The Irish standard., 1898-04-16
A REMARKABLE ADDRESS IN LON
DON DY LORD DUFFERIN.
IS PROUD OF HIS REBEL BLOOD.
A KINSMAN OF aIENRY GRATTAN AND
A RELATION OF EMMETT.
he IS STILL A BRITISH lMpERAlIsT.
A SUCCESSFUL STATESMAN FOR THE
SAXON GOVERNMENT.


London, an address was made by Lord
Dufferin, formerly governor-general Of
Canada, and recently viceroy OF India,
in which he said in part:
1t was universally acknowledged that
to every other province. (Hear, hear)
1t was equally known that to be an
fisherman was equivalent to a title of
honor, and that the inhabitants of these
Islands might be more conveniently sub
divided into Irishmen, Englishmen,
Scotchmen, and the men of Ulster,
(Laughter.) In those circumstances he
trusted that their sensitive Scotch
friends, who, in their prediction for
tho term Of Great Britain, seemed in
cllned to leave Ireland altogether out of
account, when they had persuaded Lord
Salisbury to invent for official use some
ingenious polysyllable which should
phonetically represent the ethnical clc-
ments Of which tho nation was COLI
posed, to the exclusion and suppression
OF the name of England, hitherto known
to history and to Europe-he trusted
that, at all events, one Joint in what
Will probably prove very cacophonous
appellation would be assigned to Ulster.
(Hear, hear.) And, furthermore, in
view OF the intention of ambitious little
Wales to have her national leek-.for
| 1t was evident that two harps could not
! meet together In unison upon the same
| fleld-planted upon tho national escutch-
con, ne trusted that also to the Red Hand
OF Ulster similar hospitality would be
extended (Cheers). But as it was q
very vulgar thing for people ostenta-
tously to boast of the advantages de-
rived from the mere accident even of
geographical birth, although he believed
special providence watched DER theirs.
nc would not insist further upon topic
which might excite tho susceptibilities
OF the ordinary commonplace English
man or Britisher who had had the mis-
fortune to be born outside tho limits
OF Ulster. Naughter) But there was
another circumstance which enhanced
the pleasure he experienced in occupy-
ing that chair. 1t was that he did so in
succession to the most distinguished
1rishman Of his generation-(c -(cheers)-
! to the representative Of what was In all
probability the Oldest family in Ulster,
to man whose great talents, whose
brilliant career at the bar whose Dis
tlnguished services as a statesman in
Parliament, and, above all, whose blame
less reputation and lofty character had
advanced him to the august position of
Lord Chief Justice Of England. (Re-
newed cheers.) AS Lord Russell of
killowen had so finely said, the object
OF the Ulster Association was to prove
to the world that though they might
differ in regard to certain political opln-
ions OF tho day, they were still able to
meet in friendly intercourse, and to find
common bond of union and Of SYM
nathy in love and devotion to their
country. (Checrs) The love of country
was passion irradically planted in the
heart OF every Irshman-(hear, hear)--
and however deep and profound may be
the affection which they entertained for
the rude features of their own blacl,
North, he was suro there was not one
FISHERMAN present who did not heartily
acknowledge that he was an Irshmar
first and an fisherman afterwards
(hear, hear)-nor, he was sure, were
there any present who had the happi.
ness OF listening to Lord Russell who
did not heartily sympathize with his
pathetic claim to take an equal pride
with the rest Of his countrymen in The
heroic careers and in the achievements
Of those Irishmen who In the past age:
risked or lost their lives in defense o
what they believed to be a sacred cause
no matter under which king they Tough
or to which political cause they adj
hered AS for himself, he confessed thai
he was as proud Of being able to claim
kinship with the noble Earl of Lucan
the gallant General Sarsfield and his as
sociates, who confronted King William
at the Boyne, and so gallantly defended
Limerick, and OF his Celtic ancestry az
he was Of his Scotch forefathers, who
in conjunction with their Protestan
friends and co-religionists, came ovel
and endowed the woods and wastes O
Down with their present prosperous ant
smiling aspect. (Cheers.) Nay, more
as the husband Of Hamilton Rowan
great granddaughter, as kinsman o
Grattan, as relation Of Emmett-(hear
hear)-and as the great-grandson of a,
honest Whig country gentleman. VIII,
died at eighty, while pulling on his boot
| to vote against the Union, he was able
t however firm his conviction in regard t,
! the desirability Of maintaining the ex
, listing ties between England and Ireland
to understand the motives and feeling