The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-10-15
PRINCETON THURSDAY OCT IS 1891
PA.RNELL..
A Glowing Tribute to His Mem
DRY by M. j. Costello, the
Gifted Editor Of the
Duluth Trihuna.

1 Ny 4sAs e. OOSUtcllOS Iu0 3Ea
Gifted Editor Of the
Duluth Tribune.
"A greater love than thisno man
hath; that he layeth down his life
for his friends. .
The passage Of Charles Stewart
Parnell into another world marks
an epoch in Irish history. It does
more. It signalizes the disappear
ance from the worlds stage, amidst
Jeers and newborn contempt Of his
own countrymen, of the only man
his race has produced who was
qualified to cope with English
tyranny one who rendered greater
and more enduring service to the
cause Of Irish liberty than all who
preceded him.
! Statesmen, soldiers, orators, even
martyrs are plentifully enrolled in
the historic lists of those who have
fought for the restoration of Irish
rights. But in those lists there is
not name that shines with the
ulster of accomplished deeds as
does that of Parnell. His life was
devoted to his country, and his re-
quital was strange indeed. He
was the unrelenting foe of his
country's enemies. He gave them
back blow for blow, scorn for in
suit; and to the malignant assaults
OF unhridled power he has ever
responded with the dignifed en-
durance Of conscious right and
rectitude.
| This is the man who has been
cast down from the pedestal of a
nations worship, and all of whose
laurels have at last been mired be-
| meath the tread of unconscious
brutes, led by avarice, by ambi-
ton, by folly, by the basest hatred
that can enter the human soul. He
dies. as others have died before
him, the victim Of too great, too
noble love for the country that
gave him birth. He was human
and he was crucifed because of the
errors of his humanity.
There will be many homilies
written on the fate of this great
man. The jackals Of the. worlds
politics will rend his remains in
the fierce effort to satiate their
gluttonous natures. The moral
lists, to whom the world looks for
the reflection of it's own debased
standards Of right and wrong, will
relate to us how grievously the
dead hero sinned against the canons
Of individual virtue. They will
again relate the wrongs done to the
marital cause of not only cuck-
old, but a panderer and traitor,
and they will invoke the wrath of
a more merciful Providence on all
who sin as he sinned. But when
they have jingled the cap and bells
Of their diseased intellects, the
sense of justice which lies buried
deep in the soul of patriotic man
hood will rise to the vindication of
one who served his kind with the
force Of inspired wisdom and cour
age.
There is no page in all Irish
history that is more Wretchedly
scotched with the fires of ingrati-
E,tude than that which records the
life and services Of Charles Stew
art Parnell. He lived in order
that the light of human liberty
might not be wholly quenched in
his own land; he died that the
demon Of dissension might no
longer threaten the results which
his genius alone had accomplished.
There is a mighty responsibility
resting on those who have COM
passed the downfall and death of
this Wondrous character. Of this
responsibility the full measure
must be borne by the Irish race
itself. At the final moment of his
triumph they betrayed and de-
serted him; and many generations
must pass away before man born
to the occasion, as was he, will APP
pear among them, or, should he
appear, will dare to take up the
work which he has laid down.
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