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TO THE 
 niUHT HONOUUABLE 
 
 SIR JOHN A. MACDONALl), 
 
 (J.O.B.,&c., Ac, 
 PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA. 
 
 My Dkar Sir John --I dedicate tliis Speed, to you as the 
 l.^adiri<r Statesman in Canada, many of whose most .listin^niish- 
 ing traits not a few of yonr supporteivs liave tliouo-ht eminently 
 Irish. You have in the past been as.sociateci with "the most al,Ie 
 men Ireland has n-jven to Canada, and the g.-eat body of your 
 Kngllsh-speaking supporters are Irish. The Speed, is an ai>i,eal 
 for true, patriotic actior. ,n regard to Ireh.nd and Canada, a-ul as 
 i eondude by calling on n)y coimtrymen to build up a' unite<l 
 Canada, and as at this hour thousands of men of vai-ious origin 
 and different creeds are engaged in vindicating Cana.lian nation- 
 ality, moved forward by < le tlmught under the same flag, I think 
 I could not dedicate this Speech to anyone so appiopriatdy as 
 to the Father of Confederation. 
 
 I am, my dear Sir John, 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 NICHOLAS FLOOD DAVIN 
 
 Ottawa, Aj)ril 7th, 1885. 
 
Ireland and the Empire 
 
 A SPEECH 
 
 IIY 
 
 JSI-IGHOL^S IPLOCID JDJ^.-VXl<r. 
 
 Mr. President, Ladit's and Getitlaiicji 
 
 S(» preesft(l am I with private bu.«iness 
 (iH'kirs calling tne to Now York Ihat 
 almoBt at aiij' olbt r timt.-, or on any 
 oilier occasion, much as I have desired 
 to meet an audience, and especially 
 an Irish audience, in Montr, al, I should 
 Lave declintd the honour ol addrestinf^ 
 yon. Kut at a time when revolting 
 crimes, and meaninKli'SS as revohinfr, 
 are connecttd with the name of Ireland, 
 1 tVlt that nothing should prtvent my 
 being present at a meeting of Irishmen 
 on St. Patrick's Day in that city ot the 
 Dominion where there is the largtsi 
 Irihh population, to asfe you to join with 
 me in protesting against outrages which 
 are as much without meaning as moral- 
 ity, an(i with which 1 would tain 
 hope no Irishman, acting as an 
 Irishman and aiming at Irish objects, 
 was ever connected. (Cheers.) As I 
 wrote to your president when he con- 
 veyed to me your invitation, I have 
 ever held it a privilege to address an 
 audience ot my countrymen, and not 
 only u privilege, hut a duty, il for no 
 other reason than this, my views may 
 differ, nay, on certain points, are certain 
 to differ more or less from yours, 
 
 nod mental progress does not depend 
 on hearing or reading ovx own ideas, 
 but on hearing ideas diderent from 
 our<iwn; not oi uniformity but vartty 
 of tbought. The mental glauce wtiich 
 sees facts in their t'Urf relati'n, th-« com- 
 paring fiiculty which co-ordinates these 
 facts and draws from them juhtand fruit- 
 ful inlerences, the sinewy vigour which 
 can take up gretit themes and master 
 tliem, the cold clear head which does 
 not grow intoxicated on the frothing 
 Kohlets of self-gloritying verbiage — these 
 are things which do not come from 
 imitation or egotism dit^guised und» r 
 vague raptures respt^ciing the indefinite 
 and unhlstorical in the past, or th«) 
 Indefiuite ard impossible in tha future. 
 They ar*^- to be had only in that arena 
 where thought grapples with thought, 
 aP'J Independent minds try themselves 
 and their conclusions against others. 
 
