The Irish standard., 1897-03-13
Wonder Why We Worship at the
British Shrine So Long
in America.
A Long List Of Reasons Given Why
We Should Oppose the
Enemy.
England Has Ever Wreaked her
Vengeance upon America
When She Could.

Under date of 1915 he New York Cor
rector had this to say about now our
people were even at that time clnging TO
everything British:
{ 1t is not only astonishing, bu+ really
hunliliating to observe with what VEN
eration a certain class Of Our good citt-
zens look upon everything Of British
birth, or British origin; ard with what
sic1ly affectation and parrlcidal con-
tempt they speak of their own country,
it's powers. its products, its government,
its manners and it's institutions.
s.. @This is neither the effect Of ar1bi-
tion, of power. Of honest prejudice, nor
of party heat. 1t results from inmate
and conscious; httleness. It is the obla-
ton of low. grovelling and sycophantic
spirit--of mind that shrinks from indie
pendence and graduates to tyranny, as
atoms to the center. flt must not
be disguised II *that there Is
another class !" more numerous
and more respectable: possessed Of tai
ents, if not Of integrity; and OF influence,
| If not Of patriotism --professedly at;
tached to their country, its interests and
its honor, who, nevertheless
seem to look up to the English with
kind of awful reverence; a. sort of be-
wildered admiratoll-as the source of
all that is sublime and beautiful on
earth!
| From whence arises this strange at
tachment? Is it to be traced to those
| Turing and auiable qualities that base
and constitute the character of an Eng
.lishman? That inflated arrogance, that
| assumption of excellence: that boast OF
power, which admits of no equal and al
| lows of no recognition; that insolent but
affected contempts of other governments
and other countries; that inpotent but
imposing attitude; that nerveless but
dictatorial spirit-~in short, that boasted
and exclusive perfection in arts, and in
arms, in morals and in manners! Or does
it arise from their superior observance OF
religious duties? Is Our admiration ex-
cited by the false and affected piety-
| that hypocrital devotion which, amid
lust and rapine, murders. masacres and
1 conf1agrations, sacriligeously appeals to
the cross, and assumes at once the con-
troll and defense of the Christian world?
Are these the captivating traits that
dazzle our countrymen? Are these the
allurjng qualities that Danish from our
breats that love Of country, that spirit
of independence, that self-respect, and
! all those local affections which nature
has implanted alike in the Indian and
the Arab? Or does the remembrance OF
the maternal solicitude and protection of
England during our f1lial vassalage In
spire us with .unbounded admiration!
Is the debt of gratitude for the support
of our infancy, and for the manifold
blessings bestowed upon us in our r1per
years, never to be discharged?
| Is our love excited by the recollection
I OF her affectionate embraces at LexiDg-
| ton--her more than maternal fondness
| In arming the merciless savages ana
| mourning them upon our defenseless
women and children-her employment OF
the mercenary barbarians OF Germany
and the refuse of her own kingdom to
ravage our coasts to burn our cities, and
to carr fire and sword into the heart OF
our peaceful country-in short, to rob us
of our property and freedom, and to re-
duce us to q state of servile dependence,
Of base and unconditional submission!
Does the recollection of these things:
does her own history, or the history OF
our revolution, fill US with unmeasur:
sable respect?
Or. must we descend to her more re-
cent achievements, and attribute IT 70
her total disregard Of the laws OF ma
tions. and OF those principles that gov:
ern the civilized world--to the spOiIa-
tions of our commerce and the impress' !
ment Of our seanca; to the murder o.
Pierce: to the base and cowardly attack
upon the Chesapeake; to the inhuma4
treatment Of American prisoners; to the
petty pillage and wautoal destruction q
private property at llavre-de-Grace; tq2
the shocking outrages ct Hampton; 20
the burning Of the capitol; TO the horrta pol - !
mnt.,ations and nassacrss Of orrlaleS,s
fenseless inhabitants by her Scotcn!
fans and savege alies, and, lastlJ
that bastard cruelty, that characteIr I1l8s;
! ba.eness, that blpodthirsty dispoeilf lssgs, sol
displayed in TIE late n, murders. !, IS
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