The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-05-26
THE IRISH STANDARD: SATU RDAY, MAY rs.

LIE IRISH STANDARD
that personally am indebted for the
laurels with which you have been pleased
to decorate my brow.n The Iron Duke
never delivered the speech-he was In
capable of the eloquence and sympathetic
feeling with which it is characterized.
1t was, as matter Of fact, published in
a work in support Of Catholic Emanci-
patton in 1928 by John Tablet, Earl OF |
Shrewsbury, by whom it was written as
noe fitting and appropriate speech of
the Duke than the fiercely bigoted TRADES
against Emancipation which he was de-
ivering at the time. The Earl of
Shrewsbury wrote:-"Werei it not for his
Catholic soldiers, the Duke Of Yelling
ton had never gathered one solitary
lauzel-for all the laurels which he wears
have sprung from their valour and have
been watered by their blood" The
Duke, however, did not take the we'll
meaning hint to bestow with a good
grace that concession to Catholics which
the fear Of civil war forced him to yield
the following year.
Catholic Emancipation was carried by
OCopnell while Wellington was Prime
Minister Of Tory Administration.
Narrow-minded, bigoted, and illiberal
as the Duke was, he strenouslY opposed
the measure for the relief Of Catholics,
as indeed he opposed all reform and
progress. In 1S28we find h1m declaring
in the House Of Lords-''I certainly
shall continue to oppose Catholic Enan-
c1pation;;" but ayear had not, passed ere
he was compelled by the force Of circum-
stances to introduce the measure him.
self. We have often heard it said that
he declared that it was only the stress Of
imminent civil war that induced him TO
relieve Catholics Of their civil disabil-
tiles. Here is the passage from speech
in the House Of Lords:--- -
ST am one of those who have probably
passed a longer period Of my life en-
gagged in war than most men, and prin-
cipally in civil war; and I must say this,
that if I could avoid, by any sacrifice
whatever, even one month of civil war in
a country to which I was attached, [
would sacrifice my life III order to dc it.
Yet, my lords, this is the recourse to
which we must have looked, these are
Che measures which we must have ap-
piled, in order to put al end TO this state
Of things, it we had not made the option
OF bringing forward the measures for
which SAY am responsible"
He acceded to Catholic Emancipation
solely through fear, For he had most
intense hatred OF the Catholic Church,
and placed on it's head the blame for all
the evils Of Ireland aud all the trouble
the country gave England.
| Re afterwards said Of the Repeal Of
the Union agitation--sIt is founded
upon "a conspiracy Of demagogues,
priests, and monks, and the means are
terror and mobs, to be employed wher-
ever terror and nlobs can be used"
The Duke fell asleep, apparently in
his usual health, in the afternoon of the
lAth September, 1852, at Walmer CASTLE
and never awoke again. He was 8:
years of age. The body was removed te
Chelsea Hospital, and there it lay fol
two months while an immense carriage
Of twenty tons weight was being cast, at
| Woolwich Arsenal, from the metal OF
gums captured from the French for the
purpose of being used as the funeral car
in the procession to the grave.
Where shall we bury the man we deplore?
| Here in streaming London's central roar,
| Mid the sound Of those he wrought for,
| And the feet Of those he fought for.
! Echoing round his bones for ever more.
Sc wrote Tennyson in his ode on the
death Of the Duke, whom he calls ''the
greatest Englishman." The burial took
| place IN the crypt OF st. Paul IS Cathedral
A visit to this crypt will prove extremely
interesting, but certainly not edifying.
The payment Of sixpence will pass you
down TO the crypt. When below you
will find it divided into two sections
the line of division being all iron gate,
securely locked. The section of the
crypt in which you find yourself, aud
over which you are permitted to roam as
you please, is dark and gloomy, and
there are tombs and memorials around;
you look through the bars of the gate
into The other section, and see tombs and
memorials also, but they are Of nobler
and grander proportions, and the sur
roundings are artistic and brilliant.