 I have addressed many audiences of my 
 countrymen in Canad* calling them- 
 selves by various names of national 
 significance, More than once, and this 
 has happened In the present case, on 
 such occasions friends of mine, older 
 men, more experienced in the ways of 
 
IIIKI.ANI) AND I'lri: i;MI'||{tJ. 
 
 tliii woild and in politics havo coiiio be- 
 ti If hfitxl find have said to me : " Don't 
 ^o. An Iriwh ProteHtnnt, vou will' tU'a- 
 tioy your intlKrico with tbf so who hio 
 your i.HtiMil allies, the strongf^t body 
 in this Dominion.'' But I havo thoui^ht 
 tli<itiirtHn hisbruan, «von it i be aa 
 heretic, 1 have some share in St. PatricU, 
 some rii^ht to wear the sbarorocV, and 
 on tills ground and more espocinlly 
 for r<i sons a'leidy noted and N'elintf 
 It was a >j;reat evil to k cp any two 
 (■lasses of th-i (Otnmunlty apart, and 
 particularly Irish Catholics and Irish 
 ProtestantP, I hive turned nui frorn 
 KU'h Achitophoi counsels and have 
 said : 'Go speak your honest thouj^tit, 
 rememl)e!ing "at the commuuica- 
 lion {/f our thoUf^hts, the p^ssinij of the 
 Sicreil tiie troui so'jl to soul is that 
 which links us with the Deity 
 and is the fountain whence true pro- 
 gress springs. The raei. you i.re called 
 on to address are like yourself, made o' 
 the hery dust of the liud of Qrattan. 
 U you kneel at ditlerent altars, your 
 voices go up to the Bame universal 
 Father. Amongst them all there 
 will be no single heart tint, struck 
 by a loving hm ', will not be found to 
 lieat true to the music of generous 
 instincts. Throw away calcuUting 
 prudence. You bear the name of the 
 man who first made Ireland an organ- 
 ized political power, and redeemed 
 Protestants and Catholics alike from 
 humiliation. With whatever meaaage 
 reading observation and reflection may 
 have given you, a son of Ireland, 
 proud of htr unr* concerned for her wel- 
 fare, go — take counsel with your 
 brethren ; jpeak out your honest con- 
 victions. On some points you may not 
 agree with them, nor they with you. 
 But on one point you will be a unit — love 
 to Ireland." (Loud cheers.) 
 
 O'her sauiacioua indivirhnls advised 
 mo to avoil importaut practical subjects, 
 and to give you a literary essay on the 
 natron saints of the thrcD kingdoms. I 
 am not sure that this wiuld be very 
 protitable, as I am not up in haiiioloay, 
 and I might theretoro, in the case of at 
 least two out of the three saints, have 
 had to evolve their characters out of my 
 lUvJral consciousness, or elsn infer them 
 from the chMracterlstics of their votaries. 
 Abjut St. Andrew I know mthing save 
 what I learn from the moigre account 
 of hi in in the Gospel. It hf)wever 
 there is any relation between patron 
 siints and their votaries 1 am sure he 
 WHS of a saving turn, and if he did not 
 run he lived on or ne*r a Innk 
 (Lvuuhter.) A mythical atmosphere 
 envelops St. George, but as wo ki.'Ow 
 him he is not a martyr but a con- 
 queror. Ha is always killing that 
 dragon, and England, v/bose patron 
 siiut ho has been since the time 
 of Edward III his gone in (luest of 
 somehoJy or other to fight with from 
 the earliest times. A war steed has> 
 be'jn her hobby-horse, and whoever 
 does not get out of her way, she baa 
 regarded as a dragon for whom the best 
 thing fhe could do was to kill him. In 
 the tendt mess and generosity for which 
 the Irish people aro remarkable, we 
 may perhaps trace the iiifluence 
 of St. Pitrick. I am certain there 
 was nothing parsimonious about him, 
 that he was brave, generous to a fault 
 and as the song says, *» a gentleman." 
 (Laughter.) I am sure there are points of 
 diflference between the patron satnts and 
 their votaries. There is, for instance, 
 something mythical about St, Goorga. 
 I need hardly say there is nothing 
 mythical about John Bull. (Hear, hear, 
 and laughter.) He is a fact, and the 
 roast beef which builds up bis rotund 
 
