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SI^EEOHES

HON. SCHUYLER COLFAX,

7 «

AND

GENERAL J. O'NEILL,

(Who tvlii|t|M>il lli<> (Iik'cii'm Own in Cniiaila.)

i>em\t.;reji at the (ii;EAT fenian vw. xu;, cincA(io, aug. i,-,, isno.

Nprccli of .Ur. Coll'nx.

La (J It's (inil Gc.Htlemcti : I fiiimo
liHre at. your invitation, l)eoausH I liatl
read tlie nol»le and pafrio'io resolu-
tions wliicli voii had adopted, and \w-
<!ause on Mie green flag of Irtiland,
wiiicii you love, you here in <Jhio;if;o
liad written, " Liberty to all and jus-
tice to all." It is a noble and patri-
oiiu motto, and it thrills uiy heart.
I (!la.sp the hand of every man as a
brother who proclaims that noble
sentiment in our land.

I shall talk to you now briefly, in
the few minutes in which I shall ad
dress you, of the recent course of the
Administration In regard to tho Irish
invasion of Canada. What was the
conduct of Great Britain toward us
when the storm cloud of war burst
upon our land I There was l)ut one
.army of rebellion in existence at
Fort Sumter. All the guns and the
n)uskets that they had, they had sto-
len from the arsenals of the United
States; but then, when the rebel:
banner floated at but one place in
our land, when but one rebel army
was arrayed against our country, be-
fore tho American Minister could
reach the shjres of Great Britain,
tho British Ministry hastoiied to issue
theif proclamation to the civilized
world, saying that there were two
belligerents upon the American soil.
They proclainjed cijiial rights to both
of them, and after that proclamation
they gave aid and comfort to these
traitors. When rams were about be
ing fitted out for the purpose ot prey-
iiig upon our commerce upon the
high seas, and when our .Minister
laid testimony before the liritish
Ministry, they spurned it. They
submitted the testimony to their law
officers, and while they were engaged
in poring over it, the rams started on

their patii of devastation ^M out-
rage.

Wherever on tho globe the British
flag floated, these pirates, m mned
with British crews and bearing Brit-
ish guns, could sail in, and in every
British colony obtain whatever they
needed.

Everything that could tend to in-
crease the resources and prolong the
existence of the re!)ellion, came from
Great Britain, and when, at last the
war was over, and we submitted re-
spectfully to Great Britain our claims
and asked her to look at them, she
spurned them from her presence and
treated them with contumely and
insult. Even when we asked her to
ailov; ^:.^.m to be submitted to the
arbitration of any friendly neutral
power, she kicked the claims out of
I her ante-chamber.

i 1 do not believe in the iron rule,
which is that might makes right. I
believe in the golden rule contained
in the words, "Whatsoever ye would
that others should do unto you, do
ye unto them." But I believe in my
heart of hearts in the silver rule be-
tween nations : " Whatsoever they
have done to you, do ye even so un-
to bhem."

When the hour of England's trial
came; when the Irish army was up-
on the Canadian line ; when the
brave men who had left the Em-
erald -Isle of the ocean, who came
here to enjoy liberty, showed that
they loved their native land so much
that they were willing to go forth
to bleed, sulfer, anel even die to
procure Irish independence — when
they, I say, went to that Canada
line, if the President had issued a
proclamation, he should have taken
the proclamation of the Queen, and
liiivc said, " Here is an army of reb-

tfls against (K'eat Britain upon the
Oanaila line" — ^Justus tliere was hii
army o!' reijels ajjain-^t us at Fort
Sijinter — "they are an army with

ilis(jliarf,'f(1 t.licm from llieir Cdurts,
just Hs (<reat Hri'ain did 'he pirates
of the Shenariddali wiien they to-
turned to Kn^iami after years of do-

giius, not stohm fri»m any one, but vasfalion.

paid for at our arsenals" — tht-rewast 1 confess tliat I was Inimiliated
an army just lilie it at Fort Sumter I when our army was sent there--an
. — "I declare them hotli l)e Hi ire rents, army to support wliicli we are taxed
iL is a fair fij<hl. We will let them '—to ai-t as poliiie ollicers upon the
J^'o on." Cana<la line to protect the Uanaili n

proviiKH-sof the Britisli C^ueen, and

()u the oontrary, as you luiow very
Well, the proclamation was issued,
and he wet.t out of Ids way to .speak
of these men as "evil disposed per-

to be in the worlc of spies and detec

fives afiainst the Feidans. I know

that some peo|ile .<ay that this Uana-

sons!" Evil disposed ! heci'use they dian insa-iion was a fool's errand, Itiii

longed to release llieir land from the
thraldom under which it had (or cen
turies groaned !

