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 UKMVEKKI) liV 
 
 WILLIAM PITPM A^ LETT 
 
 At the Grand Opora House, at the Annual ]<;utertainment 
 
 of the 8t. Patrick's liiterary Association, on the 
 
 18th Mar<h, ^HlX. 
 
 I was told on my wny to this entei'tain- 
 meiit that I sliall he out of ))lace here 
 to-niglit, but I don't believe it. I was 
 told that, as a result of the little divisions 
 amongst Irishmen in this eity, this meet- 
 ing had assumed a political comjilexion, 
 but I don't believe it. If this is a 
 political demonstration, this great 
 audience is out of place, but I am not. I I 
 take my stand to day upon the ])road ! 
 platform of Irish nationality ; and with- ; 
 out distinction of religious or ))olitieal i 
 creed, I otfer the right lia-nd of fellowship ' 
 to every man, woman and child, who by ! 
 birth or descent, lias the right to stand ! 
 beside me. I will go further still. I feel i 
 that the arms of our friendliness of feel- ' 
 ings, are long enough to encircle within \ 
 the warm cead mille a failtha of their j 
 fraternal embrace, every Englishman, ' 
 every Scotchman, and every Frenchman 
 here, desirous of uniting with us to-night 
 in the grand old Irish jig of our national 
 festival. 
 
 I find that our worthy iriend the 
 President of the St. Patrick's Literary 
 Association has put me down on the ; 
 programme for an Irish Speech. This i 
 may occasion a little eml)arrassment, as 
 some here may imagine that I am about I 
 to address you in the old Celtic tongue,— j 
 tliat epic poetry of all the languages— 
 which our Scottish fncnds attirm most ' 
 positively to liave been the vernacular of 
 Eden. I am not inclined to differ with 
 them in this opinion, for song, tradition 
 and story, agree in confii-mation of the ' 
 fact, that 
 
 "When Eve in all licr pristine charms 
 
 Bnrst on fond Adam's view, 
 'J"hi- fiMt words tliat he said to her 
 
 Were clamar thi dhhn dkiujli. \ " 
 
 Tlic answer of the Mother of th" 
 liuiuau race has not been recorded, but [ 
 fancy 
 
 I '• Th.at Eve replied with downcast eye, 
 
 And lilush like rose in Juno, 
 I'll get your breakfast l)ye and bye 
 
 j ^Iii t/ow.lml hidrn aroon," 
 
 j I am ac(iuainted with a few Celtic 
 
 j plirases. For instance, I know the mejiti- 
 
 ' ing of Fanyh-a-TiaUagh, and so do tlie 
 
 , enemies of Britain know its meaning too, 
 
 j ill e\ery part of the world where the red 
 
 I hand of military fliine has planted the 
 
 I laurels of victory along the jiath of lieroii- 
 
 glory, cleared by the conquering bayonet* 
 
 of the Connaught Pvangers. Were I not 
 
 the President of a Temperance Society, at 
 
 a convivial nieetiug, I could understand 
 
 and perhaps appreciate the meaning of 
 
 Slauntha garth Maioza-)ieen. And were 
 
 I yoviiig again, and sitting beside the giil 
 
 of my heart, beneath the shade of the 
 
 green willows on the bank of my own 
 
 native Slaney, or under the shadow of a 
 
 .spreading maple on tlie banks of thenoMe 
 
 Ottawa, she and I would soon com])reliend 
 
 the signification of 
 
 " GrniiKii/nce ma roUeen oijf>, 
 
 Mil Ato'hj unthore." *■ 
 
 Not being sufficiently conversant with, 
 the dialect of Paradise, to address so large 
 an audience as this, I shall have to trust 
 
 NAIIONAL LIBHARY 
 
 <-ANAOA 
 
 , »PUorhbW;E NATIONAtE 
 
\>1C 
 
 •)i!,';(' moi-o to tlio lutcvom 
 
 tltat we all iiuder.stnud. But It-t" rue sav 
 
 •V-Mglo-Suxou 
 
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 h./yt •? o>-«-aud I say it iu all siucM'i'y-tl.a't 
 
 ;^ kf >y lifetKi iH.uunable to eouver.so in 
 tin. grand old U.ssunic language, in wl.ich 
 S.nlr'R •^"■"« ''■^'"I'^'^o-is a.^ainst the 
 
