The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-03-05

ZOE AIu0IlCh - 10 procure Ill eAiu WHICH,
by its example, would be as important as
it's valor; disciplined gallant, pregnant
with science and experiences; that Of a
people who would perceive the good, and
polish the rough points of our character.
| They would come to us as strangers, and
leave us as friends. after sharing in our
perils and elevating our destiny. These
were MY objects; not to receive new
task masters; but to expel old tyrants,
| 1t was for these ends 1 sought aid from
| France; because France, even as an
enemy, could not be more implncable
than the enemy already in the bosom OF
my country.
Here he was interrupted by the court.
have been charged with that impor-
tance in the emancipation of my country
as to be considered the key. tone of the
combination of Irishmen; or, as your
lordship expressed it, "the life and blood
of tho conspiracy You do me honor
over much; you have given to the subal-
tern all the credit of g superior. There
are men engaged in this conspiracy who
are not only superior to me, but even to
your own conceptions OF yourself. my
lord-men before the splendor of whose
genius and virtues should b IVY with
respectful Difference, and who would
think themselves disgraced by shaking
vonr 1,loo1cfa;y,o1 hand
Here be WAS interrupted.
What, my lord! shall you tell me, on
the passage to the scaffold which that
tyranny Of which you are only the inter
mediate executioner has erected for my
murder, that L am accountable for all
the blood that has and will be shed in
this struggle of the oppressed against
the oppressor-shall you tell me this,
and must be SO very slave as not to
repel it? I do not fear to approach the
Onfnipotent Judge TO answer for the
conduct of my whole life; and am to be
appalled, and falsifed by a mere remnant
of mortality here? BY you, too, al
though it it were possible to collect all
the Innocent blood that you have shed in
your unhallowed ministry in one great
reservoir your )ordship might swim in it.
+ FHere the Judge interfered. -.
Let no man dare, when I am dead, to
charge me with dishonor; let no man at
taint my memory by believing that [
could have engaged in any cause bus
that of my country's liberty and ndepeu-
dence; or that 1 could have become the
plant minion of power in the oppression
and misey of my country. The procla-
nation of the provisional government
speaks for it's views; no inference can be
tortured from il to countenance barbara
ty or debasement at home, Or sublectlon,
humiliation, or treaehery from abroad.
/ would not have submitted to a foreign
oppressor, for the same reason that l
would resist the foreign and domestic
oppressor. In the dignity of freedom, 1
would have fought upon the threshold
Of my country, and it's enemy should en-
tor only by passing over my lifeless
corpse. And am T, who lived but for
nay country, and who have subjected my
self to the dangers of the jealous and
| watchful oppressor and the bondage OF
the grave, only to give my countrymen
! their rights and n1y country her indepen-
dence, am / to be loaded with calumny,
and not suffered to resent it? No; God
forbidl
! Here Lord Norbury told MIR. Emmett
that his sentiment and language dis
graced his family, but more particularly
his father. To which Mr. Emmett re-
piled:
It the spirits of tho illustrious dead
participate in the concerns and cares ct
those who were dear to them in this
| transitory life, o ever dear and vener-
ated shades of my departed father! look
down with scrutiny upon the conduct of
| YOUR suffering son, and see it I have,
even for moment, deviated from those
principles Of morality and patriotism
WHICH IL WAS yOuE CdIo w lu5CliA iubS ay
youthful mind, and. for which I am now
about to offer up my life. My lords, you
are impatient for the sacrifice. The
blood which You seek is not CONCEALED
By the artificial terrors which surround
your victim,-it circulates warmly and
unrufled through the channels which
GOD created for noble purposes, but
which you are now bent to destroy for
purposes SO grievous that they cry to
heaven. Be yet patient! I have but
few more words to say am going to
my cold and silent grave-my lamp OF
life is nearly extinguished-my race is
run-the grave opens to receive mo, and
sink into it's bosom. 1 have but one
request to ask at my departure from this
| world, it is-THE CHARITY OF IT'S slLENCE
Let no man write my epitaph; for as no
man who knows my motives dare now
vindicate them, let no prejudice or ignor-
ance aaperse them. Let them and me
rest IN obscurity- and peace, and my tomb