'l^U(^e a^rainst vyhom they went to
light Were those who had exercised
tyraniiy and despoMsm over Ireland.
They were the very same men, as
(iovernor Oglesby told you, who sus
tained and sympathised wi'li the re-
hellion ay;aiiist liberty in our land of
America.

if you read llie, spMcurht-s i-ecently
made in the (Canadian l*arliamenl.
you will st-e that they acknowledge
that Canada is us defenst'less to day
a-* she was two ino'it'^is a^o. and if ii,
had not been lor the inter|)Ositl,ui of
the Americait army which intervened,
notwil hstandiiivr the out ra^'es of w iiich
(rreat Britain liad been fiuilty, (Jen-
eral O'Neill, who stands here by my
side, would to-day have been ai .Vlon-

You have .stood to;,'ether on the , treal, and the green fiai^ would have
b t tie-field. Now stand together at | waved over (Jai.ada.
the ballot box. If you believe in j And now, my friends, I ask you
liberty for Ireland, you must, go to l why should not Ireland be free.''
woik and speak for liberty in Ameri ! They had a Parliament there from
ca. The true way to aid your cause i the thirteenth century down to tlm
is to liglit as ttie great Union ilepub- j opening ai the nineteenth, altnougb
lican organization does, fur human ! during the last, three centuries, down
rights and impartial jir<ti(!e, and for i to the close of the eighteenth, it was
the downfall of tyranny and oppres- under the tliralblom of (ireat Britain,
sion wherever it may e.\isi. and was nut allowed to bold iis ses-

Let lue say one thing further. I ' sions except by the consent of the
remember that Canadian line. The i Lord Dputy of Irelaid.
recollection of the outrages that we But at last, by the ehjijuence of
suttered there during the rebellion Henry (iratian and his brave and pa-
are burnt Into my heart. In those I triotic assot^ates, they had for ><'Vttn-
days of ours which were witliout teen years at the close oi the last
sunshine, ai.d nights without a star, ' century a free and independent Par-
I know that Canada, was the hiding | liament in that isle of the ocean.
place for traitors. 'IMiere were I VVcmld to ( ioii they had to day ! But
hatchdd the jilots against our be- British gold has bought the union by
loved land. Tl" v they plotted the wliich Ireland has been harnessed to
sending of pesu -nee into our cities, the wheels of her conqueror,
that thereby they might depopulate, I reiueiubfr the beautiful language
our States. There they plotted the of (Jrattan wlurii be uioveif, in I7»U,
poisiiiiitg our wells, that thereby our, the declaration i f rights in the lii.^ti"
people luighi be deslro.ed. Not Parliament. I copied it yeslei iia> .
content with this, theV sent their and I want to read it to you, for it is
emissaries over the Canadian line for imbued with the true sentiment that
the purpose of Ituniing our towns animates efery Irish heart today.

and robbing our l)anks.

I remember those facts, and 1 re
member further that when we ap-
pealed for justice, and when men
were arrested who were guilty (»f
these outrages, the Canadian autho '■.
rities never lifled their finger to se
cure iisjuslir.e. < )ii the contrary, they

In tnoving Lliat declaration, wirch
was to give them the exclusive right
to h'gislate and judicate over the
Irish people, he said : '

" I wish for nothing but to breathe
the air of liberty, i will never be
satisfied so Ituig as ttie meanest coi.-
taL"M" in Ireland has a link of a Brit-

■Uh oliaiii clanking against his rags."

Hu is dead, but bis iaii^^ua^e livus
l(» day, full ut' the same spirit, that
aMilIliUu^ our niilile I'niot). or^ani/a-
lion.

