The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-06-24
THE HOLOCAUST.n Z
An Article Of Stirring Eloquence on
the Execution Of Allen, Lar 7
kin and O'Brien.

the Execution Of Allen, Lar z
kin and O'Brien.
THE MANCHESTER MARTYRS.
The Patriotic Production is AS
cribed to the Pen Of Isaac
Butt Or DR., Sigerson.
The following article. which appeared
in special edition of the Dublin 'sIrish-
man" on the morning Of the 23d of No
vember, 1867, is perhaps one Of the ablest
literary works which ever adorned the
columns Of an Irish newspaper. For it's
publication the publisher was sent to
Jail, and the Attorney General who
prosecuted said of it at the trial that ''it
was written by no ordinary pen, and he
told the jury Perhaps you may live
many years-you may drink deep Of the
stream of literature, but I believe you
will seldom meet in your reading an ar
ticle of more power, OF more vigor, Of
more stirring eloquence, than that article
The Holocaust It was at first at
tributed to the glowing pen Of Isaac Butt,
but it is believed to have been written
by one who still lives, and whose pen has
frequently rendered splendid services
to the cause of Ireland--we mean the
learned DR.. Sigerson, of Dublin.
THE HOLOCAUST.
Deaf to all warnings, however ominous,
spurning alike the arguments of the just
and the prayers of the nerciful, the
Government of England has this day
done deed of blood which shall over
shadow it's name before the, whole world.
Nothing can account for it's perpetra-
tion, against all the urgings Of states
msnship and humanity, save alone the
blindness which falls from Heaven upon
overweening pride. 81
Clouds Of passion and prejudice hare
wrept their councils round; thick and
gloomy, and terrible as ever fell the
black night Of darkness upon the Egypt
ain land because said the Lord God Of
Israel, 'ye would not let my people co.
Hapless people! Fortunate only in
the protection of the soyereign-The
King Of Kings, the Judges, the .Ayenger
OF oppressed innocence, who shall surely
nete out alT offenders, retribution with
interest to the uttermost farthing.
Hapless peop'e! They have been re-
quired to build without stones, to make
bricks without straw; and when their
taskmasters have found the task not COM
pleted. the lash has been laid unspar-
ingly on their backs.
For they we're deprived Of their lands,
and punished for beng poor; deprived Of
their liberty, and scourged for being
serfs; deprived of their teachers, and
slain alike for learning and for being
ignorant.
Those days, they exclain, have passed
and gone away. We have long desired
to govern you mildly and we'll.
Thus they cry out. And since when,
we ask, has this change been shown.
Was it in the Relief Act? granted
merely through fear of civil war.
Was it in the prosecution Of the Trib-
une who won it?
Was it in the famine, which slew it's
millions under their flag?
Was it in the exile of those gallant
men whose counsels would have guided
them to avert the popular death?
When and where can we behold this
benefcent change of policy? Let it not
be hid from the nation.
r. Was it III the mouthine of the Viceroy,
who incessantly proclaimed that Ireland
was proper only for brute beasts, not for
men?
| Was it IN millions exodus fleeing from
all ports. before his fat, to the uttermost
ends Of the earth?
Was It in the refusal to this day to
change system OF their land laws which
plumbers them Of their hard won earn
ings, and drives them out bare and
miserable, sick and dying, in the heat OF
summer and in the icy chills of winter,
from the homesteads Of their fathers,
from the native land Of their race?
| Let it be shown to Us this change
which should make us glad.
| Is it 10 be found in the benignity oi
rulers whose faces we never see, but
whose swords we have often fet?
Is it to be found in q denial that We
have right 10 voice IN our own gov.
ernment like Hungary, like kustralia
like Canada. like any colony soever ol
the empire, however small provided il
be not ireland?
Finally, the wrongs and grievances d
the country are admitted. Englial
statesmen have denounced them n thu