The Irish standard., 1909-07-10

distinct from liberty. is corruption. not
loyalty. The cry of disa affection will
not. in the end. avail against the prin-,
riple OF liberty. | do not give up the
country. | see her in a swoon, but
she is not dead. Though in her tomb
she lies helpless and motionless. still
on her cheek a glow of beauty
Thou art not conquered; beauty's
ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy
cheeks,
And Deaths pale flag is not advanced
there.
While a plank of the vessel sticks
together, ! will not leave her. Let the
courtier present his f1imsy sail. and
carry the light bark of his faith with
every new breadth of wind; will re-
main anchored here, with fidelity to
the fortunes of my country, faithful
to her freedom, faithful to her~faiF-E
In a. speech delivered in the Irish
House of Commons, on February 20,
1893. on a bill for the further political
relief of the Catholics. Mr.. Grattan
said:
you imagine; you are mistaken-you
are struggling with impossibilities. In
making laws on the subject OF religion.
legislators forget mankind. until their
own distraction admonisles them Of
two truths-the one. that there Is q.
God: the other, that there is a, people!
"Conquerors, or tyrants proceeding
from conquerors, have scarcely ever for
any length OF time governed by those
partial disa abilities: but a. people so to
govern itself, or rather. under the name
OF government. so to exclude itself-the
Industrious. the opulent. the useful,
that part that feeds you with its in-
dustry and supplies you with it's taxes,
wcaves that you may wear. and plows
that you may cato exclude a body
so useful. so numerous. and that for-,
overland in the meantime to tau
them ad libitum. and occasionally to
pledge their lives and fortunes!-for
what?-for their disfranchsement!-it
| cannot be done! Continue it, and you
expect from your laws what it wero
blasphemy to ask Of your Maker.
such a. policy turns on the inventor.
and bruises him under the stroke Of
the sceptre or the sword, or sinks him
under the accumulation Of deb. and
loss Of domain. Need ! go tn in
stances? What was the case nf 1re-
| land enslavcd for a century, and
tant Ascendancy, like a shattered oak
scathed on it's hill by the fire of It's
own intolerance? What lost England
America but such policy? An at
tempt to bind men by a Parliament.
wherein they are not represented!
Such an attempt as some would now
continue to practice ON the Catliolics!,
Has your pity traversed leagues of sea
to sit down by the black boy en- the.
coast of Gunea-and have you forgot
the man at home by your side, our
brother?"
Henry Grattan, like Emmet. Wolfe
! Tone, Curran, Lord Edward Fitzgerald
and other Irish patriots, was a Profess
tant, who desired religious as we'll
as political freedom for his Catholic
countrymen His name will be fond.
J, ly remembered for ages to come.
Henry Grattan was born in Dublin.
ireland, July 3, 1746. In 1857 he went
to London, entering as student in the
i Middle Temple, and in 1872 was called
to the Irish Bar. Becoming interested
IN irish affairs, he took his seat in Par
lament ON December IL. ITS. for the
borough of Charlemont. His first
J, speech. four days later. was a protest
against tho grant of $17,500' year
i. each to two absentee vice -treasurers
/. OF Ireland. The British reverses in