The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-05-18

you safe asylum from poverty, and IL
time, from oppression also-an asylum
in winch many thousands Of your
countrvmen have found hospitality anc
peace and afluence, and become united
to us by all the ties of consanguinlty
by mutual interest and affection. Flat
tered by pleasing expectation that the
Justice and humanity which had 50 long
characterized the English nation would
on proper application afford us relief
they represented their grievances IN Al
affectionate address to their brethren in
Britain, and entreated their aid and in
terpositlon in behalf Of these colonies
The more fully to evince their respect
for their sovereign the unhappy people
of Boston were requested by the con-
gress to submit with patience 70 their
fate, and all America united in reso-
luton to abstain from every species of
violence. During this perlod that de-
voted town suffered unspeakably. Its
inhabitants were insulted and their
property violated. Still relying on the
clenency and justice Of his Majesty and
the nation they permitted few regi"
1nents to take possession Of their Town.
to surround it with Notifications, and
to cut Off all intercourse between them
and their friends in the country.
With anxious expectation did all
America wait the event OF their petit
tion--all America Laments its fate.
Their prince was deaf to their COM
plants, and vain we're all attempts to
impress him with sense Of the suffer
ipgs of his American subjects, OF the
cruelty of their taskmasters, and Of the
many plaques which impended over his
dominions Instead OF directions for a
candid inquiry into our grievances in
suit was added to oppression and our
long forbearance rewarded with the i'm
putation Of cowardice.
| Compelled. therefore. to behold thou
; sands of our countrymen imprisoned,
and men, women and children involved
in promiscuous and unmerited misery;
when we find all faith at an end, and
sacred tres ties turned into tricks Of
state; when we perceive our friends and
kinsmen massacred, our inhabitants
plundered, our houses in flames. and
their once happy inhabitants fed only
by the hand of charity, who can blame
us for endeayoring to restrain che pro
gress of desolat;on? Who can censure
our repelling the attacks Of such bar
narious band? Who, in such circum.
stances, would not obey the great, the
universal, the divine law Of self-prese1
rat;on K 4 X
But we forbear to trouble you with
tedious detail of the various and fruit
less offers and applications we have re-
peatediy made, not for pensions, for
wealth. or honors, but for the humble
boon of being permitted to possess the
fruits Of honest industry, and to enjoy
that degree Of liberty to which God and
the constitution have given IT'S an un-
doubted right,
Accept our most grateful acknowl
edgment for the friendly disposition
you have always shown toward us. We
know that you are not without your
grievances. We sympathize with you
in your distress, and are pleased to find
that the design of subjugating US has
persuaded the administration to dis
pense to Ireland some vagrant rays of
ministerial sunshine. Even the tender
lnsrcies of government have long been
cruel toward you. In the rich pastures
Of Ireland many hungry parricides have
fed and grown strong to labor in it's de-
struction. We hope the patient abid
ing of the meek may not always be for
gotten; and God grant that the iniquit-
GUS schemes Of extirpating liberty from
the British Empire may be soon de-
feated. But We should be wanting to
ourselves, we should be pertidious to
posterity, should we submit, with folded
arms, to military butchery and depreda
tion to safe the avarice of a British
Ministry. In defence of our persons
and properties, under actual violation,
we have taken up arms. When that
violence shall be removed. and hostil
tiles cease on the part Of the aggressor,
they shall cease on our part also. For
the achievement of this happy event we
cor6de in the good offices Of our fellow
subjects beyond the Atlantic. Of their
friendly disposition we do not despond,
aware, as they must be, that they have
nothing more to expect from the same
common enemy than the humble favor
of being last devoured.
DR.. r. A. Gum. M. d., Dean and
Professor of Surgery of the United
States Medical College. Editor of the
Medical Tribune author of "Gunn's
New Improved Handbook of Hygiene
and Domestic Medicine" says: BE
longing as / do to a branch of the pro-
fession which believes that no School of
Medicine knows all the truth regarding
disease, and being independent enough
to use any remedy that will help my