF
restraining the advance Of tho British out
posts IN Aighaulslan; and am very much
mistaken II the Weapons that England has
so successfully employed in the past will
not DO also employed successfully by the
Northern Bear. England has been snub-
| bed lately by Prince Bismarck. There IL
ono power found on the continent who
helps them-ltaly. | have yet to learn,
however. that the world has anything to
fear from Italian yalor. England IS con
! frontcd by the condemnation of the free
men ot America, for / don't regard as the
sentiment OF America the resolutions that
were lately introduced in the United States
senate by Mr.. Ioar and defended by him
and Sir. Bayard | don't Indorse, and |
do not think that the American people will
/ indOrso, those resolutions, Mr.. llOar 10
commenting upon the resolutions said that
! the opponent Of the resolutions, Mr.. Rid
! dlebcrger, (applausc) assumes that there Is
"A state Vt war between England and Ire
! land. Gentlemen, think there is no as
sumption about the matter; there IL war,
and if Mr.. iIoar, or any other American
representative or senator, shows to us that
a blow cannot be struck by people that
| have been AIDED IN theiT rights until
| there i. lDtration OF war written out
] on pap .tn / AJAX him to Justify the Con-
cord d .. Great applause.) II Is at Lex
IN .tou and Concord where
THE rRsr SHOT WAS FIRED,
whi.i sas sung by one who voiced the
| truth oi Amo an sentiments better than
Mr.. Hoar do. The shot was fred whose
sound was lcirl around the world, and
set according to Mr.. IIoar's reasoning we
| are 10 condemn abe heroes of Concord
! (Aprhuss.) The G.ht at Concord and
! Lexington .ol place in l775, and the Dec
la ition 81 Independence WAS celebrated
July !, l..l. d year afterwards. (Applause.)
| pressure that if Irish men follow ont the
line of ac '0' which they can initiate from
America. tl..l their inst blow is struck
they cap. presume wait a year before
they mako their declaration If independ-
cncc (Applause) Tier hls never been
a period in the history 81 the people OF
Ireland that they have accepted the rule
of the invader. (Applaus,) Their wor =
| have been ce7s.le8s protest. ln TINS pro-
test and struggle what does LmnsI stand
for Emmnt. like the men who preceded
aud who have followed him, had seen the
woes and the wror - Of hundreds OF years
What does kuhrft Ennlct rlanN i"i'
then, | ask, in TIM struggle liz stands
the nation in a man comprised. HIS he
roic self.dovotim; lis dauntless courage,
his resistance unto death embody the splr-
il of the Irish race (Applause.) The les
son that hr teaches 20 Ms, and that we
ought to learn on his anniversaries Ia the
lesson which the patriots OF America had
taught tho world before him that
RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY
is obedience TO God (App'ausc.(