Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-23


Ga this ST.. Patrick day it is
apropos that we should copy the
following sublimely eloquent and
enthusingly patriotic tribute toIre-
land that appears in the editorial
columns of the current issue of the
Wilson Mirror:
Three weeks ago we made mems
ton of the great speech that had
Just been made in the British ar
lament by Mr.. Gladstone, who is
perhaps the ablest. wisest, broad
est statesman Of this century.
Though passed his "three score
and ten" yet his erandspeech On
that occasion for Home Rule for
Ireland. burned and glowed with
all those thrilling fires of oratory
which has SO often electrified the
palse of the populace and started
it in widest throbbings of enthu-
siasm. And that speech for Home
Rule for the Emerald Isle has made
deep impression the wide world
over, and the belief is now getting
into the minds of many people that
Ireland-the Niobe of Nations
bowed down for so many centuries
nnder the weight of oppressi IN,
with brow SO long weary with the
aureole Of persecution and afh;c-
tion, is about to come ont of the
ashes OF her humiliation and degre
dation, and don forever the beau
teons rooes cf social, religious and
political independence.
The long, lonely, dark, bitter
and dismal night OF watching and
waiting and longing and praying,
with scarcely a star ofhope to look
down through the rayless gloom of
despondency. and drop CLEAN of
cheer upon the inky sea Of her
trouble and oppression, is about to
melt in the golden foodslight OF
that glorious morning of deliyer-
ance VIII ch will shower down upon
that down trodden people all the
blessings and all the innumerable
privileges that are Dursed beneath
the warmth-giving beams of the
Godssent sun-burst of indepen-
dence.
Yea, verify, her night is passing.
The brilliant darts of an efulgent
morning, shot from the crimson
bow of the glided Orient, are even
now penetrating the bosom of
darkness, and are glittering amid
its gloomy drapery with such quiY-
erings Of brightness as to deaden
and paralyze its power, and make
it die amid the famings of the fast
coming daylight of freedom and
independence. And we are not
surprised at the outlook. The pa-
triotism of Ireland, and its devo-
ton to the hallowed traditions of
the past must needs bear whole
some fruit, and that fruit is only
to be garnered in the golden harc
vest.time of home rule by the peo.
pie and fer the people. The agita-
tion of the demand for home rule
has ceased to be discussion. 1t
has now become revolution of
public sentiment, and revolutions
never 20 backwards They spr cad
and spread and widen and widen,
and flame up higher and higher,
and grow up in their furious sweep
like wind-driven fire amid the suns
parched grass on the boundless
praisies of the West. The touch
|of the palm Of Erin's sufferings ups
On the great harp of humanity
made it's strings vibrate with re.
sponsive melody, and world lis.
tened in sympathetic sorrow to the
mournful canticle of her wild and
passionate woe Yes, Ireland's
protect against manifest injustice
is the voice of suffering humanity
raised in eloquent protest
against Implying and BAR
barous oppression 1t is the
utterance of freedoms abb
horenee of Fendalism. Long ago
Ireland's woes touched the heart
OF ali Christendom, save only Eng.
land, the fcrger Of her chains.
British craftsmanship ignored Irish
suypiications; British ears were
deaf to Irish argument ! Did
her people cease to press their
cause Still did they implore,
still did they resist, still did the
defenders of the land of Emmett
and Gra:tans denounce British in
intolerance and demand home rule
for people SO long dominated and
robbed. Physical resistance to
British oppression was impossible;
armed resistance to British greed
would have been suicidal. The
battle has been fought and the vics
tory so soon to be realized accolna
plished by the gallantry of Irish
patriots, who, in the forum and
through the press, set forth the
enormity of Ireland's expressions,
and with fervid love of country
labored to abate them. Not for q
decade-not for a century-but
through the centuries Irish patriots
have breathed into the ears of hu-
manity the sorrowful story of Ire
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