The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-10-24
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tune not taught Ireland the source Of
her woes?--is she now to learn that i
was by division that she was first con:
quered2 2-that it was BY the diesension
of her SONS she was often plund Tered
and that it was by their discord that she
was finally erased from the rank OF ma.
tions. and reduced to the form Of a
province?
Yes; our enemies did, our enemies
can at all times succeed 10 Ireland. The
curse of the country is in that spirit
which leads Irishmen to prefer a con.
test with one another. to the attack OF
the foes of their religion and liberty
Glow often has Ireland been taken
to the market, and sold by the c0rrup-
tion of her own children? how often
has she been betrayed by the folly of
her own sons2''
Daniel O'Connell is not dead. His
spirit still lives, and to me, sir, doth
seem that 1 hear the mighty resistless
voice of our immortal Liberator, call
out to the Ancient Order of Hibernians
in America: Are your petty and miser
able sqnabbles ever to have an end?
Are We ever to rejoice the enemy by
your dissensions and divisions? Are ye
eyerlastingly TO be divided, and there
fore contemplate in the eyes of not
alone pronounced enemies but Of the
Indifferent and even friendly?
In one Of his last public utterances ON
behalf of Irish liberty, the prince of
Irish forensic orators convinced his
hearers that all Irish miseries and deg
relation sprung from the disunion,
cruelty and artfully created by foreign
country, for the base purpose of driving
the race to suicide and making it the
Instrument of self destruction, and ad-
duced overwhelming proof to show
that under the sad coalition OF c0nfed-
Grating dissensions, nursed and fOment-
ed by the policy of ENGLAND, ireland
had continued to langulsh with small
and brief fluctuations of national des-
tiny, from the invasion of the Second
Henry, to the nineteenth century itself.
In a word, Ireland had lost all by dis
uuion, England achieved everything by
united action. The legislative union
of 1901, the last and almost lethal blow
to the existence of Ireland as nation,
was inflicted by that perpetual instru-
ment OF Irish ruin. Irish :dissension. BY
the reciprocal animosity Of her own
children Ireland was indeed as Curran
expresses it, surrendered; the guilt OF
the surrender was most atrocious-the
consequences of the crime most tre-
mendous and exemplary
And. now after ninety years OF suffer-
ing with the hangman on one side and
the tax-gatherer on the other, division
and dissension are unhappily at work
in the Old land and time it will take,
labor it will require, sacrifice 1t will de-
mand from the truly patriotic to obliter-
ate the evil that a people, prone to dis
corus and isalousies, have on them
selves inflicted. But there are, sir,
happy anil to relate, and YOU happier
to hear it, patriotic sons Of Ireland IN
the old land, numerous enough and de-
voted enough, churchmen and laymen.
to stand true to the old flag Of Irish
freedom and Irish independence, and
keep it's sacred folds untarnished from
the traitors touch, obnoxious, sacri-
legious and abomlnable.
The hand Of death guided by Gods
unerring providence has just removed
a leader, who rendered Ireland services
she can never, and will never, forget,
and which even his recent alterations
shall not obliterate from the grateful
memoirs Of our race. The death of
Charles Stewart Rarnel should teach
two lessons, viz .bhat there is an ALI
wise Providence ever guiding, watching
oyer, controlling the course and destin-
les OF nations, and that neither Ireland
nor any other nation can afford to make
the cause Of any one man. however emi-
nent. llAra acause. Man is weak and to
error promo. God alone is all.wise and
all good. He speaks through Ills
Church, He that heareth you. heareth
Me- Parnell will live ia the good he
has done. May his faults be buried in
the oblivion 50 generous TO the great.
Panied and mortified, however, as we
all must needs have been, BY the.
thoughtless conduct Of 9 certain mum
Der Of Irishmen ID the old land in turn
ing deaf ear to the voice Of their
bishops and clergy, TO the protestations
Of Irish homes and Irish fresides, Of
Irish maidenhood and Of Irish woman
hood. have noticed with pleasure that
the ranks OF this inconside derate and un-
rejecting, b1t in the main, well mean
ing minority Of the Irishmen across the
water are being constantly attennated
by the desertion Of It's best men. and
will soon. under the potent influence Of
moderation and reflection melt away
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