The Irish standard., 1909-01-16
THE sT0NEWALL JACKSON OF IRISH POLITICS
First Attracted Attention the British Parliament BY Inter
rupting an English Member With d
Note of Defiance t III.

longed to no particular land or clase
but this other quality Of which HI
spoke. was essentially Irish. He couk
find no precise name for 1t In the Eng
lish language, perhaps, because per.
sons Of peculiarly English race, SCENE:
to be little accustomed to use It; H.
was sympathy with suffering peoples
1t was rage and anger against injustice
(applause). 1t was something Of ths
woman in man; it was a good deal d
the God in man; 1t was the uprisina
Of the human heart and divine sou
against mans inhumanity to man (ap:-
plause). 1t was that which was to win
him the service Of so many hearts, and
finally to break his own heart. Par.
nell was born at Avondale, in Wick
low. on June ~, 1846. At that moment
Ireland was about to enter on that
famine which had written in the hiss
tory Of the. world one Of its most tragic
chapters. On the day which gave Par
nell to Ireland. nearly nine mi illioxssss1
human beings were living within the
compass of the Irish seas; IL years
later, when the child reached manhood,
the population had shrunk to mill
lions. Parnell once said he did not
care for details, he wanted broad facts.
This famine fact, the first that met the
eyes Of his manhood, was broad
enough. Wicklow had borne it's full
share Of the terrible catastrophe, about
half it's. population had disappeared,
Wicklow epitomized all Ireland, with
It's mountains. valleys, forests, rivers
moors, and meadows. The glens and
mountains seemed to have the essences
of freedom in their sound, and last
but not least, Aughavannagh, the
mountain home of the man whose life
he was dealing with (applause), and
all these glens and hills were thick
with Irish history. In the Kerry ana
Wicklow Mountains the Great Arch-S
itect formed, as It were, two sanctus3
aries, into which, in the far future time
the children Of the persecuted race
were destined to retire, as into q for4S
tress, millions Of years later. And 10
was strange to note that 1t was In
these separate sanctuaries or resting
places that two men were to be born
after an enormous lapse Of time-Dan- q
lei O'Connell and Charles Stewart Par.5
nell. cloud cheers). In each group Of
hill refugees the lesson of liberty had
been the same. You cannot tame the
mountain top (applause).. Men who
tread upon the rocks and breathed the
air that flowed over the heather must
grow freedom in their blood (cheers).
These mountain breasts sucked ii,
dark times the orphans Of liberty
without them these orphans had grown.
up slaves; by and bye some Of them
will even emancipate their brethren In
the lowlands (hear, hear). Parnell did
not belong to the race OF unfortunates;
his blood was neither Celtic nor Cath
olic, it was English and Protestant; hes
doubted, indeed, If he had been differ.
entl ybred and thought It would have
been possible to have been exactly
what he was. He belonged to class !
which had represented ascendancyf Tor
so many generations; he was born Tue
lead. He was q gentleman to the tips
of his fingers. He was Of the coolest
courage. and Of a foresight which saw
further even than the range OF vision
which his mountain-top commanded,sa
He was Ireland on one side and Eng
land on the other. and he knew the
depths Of the sea that lay betwesns
them. and the strength and direction
Of the currents and cross-currentsS
that swayed them. He nattersd noS
man (hear, hear) he never stopped I
to conquer lapplauss) He did not.
take of his coat for the farmers who!
took Off their hats toI him. or sYsn for
the people who had no hats to tass olf:;
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