 (rold.n (,'ollai. la.r.sl.alled thai- hosts of 
 rce-hom ni,.,i urouud them. And nosv, 
 let me ask you ull considerately to ro- 
 ^nc.mho,.thatthisisthecelel„•utim^of Ht. 
 Jatrjoks Day, an.l that he who now 
 «t, mds hefore the critical intellectual 
 ■1.atte,yofth.samlie„.... is an Irishman. 
 J want you to keep these two points in 
 view ; ,n onler that, should I inadvertent- 
 iy, m tiie enthusiasm of the moment 
 forget that Ireland do.s not actuallv con-' 
 ■statute the whole world, and thlit the 
 Insh Kace does not stand a head an.l 
 «houIde.^ over a 1 creation; you may be 
 •aide ni the kindliness of your heart/, to 
 
 pardon 
 
 any seeming yet unintended 
 
 ^exaggeration, on account of the warm 
 liome-Ioving patriotism of the feelin- 
 l)«neath it. I own, and I am not 
 nsliamed to acknowledge, that I am 
 ^erionsly affecte.l hy that hereditary 
 national epidemic which attacks every 
 tnie-souled Irishman witli aggravated! 
 virulence, once a year, in wliate.er part 
 o the world outside of his native iLd, 
 iiu ot may be cast It is a disease in the 
 icart of the exile, for which there is no! 
 Tcniedy but death. I know of notliin.^ ? 
 ^hatcangiveyouamoretrue and toucir. ! 
 :i.ig d.a.gnoscis of the nature and intensity ' 
 ■^^lissjmptoms, thanaver.se of an old 
 Ins I Song, which m my estimation is one 
 of the sweetest, most j,atlietie and beauti- 
 •tul productio.is of the Irish Muse • 
 
 I m bulling yo!, a long farewell, 
 
 My Marv kind and true, 
 -B'lt I n not for!,'ft von darling 
 
 Inthsland I'm going to ■ 
 Tnoy say there's bread and' work for all 
 
 A id the sun shines always there ; ' 
 ■Buc ['11 not forget Old Irehuid ' 
 
 W ere it fifty times as fair ! " 
 
 Twelve months a^o I liad the lienor of 
 .^ndmg here to olier you niy luimble 
 
 in "%*!,*''" i"*«'-««ti»g national 
 
 festmties of that occasion. Festivities 
 
 endered doubly interesting by the attend- 
 
 .aj)u7 of the Vice-Kegal Party from 
 
 Uvernment House. A distinguished 
 I i.sh party which wonhl Jiave been mo^ 
 l^^oasingly completed by the presence o? 
 His Excellency the Governor-Gene lal and 
 
 heCNnuite.ssofDuflerin,haditnot C 
 for the occurrence of an untoward ,iccident 
 
 winch we all deeply deplored at thfu^^^ 
 ^ow, having allude-I to the Governor 
 General, do you think I can y.^Zv 
 mistr-ous^countiynian thus, by tlie mer^ 
 ineuaon of his name? For from it 
 Ihis may bo my last opportunity • and 
 when you take into co'iii.leration' t i 
 I his IS Ireland's Day, and that C 
 I DufTcrm IS an Irishman, I know you w 
 
 I panlon me .f I take advantage of the sitT 
 tion. I he people of Canada, ami 
 especially the Irishmen of Canadl have 
 good reason to feel proud of their noble 
 representative countryman, the Earl of 
 DulTerin. He came to us a stranger 
 He soon found his way into our hearts" as 
 a friend ; and when lie leaves us he will 
 eave many a vacant tenement behind 
 
 '^"dn l'" .T^'x;^"^ -ill not, easily 
 I again be filled. His administration of 
 our national affairs, as Her Maiestv'.s Re 
 pre.sen'ative, has been distinguished by 
 the exercise of genius and abflity of no 
 ordinary stamp. It has been .signalized 
 by the display of wisdom, energy and ex 
 perience, not less than by modeition and 
 far-seeing sagacity. He is gifted with that 
 rare and singularly happy combination of 
 ; inte lectual power.s which has made him 
 j not less a statesman than an orator He 
 i ^'''' steered fairly, boldly and brilliantly 
 I away out of the ordinary beaten track of 
 I steieotyped diplomacy, and left behind him 
 a path of light which his succes.sor Z 
 iollow should its lustre not prove too 
 dazzling. In all his public icts, as a 
 Governor-General, he has been himse'f 
 original and alone. His replies to the 
 addimses of the people have been perfect 
 models of appropriateness ami oricrina- 
 lities; and in his public .speeches in all 
 par.s of the Dominion, he has given to the 
 world a series of genuine oratiolis worthy 
 of Ireland s brighte.s.t day, worthy of beinl. 
 transmitted to posterity as a voice from 
 the present, proclaiming loudly an.l 
 elocpiently CO the future that all that i 
 
