The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-03-06

that life, more than death, is dishonor.
able when a foreign nation holds my
country in subjection. But it was not
as an enemy that the succors Of France
were to land. Hooked, indeed, for the
assistance of France; l wished to prove
to France and to the world that Irish
men deserve to be assisted that they
were indignant at slavery, and ready
to assert the independence and liberty
of their country; | wished to procure
for my country the guarantee which
Washington procured for America to
procure an aid which, by its example,
would be as important as its valor; dis
ciplined, gallant, pregnant with science
and experience; that Of allies who would
perceive the good and polish the rough
points of our character. They would
come to us as strangers, and leave us
as friends, after sharing in our perils
aud eleyating our destiny. These were
my objects; not to receive new task
masters, but to expel old tyrants. And
it was for these ends l sought aitl from
France; because France, even as an en-
emy, could not be more implacable
than the enemy already in the bosom
of my country.
Lord Norbury-You are making an
avowal of dreadful treasons, and of a
determined purpose to have persevered
in them, which I do believe has aston
ished the audience.
! have been charged with that impor-
tance in the efforts to emancipate my
country as to be considered the key
stone of the combination of Irishmen,
or as your lordship expressed it, "the
life and blood Of the conspiracy" You
dome honor overmuch; you have given
to the subaltern all the credit OF su-
perior. There are men engaged in this
conspiracy who are not only superior
to me, but even to your own concep-
ton of yourself, my lord; men before
the splendor of whose genius and vir-
tues should bow with respectful de-
ference, and who would think them
selves disgraced by shaking your blood
stained hand
Lord Norbury-You have endeavored
to establish wicked and bloody prov;-
sional government.
What, my lord shall you tell me, on
the passage to the scaffold, which that
tyranny, of which you are only the in
termediary executioner, has erected
for my murder, that l am accountable
for all the blood that has been and will
be shed IN this struggle of the oppress-
ed against the oppressor?-shall you
tell me this, and must / be so very
slave as not to repel it?
Lord Norbury-A different conduct
would have better become one who had
endeavored to overthrow the laws and
liberties of his country.
who fear not to approach the ON,
nipotent Judge to answer for the con
duct of my whole life-am to be ap
palled and falsifed by mere remnant
of mortality here? By you, too, who
if it were possible to collect all the in
nocent blood that you have shed il
your unhallowed ministry In one grea
reservoir your lordship might swim il
it?
Lord Norbury-I exhort you not t,
depart this life with such sentiments o
rooted hostility to your country a
those which you have expressed.
Let no man dare, when am dead, 1,
charge me with dishonor; let no mai
attaint my memory, by believing that
could have engaged in any cause bu
that of my country's liberty and indie
pendence; or that could have becom
the plant minion of power, in the op
preston and misery Of my countrymen
The proclamation of the provisiona
government speaks for my views; n
inference can be tortured from it Il
countenance barbarity or debasemen
at home, or subjoction, humiliation 0
treachery from abroad. I would no
have submitted to foreign oppressor
for the same reason that l would resen
the domectic tyrant. In the dlgnit
of freedom, l would have fought upo
the threshold of my country, and it
enemy should only enter by passin
over my lifeless corpse. And am /, VIII
lived but for my country, who hav
subjected myself to the dangers of th
jealous and watchful oppressor, an
now to the bondage of the grave, onl
to give my countrymen their rights
and my country her independence al
/ to be loaded with calumny, and nc
! suffered to resent it? No; God forbid
/ (Here Lord Norbury told Mr.. En-
met that his sentiments and languag
) disgraced his family and his educatio
but more particularly his father, D.
Emmet, who was a man-if alive til,
would not countenance such opinions
to which Mr.. Emmett replied:
If the spiritsof the illustrious dea
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