The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-06
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General walker anyv-s.l the Tories at
trinity college Celebration in Dublin.
A Dublin letter from P. o'Neill Lark
in, printed in the Boston Record, tells
Of the sensation created by President
Walker, Of the Boston institute of tech.
nology at the recent centennial Of Trini-
ty college. One of the speeches Of the
day was made by General Walker, who
represented our national academy OF
sciences. Mr.. Larkin says: with the
most impeTturbale coolness he violated
all the ancient traditions Of the Tory
university by referring TO the green
flag OF Ireland carried by his own com.
rades in arms, Meagher and Cas- and
their men, in the terrible days on Vir-
gilman soil, when the fate OF the
union was the stake at issue. Talk
Of green flags carried by expatriated
Irishmen 10 the professors and board
OF Trinity college! And worse' still,
paying the highest tribute to the Irish
rebel, General Meagher, who was sem
fenced to death by British judge for
high treason against Queen Victoria
and who escaped to the United States
in an American ship in manner very
similar to the late John Boyle 0'Reillyl
/ watched the general as he stepped to
tho forefront OF the dais In that quiet,
dignifed manner which he possesses.
But as he proceeded in his speech be-
fore that brilliant assemblage, and the
spirit and stirring events OF the past
flowed into the current of his thought,
warmth OF expression, an undertone
OF deep feeling, and glow OF fervoS as
he referred to his dead Irish-American
comrades, awakened enthusiastic cheer
ing among the students OF old Trinity,
where an address Of such character was
neyor heard before.
"The general began by saying that he
came from a country which had more
Irish blood in it than Ireland possesses,
and that he had sailed from New York,
which was the largest Irish city in the
world. 1t had been said at the pre-
sentation. OF the addresses that Ireland
knew no bounds, but, after all, blood
was thicker than water, and he came
before the graduates of an Irish uni
yersity with some added confidence in
kind reception because he was an
American.
"For two and half years Of desper-
ate work 1t had been his proud privi-
lege to act as the adjutant general OF
that corps OF the United States army
which included the two brigades ex-
cIusively Irish, and during that time he
bore on his breast the Official badge Of
his corps-the shamrock. What prodi-
eies of yalor were performed by the
Irish regiments? Probably never be-
fore in history was Irish valor so con.
spicuously shown. He would never for
get the ringing cheer with which the
brigade Of Meaeher-every man with
sprig of green in his cap, and with the
green flag OF Ireland waving with the
stars and stripes in front-swept over
the low crest which had sheltered 1t
during its formation on the plain Of
fredericksburg, and how it charged
over the field swept from end to end
with direct and exploding fires-up
against the sunken road and the stone
fence held by four ranks OF veteran
rifemen, the flower Of the superb south
ern chivalrv.
"From that fatal field to use the
words OF its own commander, the Irish
Brigade turned away to the hospital.
and to the grave. But what Irishmen
had done for America in arms was,
after all, far less than what they had
done for America in upbuilding free
states, magnificent in their present
wealth and full Of illimitable possibili-
ties of glory and OF greatness.
ITO say thatthe big wigs Of the uni-
yersity were amazed at General Walk
er's eulogy on Irish valor in connection
with General Meagher and his reference
to green flags is to fall far short Of the
truth. Some Of them looked actually
dazed, while others showed quite
plainly that they did not relish the
generals "reminiscences. But the
young students, many OF whom are
scions Of Tory houses, cheered enthusi-
astically again and again"