The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-06

or my cOuntrymen, seize upon this
opportunity to vindicate myself from
some of the charges alleged against
me. When my spirit shall be waited
to more friendly port, when my
shade shall have Joined the bands of
those martyred heroes who have shed
their blood on the scaffold and in the
field in the defense of their country
and of virtue, this is my .hope--I wish
that my memory and name may please
those who survive me, while look
down with complacency on the destruc-
tion of that pertidious government
which upl1olds it's domination by. bias
phemy of the Most High--which. dis.
plays its power over man, astFover
beasts of the forest-which sets man
upon his brother, and lifts his hand in
the name of God against the throat of
his fellow who believes or doubts a
little moresor 3 little less than THE soyl.:;
! ternnent standard --'.s.s s1tsgoYernmsnt
which: is steeled t9, barbsFity blythe
I SiAco VI euo NQudu6, anu CuS Lc6TS VI
the widows it has made.
(Here Lord Norbury. interrupted Mr..
Emmett, saying that the mean and
wicked enthusiasts who.felt as he did
were not equal to the accomplishment
of their wild design.") -
1 appeal to the Immaculate God-1
| ou,oor f,1, tho fbrono 80 hoo,yor, heforo
which. must shortly appear-by the
blood of the murdered patriots who
have gone before me-that my con-
duct has been, through all this peril,
and through all my purposes, governed
only by the conviction which l have
uttered, and by no other, view than
that of the emancipation of my country
from the superhuman oppression under
which she has so long and too pa
tiently travelled; and confidently
hope that, wild and chimerical as it
may appear, there is still union and
strength in Ireland to accomplish this
enterprise. OF this speak with the
l }SOllAuShSC VI huO"lSu6o duu
with the consolation that appertains to
that confidence. Think not, my lords
! say this for the petty qualification Of
giving you a transitory uneasiness. "A
man who never yet raised his voice
to assert a lie will not hurt his char.
acter with posterity by asserting a
| fo1onhaad c,,hj41f Sno~ ~ mat
to his country and ON an. occasion like
this. Yes, my lords, a man who does
not wish to- have his. epitaph written
until his country is liberated will not
leave weapon in the power of envy,
or pretense to impeach the probity
which he means to preserve, even in
the grave to which tyranny consigned
him.
(Here he was again Interrupted by
the court:) '.'.
Again say, that what l have spoken
was not intended for your lordship,
whose situation commiserate rather
than envy-my expressions were for
my countrymen.' If there is. a true
Irishman present, let my last words
cheer him in the hour of his amictton.
(Here he was again Interrupted.
Lord Norbury said he did not sit there
to hear treason:)
have always understood it to be the
duty OF. a judge, when prisoner has
been convicted, to pronounce the SEN
tence of the law. have also under.
stood that judges sometimes think It
their duty to hear with patience, and
+, to speak with humanity; to'exhort the
victim Of the laws, and to offer, with
tender benignity their opinions of the
motives by which he was actuated in
the crime Of which he was adjudged
guilty That a Judge has thought 1t
his duty so to<have done have no
doubt;' but where is the boasted free
dom of your institutions-where is the
vaunted impartiality,, $, clemency, and
mildness Of your courts. Of justice 4
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