The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-16

THE MONTGOMERY ADvf
 art-broken girl for Robert Emmet; Le
 me quote few lines from that patneu'
 | story:
 ~She loved him with the dasinterestec | fefvor of woman's first and early iove 1 When every worldly maxim arrayed IL l self against him, when blasted m ,oraume ,,n1 l his name, she loved him the more ara l ently for his very sufferings. 1T, then his fate could awaken the sympathy even
 of his foes. what must nave pern an. ,a. | cupied by his image? Let those tell who l have had the portals of the tomb sud | denly closed between them ana the Deihs | they most loved on earth-who nave sa. | at Its threshold, as one shut out In a l cold and lonely world. from whence all l that was most lovely and loving had de- l parted"
 | There are countless beauties in the | character of Robert Emmet which have | beeh compelled. for want of time, to pass over The purity of his love for the idol | of his soul. his unswerving loyalty to his friends, his intense love or country. | his perfect sincerity and freedom rom guile. his matchless courage, ms superp intellect and his noble refined, generous | and unselfish nature will ever marx nlm as one of the few. whose memory IL is an honor. as well as virtue, to reverenca and respect.
 It may be that because .he represents | to me the wrongs of his country for. cen | turies, and that country down-trodden | and helpless. that 1 have thrown around him a halo which prevents the detection of imperfections, but l regard him as the embodiment of all that is great, all that is manly. all that is commenoable and worthy of imitation in humanity There is no character in ancient or mod ern times which stands out in bolder re- lief on the pages of history: and It IS my opinion, in which opinion the world may one day agree. that he was one Of the purest, one of the noblest, and the most heroic character
 That ever lived in the tide of times. |" The tyrannical laws of an alien govern | ment declared his life a forfeit. ana doomed him to the gallows. the cruel ex, ecutioner discovered his head, mutllated his body and consigned it to the grave. but his fame has grown brighter and | brighter as the years rolled by, and his brave spirit shall live on and flourish in immortal youth. Jnhurt amidst the war of clements l The wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds"
 The freedom of ones mother country is
  l Ireland, wherever they may be, at home ! or abroad, as it is to those of any other people under the sun The humiliation | and ignomy heaped upon that mother onlS l intensifies the feeling. They feel grate- | full to those who have spoken. or written. l or fought in their behalf. or in behalf of | liberty anywhere. They honor MT. Glad | stone for his heroic stand for Home Rule | in 1886. The olive branch he then wished | to extend to crushed nation had better | have been accepted by the English Gov | ernment. Discomfort is general through out Ireland today. and the zephyr may | grow into the whirlwind Do you doubt | that discontent exists? hen listen to | what the Marquis of Salisbury, the Pre- | mier of Great Britain is reported to have | said on the 5th day of last month at the Junior Constitutional Club. after the un- 1 yelling of a. statue of Queen Victoria: {: '"rhe existence of hostile feeling in Ire 1 land was signal. that the enort upon which depended in no light degree the glory and continuance of the empire. | must not be relaxed. The maintenance of | our position in Ireland is the most vital object the empire has. and 1t can only be attained by strenuous exertions; that the Irish people di1 rot love the govern | ment any better than they did formerly; and that the feelings of hostility which had been expressed were more uncom- promising than any expressions which had ever issued from the lips of Parnell or O'Connell." Of course. there Is dis content. and does this stiffnecked Eng lishman of Norman descent. whose ances- tors were barefnoted barbarfans. while the ancestors of those he and his Govern | ment are expressing. were cultured and lettered people,, think that they will tamelv submit like slaves to injustice and injury and make !no complaint? There is and can be no peace for Ire land as long as the unholy and unnat- ural union with England exists, and 1t should and must be dissolved. The bright sword of Ireland in the hands of her | heroes has flashed and glittered on too | many battlefelds of the past. has too 1 often led to victory the serried ranks of other nations. for that sword to lie idle | in it's sheath when that country shall call on her sons scattered throughout the | world. to come to her rescue and do bat | tie for her. When that call is made, the | brave sons of Erin will lift up the Green | Flag. and, remembering the beautiful | lines of Father Ryan. bear it on to vic tory.
 And we'll swear bv the blood which the Briton has she'd And we'll VOW bv the wreck which through Erin he spread | And we'll swear by the thousands who famished unfed.
 1 Died down in the ditches. wild bowling for bread.
 And we'll VOW by our heroes whose spir- its have fled,
 l And we'll swear by the bones in each coffinless bed.
 | That we'll cling to the cause which we | glory to wed.
 | Till the glearn of our steel and the shock of our lead.
 l Shall prove to our foe that We meant what we said.
 | That we'll lift up the Green and wei! | tear down the Red.
 Lift up the Green Flag; oh, it wants to go home;
 Full long has it's lot been to wander and roam
 It has followed the fate of its sons OCT the world;
 1 But it's folds, like their hopes, are not faded or furled. and the West,
 | u has fitted and 1ed--but it never shall rest
 'Tili plumng It's rinlons, # sweeps o'er the main,
 And speeds to tho shores Of its old home again.
 Where it's fettcrlcss folds. OCT each mountain and plain Shall wave with q glory that never shall wane."
 Let not Emmct's parting words to us be forgotten: "Thc blood which Nou seek which surround your victim-it circulatcs
 warmly and unruffled through its chan
 nels. and in l!ttlc time it will cry to Heaven-he vet paticut" That blood will continue to cry to Heaven until that cry is heard and that blood avenged. That blood will continue