The Irish standard., 1886-04-17
IN lRELAND'S CAPITAL CITY.
]. The Tomb Of 'Oonnell- - Great, Immortal
Tribune, Sleep on Till the Angel Of the
Resurrection Summons Thee"
ALLEN, LARKIN AND o'BRIEN

The Tomb Of John Philpot Ourran, the 0ele-
brated Advocate, Who Defended the
Leaders Of the United Irishmen.
DUBLIN, March 26, lS86.-Back again
in the old city, where England's head
quarters in the castle on the top OF
Cork Hill, and the Irish National Lea
que headquarters at 80 O'Connell
street, on the other side of the Liffey !,
confront each other. The one repre-
sentative of the cruel, pharasaical in
vader, and the other Of the indom1table
perseverance, and marvellous tenacity
of national life which has so Won
drously characterized the. Celtic race
through the long, dreary struggle OF
over seven centuries. AS I sat down
to write this letter the new lord lieu
tenant, the Earl Of Aberdeen, sur
rounded by q troop of cavalry rode by
on his way from his yice-regal residence
in the Phoenix Park to the castle. AS
/ watched the cavalcade fora moment,
aud heard the clang of their English
7sabres, the blood OF the motherland
coursed faster in my veins through
feeling Of intense pride, as thought Of
the magnificent, though desperate, re-
sistance made by the people of my race
to the deyilish power whose orders
those troops obey. How freely they
poured out their blood resisting his
rule and his king-made religion f! They
would not be denationalized, and the
deposit Of faith which Patrick prayed
in his dying hour might never fail
them, they have preserved inyio]ate
and unspotted as when he first an
nounced 20 them the glad tidings of
salvation, The cynical nationalist Of
to-day, who has suddenly discovered
that his pateynal ancestor was mon
key and his maternal one a jelly-fist or
an oyster who calls virtue ntilitarian-
ism, and smiles at the mention Of a
miracle, will find it exceedingly diff
cult, nay impossible, to eliminate the
miraculous element from the preserva~
tion of the Catholic faith by the Irish
people. They had everything in the
natural order to gain by conforming to
the religious notions OF Henry VIII,
his daughter Elizabeth and their royal
successors. They had everything to
lose-property, earthly comfort, even
life itself-by standing firm in the faith
delivered to the saints by the victim of
Calvary. They preferred the latter,
with its direful consequences. The
sword and axe, the terrors of The gal
lows, and the hendish ingenuity Of the
terrible penal code, smote them TO the
earth through many generations, but
never, even in the darkest hour, when
no single ray of hope illuminated the
heavens; when the martyred nation
might we'll cry out from the depths of
her agony in the words of the expiring
Master: Lord, Lord, why hast thou
forsaken me ~ never, even then. was
the knee bent to Baal, or the right TO
the national patrimony renounced.
The heritage has been handed down in
tact by one generation to another to
the present time. The dying prayer Of
st. Patrick has prevailed over the pow
ers of earth and hell. Historians tell
us that Julian the Apostate, the power
full Roman emperor who was brought
up as Christian. was aided by demons
in his attempts to:destroy Christianity
in the early days of the church. He
proposed, with all the power Of the en-
pire, to uproot the doctrine of the
9 azarene, - as he termed in derision
the Sacred One made it a penal Of
fence to invoke His holy name, and set
about with the most diabolical yigor
to restore the unclean ab0minatiOn of
pagan Worship. But in the hour Of his
greatest success, apparently, the end
had arrived. On Persian battlefield,
at the head Of his powerful legions,
having forgotten to put Oh bis arlnor,
he was transtixed by a Persian javelin,
flung at random, but very likely guided
by more than mortal aim. As he drew
out the spear his heart $ blood followed,
and falling from his horse, he shrieked
out in despair, sGalillean, thou hast
conquered!'' 10 my mind, and am
by:nc} means credulous, but rather in-
clined to the contrary the successful
resistance Of the Irish, as borne witness
toby their history since Che time of
Henry VIII, evinces most clearly the
working and strength of more than
,al earthly power. wish that large
niIulimnber Of my young readers would
procure at some library, and carefully
read over the chapters relating to Ire.
iRnd iu lillian II. Leckey's :. History
England Is the Eighteenth Gems
fS,r. HE fitchell IS s Histogy Of Ireland Il
glanl Snd also Sister Mary Frances Clare's
alssr Ye siimple yet compr nsive, narra-
deadly strug uggle which their
llIl lathers ~ ged' Tor faith and father