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 bund 
 
 figjire Is not morn matter of ftiot than 
 h«). Ti e Hon. Alexander Mackecaio 
 onto eaid that five ct^nt pieces were 
 Invented in order to enable Scotchmen 
 to contrihute to the poor box. IhiH 
 18 of couree a joke, for no raj;n 
 are more forward to cont:ibuto for 
 good and useful purposts than Hco'cli- 
 raen. Hn", anyway, I am certitn St. 
 Andrew never (•han^'ed a ten cent piece 
 on Saturday ni^ht in order to swell the 
 ofteriM^rt at church on the fullowins? day 
 with a tive cent piece. (Laughter.) 
 This Jsestiihllrthed on several grounds, 
 but oLe is conclusive : the decimal 
 system of coinage is a comparatively 
 modern inventipu. (Renewed laugh- 
 h'".) As to St. Patrick, 1 am con- 
 vinced he never m-ide love to a pietty 
 gir', and hero'n he was ceitilnly not 
 typi-^al of an Irishmnxi. (Laughter ) 
 From thtse hurried hints as to the char- 
 acter of the address on patron saints, t 
 should have made, I think you will 
 agree with me that like the shoemaker, 
 1 had better stick to my last and make 
 you a speech. 
 
 Generous and courageous spirits have 
 frequently given expression to the noble 
 wish that Ireland might huve been 
 plunged for five minutes beneath the 
 Atlantic. The biography of Thomas 
 Uarlyle shows from what a petty crater 
 belched out the thunders of his verifies 
 and eternities and immensities. It was 
 from this miserable source that the inso- 
 lent suggestion got literary vogue. It 
 has been echoed in newspapers and 
 at dinner tables by curs and curlings, 
 who knew not the lull significance 
 of what they said. If such a plunge 
 could make any great difiference in 
 the character of the people ultimately 
 inhabiting that island it would have 
 deprived the Empire ot some of the 
 greatest men it has produced in diplo- 
 
 macy, In government, in war ; she 
 would have lost soldiers such as 
 Wellington and Wols' If-y, HtateenuMi 
 and rulers such as tlie Lawrences who 
 saved India, and Dntl'erin who mny 
 save It again. We should have to 
 trace the moid brilliant pa^'os of lifeva- 
 tnr-, and art, and work of all klndu 
 in a dozen climes to realize what tlio 
 world would hi;VL; lost. It is true 
 that at a loss of life greater than 
 many wars would entail, thus much 
 might have been secured ihat the ma- 
 jority of the inhabitants of Ireland 
 would profess the same religion as Eng- 
 land. But this would not have solved, 
 as the history ot American Independence 
 sliowa, the difficulties betwueu Eaulan(i 
 and Ireland, unless English policy 
 had been very different from what 
 it unfortunately was. That policy 
 was not wholly dictated by religious 
 differences but in great part by trade 
 interests and jealousies. The history 
 ot the world and the history of 
 Ireland no less proves that the tuct 
 that men profess the same religion 
 will not prevent them quarrelling it 
 their interests clash. English legit- 
 lation and the petitions of English 
 manufacturers show that there were 
 times when Englishmen wielding in- 
 fluence and power supposed that the inter- 
 ests of the two countries were opposed. 
 This, of course, as i hold, was a mistake. 
 The Interests of an English manufac- 
 turer and an Irish manufacturer might 
 be diverge, but it was in the interest ot 
 the English people at large that linen 
 should be manufactured in Belfast and 
 lace in Limerick; and it is melancholy 
 to think that had the manufacturing 
 resources of Ireland not been unjustly 
 interfered with how tew of the difficul- 
 ties which are connected ftrith the name 
 of Ireland would have ever existed ! 
 
s 
 
 IIIKLAND AM) TIIK nMl'lUK. 
 
