The Irish standard., 1914-02-28
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they were indignant at slavery, and
ready to assert the independence and
liberty Of their country: I wished to
procure for my country the guarantee
which Washington procured for Amer
ica-to procure an aid which, by its ex-
ample, would be as important as its
valour; disciplined, gallant, pregnant
with science and experience; that of a
people who would perceive the good,
and polish the rough points of our
characters. They would come to US
as strangers, and leave US as friends,
after sharing in our perils and elevat.
ing our destiny. These we're my OBJ
jects; not to receive new taskmasters,
but to expel old tyrants. 1t was for
these ends sought aid from France;
because France, even as an enemy,
could not be more implacable than the
enemy already in the bosom of my
country" .
Here he was interrupted by the
COURT
Il have been charged with that i'm.
portance in the emancipation of my
country, as to be considered the key.
stone of the combination of Irishmen;
or, as your lordship expressed 1t, the
life and blood of the conspiracy You
do me honour over much; you have
given to the subaltern all the credit
Of a superior. There are men en-
gagged in this conspiracy who are not
only superior to me, but even to your
own conceptions of yourself, my lord
men before the splendour of whose
genius and virtues should bow with
respectful Difference, and who would
think themselves disgraced by shak.
ing your blood-stained hand"
Here he was interrupted
What, my lord, shall you tell me,
on the passage to the scaffold, which
that tyranny (of which you are only
the intermediary executioner) has
erected for my murder, that l am &C.
countable for all the blood that has
and will be shed in this struggle of
the oppressed against the oppressor-
shall you tell me this, and must l be
so very slave as not to repel it? !
do not fear to approach the Omnipo-
tent Judge to answer for the conduct
of my whole life; and am to be ap.
palled and falsified by a mere rem.
nant of mortality here? By you, too,
although If it were possible to collect
all the innocent blood that you have
shed in your unhallowed ministry in
one great reservoir your lordship
might swim in it."
Here the judge interfered.l
Let no man dare, when l am dead
to charge me with dishonour; let nc
man attaint my memory in any
that l could have engaged in any
cause but that of my country's liberty
and Independence; or that could
have become the plant minion OF
power, in the oppression and misery
of my country. The proclamation OF
the Provisional Government speaks
for our views; no inference can be
tortured from it to countenance bar
barity or debasement at home, or sub
lection, humiliation, or treachery from
abroad. l would not have submitted
to a foreign oppressor, for the same
reason that would resist the foreign
and domestic oppressor. In the dig
nifty of freedom, would have fought
upon the Threshold of my country
and its enemy should enter only by
passing over my lifeless corpse. And
am l, who lived but for my country
and who have subjected myself to
the dangers Of the jealous and watch
full oppresor, and the bondage of the
grave, only to give my countrymen
their rights, and my country her in
dependence, am to be loaded with
calumny and not suffered to resent it!
No; God Forbid"
Here Lord Norbury told Mr.. EN-.
met that his sentiments and language
disgraced his family and his educa
ton, but more particularly his father
DR.. Emmett, who was a man, If alive
that would not countenance such opin
ions. To which Mr.. Emmett replied:
If the spirits of the illustrious dead
participate In the concerns and cares
of those who were dear to them in
this transitory life, oh! ever dear and
venerated shade of my departed faith
er, look down with scrutiny upon the
conduct of your suffering son, and
see IL have, even for moment, dew
lated from those principles of moral
ity and patriotism which it was your
care to instill into my youthful mind
and for which am now about to OF
fer up my life. My lords, you are i'm
patient for the sacrifice. The blood
which you seek is not CONCEALED by
the artificial terrors which surround
your victfm-it circulates warmly anG
unruffied through the channels which