The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-07
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There is one name that should 1 awaken thrill of patriotic pride in | the heart of every true Irishman CT | every true iberty-1oving American. There is one name that has rung with praise for century of time. It is | the name of a soldier, patroit, and 1rlshman whom we are gathered here to honor tonight, the martyred hero of Ireland. Robert Emmet. | If a traveller from America were l to cross the Atlantic and visit Dub i lin, the capital city of Ireland, he would at once be impressed by the monumental tributes that he would 1 there see erected to the memory of many famous men. He would mar 1 vel at the tall shaft erected to com memorate the achievements of Lord Nelson; he would be pleased with the granite form of Smith O'Brien -h l- stands in argumentative pose beyond the far famed River Liffey; and then l as he beholdS the magnificent monu- l ment bearing aloft the form of a man of noble mien, with brown of a eagles, he would know that he stood before 1relandS tribute to the mem ory of Daniel O'Conneu. But now, in the quiet of the evening" as the sun sinks beneath the distant horizon let the traveller wend his footsteps to another part of the ancient city; let him go to the old deserted and neg lected gray eS in the church yard of St. Michans Protestant church. As he paused at the entrance perhaps the words of Gray'S eulOgy< may -corne
 
 Perhaps in this neglected spot is Laid Some heart once pregnant with eel
 eStia1 fire
 Hands that the rod of empired might
 have SWayed
 Or walked to ecstacy the living tyre.
 ttAs he wanders through that damp and sombre cemetery and treads among it's ancient graves and tombs he comes across a strange stone that ', .<Nff fIpfa ravages of time. Its edges have been shipped away in many places by the desire of the relic runters to carry off momentos. There are other weather beaten and worn stones in that last resting place of the dead Other stones far more pretentious about to move on when he notices that this stone is unmarked, bears TO inscription, no words of eulogy or praise Perhaps he will wonder at what ashes lie beneath it in this camping ground of the dead. And he may ask someone to tell him Who lies buried there; but if the one ne questions is an Irishman or If he knows the history of Ireland,s strug- gle for national existence ne VIII know beneath the soil is the body of the most unselfish patrcit that ever died in a righteous cause, a man who died that his country might live, q man who asked that until his coun- try took her place as nation among the nations of the earth his name and his deeds be not spoken or written swers the travellers question will Say in reply,
 70 breathe not his name, let it rest
 meath the shade
 Where cold and unhonored his relics
 are laid
 Sad, silent, and dark De the tears
 that we shed
 As the night dew that falls on the
 grass OCT his head.
 But the night dew that falls, tho III
 silence it weepS /
 Shall brighten with verdure, the grave
 where he sleeps.
 And the tear that we sheo, tho III
 secret it rolls Shall long keep his memory green in
 our souls.
 Friends. let us go back in our minds tonight to a time just before that dead man was born: to the time when Ireland was in the throes of a struggle for indenpendence; a time that tested mems souls a time when British mis- rule and intrigue had made a. morgue of Ireland; time when father ana dawn of day to fight for their homes, their country and their liberty. and at night were borne back bleeding ana stricken and left to die at the feet or a heart broken mother or a grief stricken wife; left to die with a curse on their lips for the. saxon and a last blessing on tne1I l1pS 1OI IlAOAA OOtOHSA E;,.in It was into these most trou- bIous times for Ireland that our hero. a. son of Dr. Robert Emmet of Dublin, was born, 1778. He was the youngest son and he had two brothers, one Temple Emmet.. a gifted lawyer who died while he was yet a young man, and the renowned Thomas Add1s Elm met who was a stalwart and valiant ninety-eighter, who had been captured ] bV the British sentenced to Fort George an English prison, escaped ana ; exiIad fo America he became an adopt ed American citizen. a leader at the bar and finally rose by the force Of his character and legal alta inments to occunv the exalted position of attorney general of the State of New York.
 The speaker then reviewed the youth and early life of Emnaet, reared as he
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