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 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- 
 
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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- 
 
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 ■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.