 -Shoi tly after las advent amongst us. Lord 
 
 Dufterin lighted the torch of hit popularity 
 at the kindly Hame burning npon th^ 
 
 
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 altar of a peoijle's lovo. Tliroiiglioub tlie 
 live years of his official sojourn in (Canada, 
 it Las burned ou with steady aud ever 
 increasing radiance ; and when tha able 
 hand that carries it so unfalteringly aloft 
 shall be disappearing in the distance from 
 our view, its last lingering rays will rest 
 grandly and brightly upon the high 
 places of the land, whore he has written his 
 name in enduring characters on our 
 country's history. When, in the due 
 oo«i-se of events, that time shall arrive, 
 Lord Duflerin may rest iissured that he 
 will bear away with him to his island 
 liome, the heartfelt regrets, as well 
 as the most sincere and fervent wishes of 
 the people of Canada, for the future wel- 
 fare, happiness aud pru.si)erity of himself, 
 tlie Countess of Duti'erin and every other 
 member of his family. If I have stepped 
 aside from my starting point it was worth 
 while to do so. I could not help it. The 
 golden apples were too tempting to be re- 
 sisted. And now I am here to-day as I 
 was a year ago, to rejoice with you on the 
 anniversary of the birthday of Ireland's 
 Patron Saint, whose memory is revered, 
 and most deservedly so, by Irishmen the 
 wide world over. If we are to believe the 
 records of liistory— and why should we 
 not J— St. Patrick was essentially a great 
 
 glowing gramlcur of hor imst hi.story, to 
 dwell with patriotic devotion amid tin* 
 scenes so d(;ar to every Irish heart. I 
 don't know how it is with others, l)ut I do 
 know, that as each vanishing year brinf'.H 
 me nearer to the end, I fed love of 
 country growing strong(,>r and stronger in 
 my heart. And when the end draws 
 near— when life's weary chariot wheels 
 shall be slowly and more slowly turning, 
 ere they stand still forever, with my 
 latest breath let me exclaim : 
 
 "Yet all those fond reeollcctions siinpres.sin?, 
 
 One dynig wi.sh my lone bosom shall draw," 
 Enn, aa exde boijuoath's thee his Ijlessing, 
 
 Land of my ?\)refathera— Erin go bragh ! 
 Buried and cold when my heart stills its 
 motion, 
 
 Green lie thy fields, sweetest Isle of the Ocean! 
 And thy harp-striking bards sing aloud with 
 emotion, 
 
 Erin Mavourneen ! Erin <jo brwjh ! 
 
 as well as a good man. His life was 
 such a pre-eminently practical exemplifica- 
 t ion of the principles of Christianity, that 
 Irishmen, Catholic and Protestant alike, are 
 willing to claim him and anxious to own 
 him. Consecjuently, this anniversary is 
 always celebrated as a tlay of national re- 
 joicing. Ask me not then, to-day, if I 
 am a Protestant. Ask me not if I am a 
 Catholic. Ask me not if I am a Tory. 
 Ask me not if I am a Radical. I can 
 have nothing to do, and I don't want to 
 have anything to do, with questions in- 
 volving so circumscribed ami narrow a 
 feeling. The dividing party lines on the 
 purified tablets of each Irish heart, to-day, 
 should be so indistinct as to be invisible. 
 Ask me only to-day, if I am an Irishman! 
 I desire specially, not to forget that I am 
 one. I want to remember, now, the si)ot 
 where I was born. And, although the 
 crested billows of the blue Atlantic roll 
 between that sacred spot and me, fancy 
 can carry me, by the resistless power of 
 fond affection, to the Shamrock-clad 
 valleys of my native land ; to revel in the 
 
