Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-05
WITH SPEECH AND SONG.
The Emmet Anniversary Was Cele-
 brated By Local Organizations.

brated By Local Organizations. ssFar from the hills of 1nniSfail
 We meet in mirth tonight,
 Some of the scattered Clan-na-Gael
 With spirits warm and bright.
 And why we meet2 'TiS to repeat
 Our vows both night and day
 To dear old Ireland,
 Loved old Ireland,
 Ireland, boys. hurrah"'
 This was the chorus of the song that re-echoed through every nook and cor Ter of the K of c. hall in G. A. b.. block last night and floated out Ill the midnight air when the T. r. Meagher club and their friends gathered togeth- CT to commemorate the birth of the celebrated martyr, Robert Emmet IL was a meeting such as any lover oi liberty might feel proud to take part in and the abandon with which all joined in the festivities showed beyond peradventure that Emmets memory and the cause for which he gave up ms young life Is still cherished Dy HIS country1nen and their descendants. ho matter in what part of the world they may have found home. Indeed; It is no guessYork to say at this day tnat Emmetis classmnte and friend at Ir1n- -jty college Tom Moore, uttered q tru- ism when he said Of the dead patriot: And the tear that we shed, thougu III
 secret it rolls,
 Shall long keep. his memory green 1n
 our souls"
 When everything was in readiness, Cornelius Maloney was appointed chairman After few prellHlnafles tha party proceeded to the Hub dining rooms on Harrison avenue where all sat down to q sumptuous spread, ana tn their credit be it said that each showed wonderful adaptabiHty 10 the use Of the knife and fork, and in short time the. tables which but few moments befOr. fairly groaned with the weight of the best things the mar ket affords presented unmistakaole ev- ideucs that there were no dySpepticS in the crowd. On returning to the hail James X. Hynes was selected toast master. and after q few introductory remarks introduced John J. Spihln' treasurer of Jacques and Polls tue aters. who delivered an address Wnlch electrified the audience and eEoked tremendous applause. We quote a portion of MT Splain's remarks, as lol- lows:
 In coming together this evening. on this anniversary of Robert Emmet's hirfh. 10 celebrate the memory of. his heroism, We honor ourselves as men of Irish blood and as lovers of human liberty. In commemorating the hero or this hour We pay tribute to one or the most launtless devotecS of duty. one Of the purest patriots. one of the sup limest characters in the long htany or liberty's loyal champions and deIehd- CTS. Ireland has ensfrlncd i'll her heart of hearts the memory Of her martyred hero. the immortal Emmet, and we men in whose veins runs the same blood that pulsed the uncon- ouered hand of this valiant apostle Of liberty. We men who cherish the same living dreams of an independent Ire land. we men who breathe the same gospel of enduring antagonism 10 the oppressor of his land and ours. We men to whom fancy's finger points the early dawn of freedom $ sun-We men rejoice in the privilege Qf laFlns all. other wreath on the undying fame or th;s great central figure in the struggle for Ireland's freedom.
 With Robert Emmet patriotism was a religion: it was the breath or ms nostrils. the blood of his veins. the ouickening beat of his heartstrlngs the altar in which he laid. unselnshly. lovingly and willingly. the sacrifice of his life In freedoms cause many dauntless hearts have poured out ther Hfe's blood and to-day the sands of time are dripping red with the lives that are being offered up as protest against human slavery. LeonidaS at Thermopylae. William Tell upon the mountains of Switzerland. Hofer hew- ing his way through Austria $ serried ranks. Joan of Arc driving the invader from the vine-clad fields of sunny France. Bruce and Wallace upon the heather hills of Scotland, Patrick Henry and Washington and Lincoln breathing human liberty upon the statutes and institutions of America. Maceo and Garcia and Gomez upliIt- ing the standard of freedom against the mailed hand of Spain, brave old Cronje and Kruger and Steyn and De Wet defying the power that palsies where it cannot rule-all these brave spirits stand high in the scroll that marks achievements in the sacred cause of liberty: but no man shall say us nav If tonight we bow our heads above m uninscribed tomb and say that greater to us than all these chiy- alric knights of freedom. greater than all the martyrs whose blood has been the seed of liberty is our own illustri- ous hero. the glorious and immortal Robert Emmet. They tell us that Rob- ert Emmet is dead. and Englishmen would have it so; but this gathering to- night. and hundreds of gatherings like this in every corner of the civilized earth proclaim that Robert Emmet never dies True, his dust sleeps meath the green grave in St Michan's, but the spirit that glowed within him, the spirit that moved him to taunt Eng lands minions while be stood in the very shadow of the scaffold. that spirit tonight glows in the hearts of his countrymen toewhom his name has come down through the years like the l,raaf1, of bene1ictiOn The tongue that caused Norbury to quake and stirred thousands of his patriotic coun- trymen with its marvellous eloGuence. Is stilled, but the worGs he spake live after him to quicken the enthusiasm and inspire the patriotism of all who believe in the principle of human free dom. The sacred cause that Robert Emmet deified and to which he conse- crated his life even to the sacrifice thereof, perished not with the clay that enwrapped his soul, but 1t lives today Sho Con al ar, fl