The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-03-04

EMMETT,
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friendly port-when my shade shall
have Joined the bands of those mar
tyred heroes who have shed their
blood on the scaffold and in the field
in the defence of their country and
of virtue, this is my hope-I wish
that my memory and name may ami
mate those who survive me, while T
look down with complacency on the
destruction of that perfidious govern
ment which upholds it's domination by
of the Most High-which
displays its power over man, as over
the beasts of the forest-which sets
man upon his brother and lifts his
hand, in the name of God, against the
throat Of his fellow who believes or
doubts a little more or little less
than the government Standard gov
eminent which is steeled to barbarity
by the cries of the orphans, and the
tears of the widows it has made"
Here Lord Norbury interrupted Mr..
Emmett ,saying-"that the mean and
wicked enthusiasts who felt as he
did, were not equal to the accomplish
ment of their wild designs."]
II appeal to the immaculate God
Il swear by the Throne of Heaven,
before which I must shortly appear
by the blood of the murdered pa
triots who have gone before me
that my conduct has been, through all
this peril, and through all my pur-
poses, governed only by the convic-
ton which I have uttered, and by no
other view than that Of the emancipa-
ton of my country from the superin-
human oppression under which she
has so long and too patiently ira
vailed; and confidently hope that
wild and chimerical as it may ap-
pear, there is still union and strength
in Ireland to accomplish this noblest
of enterprises. Of this speak with
confidence, of intimate knowledge,
and with the consolation that apper-
tains to that confidence. Think not,
my lords, say this for the petty
qualification of giving you a transitory
uneasiness. A man who never yet
raised his voice to assert lie, will
not hazard his character with poster
ity, by asserting a falsehood on a
subject so important to his country,
and on an occasion like this. Yes, my
lords, man who does not wish to
have his epitaph written until his
country is liberated, will not leave a
weapon in the power of envy, or a pre-
tence to impeach the probity which
he means to preserve, even in the
grave, to which tyranny consigns
him."
There he was again interrupted by
the COURT
again say that what I have spok-
en- was not intended for your lord
ship, whose situation commisserate
rather than envy-my expressions
were for my countrymen. If there is
a true Irishman present, let my last
words cheer him in the hour of his
affliction."
Here he was again interrupted.
Lord Norbury said he did not sit there
RI hoor froocor
Il have always understood it to be
the duty of Judge, when a prisoner
has been convicted, to pronounce the
sentence of the law. I have also un-
derstood that judges sometimes think
it their duty to hear with patience and
to speak with humanity, to exhort
the victim of the laws, and to offer,
with tender benignity, their opin-
ions of the motives by which he was
actuated in the crime of which he
was adjudged guilty. That a Judge
has thought it his duty so to have
done, l have no doubt; but where is
the boosted freedom of your institu-
is the Wanted impartial
ity, clemency, and mildness of your
courts of justice if an unfortunate
prisoner, whom your policy, and not
justice, is about to deliver into the
hands Of the executioner, is not suf-
fered to explain his motives sincerely
and truly, and to vindicate the princi-
pies by which he was actuated? My
lords. it may be a part of the system
Of angry justice to bow mans mind
by humiliation to the purposed ig-
nominy of the scaffold; but worse to
me than the purposed shame, or the
,caffold's terrors, would be the shame
If such foul and unfounded imputa-
ions as have been laid against me
n this court. You, my lord, are a |
Judge; I am the supposed culprit. 1
I'm q man; you are a man also. By
! revolution of power we mighta