The Irish standard., 1895-12-28
THE new MOVEMENT

THE new MOVEMENT
Magnificent Peroration Of Colonel
O'Byrne's Recent Address.
The following was the closing portion Of
Col. OByrne's speech delivered in San
Francisco at the recent commemoration
there OF the martyrdom Of Allen, Larkin
and O'Brien:
'But in his time over forty years had
passed away and she that was thought dead
lived again! From the ashes Of her sons
started UP armed champions Men asked
if the prophecy Of Ezekiel was not realized
if life was not breathed in5o the whitened
bones Of the slain? else whence came these
warriors that Numbered from the hill
tops
up with the flag! we stand before
Eae Saxons of the days of yore-,
| In SaXons of our own 2, 7t
! Then ensued a desoiatin g and unrelent-
! ing war. For ten years the contest last
| ad-:a period forever Respondent in Irish
| history, by the signal victory OF Bsnburb--
won by the great captain, Owen Roe
ONeiil
Coipc;dent with O'Neill's death, Crom-
we'll took up the gage OF battle-that STERN
es. and most cruel of all Iraland's foes.
In two years he completed, as he and the
English thought, the final conquest OF Ire
land To use the emphatic popular say
ing of today, the Irish were all 'fsant to
hell or Jamacai."
| Her bravess were then dead-at Drog~
! heda, Thurles, Wexford and Limerick
by every hill and in every ravine the bones
of her sons lay whitening.
In the sWeltering cane brakes of jana
| lea, and in the tobacco plantations of Vir-
ginia, her living were scattered. A new
race was planted on her soil, and hence
forth Ireland was ta be easily governed
Such were the reflections of English states
men two hun ired years ago, and fifty years
have belied thar calculations In twenty
years after Cronwall's butcheries Ireland
was again in the field, erect as ever, with
front unblanched, led by Sarstield, one of
| her greatest SONS, and performed prod.gles
CT valor at the lost battles Of the ''Boyne'
ara *"Aughrim," and made Limerick as
notable to the Celt, as Thermopylae to the
; Greek.
| Disaster followed, and for a generation
| the history of Ireland was enacted in the
camps hther and beyond the Danube,
where her ex:led sons maintained the ma
! tional honor for yalor and fidelity, and the
soldier spirit found another sphere OF &C
ton. England felt, 80 g very certainty,
! that the Irish question was finally settled.
! But Molvneaux, Swift, Lucas slowly but
surely these IN dark days educated the puD-
| lie mind and reinvigorated the public sp.r-
it.. In 1772 the volunteers by their motto,
Free trade or e!se-painted upon the
! breech of thair cannon. Independence was
! TN result, unparalleled prosperity and dig
nifty followed, England was alarmed-pro-
claimed Ireland's independence. Unheard
of bribery and corruption undid The work
of the volunteers. The Earpsn..'s cunning
| was unavailing The struggles OF 1898 and
| 1903 are well known as earnest and bloody
protests AGAINST English domination. The
union was then consunllated, and London
made laws were in future to 1nettle every
possible form Of Irish discomfort. But
did ii? Let O'Conanell, and his Titanic,
and measurably successful struggle. let
O'Brien and Meagher, McManus and
O'Donoghue answer from their graves
What meanesh this? Is it that she is
fated to suffer, never to win, never to
come forth with the laurel wreath OF the
conqueror? No, no! the earth cannot
suck in, the blood shed SO profusely for her
on Thousand fields; establishes neF claim
| to nat:onlocd it mounts to- heaven for
vengeance, and, as sure as God lives, Heav-
en- will avengs it,
! Freedom 5 battle once begun, =
Becyeathed from bleeding sire to son.
Though baffled oft, is ever Won!
| Though IN her tomb she lies helpless
| and motion,ess, still there is on her lips a
shirt of life, and on her cheek glow OF
beauty. y
ssTgno1l art not conquered; beauty's ensign
| yet
I Is cr!msoned on thy lips and on thy
And deaths pale flag is not advanced
there
Every generation of men seem to take
I'D and perform their mysteriously allotted
| nart. Thus it IS we recognize the instru-
mentality of a benificant in all of those
great upr;sings of the Irish people "to have
their own back again. The blood split in
Yhf,,ns was not lost. The heroes VINO fought
end the martyrs who died, fought and died
nnt in vain. They kept burning the bright
! Iar,ns Of PATRIOTISM, that lighted the way
tn gl,ry and death They linked together
,,hat, line of heroic resistance to the invader
that commenced when the first foaman
| desecrated thy SOIL Oh! holy Ireland, and
that will end only when thy homes are as
h9nDv as tiny hearts have been desolate;
| when thy abundance WAll Dc DIS Douulilul
as thv poverty has been bitter; when thy
glory will be as resplendent. and as uni
versa, as thy misery was intense and igno-
nointo,,s: when thy affairs will De AS free
as inv conscience was ens.avsd; when mon
unents to Uhy heroes shall OCCUPY toe high
nlaces. and those Of thy enemy be leveled
in the dust: when thy own flag, emblazon-
"a With thy victories, will be shaken out to
the unclaimed wind before The enraptured
gans Of a free people, whose acclamatioas
will be heard by thy sain5ed dead; when
ty1.anny shall be #oyer.lrovn, and IN its
stead liberty stand erect, a.o:ce--shea VIII
resistance 10 the invaders end; but net till
then: "A great burst of applause again and
again continued TO reward the eloluence OF
| the orator.
4 5petst:on was circulated and signed by
The majority. of The, audience calling upon
The Irish Americans nf San Francisco to
organize at once local councils Of the. Ma
lt:onal Alliance.
Another Important An nounceme ntby
the Northern Pacific.
\ "a fhe, through tourist car service be-