The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-05-12

AS Judas solo his God.
By all the savage acts that yet
Have followed Eaglend's track
The pitch-cap and the bayonet
The gibbet and the rack.
And thus was passed the Union
by Pitt and Castle1eagh.
Could Satan find for such An &C
More worthy tools than they?
But, strange to say, Castlareagn, at
The beginning of his political career, was,
COX his times. very advanced Radical
When twenty-one years OF age he was
nominated by his father, the Marquis Of
Londonderry, for the parliamentary rep
xasentation Of county Down, and won it
after q stiff contest Of two months and
the expenditure Of 100000. IL the
Irish House Of Commons, Of which he
was a prominent member from tho out
ket OF lis career, ne supported evey
Liberal and Radical MEASURE, Including
She Catholic Claims, and on one occasion,
while the breezes from France during
The first stages OF the Revolution were
waiting to Ireland as we'll as to every
other country i'll Europe the seeds OF
revolution and liberty, be presided at a
public banquet in Dublin at which the
Gest Of .Our Sovereign Lord the People,
wus drunk with wild enthusiasm. A
change, however, soon set ia, nno the
excuses Of the French Revolution drove
s.lastleresgh from advanced Radicalism
So ultra IorYlsm.
y}astlercagh was The FIRST Irishnan who
a1eld the post Of Chief Secretary for Ire
sand. Flo was appointed formally to that
position in 1899, bnt it's duties were per.
&or:ned by him during the bloody year
aoS'9e. How the Union was subsequently
carried 1s an oftrepeateel and well-known
STORY On She 31st OF January, ITO, a
resolution in favor Of the Union YVES
moved in the English House OF Conn.,
MONS by MIR. Pitt, an;s was carried by
1oA to S, while the House of Lords en-
<lorsed it without 4 division. In ireland
<jast}ereagh, the Chief Secretary aud
CORVALLIS, the Lord Lieutenant, sock
eff their coats to the infamous work. it
needed all tlleir energies, SO great -1as
the opposition they met with; and being
unsuccessful in their first attempts to get
She Irish House Of Commons to cut Its
own throat, CORVALLIS grew Respondent.
And wo,1id have thrown up the sponge
only for the indom1table courage OF
d1astlereogh, who set himself to carry the
Union. no matter how base the means.
AS Nix. Alfred Webb points ont in his
SsCompa1adiu,n Of Irish Biography" the
character Of 5lle two Ieadersin the move
znent are stniklngly exhibited by them
selves in the s'Corrwallis Correspond
enoo" and the ''Castlereagh Papers: -
"Cornwallis, MIR Webb says, ''shows
sais detestation of what he believes to be
she unavoidable duty Of bribery and
violence imposed upon him--he longs
30 kick out OF his presence the men with
whom he trsiaics, whilst Castlereagh sets
about his work in q cool and business
like manner, without conjunction Of
any kiad. Yet the former was sixty-one
years Of age and the latteG only thirty"
The country was unanimous against
The Uuion. Twenty-eight counties,
awe]ve municipal corporations Dublin
sncluded;, 10, 600 freeholders, and 707,-
600 occupls,s, petitioned against it, and
only 1000 individuals fer it, although |
She jaiss even were secured to get sigma
s;axes to The petition. Gold, however,
purchased tIle votes Of the representa-
t5;'7es of the people. a million and guar
Ter being spent for the purpose, in adj
clifton to the ''honors'' Of Lordsh1p and
and knighthood conferred on
others Of the traitors; and On the 7th
June, 1900, the bill was read third
Time in the Commons. On the 18th June
il passed the House of Lords. On the
Est Of August it received the Royal as
sent and it came into operation on the
LIST OF January, 1901.
OF the last sitting Of the Irish Parlia-
nent and Of Castlereagh's action thereat
Sir Jonah Darlington thus writes in his
Rise and Fall Of the Irish Nation II
ssThe galleries were full, but the {
'hange was lamentable--they were no {
onrer crowded with those who had been
ccEssomed to witness the eloquence and
. animate the debates of that devoted {
ssembly. A nnonotonous and melan- (
holy murmur ran through the benches.
carcely word was exchanged among i
he members, nobody seemed OF ease,
81 heerfulness was apparent, and the