Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-06

boh0Wnhb supsAuSu tuo bpehkbr cOm-
meucqd:
Ll6iss and Gentlemen: I have heard
with sxti enc pleasure the patriotic senti-
mants, worthy OF America and Ireland,
so eloquep ~ TX Iessed by your leakers
tonight. have seen the noblest Roman
drRped with the laurels 30 worthy Of that
greatest patriot. The fathers OF the
revolution nurtured in the principles of
liberty dared to maintain them against
the might of England. The young SOL
diers who sit before me tonight are the
descendants of those who fought at
Brandywins under Washington.
Il would BIO trite to say that Emmett is
not the idol of the IriBh heart. Or Eng
lish descent and Of the Protestant church
that brave young man chose to follow in
the path Of duty though it ended in blood
and the grave. Here the speaker quoted
u few Of the stsnzas of Moore's poem 20
Breathe Not the Name" The time has
come whom justice should be done 20 the
memory Of Emmet. The year 1903 only
echoed the rattls of the bullets OF 1903.
You havs heard Of Ssrsfield, OF Limerick
and of Fontenoy. The Irish who did not
go abroad to the continent OF Europe
were de9auched and their property CON
hscatad. Under the oppression Of British
tyranny wonder the nation has not dis
appeared from the faos of the earth.
Professionals were set against Gath olios.
Brides wore offered the son to inform
against the father. The hsyonet, torch,
rack and gallows for 100 years en-
deavorsi to break the spirit of thu Irish
and to denloralizs them bat in vain. The
Protestant spirit blazed up high for
liberty in the perSons OF FioUd and Graf
tan. In 1892 The convention Of Dunoannon
was formed to break the link that
bound England and Ireland. Then ap-
peared Wolf Tone, Lord Edward Fitz-
gerald, and the elder Emmet. II was
for his patriotism that thu younger
Emmett was expelled feom Trinity COL
legs, Dublin. Fer libarty's cause he
tried to Impress the first Napoleon with
this project of invading the country.
Had Bonaparts taken Emmst's advice in
1897, England would have been wreck.
He, himself, would never have seen st.
Helena, and his dynasty wound now 90
established in Franco. You read of Bal
g7Eian and TnrEiih atrocities. They do
aot compare with the dseds OF eviction
of 80 men and women at time turned
ont on the roadside aad their homes
razsd by government orders. This has
been Irish history since the days Of
Elizabeth. To oppose this condition was
what Emmett essayed. But the fault OF
AL like Emnet is that they are too broad
minded. Tne English are good ~ inGi-
Viduals, as men and women, but Gs q
corporation they are as bal as eau be-.
1 1t is true MIR. GlAdstoa6's efforts have
somewhat modified the condition OF
things. But the mass OF the English are
sa stubborn as can bs. Abe speaker
deliberate opinion Is that the Eng ish
\ people will never give Ireland It's liberty
without fighting for Il. II ID impossible
to do it now. But let us have patience.
Hungary had fortituie aud patience and
is now independent. Little Greece re.
Yolted from the Turks. OF all tae
nationalities of Europe, Poland and Ire.
land alone are not free. Poland has three
tyrsnts, Ireland has one but abe ur
rounds that one with 2O,000,00D Ii So
bayonets.
The speaker then referred in a brie
way TO the life OF Emmett and the patriot,
Racrihces he made. He sacrificed his
fortune. His idea WAS to seizs Dublin
Castle. But he was betrayed and cap
tured on his way to visit the daughter o
John Phiipot Curran to whom he wa
bet.othed. He was PIT in prison, tried
convicted and hanged within "a hours
He showed how an Irish gentlemen ca,
die for his country. The executioner, al
, rayea In black mask, asked Are 20
ready 2"
Emmet turned around q moment /
whisper word to friend, word tbs
none other ever knew, and the mex
moment his body was swinging in tn
, air. 1t Was then cut down and the hea
, decapitased by the executioner who hel
it up By the hair exclsiming
Here il the head OF traitor Th
body was mu.ilated as If done by
I butcher.
! Friends, lovers of liberty, this TRACED
was enacted 81 years ago. Then Ii
I English thought irish liberty was buriet
4 Bat Daniel O'Oonnell in clarion ton,
I. announced the birth Of the young Irslan
, party. John Mitchell said to Judt
4 Lstsoy: II challenge the English 90
eminent 20 bring me to its place Of ia
4 tics." A few years afterwards We he
d of the Fenlsn conspiracy. We had l
q greater agitation than that led by DAM
O'Oonneli, but what resulted from /. 2
n tell you the Irish church waa not di
q established until Allen and Larkin we
!. heard of in Manchester. On the COZ
lrisaion Of their acts the English Cover
y mans opened its eyes. In 1882 II
/ Ploeaix PARK tragedy occurred. Wiz
d right could not accomplish slayish ters
4 did.
4 England said that il majority OF Il
Y Irish were in favor Of home rule Irela,
n would got it. Out OF 1903 repressntatiy
"a the IRISH returned 50 home rulers
H parliament. And now England refuses
d Keep hex promise. Il was the I4ibei
a union!at party under J1aeph 0hatnber!s
81 Chat hetrayed Gladstone.
ID would consent 10 any kind of hor
! ru.s that would stop Iriah emig1atio
he but an warned by past history. FIJI
u leua does not want Iteland's commetC
al Independence. la 1920 the moril
N atgaos!on of Ireland bssan. In 1910 /
ID population Was 5000 600; now ii
400, 900.
ia Tbs speaker made an eloquent raqu
On for AMER can sympathy fer Ireland ID
al stSugg!ea for independence. He rsfer.
AL 10 Irisd-Aineticsn nRIaas prominent
HI American hLl;oty Sullivan, OBEt
81 @cDoLouga t5hleid4, O,M9aRheF q
be others. Westinghouse nama il reysi
at through tins length and breadth of ]
il land, 80 also tnat Of Lincoln. la ey
.na Esik 0 lie the Irish RAGS hes paid
no footing shoulder 60 shoulder with
an, American beneath the country's i.nno
me- starry il G ThegtoTthot American lint
~ was HoW, Inc French allow, the aa-ca
hst English liberty was OF slow gros
san Why shan ehoula Ireland sing in
u accents Ct despair. No nation aohis
IL it without effort. Elamet showed
.es. long ago. Parneil shows us now.