The Irish standard., 1896-12-19
One. Of These was Hanged from Z 4;
Cart Because Of his Irish #
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Devotion. .S
Two Uncles Of the Unfortunate
Man had Come to this coun- \
try Shortly Before.
1t is from One Of These that the
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President, William Mckinley,
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The following article appeared in the
New. York Press on October 25th. It
makes interesting reading, and surely
no one will accuse us Of partisanship for
publishing it now. We are sure our
president t-elect will do honor to his irish
ancestry, says the Catholic Union aud
Times.
In the little graveyard of Derrykeigh-
+ en-, among the fair hills of Antrim, ON
thesnortheast coast of ireland, is moss
grown, ivy-wreathed monument Long
ago it was erected there by the hands of
sturdy Presby terian patriots, who wished
to honor the memory Of one who had
passed from among them. sacrificed to
the cause he and they loved.
The body OF their comrade, few
troubled months before, had dangled
from q gallows in the public square in
Coleraine That comrade was William
Mckinley Of Dervock.
Mckinley was splendid specimen of
irish manhood. He had a heart in which
the blood boiled when he thought Of the
wrongs from which his country suffered
and the injustice which his countlymen
were forced to endure. And so, when
Theobald Wolfe Tone and Henry Jay Nc
Cracker and George Munro and Thomas
Russell called on the men of Ireland to
rescue their motherland from slavery he
was among the first to respond.
Dervock was pretty village then, as
now. Not far to the north are the head
lands of Antrim, and the sough Of the
sea as it rolls over the columns of the
Causeway and into the caves may be
heard In it's single street when the night
is silent.
In the valley below the town, by the
banks of the Bush, night after night, b.
fore the outbreak of '93, the young farm
ers of the neighborhood led by Mckinley,
their captain, learned to WELD the pike
fright soldierly' and prepared to take
part in the coming struggle, which they
fondly hoped would bring to Ireland the
blessings of liberty which their kith and
kin had won for the new land beyond the
western ocean.
The wished-for day at length arrived
and the United Irishmen were called to
the field to do battle with England's red
coats
i Mckinley and his men went south,
past Ballymena until they Joined Nc
Cracken's forces. They were with him
|gat the battle of Antrim, when victory for
time blessed the arms Of the patriots.
and they were among the last to seek
safety. in flight, when accident, working
| for the British, turned the tide to defeat
and disaster.
Mckinley ventured back to Dervock,
believing himself safe among his old
neighbors, who would be sure to battle
the hunting parties of yeomanry It was
a fatal step. The price for rebel was
tempting.
AT Dervock lived a family named
Smith. The Smiths were rot in the best
of odor In the community, and were
known to have been engaged in shady
ftransaetions. No man would think for
q moment OF taking one Of the Smiths
into the United men; and the head OF
The house, Chestnut Smith, always made
profession of hissloyalty to the crown.
2. McKinley's hiding place was kept a
close secret, and except to the most
TRUSTED, 1t was given out that he had es-
! caped to America.
The yeomen frequently searched the
houses in SDervock and all round It, and
every nook in which they thought; a man AZ,
could be concealed, but they had this
trouble for nothing. i o Il .5S.
-Four weeks passed, and McKinleys q l
lhouse was bfackened ruin, and his. fam
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| The visits Of the relocated rnaraud-
ters3 to- Dervock had grown less frequent!
and Mckinley and his friends began toy
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think he; could come out Of hiding and
make an effort to set out Of the country;
| They were reckoning, however, With
I.out; Chestnut Smith. Before they could
put their plans II execution, Smith Nhal,-;
Epened to call iii the house In which Me-
lKinley was concealed, &, and an sssind dis ~ I
Icretton on the part of one Of the inmates
aroused his suspicions. }iss:: sSs5 s5
- Not many s. inttes later he was 81, Z u
Eway to Coleraine, wi word tor q the cal.
Etatn Of tie EDS That
sl,i strong force of soldie III
Iofi iDervock and Mel
ie. redepats set lllcnas
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