The record-union., 1898-03-05

shippers at the foot of Gods holy altars-
1t was but an incredibly short time
from the rising of the smoke of Father
Murphys burning chapel of Boulavogue
until the whole gang of incendiary cut
throats were wiped out in blood by the
outraged people, led on by Father Muir
ply. armed only with pixies, at Ouler,
Hill. Enniscorthy Corey. and many
other battlefields. These stirring events
will be celebrated all over the world
tonight and during this year wherever
throbs a true Irish heart, and they can
proudly say in the language of the
poet
1T was not in dark disgrace nor
shame
That peerless flag went down!
Bear witness, Oulert's blood-stained
HILL
And Wexford's burning town.
A male quartet composed of Messrs.
Genshlea. Phinney. Desmond and Long
bottom next entertained the audience,
and Were encored, and Mrs. Walter
Lonsbottom caught her audience with
a song appropriate to the occasion, and
was also recalled.
ADDRESS OF FATHER MKINNON.
The Grafton Of the evening was deliv-
cred by Rev w. D. McKinnon who left
sick bed that the AUDIENCE might
not be disappointed. His Grafton was
one of the most eloquent heard in the
city for long time. Father McKinnon
said that people usually celebrate i'm
and victories bllt
the present one meant that the people
had gathered to honor the memory of
the deeds of their fathers. The rebel
lion of '9S had been a crushing defeat,
but while an Irishman lived SO long
would the memory of those who had
laid down their lives on the bloody
battlefields of that year be held sacred.
The celebration further meant that the
struggle begun a hundred years ago is
not Yet over, and that the sons of those
who then went down to battle will CON-
| tinue it until the Irish shall make the
laws 10 govern Ireland.
The speaker gave a brief but graphic
history of Ireland and the Irish people,
spoke of the Druids and their manner of
worship and living, and of the pastoral
lives led by them. and traced the love
VI IJIllS tldt IlON DtdlS III lflSn lCdt To-
He carried his audience back to the
fifth century, when st. Patrick left his
Gallacian home to teach the inhabitants
| of The island Christianity. st. Pat
rick, he said, found Ireland pagan, but
| a hundred years after he first taught
| the Word and by the spell of his voice
broke the chain of heather supersti-
ton, Christianity was predominant, and
shed
Father McKinnon told how lasting
had been the faith taught by st. Pat
rick, and drew bright picture of Ire
land in the springtime of Christianity.
He told how the island had sent its
scholars and teachers to all the coun-
tries Of Europe, and how great men
came to its shores TO drink of the lore
of antiquity from the lips of Irish
| scholars. In those days Ireland was
truly an island of saints and sages.
Then the speaker shifted the scene.
He told how Ireland's first great grief
came through the perfidy of a woman-
the only one handed down in Irish his
| tory who had proven unvirtuous. He
spoke of the landing OF Strongbow on
the southern coast, and of the ravages
that followed. He told of the invasions
by the Danes and the Saxons. and how,
after $50 years, the barbarians had
been driven into the sea.
The speaker next turned his atten-
tion to the wars of the eleventh CEN
tury; spoke of the massacre of Wex-
ford town. and told how the soil had
been divided among the nobility of the
invaders, and the rightful owners
evicted, until at length no Irshman
had a plot of land large enough TO
| bury his famished body. He spoke of
the dreary days of famine, which, as
sisted by the plague, had nearly de-
populated the island, and by degrees
brought his auditors down to the days
of the rebellion of 1893.
He reviewed the banishments, volun-
tary and involuntary, and traced the
| records left by the Irish people on
the lands of their adoption He re-
verted to the wars of the Spanish Sue
cession. and of the Irish soldier of that
| date. He pictured the irish troops at
| Fontenoy and asserted that General
Washington's army was one-half Irish
Then he spoke eloquentiy of the deeds
done by the Irish Brigade at Fred
ericksburg.
had been a hard one. and its garment
| had been woven by the tangled web of
misery and woe, While the red hand
! of ruin had caused the civilization
reared as the work of centuries to dis
appear But through it all shone Irish
| hope-hope as indistingushable and
| faith as impershable as the Kingdom
! of God
| Ireland, he said. had stood at the
! grave and mourned. but the time had
| arrived when Irshmen should rejoice
] at the resurrection of their race. The
| spirit of '9S still lives Some of its OBJ
! jects have already attained, and others
Will be. The present, he said, is a
time for hope among the Irish that once
again her sons viii stand around the
| island like a wall Of stone, and that
under freedom Irish laws will be made
by Irish intellect and for Irishmen
| Father McKinnon's oration drew out
rounds of applause and when he had
| finished the audience went wild and
| fairly rose at him.
The remainder of the programme
consisted of a mandolin and guitar duet
| by Messrs. Heisch and Smith, and
songs by Mrs. Coppersmith, George
| shannon and r. r. Cohn.
| You can help your. fellow men. You
must help your fellow men. But the