Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-08-16
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so completely crushed them that
only one method, that of polit-
ical organization, remained by which
the catastrophe of 1S47 and 1S48 could be
averted. Then they we're wheedled into
believing that the food produced out of
their own soil belonged TO aa idle foreigner
and that il was the will OF God that they
who owned The land and titled it should lie
down and die while the beneficiary of their
labor squandered its proceeds in distant
lands. Compared wi h any man who
taught that blssphemv, Judas was saint,
for that doctrine made God a monster. 1t
was the orgzHiz iiion oi tie REQ
pie for the achievement of their
political liberty which alone drove
that heresy out OF Ireland Ia the po-
iitical organizations effected under the
clcul Of threatened foment certain prin-
ciples were adopted which the neople of
Ireland will never surrender. They are,
first, that it is their right TO own their own
soil and cultivate it to the utmost for
themselves and their children; second,
tat it is their right to make their laws on
their own soil and TO work out their own
political destiny among the nations
of the earth. Neither creed nor
clan nor section longer keeps them
apart. AL the weapons in the
old armory of England for the main
tainance of disunion in Ireland have
been plucked from scabbards broken into
fragments and flung into the sea. Protest
tant Parnen speaks for Catholic Cork,
Catholic Healy for the gallant Protestznts
of the North. Dublin Castle no longer
nominates the Archbishop of Dublin. The
Irish people have convinced their friends
and their enemies that they are as ready
as they ever have been to render
unto God the things that are Gods, and
they viii take for Cesar the things
that are Cessr's. They have driven Nero
from Ireland to see him baDquetsd by the
moral aristocrats of England. They have
driven Errington from Rome, to see
him koiehted by Gladstone. They have
drive Liberals out of Office, and
stand smilingly ready to do as much for
the Tories whenever it may be necessary
for the interest of Ireland. In word,
the Irish people have ceased paying
tribute of cowardics to debauchery.
When introducing Senator Riddleherger,
who got great reception, MIR. Sullivan
said: The dstin uished American pat
not who is TO address you this evening
does not claim, like MIR. Lowell, that
he is English. He will not tell you.
Ike Mr.. Phelps, that the Prince of Wales
is proper model for your sons. He does
not believe, with some Americans, that
the United States Senate is an annex to
Scotland Yard. He does not put on
mourning whenever a stone fsls from the
walls of the modern Babylon. have the
pleasure OF intr. .ducing to you, Senator
t.iddieberger.
DID not DECIDE ON PLACE OF MEETING.
The committee OF Irish Nstionalists, il
its conference tJ-dsy, did not d eide upon
the place OF holding the National Conven-
ton in January, hut left the matter % the
decision cf Patrick Egan, president of the
League. The maj jority Of the committee
members seemed t. favor Chicago, and If
is thought that Mr.. Egan may SO eide.
Latr.-The Executive Committee of the
Irish National Lesgne of America deci go
tonight TO hold the National Convention
III Chicago in January, the exact date to
be fixed thrC ugh correspondence between
Parnell and Egan.