The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-06

We must be free to serve Him whose
service is perfect freedom.
1.-THE declaration of American lndepen-
dence was written by Thomas JEFFERSON.
That of Ireland was from the pen q
Grattan. Two-thirds of those who raj
lied around the standard in m:nedlate
fact gave the lie to E%ngland's assertion
h the cry for the freedom OF ireland
was a religious one. The distrlpuuss
force of religious difference was d~lsSlpate9
and for the first time in centur es Ireland
stood united for national freedom; l1redS
cheering.) There she stands today ana
there will she stand until her peopITe h are
accorded their natural rights. IneTe
will she stand until the harp now mute
on Tara's walls shall fill the air win
melody sweetly attuned to the cnorus os
O. people whose devotion to liberty mas,
jewelled the history of the world.
'.Thomas Adds Emmett, brother OF
Robert Emmett, was one OF the oll.eu
Irishmen, and on more than one occasion
he appeared in court as counsel Tor those
accused of belonging to that order. y
was a capital offense to ADMINISTER the
oath of the order, although there was not
a word in that oath calling for judicial
murder on the part of England. Emmet
realized hi no tolerable government had
the right to attach the penalty OF death
TO any patriotic declaration of intention
to support the natural rights Of man, and
on one OCCASION, being called to defend
a client who was indicted f9r taKing me
court by taking a Bible in his nana, KISS
ing it and SAYING
My lords, here in the presence OF
this legal court, this crowded auditory
in the presence of the Being who sees
and witnesses and directs this judicial
tribunal; here, my lords, in the pres,
ence of God-here L myself declare that
I take that oath.
'For his work in the order of United
Irishmen Thomas Emmet was imprisoned
nearly four years. In 1904 he came to
America. Within ten years after he left
a British dungeon, Mr.. Emmett was APP
pointed Attorney General of the State of
New York. He set an amp Tor men
of every country Today there is no place
where the tide of rushing humanity flows
swifter han through New York C1ty..s
Broadway, hut there is not an hour IN
the daylight that reverential eyes cannot
be seen looking through the fence or
st. Paurs churchyard to read, on a mar
BILE monolith, these Words
" In memory of Thomas Adds Emmet.
who exemplified in his conduct an1
adorned by his integrity, the policy and
principles of the United Irishmen-to for
ward a Brotherhood OF affection, a conf
munity of rights, an identity of interests
and a union of power among the lrlshmen
of every religious persuasion. as the only
means of %Ireland's chief good, an impair
irish parliament. For this-mysterious
fate of virtue-exiled from his native land:
in America the and of freedom. he found
a second country, which paid his love by
laws and in the laws of europe, an
knowledge seemed subject to his use. In
a just and holy cause his symHathlzing
countrymen erected this monument and
centotaph.'
Senator McDermott then referred to the
love of Sarah Curran for the patriot,
Robert Emmett, and the incidents that
led up to the ~latter's arrest, trial and
execution. He graphically told of the
self sacrifice of Annie Devlin, a servant
in Emmet's house who when threatened
with death and tortured by British sol
diers refused to reveal Emmet's where
abouts. Concluding his Grafton MI. Nc
Dermott said
Robert Emmett died without fear, with
out reproach. In his short life he mad
been pure n patriotic. Trusting and
true. he died that, others might breathe
the air of freedom.
ssHe died as Washington, Patrick Henry
and Thomas Jefferson would have died II
the American Revolution had failed; HIS
name is with theirs. They succeeded. He
failed. In mind and motive they were
one. They showed that tyranny can be
conquered. He showed that the march TO
that conquest cannot be stopped by the
scaffold." (Cheers.)