 I have said that fancy could carry mo 
 across the ocean. She has done so. I 
 am there now. The fact is self-evident 
 that the body is still here, but, like the 
 rapid and flashing transit of the electric 
 spark, the fetterles.s, unbound spirit is in its 
 native land. And, as I look around me, 
 every spot upon which my eye rests is 
 classic grounil, consecrated to genius 
 and immortality by the footprints of 
 statesmen, sages, warriors, philosophers, 
 orators and poets. I knock at the door of 
 the great temple of the nation's memory, 
 and forthwith appears the illustrious shade 
 of Henry John Crattan, marching in 
 colossal dignity at the head of a long and 
 brilliant procession of mighty spints of 
 the past ; amongst whom I l)ehold Burke, 
 Sheridan, Shiel, O'Conneli, Curran,' 
 J'hillips, Barrington, Plunkett, Wolfe,' 
 Wellington and Flood ! As that shadowy 
 battalion of renown defiles in matchless 
 majesty before mo, who can blame me if I 
 feel proud that I am a native born son of 
 the same soil ? I knock again, and, as at 
 the touch of Aladdin's lamp, mighty and 
 mysterious powers appeared, Ireland's 
 ancient warrior kings, the imperishable 
 I monuments of her early greatness, her 
 I learning, her refinement and her civiliza- 
 I tion arise. And as I gaze upon the glorious 
 I vision, a voice within me whispers "these 
 I belong to you." I knock again, and as 
 ! from the sepulchre of buried agog, come 
 ! forth the bearded Bards and Harpers of 
 
tlio IiuhI of sonrr. The spectral pliaiitoiim 
 of Turluugli O'Carolan and Colunibkill, 
 the royal saintly IJard of lona, glide side 
 by side with the white-haired Ministrels 
 of Tara. Now they are joined by Jona- 
 than Swift, (.)li\'('r (ioldsniith and Thomas 
 Moore, and thrice welcome, aye, cead 
 onlUe a falltha, to every Irish heart, 
 Thomas C/'ampbell, the jiathetic author of 
 the "Kxile of Erin," with the Caledonian 
 lioather round his brow, by right, and the 
 Avell-won and universally acknowledged 
 freedom of the soil draws near and frater- 
 nizes those lustrous sjiirits of the Isle. 
 They pass on and the undying music of 
 their march sounds like a strain of glory 
 from the past, travelling into the mists of 
 coming years ; as the rays of the dawning 
 sunshine i)ierce with their penetrating 
 splendour, the light riven shadows of the 
 vanishing night. Aa I listen with rapture 
 to the entrancing cadences of their National 
 Anthem, with exultation I feel that they 
 too — these fame— garlanded Apostles of 
 Hong ! are mine. I knock again, and forth 
 from their graves of glory in every land, 
 country and clime throng tlip deathless 
 .Spii-its of Ireland's warrior-dead. They 
 who had fought, bled, conquered and died 
 on every field where courage had found a 
 hero, or honor had written an epitaph ! 
 The Genius of Fame is at their head, and, 
 as with a voice that rings from pole to 
 pole she sings the glories of their gallant 
 deeds, I feel, after all, that it is something 
 to be able to claim kindred with such 
 heroic and immortal company ! I knock, 
 once more, and for the last time. It were 
 better perhaps, had I not done so. But I 
 have summoned the vision. I have raised 
 the veil, and I must tell you what I see. 
 The scene, ala.s ! is changed. The prospect 
 before me is appalling. I look upon a 
 field of battle, yet I hear neither the tramp 
 nor the trumpet blast of the invader. 
 Dead men with Irish faces are lying on 
 the ground. Living men with Irish faces 
 and arms in their hands, are striding 
 fiercely amid the slain. The conflict is 
 bloody, but, at last the battle is over, and 
 I am left almost alone with the dead. A 
 .stranger, at my side, from another land, 
 while mournfully contemplating the dread- 
 ful scone, asks me " who hath done this ? 
 As he speaks, a combatant approaches. 
 I know him not, but by his look I know 
 he is a son of the Soil. ' With shame and 
 
 sorrow in my heart, in the ]>resenc^ of the 
 stranger, I point to him, and in the lan- 
 guage of the Projihct, I exclaim, '• riiou 
 art the man 1" Fratricide ! the red dis- 
 honor l)oneath thy feet is the l)lood of thy 
 bi-other — tiie wasted life of thy own 
 Mother's Son. Wipe the sanguinary 
 stains from thy unholy brand of discord 
 and let the soft and peaceful voice of 
 patriotism |)lant the olive l)ranch in thy 
 j heart. Jf I have, it may be, unwittingly 
 stirred the burieil embers of the past, I 
 have done so with no evil intent. And 
 now while I endeavor to cover them up 
 again with the heart-wished for oblivion 
 of a more generous impulse, let me, in one 
 vei-se, interpret the meaning of the sad- 
 dening vision in a manner that every 
 Irishman, at least, will understand the 
 illustration : — 
 
 " Then if while scenes so grand, 
 
 So l)jantiful shine before thee 
 I'ride for thine own deir land 
 
 Sliould haply be stoaHng o'er thee ;, 
 O, let grief come first 
 
 O'er pride itself victorious. 
 To think how man liath curst 
 
 Wliat Heaven had made ao glorious !" 
 
