Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-17

UlanS OF America, tnefe was people mere
well established in all the forms of gov
Arament. The trial of all disputes WINS
settled by verdict of twelve men. In
music, the harp was used by the Irish
/ people, and developed by them into the
modern piano forte. In literature and art
they excelled; and from Ireland came the
valiant-hearted soldiers that broke the
yoke of Roman slavery from the English
serfs While England was yet in slavery,
the Irish wero enjoying free Schools sus-
tanned by endowment. They taught re-
ligiOn, music, language and writing. Ar
Thitecture, known TO King Solomon and
brought TO Ireland by the old prophets
when they fled from Assyrian captivity,
was taught TO the people.
''The youthful king, Alfred the Great,
drank deep from the fountain of knowl
edge in Ireland. Literature and art be
came to him a living purpose. He learned
TO play the harp, and in after years it en-
abled him to charm the Danish kings
while he was seeking points for attacking
their armies.
when Alfred was proclaimed king of
England he established government
founded on the principles learned of the
( Irish Parliament. 1t consisted of one
l
! commons all met as equals, and the king
sat in the midst of them as president AT
! Oxford he established a school of learning
/ and sent TO Ireland for instructors. He
repeated in England the works in marble
and stone that he had learned in Ireland,
and had his men build the pointed roofs
! and arches now called Gothic.
/ For more than two thousand years
/ n freq
as history and her ruins proclaim First
/ the Dane made their descent upon the Is.
land, capturing many places and driving
! Irish scholars into all parts of Europe. AT
forwards England realized that Ireland
was n rich and prosperous land, with,everp
advantage of wealth and culture. The
Irish were brave and intelligent people,
superior to the English i'll everything but
! power. Superior numbers have conquered
and for seven hundred years Ireland has
been made to feel that England is her mas
ter and she is slave.
! Then, amid the thunders of the Ameri-
can revolution, when the British Empire
reeled before the blows of the allied forces
of Louis XVI and George Washington;
when aul Jones, the Yankee Prlvateer,
preyed on English comrnerce and spread
land was without English troops and the
only military force in all Ireland was the
Irish volunteers, Grattan's parliament was
called into existence. Then. like giant
released from bondage, the country again
advanced, making rapid strides in prog
ress, until Lord Clare proclaimed, There
is not a civilized nation on the face of the
globe which has advanced in cultivation.
in agriculture, in manufactures, with the
same rapidity as Irclandp
For eighteen years that parliament met
in one of tho finest buildings in Europe,
and made the laws to govern the Irish
people. Then, again, the jealousy of Eng
land, through treachery and fraud, de-
stroyed the Irish parliament, and Grattan,
who had led the Irish people to freedom,
lived to sec her liberties crushed out by the
sword and her parliament destroyed by
gold. But though PROSTATE and bleeding,
smarting under the sense of outraged dig
nifty, through years of eviction, famine,
Imprisonment and death, she has again
determined to claim her rights. Another
beam of sunlight has touched the living
picture, and reveals mighty man, whose
hand is on the keyboard of British poll.
ticsl Ono who has brought forth har>
mony of class and creed that resounds
throughout the world, astonishing man.
kindp'
The evenings entertainment was pleas
ant and gay, with music and conversation.
The grand good humor of our host gave
tone Of cheerfulness to the whole party.
At late hour the final farewells were said
and the bridal party took leave Of their
friends at Blue Ridge.
Ia the morning Colonel Haynes, his wife
and mother and Sir Wren babe adieu to
Ravens Park. but Stella, Myrtle and my
self formed part of the company as far rs
Liverpool. There the last farewells were
spoken while we stood on the deck of the
gz.at steamer that was To be their dwell
ing place for the next few days.
"Well Waverland," said Colonel Haynes
as he took my arm for n short stroll on the
deck before parting, keep me posted rs
to the condition and progress Of the work
In the British parliament, and will send
you notes Of matters in America. We
shall be widely separated, yet l shall feel
that we are co-laborers in the same great
work. You are engaged In a long death
struggle to loosen the fangs of landlordism
from the brightest spot of rich green earth
on the face Of the globel / goJto America,
to do what can, by agitation and work, to
prevent the same monster from stealing
the inheritance of the freest people in the
world! Unlike chattel slavery, landlord
ism is stealthy and deceptive 1t charms
as the serpent, and is as cruel asIthe grave.
1t starves and debauches its victims
TO helplessness and revels anil the suffer
ing.
1.-THE curse of Ireland is this same CON
densed villainy This same cruelty, bru-
tally and terror, conceived in lust and per
petuated by forcc / have seen it with my
own eyes, Words cannot describe it, 1t
does not recognize manhood, womanhood
or childhood. Its hand is upon every era.
die In Ireland! Its victims are five ~~n
lions of people who cannot get away They
are held down by the bayonet, while the
landlords rob the helpless in the name OF
the law.
Il believe Irish landlords comprises
all the villeinies the devil ever inyeated.
with chattei slavery thrown in; for when
n chattel slnve is sick his master cares for
him-he is his money! When an Irish
tenant is unable to work he Is thrown out
upon the roadside with las wife and chill
dren to perish In short | have come to
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