 I 
 
 have in rar3 time^ of great relij^ious 
 fttrvour or intttiau ixiliticiil oX( i^amtnt, 
 nlnety^nine per cent, ol the moiivcH aud 
 itiHimuren wbich mould uiun'n piivaN) 
 Htid piiMIc actu are mat^iiiil, and the 
 trade acts were even more the cause of 
 IrJHh discouteut than the peiml Iiivv?, 
 iDHtinct with the spirit of reli^jiuuH 
 persooutioD. No oue wh'> wishes to 
 come to a wine concluKion on IriHh sub- 
 jects Hhould approach them without 
 (lUestioniijfj history as to the tlloct of 
 |j;eogiaphi,'al couditioi'8 on the destinl( s 
 of the human race, and the rapidity 
 with whicli m^itor'.il intorestrt, when 
 Mudiluted with humiliating ini^redionts, 
 act as Holventa of the mo.st cheriHhed 
 couvjctioud. Archbishop Kin;? maia- 
 tuincd the divine right of kings until 
 James If. began to persecute hi n, and 
 the Presbyterians of the north of Ireland 
 Bupported the penal Jaws until tiit^y 
 were themselves brought under tliom. 
 It is not from a Catholic country I 
 hhould have expected the best enuncia- 
 tion of the doctrines of religious liberty, 
 yet, Irish Catholics struggling for 
 Catholic emancip;ition, led by one of 
 the greatest tribunos the world ever 
 saw, have proclaimed, in the strongest 
 terms, liberty of conscience. 1 have 
 a very difterent idea of Ireland — 
 than that it should be the sheep walk, 
 the pig pen or cattle ranche lor any 
 country — and you may be sure, if 
 you peopled Ireland with a race of 
 I'rotestant yeomanry — tor in modern 
 days the granting of large estates 
 would have been out oi the ques- 
 tion — Ireland would, unless her in- 
 terests were fully attended to, be a 
 much more troublesome sister kingdom 
 than she ever has been vith religious 
 rancour, misrepiesentation ^and division 
 dispersing hei force. People forgot that 
 it was not Oatholics who called the 
 
 stricken Ireland into life. Hwiit, I fiup- 
 poHt), was no Uutholic. Molyneux wan 
 no Catholic. Mr. Flood wiis no Catho- 
 lic. Mr. Grattan, wIki called a nation 
 into formal e.-jistence only to see ith 
 lUme extinguished by the foulest gusth 
 of corruption — he was u.) Catholic. 
 ParncU to-dav, the Icadcir of tlie Irish 
 party in the House ot Commons— he is 
 no Citl'.olic. 1 lu-ike these observations 
 to hhow tlie mil-taken policy of those 
 who seek to ideutily Ireland with one 
 form of the Otiri^liin laitii, From the 
 CatholicK ^t Ireland we have got great 
 men and s, iking characters and brilliant 
 writers aud thin'trs. Time would f'lll 
 me to mention the O'Connells, the 
 Kheils, and in our own day the 
 Justin M<.Ctrfhvs and Butlers. Re- 
 ligion unfortunately does divifie, but 
 not half so much as (iiversity of inter- 
 est, and had the same course leerj pur- 
 sued towards a Protestant Ireland as was 
 pursued towards a partly Catholic ani 
 partly Protestant Ireland, instead of hav- 
 ing two mastitis to deal with which might 
 by turned against each other, you would 
 have had to deal with a united Ireland 
 which with it his full force would spring 
 a lion at your throat. (Cheers.) 
 
 But, sir, Ireland, the Ireland of 
 Protestant and Catholic, divided and 
 distracteil as it has been, bas beon 
 described by my friend Mrs. Mulock, 
 the sister ot Agues Strickland, as a 
 land in which genius is indigen- 
 ous, and by John Stuart Mill, as inhab- 
 ited by a race more like the ancient 
 Greek rare than any race of modern 
 time, and such a irtce with its pur«i 
 and therefore prolific women, can only 
 be, as it bas surely been, a blessing to 
 mankind. (Cheers.) If it did nothing 
 but show what a race can endure 
 and yet live and spring into vigor- 
 ous existence its lesson would not 
 
