The Irish standard., 1894-09-22

America and rapidly became popular
Every man of the Irish Brigade knew it
and it was often sung at the bivouac firt
| after hard days fighting. An extra
|ordinary instance of lts popularity was
Igiven the night of the bloody battle o1
| Fredericksburg. The Federal Army lay
isleepless aud watchful ON their arms
with spirits dampened by the loss of SC
many gallant comrades. To cheer his
brother officers, Capt. ID. j. Downing
sang bis favorite song The chorus OF
the first stanza was taken up by his regi~
ment, next by the brigade, next by the
division, then by the entire line of the
larmy for six miles along the river; and
when the Captain ceased, it WAS to listen
with indeinable feelings to the chant
THAT came like an echo from the Con-
Gfederate lines on the opposite shore, Of
4 "Dear old Ireland,
Brave old Ireland,
Ireland, boys, hurrah''
T. The song, "God Save Ireland" became
popular with even greater rapidity. It
was issued at an hour when Ireland was
stirred to intenser depths of anger and
of sorrow than perhaps at any single
moment in the last quarter of a century,
and this profund and intense feeling
longed for voice. When 'God Save
Ireland" was produced, the people at
once took it up, and SO instantaneously
that the author himself heard it sung
and chorused in railway carriage on
the very day after it's publication in the
Nation.
I On several other occasions che pen Of
T. D. Sullivan has given popular express
sion to popular sentiment. 1t has been
his invarlable rule in composing these
songs to make them "bailads' in the true
sense of the word-songs, that is to say,
that expressed popular sentiment in the
language of everyday life; that had good,
Catching rymes, and that could be easily
sung.
| IT will not be necessary to write at
length of the Parliamentary career of T.
I'D. Sullivan. he was elected for County
IWe Weatmeath, at the General Election Of
E188D and, in spite of the absorbing nature
6f his journalistic duties, he has been
one of the most active and one OF the
most attentive. members Of the party.
He has been, perhaps, still more promin"
ont on the platform, and it is at large
! Irish popular gatherings that his speech
ie most effective. He is Irish Of the
Irish, ana expresses the deep and simple
gospel of the people IN language that
goes home; and then his keen sense of
humor enables him to supply that ele-
meut of amusement which is always
looked forward to with eagsrness by the
crowd. He often fights up his Parlia-
mentary, like his conversational efforts,
with bright flashes of wit. Speaking OF
special clauses in the Crimes Act for the
protection of certain humble agents OF
the law, one night, he declared, "There's
q divinity doth hedge bailiff, rough Use
him as we may" "Punctuality," he said
once to colleague who turnedup at a
meeting with characteristic lateness;
"punctuality, in the opinion of the Irish
Party, is the thief of time''
| It is when the county meeting is over
and T. D. Sullivan sits amid a genial
crowd of sympathetic friends, that his
best-certainly his most attractive--tal.
ents are seen. Like all the Sullivan
family, he has plenty of musical ability,
and, has splendid voice. A song by T.
d. Sullivan has never been really under
stood until it has been sung by T. D.
himself. His voice-loud, clear, pene-
tra,ing-easily leads the chorus, no mat
ter how many voices join; and he throws
himself into the spirit of the thing with
all hie heart and soul. His singing of
'sMurty Hynes" is worth going miles to
hear.
Such has been the career of T. D. Sui
livan-honorable, consistent and tranquil.
He has to. day the same convictions
which guided his pen when he wrote
surreptitious verses. He has stood by
the same convictions through years OF
trial and failure; he is as fresh and vigor-
GUS in pushing them forward at this
hour, when his hairs are gray, as he was
when he sailed, in boyhood's auroral
days over Bantry Bay. His verses have
marked the epochs they have helped to
produce, have won for him the affection
of millions of Irish hearts, and form one
of the many potent chains. Of memory
and love and bind the scattered children
of the Celtic mother to their race and
their cradle-land
] The Evergreen State.
It seems strange to talk about state
located far north Of the latitude of Penn.
syIvania and Ohio as being an Evergreen
State. In the Puget Sound country
above the 49th parallel, the grass is green
l I1oov, ont ~ 1<&o,e