 Yes, Ireland came glorious fi'om the 
 hand of God. " Ireland had once a 
 glorious history when she was the mart of 
 learning and the resort of the Students of 
 all nations. When Euro])e was a corpse 
 beneath the hoof of the Vandal, then was. 
 Ireland famous, — "then was she "the 
 School of the West,"— the quiet habitation, 
 of science and literature. She had a 
 glorioiis history before the crowning of 
 Charlemagne, — before the Crescent waved 
 over the f\iir fields of Andalusia. And 
 when wai- raged like an angry demon ia 
 the heart of Europe, she held up the torch 
 of knowledge as a beacon, and received 
 with open arms,, and the generous welcome 
 of a courteous and i-efined civilization, all 
 those who sought science or shelter within 
 her peaceful bosom." However we may- 
 differ in some things — and is it not a pity- 
 that the inexorable despotism of an idea 
 should divide us — on one point we caa 
 all agree. Dear old Ireland ! Thy greem 
 fields, thy clear-flowing streams, thy wild 
 mountains, thy beautiful lakes, thy em- 
 erald-robed valleys — even, thy very bogs, 
 the tombs of thv ancient forests, are de.'jr- 
 to our hearts. But while we honor our 
 
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 native land, we are not insenHible to the 
 historic glories of our Sister Islands. Wo 
 too, can glory in England's Shakspeare, 
 her Milton, her Dryden, her Pojks, her 
 Byron, her Pitt, her Chatham, her Peel, 
 her Rnssell, her Gladstone, and her 
 Beaconsfield. We too, can glory in 
 Scotland's Wallace, her Bruce, her Burns, 
 her Scott, her Tanahill, her Ramsay, her 
 Ferguson, antl her Macaulay. Nor would 
 he -willingly forget what Liberty and 
 Letters owe to France's Andr6 Chenier, 
 her Rouget de Lisle, her Lamartine, her 
 Guizot, her Thiers, and to that Moses of 
 the modern gospel of Freedom, Humanity 
 and Romance, Victor Hugo ! I would 
 not attempt to blight the bloom of Eng- 
 land's Rose with the breath of envy. I 
 would not pluck one thorn from the de- 
 fiant emblem in Scotland's escutcheon, nor 
 would I stand either silent or sullen, 
 while our.brothor Islanders are singing the 
 glories of their national renown. But 
 while love of country remains one of the 
 acknowledged cardinal virtues of the 
 heart, I would not, if I could, be other 
 than what I am, an Irishman. No, by 
 every Shamrock in every Irish vale, never ! 
 No ! though a sceptred hand should offer 
 a King's ransom for what might be worth- 
 less to another, my birthright, which is 
 everything to me. Let us, then, while we 
 honor our native land— while we lovingly 
 remember her here afar from her ocean- 
 washed shore, try to feel that we are 
 
 brothers. Let us forget, but if we can't 
 forget, let us suspend by the mesmeric 
 intluonco of a common natioTiality, the 
 bitterness and disunion of tiie past, and 
 endeavor to realiz(\ the great fact that we 
 belong to one soil and to one family ; and 
 that union and brotherly love are the 
 only true elements of strength. What- 
 ever we have done in the pafit. What- 
 ever wo shall do in the future, let us to- 
 day, remember tiiat we are children rf the 
 same dear old mother. We shall not 
 make a bit woi-so Canadians because we 
 honor our native land. A patriotic 
 apostate is not to bo trusted. The man 
 who does not love the land of his birth, 
 can have no affection for the land of his 
 adoption. Our fellow-citizens of other 
 nationalities — and wo offer the right hand 
 of fellowship to every one of them — will 
 acknowledge the truth of this, when they 
 discover that, in the grand and imposing 
 struggle for national honor, Canadian 
 development and progress, no stronger 
 arm will bo found than the arm of an 
 Irishman. No more potent and sagacious 
 guide in the nuijestic march of our Coun- 
 try's Liberty, Eulightenment and Civiliza- 
 tion than the prophetic genius of the Irish 
 mindi. No more ennobling impulse will 
 ever thrill in the great throbbing, expand- 
 ing heart of this young and aspiring 
 nation than that which gathere energy 
 and ins[)iration from the enthusiastic spirit 
 of the Irish Race 1