The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-27
FOR IRELAND,s FREEDOM.
The Mass Meeting at st. BIichaeps Last
Wednesday Night.

sApNhtSMNS tNA8Mhs
One of the largest pmass meetings ever
held in this city was that held last Wednes-
day night under the auspices of the Irish
National League in st. Michael's Institute.
The presence on the platform Of Governor
Albeit, Judge Allan McDermott, Exon
gresham Hardenbergh, Assemblyman
James Clark, Director Govern, of the
Board of Freeholders, Fathers Moore and
Sheridan, OF Dublin; Fathers Quinn, Cam
eron, Boylan and McEntee, of this city;
Counsellors John A. McGrath and Min
turn, Mr.. @. ]. Donovan, Principal Kelly.
and Messrs. Edward Cooke, and E. T. Nc
Laughlin inspired the audience with en-
thusiasm which it would not otherwise
have possessed. The meeting was called
to order by Mr.. NJ. B. Holiness After hav-
ing read letter from the Treasurer of the
Jersey City movement, Rev. Father De
Concllio, in which the reverend gentleman
expressed his regrets and stating his in
ability to attend on account of illness, Mr..
Holmes stated briefly that Charles Stewart
Parnen demanded self government for
Ireland, and that the raising of funds in
support OF that demand was the purpose of
the meeting. He also said that every par
assistance in the good cause ssParn ell
now holds the key to Irish independence"
continued Mr.. Holmes, $ and every Irish
man, not the degenerate son of an Irish
mother, will help him in the grand fight"
Governor Albeit was then announced as
chairman of the meeting, and when he
stepped on the platform he was greeted
with thunderous applause. Among other
things, the Governor said that he hoped
that the contest which is now being waged
on the other side of the water by the grand
son of Jerseyman, Charles Stewart Par
nell, will be successful. The two great
parties of England are so evenly divided
that Mr.. Parnell believes if he only has the
pecuniary assistance of Irishmen at home
and abroad, he will be able to place men in
Parliament enough to make England recog-
nize home rule and Irish independence
The object of this meeting is to raise fur DIS
to aid in the election OF such men. As New
JERSEY was the first to adopt the constitr-
ton under which we live, it is right she
should aid others who desire to live under
a similar form of government. We know
that the Irish who have come among us.
and are of US, are men in every sense of
the word. In our wars the Irish have laid
down their lives as freely as the men born
on our own soil.
Judge Allan l.. McDermott was the next
speaker and he was received with perfect
burst of applause. He spoke from care
fully prepared address.
''If being an Irishman is crime. said
the Judge, 81 am guilty In the second de-
gree. Henry VIII, King by the grace of
Satan, is called reformer. II is to be
hoped that such reformer as he occupies
one of the hottest corners of hell. lie was
a curse to England, Ireland and the world,
The record of English brutality beats the
record of the world. The history of the
establishment of the Church of England in
Ireland is history of brutality and re-
venge. If Washington and Lafayette were
right, there is right on the side of ParneIl
In this fight the people of Ireland should
have the sympathy of the American peo-
pie. England is not our mother. Our
mother Is a goddess, and we call her Liber-
ty. In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was
born beyond the sea to make man holy. It
is our duty to make men Free
Fathers Moore and Sheridan and ex-
Congressman Hardenbergh also made
few remarks, and, after the ducats of the
contributors to the fund had been gathered
in, the meeting adjourned. Governor Alb
bett handed in his check for $780,
In the audience sat Finance Commission
er Edelstein, County Clerk Mclaughlin,
Surrogate McAvoy, Judge Rankin, ex-
Sheriff Cronan, ex-Comptroller Kelly, AS
SCISSOR O'Neil, DIR: Keating, John Boyd,
Robert Blewitt. P. j. Condor, Myles Tier
ney, ]. F. O'Sullivan, M. j. Boylan, j. NJ
Brann, Patrick Sheeran, Dennis Reardon
and NJ J, McMahon.