The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-24

Eng1and's Enemies.
Words Of defiance were hurled at
England by Irish orators in Market
nall. and promises were made to array
the Irish people on the side of the first
strong foe that should attack the
British Isles, to wreak vengeance on
the British government for the wrongs
1t has committed against the Irish race.
Ihe proposed alliance between this
country and Great Britain was de-
nounced and ridiculed, and it was
shown that, though the physical force
men have laid quiescent, they are by
no means dead
hatred toward the British lion was
meeting held in the hall to comment
crate the thirty-first anniversary OF
the execution of Allen, Larkin and
O'Brien, the Manchester martyrs. All
the nine divisions of the A O. H. in
Ramsey county were we'll represented,
and the body of the hall was about
half-filled. On the stage sat num-
Der of Well known men identified with
the Irish cause in this section.
Lawyer C. D. O'Brien presided and
delivered a short Introductory address,
in which he related the case of the
martyrs, and he then introduced Chris
Gallagher, Of Minneapolis, who was
welcomed with a hearty demonstra-
ton of favor.
Tonight" said Mr.. Gallagher. Ire.
land stands with head bowed in grief.
Her children sacrificed their lives for
their native land. but she weeps above
10 grave of theirs. No grave holds
the dust of her martyrs, for England
deprived them Of burial But that act,
which was meant TO consign them to
oblivion, embalmed the names of Allen,
Larkin and O'Brien.
The tears we shed are not ignoble.
Pride robs the grief of it's sting, and
even death may be so illuStrious that
the light of Immortality robs the grave
of its darkness.
"Thirty-one years ago in the city of
Manchester a tragedy was enacted be-
tween a government and three indi-
viduals. An English government
mounted the scaffold as an execution
err The incarnation Of Irish national
ity stood beneath the rope, and Eng
land found she had not killed the
cause Those men died and immortal
lied Irish nationality and taught the
world that their cause was something
the British hangman could not stran-
gle.
Those men endeared themselves to
the Irish race because they were the
latter day apostles of physical force.
We feel conflicting emotions crowd
upon us. The cruel persecution, the
farce of trial, the maddened excuses
of English justice, which desecrated
the bodies of her victims, and, on the
other hand, we see the sef-sacrifice of
those men who calmly laid down their
lives for their country. We see the
magnificent composure with which
they met the sentence of death. the
1snN-, hi In
the presence of death, their love for
each other attested in their last en-
braces on the scaffold, and added to
these the words of fire, God save Ire
landH
ssrhey left to us an undying legacy
10 keep alive and fan into flame the
principles for which they gave up their
lives.
ENGLAND alone has not met a first-
class opponent. Twice she met the
United States and got a good sound
ago in the Venezuelan difficulty
Yankee drubbing, and a few years
good old-fashioned doctrine was ram
med down her throat. England has
become the biggest prize fighting ma
ton on earth She can whip a little
nation, but let a big nation tackle her
and she viii squirm out of it in no
time.
Il am sick of seeing Americans so
Anglicized that they pirate about an
alliance with England. We want no
alliance with a nation polluted as Eng
land is with national dishonor. 1t is
Benedict Arnold to betray his cOun-
try: the same government that hired
Indians to kill defenseless women and
children in the War of the Revolution.
the same nation that tried to dismem-
Der this nation during the Rebellion;
the same nation that made treaty
i,11ariclS nd brOka If and that
made education in Ireland crime.
It is the same government that stalked
through Ireland with the torch and
sword in hand with famine, and des-
titution in its wake that has darkened
the pages of history with conquesJs
and has sprinkled them with blood
An alliance with such nation as
that? Never!
Are we to remain inactive? Better
that we should not meet together at
a time like this. Who would free HIM
self must strike the first blow. No
wonder the Irish in America are tired
of seeing Ireland the mendicant of the
world. 1t is the slave who makes the
tyrant Let the Irish stand together
and follow no flag but that of Irish
national independence. Let them fos-
ter and increase their strength and
wait for the day of fate and duplicate
England with some ffrst-class power,
anu lHeIl liit II lOliS AS VIII opSch
with fire and win light the hillsides of
Ireland with beacors of freedom
Mr. Gallagher's concluding remarks
were loudly applauded, and he appear
ed to have caught the audience with
his prediction of Irish success.
An enthusiastic greeting was ac-
corded to Daniel w. Lawler when he
was introduced by Chairman OBrien.
Mr. Lawler opened his speech with
panegyric of the martyrs.
They died. he said, ''for liberty.
for humanity. No blacker deed ever
stained the pages of criminal jurs-
prudence than the judicial murder of
Allen, Larkln and OBrien. They were
criminals in English law, but not to
the law of God or man. They went
to death wearing the brand Of guilty
of treason to British law and tyranny,
but neither in the law of man or God
were they guilty of the crime Of which
they were executed. We pride our
selves that our national heroes were
all criminals TO the law. Every signer
of the Declaration Of Independence
was a criminal to British law. 1t is
we'll to remember the sacrifice of Lar
kin, Allen and O'Brien was not a fu-
tile sacrifice. John Bright pleaded for
them and Swinburne urged that Jus
tice should be done to them, but the
pleas were unavailing. Their execu-
ton was the primary cause Of the dis
establishment OF the Irish church, for
Il was the act that first opened the
eyes of Gladstone to the wrongs Of the
Irish people"
The concluding address was deliv-
cred by Thomas r. Kane, who re-
counted the circumstances leading up