Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-03-29

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mother tongue I? Or describe you as you
are, sending forth an, upfailing, stream
of pioneers in civilization and progress
to every quarter Of the globe Shall We
speak Of your literature, which is stamp
ed on every page with the elevating
story of a chivalry which must make all
readers better, drawer men? Or shall
we dwellfupon your poetry, whose bur
den is the ennoblihg love Of women.
untainted by the baser strain of thought
too often found in that of other climes.
To tell of the heroism of your men
would be to bring in every famous bat
tlefold Of Europe ana America. ZAP
pladse To dwell upon your women
would be to ieulogizc inatchless beauty
from whose gray eyes has ever beamed
a just conception Of mans homage. but
in which is seldom seen the compromising
languor of less favored climes To
speak Of your love of home is tell the
story Of a worldifulLof, wanderers and
workers for the good Of others, yet
stamped ere they left their birthplace
with IN individuality never lost. aud
bound to their mothersso by chain of
love that is never broken. The Irish
character is the Gulf Stream in the
Ocean of Humanity. making the circuit
of its whole limit, warming In frigid
climes, cooling in, torrid zones. ever
welcomed, ever cheering lifo's mariner.
ever mingling with life's tide but never
disappearing aud ever flowing onward
in the hope that its course shall be fin
ishcd at the spot where its journey round
the world was begun. Applause,
AMERICAS DEBT TO IRELAND.
"Shall | speak Of what Amer ica owes
to Ireland ? To do so would BIO tale of
work and labor done. and services per-
formed too long for detailed recital.
With the birth Of this land came the
Irishman, fot AZ d drohe or vaerant,
but earning his living by the sweat Of
his brow. and contributing his muscle
and his brain to every step In our de-
velopment on the crowded piers Of
our seaports stands the Ifishman stripped
for toll. 10 the thoroughfares Of our
great cities. on every work of public
improvements, on every highway Of ou,
commerce, the sound Of hissturdy strokes
swells the chorus of the song Of labor,
which America sings to ralfthe nations.
BY the dim light OF, the deepest lines of
the Rockies, in the farqoif silence Of the
Northern woods, mid tho waving grasses
of tho boundless prairie--everyw in
our land. even until he pauses on the
cliffs Of the Pacific, and his shadow is
thrown backward from the West. the
Irishman bears his part Of Americas
toll with cheerfulness. and adds his no
bic contribution to her material progress
with conscious smile.
OTHER EXAMPLES OF HIS POWER.
"But not alone in the humber fields
of our industries have we felt the power
ofthe freshman. The eloquence Of Graf
tan and Curran are scarcely less familiar
or inspiring to Americans than the most
exalted utterances Of our own states
men. No martyr of our own has ever
by his death given US higher example
Of moral heroism than Emmett. Nc
Donough's guns upon The lakes, and
Jackson's riAomen ut New Orleans,
Sheridan's twenty miles ride from Win
chester, and Pat Cleburne's dead body
upon the breastworks of Franklin at tho
head of his division tho Irish brigade,
both Federal and Confederate, aud Irish
men lnnumerable on either side, have
so interviewed your name and history
with our own, 80 taught US Irish valor
as household word, that on ST. Pat
rick's day, turning to Ireland. America.
with outstrctched arms, can utter from
her hearth your own mother tongue,
'Caed mile failthc.' Cheers OF lee.
lands struggle for liberty and the right
of self government must speak word
before | close. II is impossible for Amer
leans to understand the minutim Of her
politics, but with. the salient features Of
the contest oil intelligent, mon must be-
familiar, We behold a great and an
cient nation denied, as it seems TO US,
the local representation and home rule
accorded by England even to distant and
comparatively insignificant colonies
Wo live in an age Of Intelligence and
progress, in which tho aspiration to rea-
sonahe self-goyernment is deemed wor-
thy and honorable among all nations.-
We witness o united movement Of able
patriotic Irishmen TO secure for their
country a share Of the blessings Of civil
and religious liberty and home rule
which we enjoy ourselves, aud which is
the boast Of English statesmen, We be-
hold the efforts Of Ireland controlled
and directed il lawful, constitutional
methods. We zee those struggling he
roes sustained and supported by the
greatest 81 living Englishmen, who is
seer enough to realize that in this ago
the spirit Of liberty will no more be re-
pressed in Ireland than where IL nestles
in Swiss mountains aud Scotch glens. or
stalks abroad untrammeled triumphant
in America. We believe he is right in
bis Interpretation Of the spirit Of our
age We believe that Irishmen are right
10 the spirit Of manhood which prompts
them. And we believe the hour is near
at hand when the long struggle of your
great nation will be ended gloriously
and eliminate, not in revolutionary
bloodshed, but in constitutional liberty
sought and obtained by lawful methods.
Firm in that faith, Astounding in hope,
America is waiting with affection and
pride to catch from Ireland's own sons
the notes Of the opening chorus Of the
Harvest Home of liberty to Ireland.
and when it is waited DER the sea be-
liove me that here. as on no other spot
on earth, million voices are in tune to
swell the exultant song of emaucipated
Ireland. Loud aud continued applause
John" said the wife tenderly.
"promise me that if should be taken
away you will never marry Nancy Tar
box" Certainly, Maria replied tho
husband, reassuringly. 81 can promise
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