Two years afterwards, in 178ji, he
again moved the Deolaratiou o(
llitrhts, which was a(iupt(id unani-
mously witli tremendous enthusiasm,
and (Ireat IJritain.humljled hy the svar
whi.ih our revolutionary fathers had
fonduoted suooessfully in order to gain
their indepeudenoe, had to yield, and
did yield for eighteen ye.rs. He
fipokf tiien in llus luugU'ge of tri-
umph :

"1 am now addressinj; a free peo-
|de, and have only to admire hy what
heaven direuied steps you iiave pro-
ceeded until the whole nation has to
rejoice in the act it' our deliverance.
Vou have sought the liherty of your
own memhers. .See the Preshvteri
an.^ of Bangor petiiiou f.»r the Catho-
lics of the South. I am not afraid
to turn hack and look antiijuity in
the face."

There can be no nobler plea for
Irish independence thu,u this glory
which blazed out on the last years
of the 18th century.

I read the other day the foMowing
incident which occurred in a Dublin
(cemetery: — The graves of Tom
Steele and Daniel O'Connell are
<;!ose together, with only a marble
slab to denote wiiere each of them
lie. An American gentleman, speak
ing to the .sexton, said ; " Mow hap-
pens it that these two men of such
diverse creeds sleep together in the
same cemetery i" The old man,
leaning on his crutch, said, "Tom
.Steele was for Irish liberty, O'Con-
nell was for Iri-fh liberty, and liberty
makes brothers of us all."

liutherethis Deuiooratii' larty.that
used to claim to be the friends of
Irishmen, have gone down to Phila-
fii'iphia There they are to surren-
der their party name. They are to
receive their creed, as this u.orning's
papers say, Irom Andrew .Iohn.son,
who acted under the diotaiion of the
British .Minister.

Bit the ITnion party in Congress,
'aithful to those priniiiples upon
which it is based, sent to the Pres-
ident asking him to deiuandofthe
British authorities the release id' the
Fenian i)risoners in (.'anada. That
resolution the President has |>ro^nised
to nbey.

Then, un moliiui of Mr. Spaulding,

a Rep .blicun, it wa.s unanimou.sly
resolved by the House, in which we
have an overwhelming majority, to
ask the President to release the Fe-
nian prisoners whom he had him.self
taken and locked up in jail upon our
side of the line, or whom he had re-
leased on bail. I grieve to say that
resolution has not been respected or
obeyed yet by the President, al-
though it came from the represen a-
tives of the American pertple. And
here t,oday stands (loneral O'Neill
with the bonds of the President of the
United States upon him, and this be-
cause he loved Irish liberty and
struck for its defense.

rinding the way in which British
neutrality laws had worked, under
the lead of Mr. Banks an attempt was
made to scale down our neutrality
laws, so that we might mete out lo
them such measure as they had meted
to us. Then, too, when General
Roberts, the President of the Fenian
Brotherhood, a i)atriotic citizen whom
I am proud to call my frie>id, spoke
to a multitude at Washington, in the
hall of the Soldiers, and Sailors, Fair
room, and demanded that those who
followed his standard should be in
favor of <qual rights to all, they re-
fu.sed to allow him to use the hall
again. Then, on motion of Mr.
Delano of Ohio, it was ordered thai
on the order of the Speaker and
President of the Senate, the Fair
r()rm might be used for such meet-
ing Of the .seven Democrats in the
Senate, six voted against it. Sen-
ator Johnson feared that the passage
of such a resolution would offend the
British Government. But we passed
it, and under my order as Speaker,
they met in the room from which the
VVashiutiton police had ejected theuj.

This Irish laud is famous for the
statesmen, orators, and warriors it
has produced. It has a noble recrrd.
Now may you learn a lesson from our
recent war. We failed all through
until we reinforced ourselves by the
Divine artillery of justice. At last
we struck out slavery and wrote
liberty upon our banners, and adopt-
ed the constitutional amendment, and
banished that national disgrace from
iiur land, and then victory came to us
and the great rebellion was crushed.
Do you the sauke. Stand by liberty
wherever you find it a.ssailed, all
over the world. Rebuke oppre.ssiou.
Rebuke despotism and tyranny, and
give to every people the same rights

yon claim tor yoiir-^elvPH, anil. thii^»
reinlbroed by the pulillt! opinion of
the worlil you will sucoeed, uiid we
.shall rejoice in seeing; again, a< onci!
Iielbre, an Irish i'arliainent on Diilt-
lln (}reen. [Great applause.]