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 to the oblitfHtiou Irelnri I hiiil Europe and 
 the world under In tlu- 7th and sth ccn- 
 turiep, when, an Mr. Qxidwiii Smith ttMii- 
 lii'S Bh(; was thw lamp ot Ifaruitiu' and 
 rtdit'lon for CiiriHtHndotn. TlM^ii Hcho- 
 l^rship W118, indeed, illUHti ion-'. K<i" of 
 Auxerre writes to Charles tlie lio d ; - 
 " What Hhall 1 Hay of Irehin I which 
 despising the dnn^'errf <<t th« lieep in mi- 
 ^^rutinK witli fier whole train of iihih- 
 sophurri tn our coist ?■' Pn|)il8 from all 
 qnarterrt flocked to K 'and. Thouwands 
 of BtiuleutB came for inotrnction to the 
 S( hoolH of Armajifh, and to " th»it melan- 
 choly plain where the Shannon flows hy 
 the lonely ruins of Clonumacanoitie. 
 Charlemagne welcomed Irish schol'-s 
 and Irish preachers as powerful al'ies 
 in the civilizint; work, he had to do. 
 Mr Goldwia Smith says : " During 
 the seventh and eighth centuries, 
 and part of the ninth, Ireland played a 
 really great part ia European history. 
 It was the bright morning ol a dark 
 day." The Danish invasions destroyed 
 this ripening glory. Passing over the 
 page of Irish history without once 
 ivlighting I come to modern times, and 
 what do I find? Whether I enter 
 the Museum at Oxford or at - old 
 Trinity I am in the prtsetice of 
 carvings wrought hy Irish hands 
 which rival the works of Jean 
 G )UJon. When you enter St. btepbon's 
 Hull in Westminster Palace, you see 
 on either aide marble statues of 
 illustrious men. You must, be you the 
 most viialent vituperaterof Iielaml, do 
 justice to Irish genius, not merely be- 
 cause Burke is before yi uas he unaigned 
 Warren Hastings at the bir of outraged 
 humanity, and Gratlan emphasizing with 
 outstrt tched hand the eternil principles 
 of justice. Hampden, the love ot liberty 
 on bis brow, strength and balance ia 
 
 evoi'v line of the figure anil t!viTy trait 
 of tfie counten'inct' i-» (here; ko is 
 Seldct). Voii I i()l< (or 'he wmliifor'M 
 UHTie. Wliati: it? Fobiy. Von ckms 
 a quarter of the glohn and enter (J>il- 
 cutta. You are struck with wonder l>y 
 the bronze Rroup, '< Lord Hiirdingt; 
 and f'tiarL-er." You look for the 
 Kculptoi'.s name. What U it ? Foley. 
 I visited Washingtori in 1879. Noth- 
 iri'j; I hJivv there is ho Miipropsed on 
 my memory as tlie works adorning the 
 Capitol. VVfio w> re the sculptors? 
 Two Irish'nen— McDowell and Craw- 
 ford. Let ' return to Westminster 
 Palace. Let us look at those wonderful 
 Irescoes. They are, of course, by Eng- 
 lish hands. Not a bit of it. They are 
 the work of Irishmen — the greatest ot 
 them a fellow-townsman ot my own. 
 I have said nothing respociing their 
 achievements in the world of literi- 
 turo about which I know a little, very 
 little, I am sorry to say. Matthew 
 Arnold, the greatest of English critics, 
 tells us that all the charm, the magic, in 
 English literature is drawn from a Celtic 
 source. Let us L^ance a moment at 
 a work whose effect on modern Eng- 
 lish literature is incalcuable — I mean 
 the ^Spectator of the 18th century. 
 Who conceive! it ? An Irishman — poor 
 honest, wine-loving Dick Steele. Who 
 founded the Scottish philosophy ? An 
 Irishman — Francis Hutche«on. I do not 
 stop to point to cases of individual suc- 
 cess. I am dealing with founders and 
 leaders. Who is the founder of the 
 novel of character at whose feet .sat 
 Thackeray, Dictens and Carlyle ? An 
 Irishman — Laurence Sterne. Who is the 
 father of the war correspondent? An 
 Irishman — William Howard Russell. 
 What is the greatest poetic work 
 of modern timts? lennyson's "Idyls 
 of the King." These are Celtic, in 
 
