The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-04

ne turned TO the people and supported
their cause; and from the day that he
took that step the gates of preferment
We're closed against him, but to him the
gates of glory were opened wide.
OF his early manhood and his school
NE we learn much from his COMPANION
and college friend, Thomas Moore. He
tells us that he was above the average
height, rather sallow in his complexion,
with an intelligent face when in repose,
and when lighted up in argument or in
a speech 1t Shone with the light of gem
JUS. We know that as a student of
7 Trinity College he had a great love for
mathematics, that which has charac-
/ terized many of the great minds of the
/ world; that he had a poetic knowledge
which was something more than the or
binary; that he contributed to some
/ newspapers of the day over a fictitious
name; and that his poems and prose
! breathed a deep affection forsthe liber-
( " and cause of his country.
OF his oratory there is very little in
existence. We know that he took high
rank in the debating society connected
with the college, that his utterances
We're of such a nature that he came
under suspicion. When called upon to
| take the test oath as to whether he
| support the government of the coun-
try, he refused and was expelled from
| the college.
Immediately after leaving college it
| is known that he went to France, that
| he was in close connection with the rev.
| olutionary parties of those times. and
! that he interviewed the first consul,
| Napoleon. During all this time he had
| one idea, one ambition, namely, the de-
! sire to lead a successful rebellion in his
native country There is one thing TO
his credit which speaks in the highest
terms of his ability Of all the Irish
| reYolutiomsts of that day, he was the
one who suspected the sincerity of Ma
poleOn, and the only one; and subse-
quent results confirmed his judgment.
He returned to Ireland, doubtless af-
ter having consulted with the leaders
OF the Irish movement, determined to
raise an army of Instruction You
know the story of that Inflated move
ment, how after the greatest prepare
ton. it was prematurely sprung. the
defeat with which he met, the possible
escape that lay before him from Ire
land to America if he had taken advan-
tage of it.
But he remained, with the desire of
seeing one for whom he had the deepest
affection, the daughter of the celebrated
Irish advocate, John Philpot Curran
In his attempt to see her and bid her a,
last farewell. he was captured His
capture resulted iu~death for the lover
or the scaffold, and death few years
later for his beloved one in a far foreign
land. 1t was of her that Moore wrote
those beautiful lines:
She is far from the land where her
young hero sleeps,
And lovers are rOuOd ber eiol,ipa
But coldly she turns from their gaze
and weeps,
For the heart in his grave is lying"
Arrested, tried, Observation-Disclosures in
day! In the light of present civiliza-
tlon, IT, seems almost incredible that
less than a century ago such an event
could have taken place. Young. friend
Tess, alone with no one to assist him or
aid him by his advice, he was brought
70 MS trial, ana after a few hours con-
demned; then taken to his prison.
awakened in the middle of the night
ana driven miles away to still another
prison, with early dawn marched to the
scaHold, hanged, his head severed from
his body, and the life blood lapned m
by the wild dogs in the street Thus
the bright, brilliant soul was ushered
prematurely before his maker. for love
OF ireland, his native land.
l have said that there has been ono
speech of his preserved, and only one:
| and for that one we are indehtad ~
the notes taken by one of the onnosine !,
counsel at the trial. The speech that
stands pre-eminent before the world
because of Its true eloquence, that is a
poem In prose, is that delivered bv Lin
| com on the battlefield of Gettysburg.
VI that short speech, the orator of that
| occasion, Everett, said that he would
| rather be known as its author than as
| the author of the 5000 word speech
which he made. The speech of Emmett
IN the dock is worthy to rank with that
OF Lincoln. For beauty of style. for
poetry, for true eloquence of the heart
II is unequalled in any grafton ancient
| II has been said that Emmett in his
! revolution was premature, that he star
teu 700 soon and without proper pre-
pafatlon. That may have been true ac-
| cordlng to what people knew at the
time. But today, in the light of present
events, the lack of truth in that state
ment can be very easily shown.
| On the contrary, the preparations
that ne made were as perfect as the
mind of man could conceive. He had ar
ranged all the plans of government,
| the organization of his army and IFS
management, how they should estab-
llsh provisional government, everything
| that was necessary was carefully
| thought out by him. He failed, not be-
cause his plans were based upon false
premises, but because they were based
upon false friends.
| Inc same policy that was then Dur
sued has been followed in Ireland by
England since the days that the first
| foreigner landed on her shores the
same that the Russian uses in connec-
ton with the nihilists, the same that is
| used the world over wherever the peo-
pie rise up against the governing pow
er-the use or the secret service and the
| spy system.
How friendless and alone Emmett was
we can realize when we recall that the
lawyer who was to defend him was i'm
the pay OF the British government. and
the man into whose ears We're MIR
INJURED his last dying words was there
the paid hireling of England, with the
intention OF receiving information in
regard TO the men who conspired with
| Emmet.
Emmett was student of history. He
| knew the results of '9S-that in the
countries where the greatest prepare
| tons had been made, where the peo-
pie were FULLY organized, there was
| the least resistance to the British gov
eminent, and that in those countries
| where the people were least organized
the British met with the most deter
mined resistance. The reason was clear:
Where they were organized the spies
| of the government knew what was GO
ing on; where they were not organized
they did not. He knew that the insur-
rections started in the capital were
generally successful; when they start
ed in the country they were put down
AS one who knew the history of the