The Cecil Whig., 1886-06-19
\ GREAT SPEECH.


reign of the Neapolitau Euul bouS, Eng
liSh sympathy was SO active that Lord
Palmerston was openly accused OF per
mitting guns from Woolwich Arsenal to
be smuggled ON to the island of Sicily to
aid the insurrection against King Bpmha.
The people of the United States. there
fore, are only following many grncEous
examples of Eng land, and qnitc apart
from any consideration except the broad
one of human fellowship, stand forth AS
the friends OF Ireland in her present dis
tress. Great Applause. They do not
stand forth as Republicans. They do no;
stand forth rs ProtestantS. They do no;.
stand forth as Catholics. Bat they stand
forth as citizens of IA great and tlce re
public Applause |, Sympathziit~ vita
freedom throughout the world. Ii | hal
a word of personal advice to give author
itative counsel, it would he this: The
time is coming that probably try the pa
thence and the self-coutrui of the Irish
people more severely than they have
been tried in any other stage III the pro.
gress of their long struggle. And my
advice is that by all means and with
every personal aud moral influence that
can be used, violence Of any kind be sup
pressed. Great applause. lrishmcn
have earned the consolidated opinion of
that part of the Christian world that be
lleveS i'll free government. Have a care
that nothing be done to divide that opin
ion. Let no act of iapiudence or rash
ness or violence or outrage produce a re-
action. Never has a cause been con
Quoted with clearer head or with better
Judgment i'll its parliamentary relations
than that which has been conducted by
Mr. Parnell. | regard it as a very fortu-
nate circumstance that Mr. Parnell is a
Protestant. 1t has been the singular and
in many respects the happy fortune in
every Irish trouble to be SO led that cen
erouS minded men the world over might
see that it was not sectarlan strife but IA
struggle for freedom and good govern
ment. See how often in the past the
leading man i'll Irish agitation has been
Protestant Dean Swift, MolyneuZ.
Robert Emmet. Theobald Wolf Tone
Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Henry Grattan
and | might leugthen the list. These
patriots carried the Irish cause high
above and beyond AL considerations of
sectar:an difference and founded it on
the rights of human nature, as Jefferson
defined the American cause in our own
revolutionary period. Applause. Thus
led and thus guarded the Irish cause
must prevail. There has never been a
contest for liberty by any portion of the
British Ell: pirc, composed OF white men,
rhat was not successful in the end, if
the white men were unit ii. IS union
the Thirteenth Coinuit gained their in
dependence, by union Canada gained
every concession she asked upon the eve
of revolution, and there is nothing to
day which Canada could ask this side
of absolute separation that would not be
granted for the asking.
| have only one more word to say. and
that again is a word OF advice. The men
of Irish blood In this country slIoull
keep this question as it has been kept
thus far, out of our own political con
troversies. [Great applause. They
should mark any man as an enemy who
seeks to use it for personal or for parti-
san advancement. Applause. To the
Sacredness OF your cause conducted III
that spirit you can in the lofty language
of that most eloquent of lrishman, Ed
mund Burke [applausel, ''1ou can at
test the retiring generations, you can at
test the advancing generations, between
whom we stand as a link i'll the great
chain of eternal order" Conducted il
that spirit you can Justify your cause be
fore earthly tribunals ard you can carr
it with pure heart and perfect faith before
the judgment seat OF God. Long con
tinueG applause.