The Irish standard., 1892-03-19

have moulded into dust, when the gloriss
OF our name shall be but the legend o1
1t addition and the light of our aelevments
llge only in song, phiios 'phy will rise
again III the sky OF her franklin, and
glory rekindle at the urn of her Wash
}ington.'' 5 ~ . /.
Who shall say that old Ireland h
Whose valleys and streams,
I You see in your dreams
I AS bright and as green as of yore, =
may not bloom anew under the renoyat5
ing impulse of the, younger Ireland OF
America? I
! And. now brief reference to some Of
the men whom Ireland has produced:
Curran, whose splendid talents we're con
secrated to the cause Of the weak against
the strong. He sought to make the
forum the oracle Of living justice, law the
shield OF innocence and verdicts the voice
Of conscience. Grattan, who astood by
| the cradle and followed the hearse OF the
Irish Parliament; OfConnell, whose
shining sword cleaned through the dark
and. turbulent years of Parliame tary
struggle, and who aehiey q SO much for
the social and religious liberty Of his
country. Think OF the martyrs TO- slibes-
ty's cause. How the name ct Emmett
touches the tender chords Of the Irish
heart Young, beautiful, gifted, patriot,
orator, martyr Wolf Tone, Orr, the
Shearee, Russell, O'Brien, Meagher,
Mitchell and Martin who suffered death
or banishment for the country they
loved; Michael Dayitt, Father OF ths
Land League; Parnell, the history. OF Ire
land cannot be written without him.
The present condition Of Ireland Rgrpws
more hopeful day by day. The pra5i1-
dices that have so long existed ares bes
ginning to disappear The old tradition
al Tory prejudices are weakening and
the dawn of brighter and better day is
near at hand. With the retirement Of
Salisbury and dissolution Of the present
parliament a. new era will dawn upon
this distracted land. With Gladstone's
return to the premiership, with religious
JUDGES swept eut Of existence
spirit OF federation for all, with the Iii tra
leral and National parties working in hstr-
mony there can be no doubt OF the out
come. Home rule for ireland must in
evitably follow.
The hope of Ireland Is future has it's
foundation in its past; in the great
wellspring of her national heart; it is
written by the finger OF God wherever.
| the blood of Erin flows in the veins Of
men; in that principle Of true manhood
4 and womanhood which nothing but
death can conquer; in that generous hos
fpitality, that indigenous virtue and pur-
ity Of the home, which Phillips said mo
perfdity can barter, no bribery purchase;
that with a Roman usage at once conse-
crates households, giving to the society
Of the hearth all the purity Of the altar,
which lingering alike in the palace and
the cottage are still to be found scattered
over the land; the relic of what she was
and the source Of what che is to be-"
| The history OF man is a story Of strug-
gle. Calm and sunshine succeed the
storm and the night; the path OF honest
toll and patient pain must end in fruition!.
Out of the soil of suffering springs the
flower of faith and the fruit OF peace.
a pathway uninyiting, thorny and
rough, fell to the lot Of that illustrious
servant of God, whose name. grows
brighter with the centuries, and whose
birth you now commemorate. With no
obstacles, without struggle, there would
have been no st. Patrick. IS. .:s.s
Victory is born Of struggle, and
sFreedorn's battls once begun,
Bequaathed from bleeding sire to son,
Though baf1ed Oft, is ever won = I'm
President Cyrus Northrop OF the nni-
#versity, in his address went on to say
that in case ireland did get liberty
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