The Irish standard., 1896-03-07
IN EMMETT s MEMORY
How tho Event VA. cs,sbratsd ID Our
Sister CITY.
SPEECHES By 1RELAID's LEADERS
Large Mum bers Of People Unable e
Gain Admission,

Large Mum bers Of People Unable to
Gain Admission.
AT least twenty-five hundred people
1 were unable to secure admission IN Market
hall; st. Paul, on Wednesday evening last.
! the occasion being Emmett s. anniversary
celebration. On either side Of the front
Of the stage were the American flag and
the banner of the Ancient Order Of Hiber-
mans, Under whose auspices the celebra7
| ton occurred. Suspended between pictures
of Lincoln and Washington was a portrait
| of Emmett, while at the rear Of the stage
and forming a background were the Irish
| aud American flags, and between them a
I picture of Washington and Daniel O'Con-
nell cIasp:ng hands. On the stage were
Mayor Smith, Judge Egan, Moses E. Clapp
j., j. Donnelly, Judge Willis, John Nc
| earthly Of Saltwater, Asseinblyman Robb,
Rev. Father O'Brien, Corporation Attor-
ney Darragh, r.. Rearlon, Pierce Butler,
Rev. Dr.. Hebron, Judge G. d. Kerr, Rev
| Father Woods and others.
j, Z. Tierney introduced Rev. DR.. Her
said: "The purpose of this gathering is
to perpetuate the memory Of the young
| Irish patriot, known as a rebel and put to
death as such. but so, too, might be Con-
sidered the heroes Of Lexington and Bun
ker Hill The cause Of liberty and poiit-
| ical freedom has outgrown the little ISL
and and IS now the cause Of the world. In
Emmett we celebrate not alone the cause
of Ireland, but il the principles he repre-
scented were acknowledged by all the sla-
tions the world would be free within TWEEN
ty-four hours a,
Referring to Cuba and Armenia, the
speaker said wherever the cause of free
dom and the safety of men seem to be
endangered there seems togo UP a protest
from the American people and Cod
Judge G. D. Kerr in his remarks said:
"The blood Of martyrs belongs not alone
to the church, but to liberty as we'll. !: No
martyrs blood was ever shed in vain. lie
is student of history for naught who does
not understand that the stability OF Amer
lea depends largely on the stability and
patriotism Of our foreign born population.
l have sometimes thought that to the Ger
man the words father, mother, home and
country meant more than to people OF
other nations. The 1rishman has already
no country, for the harp that once thro'
Tara's hall resounded is silent now. TO
the Irishman loyalty to his native isle is
forbidden, and patriotism is crime, and
in no race is patriotism more OF an in
born virtue than in the Irish. Today the
ship Of state seems to be sailing amid
perilous waters, but as 1 look into your
faces see no faltering when duty and our
country calls In the harbor of New York
+haro OF ct latino NJ liberty with ny1t-
stretched arm holding out the torch of
freedom to the nations of the world. May
/ hope that its light extending across the
seas may awaken the fame Of freedom
in the sile that gave an Emmett girth."
Ex-Attorney General Moses e. Clapp
said: Robert Emmet, by devotion to
principle, by love of his country, by his
heroic life and tragic death, left his foot
prints on the sands of time. To our for
eign born population here tonight We say,
we kneel with you at the shfire '0T Elm
met, and you can turn and kneef M1Gh JUS
at the shrine of Washington and Lincoln:
Great men may perish, but they live in
history. The Irishman who has learned
and thought of the great men that have
burned themselves In the pages of the
history of their country have learned to
love and respect this country. Within
the last few weeks the United States has.
said to England, Thus far and no further
and living Salisbury quails before the
shadow of dead Emmett
Gazing on the shadow Of Emmett, can
see him where are marshaled the heroes
of by-gone ages and hear proclaimed,
Behold the stone which the builders re-
jected is become the headstone of the cor
ner'"
G. D. 0'Brien was the next speaker In
part he said: eve love our country, but
this duty done, may we not turn to the
old mother country, which taught us the
duty of patriotism? This IS a nation that
stands around graves of murdered kins-
men Although Emmett had said his grave
should be unmarked and his epitaph not
written if he could be here tonight and
see his name written ON the hearts Of
grateful people and handed down to chill,
dren to leave behind them, the question
might be asked. What better monument
could be desirel?'" @ ~
John Mccarthy, president of the state
association of the A. @. H., addressed the
meeting OF the Mature, Purposes, and
Organization of the Order and gave a
statistical history of its work in Mime
sofa. f I'D
Judge Kelly, upon being called upon,
said: sfThis is the anniversary of Enfnet's
birth. burt we look .nstinctively from his
cradle to the scaffold; from that scaffold
to the ,mlettered slab which marks his,
ashes; from the grave to the cause for
which he died and made scaffoAd and
grave landmarks in history forever. His
name and memory will never die with
such an heritage Of immortality. After
but twenty-five years Of living, the story
of this man glows with the lights and
shades of a poem He came into this
world when it was racked by the. most
rnomentous OF political. commissions. The
farmers had fred upon the kings men at
Cnnnnrd and Iexin gtnn and the reYerher-