Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-08-28
NOBLE Woods.
From the Iri.h World. Now York.


81 didn't come nine hundred miles
from home to apologize for the vote
that | cast. Cheers ! believed then,
as / believe now, that the vote
which / east was such as he would
have east who wrote the Declaration
of independence. Cheers. Read
/ il you please, that all men are Great
ed equal, that 'all men are entiteled
10 the right of selfgOvernment,
and that 'all government derives
IFS Just powers from the concent OF
the governed, and you will find my
justification for that vote. APP.
plause. Go through all the rea
sons why the thirteen colonies re
beled, and if you can find one that
does not to-day equally apply III
the case Of Ireland, | will tell you
where Americans find a dozen more
instead of it. Applause. If were
an freshman would contribute to
the last penny that 1 had aud the
last drop Of blood to help Ireland
liberate HERSELF
These are brave and noble words
They were spoken i'll Chicago on
Saturday by Senator Riddleber-
ger at tho meeting held there un-
der the auspices Of the Irish Nation
al League Of America. The vote
to which the Senator refers was
his vote in the United States Senate
in the early part of this year in OPP
pOsltiOnIto a resolution referring to
certain startling Occurrencesin Lon
don. That resolution was prac.
tically one of sympathy with Ire
lands OppressOr and condemnation
Of lreland's efforts to obtain free.
dom. For reasons admirably stat.
ed above Senator Riddleberger
voted against it. lie declares his
belief that Thomas Jefferson
would have voted in the same way
under like circumstances. Who
can doubt it That great man was
an enemy of England because he
knew that England was the dead.
~ enemy of his country as of Ire
land. lie would not give any SYM
pathy to the power which perpe.
trated all the iniQuities so elo-
bucntly recorded by his pen in the
Declaration Of independence to
which Senator Riddleberger
points for a justification of his no.
BILE action in taking the Irish side.
The thirteen colonies had not
more cause, as the Senator truly
urges, TO strike at England than
Ireland has to-day. America re-
VOTED against British rule for the
reasons set forth by Thomas Jeffer.
son in the greatest of historical
documents. Amongst them were
that the King of England had
forced his rule on America against
the will Of the people, that he had
"rciused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary for
the public good; had made judges
dependent on his will alone for the
tenure Of their offices, and the
amount and payment of their
salaries had erected a multitude
OF new Offices, and sent hither
swarms OF officers to ,harass our
people and eat out their substance;
had kept among us, in times of
peace, standing armies without the
consent Of our legislatures; had
quartered large bodies of armed
troops among us; had protected
them, by mock trial, from punish.
ment for any murders which they
should commit on the inhabitants ;
had imposed taxes on us without
our consent; had deprived us in
many cases Of the benefits of trial
by jury
Every item in this impeachment
applies to the case of Ireland at
the present time. England to-day
lnillcts upon the people of Ireland
all the injustice here recited and a
great deal more. The infamies of
British rule in Ireland even during
the past five years were never ex.
celled in brutal atrocity by the
British rule which Jefferson and
his illustrIOus colleagues pledged
their lives, their fortunes, and their
sacred honor to utterly overthrow.
In giving his voice and his vote
for Ireland and against England
Senator Riddleberger proves him
self to be a true American, a
worthy citizen Of that great Re-
public founded and maintained to
this day IN spite Of all the power
Of England, which has never yet
missed an opportunity of striking
at its existence. Senator Riddle
berger's is the genuine Jeffersonian
democracy which believes in gov.
eminent by the people, and for the
people, and which stands for op.
pressed nationalities against British
tyrants throughout the world. All
honor TO Senator Riddleberger.