The Irish standard., 1892-12-31
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1892.
uNREPoRTED SPEECHES.


uNREPoRTED SPEECHES.
a. the recent reception to John Sweet
man, NJ. p, in this city, speeches OF un-
usual bri]liancy were made on Home
Eule by Hon. Robert @. Evans, the men,
Der for Minnesota on the Republican
National Committee, by Hon. Judge
John p. Rea, Ex-C ommander-in-C Chief of
the Grand Army of The Republic, and by
Rev. DIR. Marion D. Shutter, rector OF the
Church of the Redeemer. To the great
disappointment of Mr.. Sweetman, the re-
porters of the daily papers did not give a
word of what they said. The speakers
ware three representative Americans
whose sympathy with the cause OF Ire
land was expressed in language full of the
spirit OF liberty. Judge Rea said that IN
consideration OF the services rendered to
America by the Irish race from the days
ct the Revolution to the days of the Re-
bellion, every American should Wish
Gof3-eueed to Ireland in her struggle for
freedom and elf-government. He re-
farred to Andrew Jackson, the son of an
Irish immigrant, who broke the backbone
IF the British at New Orleans in 1875
and to Gen. Phil. Fl. Sheridan, the son ct
arothar freshman, who was the Murat OF
the Civil War.
R.G. Evans disclaimed having one drop
~ Irish blood in his veins, but from his
boyhood up he loved the land Of Emmett,
and his warznest sympathy was with the
Irish people who we're SO closely united
nv ties Of consanguinity with the Ameri-
cana as to form bone of their bone and
flesh of their flesh. He dilated on the
nobility of the Irish character and hoped
that peace and prosperity would soon
come to Erin through the medium OF
national legislature to which she is emil
nently entitled bv the many sacrifices
and struggles of her gallant sons.
Rev. M. D. Shutter declared that Eng
land has never attempted to govern Ire
land. On the contrary; England has
n,;egoverned ireland for centuries SO
ahominably that if the inhabitants Of
hell had been ruled by Beelzebub as the
Irish had been by England, there would
have been rebellion in the Internal re-
p;ors that would shake the earth to it's
foundations. The sympathy of America
WAS with Ireland for it's God-given right
Of self government. And Why not? In
the early days of the American republic
when it was struggling for Home Rule as
ireland is to-day it received every en-
oourapement and support from the Irish
people. The Irish soldiers in the British
army refused to draw their swords against
the colonists, and it was found necessary
~ hind them hand and foot and carry
them by force to the boats before they
would consent to fight the Americans.
When they disembarked they deserted
IN great numbers and entered Washing
toms army. On Broadway, New York,
there is {. little church where monuments
are erscted to two gallant Irishmen-one
of whom is Thomas Adds Emmett and
She other General Montgomery who fell
ct Quebec fighting for the stars and
stripes. The three great men OF the Re-
bellion who rendered signal service by
their military genius were Grant, Sher-
man and Sheridan, and Ireland had given
Sheridan to America. The reverend
orator Quoted the words of O'Connell to
the Shareholders of South Carolina when
hs told them that God thunderbolts are
hot and that they had better release their
slaves. Rev. DR.. Shutter said he would
hike to send his voice careering across the
Atlantic orenind the aristocracy OF Eng
land that Gods thunderbolts are hot, and
that they had better permit Ireland to
make an experiment. in governing herself'
since they had given every evidence Ct
inability and unwillingness to govern the
sister island according to the usages Of
civilization. Mayor elect Eustis who had
preceded these speakers declared that
IN, parliament Of mankind and not the
BrsiIt;sh parliamen should settle the Irish
Iaues lion, and he deemed it the duty q
Americans % render every moral al eI1 Y
solution II. the problem Of selt-gov-
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