The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-09

undying enthusiasm. He was credu- ity itself Scarcely had he attained manhood when he made a vicarious sacrifice on the scaffold and taught Irishmen how to die His tragic death attracted world wide attention to his country's suffering from the wrongs of centuries. He was well bred he found patriotic inspiration in the daily lessons of his father, the great Dublin physician who had cut aloof from Tory association with its attendant offices and. honor, to en- brace full heartedly the doctrine of Irish nationality.
 EARLY PATRIOTIC FERVOR.
 Emmet distinguished himself when but a boy of fifteen at Trinity College by converting 8. conservative institu- ton into a. hot!bed of seddtion.s The Castle authorities set an old head at work to investigate the college and to extract from Emm ct the names of the students suspected of being United Irishmen. Tn their dull conception of character and dull witted faculties of mind they had imagined that Efnmet could be made to inform The young orator who had electrified his fellows, and had made his name a household word in the city, consulted his father and sent a letter of refusal in which he denounced the committee Of in vestigation headed by the Earl of Clare for attempting to degrade the students of Trinity to the repulsive level of informers and demanded that his name be stricken from the roll of students; thus ended his college career.
 EMMET JOINS DEMOCRACY.
 Avout this time he espoused the principles of the United Irishmen which converted into present day enuncdation means democracy That body through the inspiring genius of Wolftone stood for the annihilation of religious difference and the common worship of a united people at the altar of Ireland, a nation. They despised the so called Irish Parliament which was but g. nockery of representative institutions. In that chamber wealth and not manhood spoke. Property and privilege were the open sesame for admission. Out of a membership of 300 but s2 stood for popu1ous towns: the balance was the property of men who controlled purchasa.ble borouglas. The United Irishmen be-. Meved in ending this and giving to the people of Ireland irrespective of re ngion. manhood suffrage by abolishing the property qualification.
 HIS SELF SACRIFICE.
 s'.rhe greatest feature in Emmet's s
 
 himself. He had all the qualifications which would command him to the Crown and its favor. He was above all a Protestant and therefore eligible to. high position. He sacrificed the opportunity for the glannor and glitter principle. Above all he was not a sycophant. He was a revolutionist at the age of twenty. The uprising in 1798 and the American and French Revolution had influenced his ideas An exile in Paris awaiting his broth er's releaSe-from prison that they might both sail for America he must have known that Ireland prosrate as she was, was not in a condition for an uprising What influenced his deter imitation to go back and lead an in surrection? Pitt had made a fasco of his war on France, and the thought suggests itself that a. diversion from the weakness of his foreign policy to home entang1ements would help him. poured into his willing ears the tale of counties waiting for the ralIying cry He believed that his dream of heading 20,000 men and marching to the tune of Let Erin Remember the Days of Old' was about toscome true.
 HIS PLANS GO WRONG.
 ssReturning, his every move was known to the government. Every plan went awry, and the project built on high hopes sdwind1ed to a. street up rising that unfortunately involved the rabble. Patriotism gave way to pill age and murder reared it's head The noble old man Lord Kilwarden was attacked by the crowd, and his blood plotted the story of the insurrection. Emmet escaped to Wicklow whence he might have sailed in safety beyand the seas but he was 1ured back by the thought<of a woman, Sarah Cur ran, whose story has been told by Irving in the Broken Heart and whose sorrow has been immortalized by Tom Moore in the exquisite lines s4She is far from the land where her back to see his sweetheart that brought about his arrest.
 HIS SPEECH IN THE DOCK.
 His trial followed. and the burning words that fell from his lips in the docket will be remembered as long as time lasts: T have but one request to ask on my departure from this world and it is the charity of it's si1- ence. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my aanbd- tions dares now vindicate them. let not prejudice or ignorance espouse them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb re- main uninscribed until other times and other men can do justice to my char acter;. when my country takes her place among the nations of the earth then, and not until then let my epitaph be written
 EN1METS RUGGED FAITH.
 s.Emnet believed as Samuel Adams, the fighting father of the American revolution, in armed opposition to in- fanny and despotisTn His was the na- tionalism of Wolftone and the men who surrounded him. He acted as did the 300 Spartans under the immortal Ieonidas who held ThermQpylae for Hellas and died to- preserve the i'm perishabIe glory of freedom for