The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-07-15
AGEM OF ORATORY
The Fourth OF July Grafton De-
ivered In Buffalo, N. T., by
~ Father Cronin.
THE CONTINENTAL ARMY
The God Of Battles Consecrated
4 It's Banners and Blessed It's
Glorious Cause.

It's Banners and Blessed It's
Glorious Cause.
Father Cronin, the brilliant editor of
the Catholic Union and Times, was the
Fourth Of July orator in Buffalo, n. Y.
The Express of that city says that the
reverend orator was greeted with enthu-
siastic applause on being introduced by
Aid. Coe, and that throughout his al
dress he was frequently interrupted with
applause and was congratulated on all
sides at it's conclusion. Following is a
verbatim report of Father Cronin's ad-
dress:-
FELLOW C1rIzENs:-For the honor con-
ferred upon me to day by this, the fair
city OF my home so proudly throned by
her storied lake, am profoundly CRATE
full. It il not the first time I have re-
ceived similar favors at her queenly
hands; for, elevenayears ago to- day, when
the present President of the United
States was Mayor If Buffalo, I had the
honor of reading the immortal document
which you have just heard, as the city
laid the corner stone of yonder stately
shaft to commemorate the patriotic valor
OF her sons on land and sea.
Since the Declaration OF independence
was first publicly read by John Nixon
naturalized Irishman-in independence
Square, Philadelphia, liz years ago,
while the Liberty Bell proclaimed to the
world the immortal event, the annual
advent of this historic day has never
failed to awaken proud recoll+ ctions and
patriotic emotions in every American
heart But in this memorable Columbian
year, while in our Western metropolis
the people of the whole world are paying
tribute to the unparalleled achievements
of the young Republic, there is added to
the celebration of the nations natal day
q special and profound significance which
ought to impress every citizens heart with
sentiments OF overhowing gratitude and
praise.
The necessarily short time allotted to
these remarks compels the compression, it
not the entire suppression, of manifold
thoughts that naturally swell up in all
our hearts to-day. Only III years since
the Republic, begotten by tho genius of
liberty and baptized in the blood of revo-
lutionary heroes, flung from her radiant
form the shackles of the enslaver and
trampled his red banner in the dust; and
10! the United States of America is al
ready q giant among the nations, with
sixty-tive millions of freemen for her
sons leach citizen king-with teem-
ing territory, boundless beyond the
dreams of Caesar or Alexander, and with a
glory Of varied and manifold wealth that
oriental fancy never pictured.
Both in the achieved Independence
which We celebrate to day, as we'll as in
thesnar velous discovery of this land, the
benefcent and sustaining hand of Provi-
dance is plainly manifest. Almighty God
had intended it IS an inheritance for the
millions of His suffering children who
had groaned so long and 90 hopelessly
under the lash of the taskmaster and the
tyranny Of kings. Destined to achieve
greater glory than the Rome of Romulus,
which fused many tribal bloods into one
iron-souied people Populus Romanus-
the American Nation, founded upon the
principles OF self governmental civil
and religious equality opened wide its
arms to the downtrodden people OF the
world; bade them to come hither and
enjoy the milk and honey Of this favored
Hand; and build up on it's trackless, virgin
soil people--the product OF many racial
bloods-before whose marvellous develop
.ment and manifold glory, the olden world
OF kings and thrones should pale. And
they did come from beyond all the seas,
with result which is emblazoned in
characters Of golden light IN every ham
let, town and city between the two
oceans; and which especially sparkles
with. indescribable splendor to- lay at the
greatest of all Worlds Fairs in our
s.Yenice Of the West"
Surely if men were ever inspired from
on high, it was the illnstrious Revolu-
tionary Fathers, who formulated the
principles Of the Declaration of Inde
pendence and laid the foundations broad
& and deep Of our American system Of gov-