The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-09-03

the doom that had overtaken their
homes was fitting climax to the ter
rible drama of that momentous day.
Great waves OF flame rolled and sursed
over the city, heaving and tossing in
tempestuous fury. and tapping the
black vault Of heaven as though the
| very air was atire. To this sublime
horror of the earth was added the
thunders and lightnings of the heav-
ems that broke forth in storm of I'M
| usual violence. AS though infected
with the evil spirit OF destruction, the
elements ragged with increasing fierce
ness until the next day. when a ter
rifle hurricane completed the ruin that
the flames had left unfinished. Over
awed at the terrible devastation
wrought by their hands, the British
stole silently forth from the city on
the night of August rs, and beat d
hasty retreat to their ships. Slowly
and mournfuly the inhabitants re-
turned to their desolate homes. The
value of the property destroyed was
over $2,Oo0.O0O.
The Government and Parliament OF
England warmly approved Cockburn's
act. When the news reached Eng
land guns were fired from the tower
Of London in joyful celebration Of the
barbarity. Parliament una nimous,y
voted thanks to Cockburn and Ross
1t also decreed that at his death a
monument should be erected to Ross
in Westminster Abbey. and the title
Ross of BIadensburgh" was decreed
to him and his heirs forever.
THE London Times" says Losing,
then as now, the exponent OF the
principles of the ruling classes in Eng
land, and the bitter foe OF the Amer
lean people, glOried over the destruc-
ton of the public buildings and the
expulsion of the President and cabinet.
and INDUCED in eXulting prophecies
of the speedy disappearance of the
great Republic in the West. That ILL
organized association (the American
union),' said the Times, is on the eve
of dissolution, and the world is' speed
lily to be delivered of the mischievous
example OF a government founded OH
democratic rebellion!'"
In another issue. October 9, 1914, it
said: Next to the humiliation of the
late military despotism in Europe, the
subversion of that system OF fraud and
malignity which constitutes the whole
policy of the Jeffersonian school was
an event to be devoutly wished by ev-
cry man in either hemisphere who re-
CARDS rational liberty or the honor
able intercourse of nations. 1t was an
event in which we should have bent,
and yet must bend all our energies.
The American government must be
displaced, or it will sooner or later
plant its poisoned dagger In the heart
of the parent state"
In a speech in Parliament, Sir Gill
bert Heathcote naively said: 1T ap-
peared to him that we feared the ris-
ing power Of America and wished to
curtai it," Which. rs the Scottish
captain In the story said. vas "a vera
just remark" In long years after
Us5S), when Cockburn died, the Times
lauted him chiefly for his maraudine
exploits in this country and his
splendid achievement in firing our ma
tional capital"
Admiral Cockburn, says the English
F:n,yc lr.i,e6ia Britannica. for his prom
inent part in the capture Of Washing
ton, on his return to England In 1915,
received the Order of the Bath; three
years later he received the Grand Cross
of his Order and was made Lord of
the Admiralty and in 1918 was re-
turned to Parliament for Portsmouth.
In 1919 he was made vice admiral and
admiral in 1887; in 1S41 he became
senior naval lord" Another British Of
ficer, Lieut.. De Lacy Evans, the lieu
tenant who forced the capitol by
breaking down one or more Of it's doors,
was afterward for many years a men,
her of the British Parliament. Thus
were the destroyers of our national
"a initial loaded with hOnOrS instead Of
obloquy, for their crimes against CIV
ilization.