«jciii-i'iii O'lVi-iU'H M|H«><li.

General O'Neill , ilie hero of Fort
Mrio and Mniestonu Uid^e, wa-< then
introduced to the audience, and said
that he did not know why ho should
I»e called upitn to speak except that
.his countrymen thou},'lit that, aa he
was hravo enoufjfli to ^n to Canada,
ho would bo Ijold enough to stand up
before them and make a spe<'ch. He
had seen bullets and he would rathor
face them than to address them; he
was not a speech maker. He thought
that was an Irish fault. 'Tliey did
that too much and aiited too littl •,
and to do so after listening to the
eloc[uont and beautiful disc(nirse>
they had hoard, would bo presump
tion.

The cause of Fenianlaiu was a
great and glorious one. It must be
so when the Governor of the State,
General Logan, and Speaker Colfax
had expressed their sympathy with
the order. The cause which those
men were willing to advocate was
that of human liberty for all men,
black and while, who had been made
after the image of God. He was
willing to lay down his life at any
lime 10 secure the victory of those
principles.

He knew Abolitionism was not a
popular theme with hi.s countrymen,
because it had been denounced by a
party who would deceive and scd
them, and traffic in their votes and
patriotism, yet would not aid the
men who struck for Irish independ-
ence. But it was beginning to be
popular even with his own country-
men, and a treacherous party would
hold them bound to them no longer.

What others, and among them the
President, had said of their frioi.d-
ship to the Irish wan false. He had
broken his pledges to them. The
speaker's friends at Nashville had
urged him not to assail the President,
claiming that he was a friend to the
Fenians; but /hough he had nercr
hrj'uie ndcil, he iak'niJctl hcrciijler to
ruli' for Ihi: purlij (iHil iht men ichu
by their deeds- and nut words hud
shoirn their stjm/Ja/hi/jhr Jrishme/.,
They had been deceived often
enough.

l'resid"nt JoliiiHon had canvnysed
Tennessee against the Know Noth-
ings, but that was merely to become
C'overnor. He did not love Itish-
men. Of late, that man constrmd
the neutrality laws in such a man
ner a;i to ruin tlieir hopes, while if he
haU given them a fair chance ihey
must have been successful. .Many
men did not believe they could put,
lo.ooo sjldiers in (Janada, but if it
had not been for the great vigilance
of the I're.-iident and his sMbordinaics,
•iOO.Ooij men would have been there,
and they would in u month havt»
held every fortified position in (!ana-
da.

Those Demornits irho hud jtretr/id ■
ed to he their life loiiij:' j'rieiids had
lietruijed than, lie believed I'rcisi-
dent .Johnson would turn him (the
speaker) over to the liritish if ho
dared, but the Ameriijan i)eopli!
would not permit it. Their prett^ml-
ed friends liad sold him, but he trust-
ed they would be disappointed nu
longer, and while he did not intend
to become a politiciyn, he was going
tor the party that would assist them,
and he hoped thut ererij Irishinun
there icoidd do the same.

They had been deceived and ca-
joled long enough. I'ut that Demo-
cratic party had showed that when
the Irish were prepared to strike otV
their chains they would not allow it,
fearing that they might lose some-
thing thereby. At the time when
the freedom of their land was within
their grasp, it was snatched from
them by the President and ins asso-
ciates.

Tlieir army was not a purely Irish
one. Hundreds and thousands of
Americans who had fought North
and South were ready to join in
striking a blow Tor Ireland. Many
ollicers were ready co go with them,
but the President had, in his great
spoediness, stopped that. He was
probably afraid to let the Irish go to
Canada let they would not be ])res-
(Mit to vote the l)('iiiocratic ticket.

Had those men been allowed to
stay in Canada, the English would
have been on their knees to the Fen-
ians. With < "anada tliey could have
fitted out privateers, destroyed Fng-
lish commerce, and liefore two years
have brought her on her knees. It
was his opinion they could have
liberated Ireland without striking a
blow there.