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 IKKLANI) AND TlIK K.M IM UK. 
 
 tlie maiu Irisl), poems — plot, charac- 
 ter, dream. We have of CDurse tbo 
 Ittureat. '8 tieatinerit, but the poi mb 
 were tbero before biiii. I cau 
 only give you a visia iuio We 
 toredt ot artistic and literary weiilth 
 Irish (ijeu have gifted the world witb. 1 
 want jour imiiyiLiitionH to explore, to 
 central z , for 1 must liuiry oa. Take 
 tbeir population and advantages —their 
 aJvantages! Good Cod I their a.Ivc". 
 tages 1 Take ttitir dis.-dvcintiige8 iuu) 
 account and you will say they stand 
 shoulder to shoulder wiih the great- st 
 peoples of the world (Che r? ) i jjavo 
 Biid nothing about their sacci ts la u 
 hundred other fl. Ids than th ;fce indicated. 
 Bat, cries the critic: "Granted ! We could 
 ackLOwledge tbeir genius and forriivo 
 them the splendid serviceb they have 
 rendered mankind it ihey would not 
 prate ahout B,nd peisist in loviug lie- 
 land. But the bruioB will not turn 
 their back on their mother." Yee, that 
 is it ; they will not lorget Ireland, the 
 land o' their birth. (Coeers.) 1 wm 
 not sure I should have been a success as 
 a saint. Canonization is oce of the tcw 
 luxuries my family never enjoyed. Dut 
 1 have one thin^ in common with St. 
 Patrick — 1 should enjoy putting tuy 
 heel on such snakes. ^^ Renewed cheers.) 
 And now what country do you think 
 lies under greatest obligations to 
 Leland ? America, as has been 
 again and again acknowledged by 
 great Americans, is under great obli- 
 gations to Ireland. Canaiia is under 
 great obligations to Ireland. France is 
 under great obligations to Ireland. We 
 gave ber armies as brave as ever fought 
 under her heroic flag. We gave her 
 heroes as stainless and as brave as her 
 own Bayaid. But not one ot them or 
 all owe so much to Ireland as England — 
 as the British Empire. She has been 
 
 the yreat liberalizer ot the Empire. 
 (Hear, hear.) As Mr. Hallam points ».ut, 
 the jeal>usy of England was roused at 
 an early ptriod by the competition of 
 her own colonists and Ireland's strug- 
 gles again-t the trade laws chokinu her 
 mmuf ctures -lur bad as wore the 
 paaal la'vs, properly so called, the trade 
 liw-s Were worse — gave the world a 
 period, fruulul not merely of splendid 
 bioqueuce and ardent patriotism, but of 
 souud priucip.es. Travel back a little 
 over oue hundred years and what 
 'vas the condition of the Jing-^ 
 lish teople? Were they enfiau- 
 chised? They were like the Irish 
 pjople uudor the heel of an oppressive 
 and insolent oligirchy. Grattan's great 
 tiiumph wi:< doomed to an early death, 
 but bo and Flood and Burke, and a 
 d./zeu <>tLer Idshmen had sent princi- 
 ples abroad, which ultimately led to the 
 Reform Bill ot 1832, and to that ot 1867. 
 VViJiin the bnuuds of the British 
 E »pire Ireland has been the foremost 
 assrrtor ot popular rights, and 
 my sneoring friend who wouiJ 
 saeor ac Ireland to-day and go 
 and vote, if you can vote, you owe it to 
 ht-r. Ireland's sutferings have given the 
 world a clearer gratip ot civil and 
 religious liberty. Catholic emancipa- 
 tion and the struggle leading thereto 
 hid an incalculable influence o'l the 
 progress of mankind. To-day we see the 
 Scotch crofters calling for tenant right, 
 and the Irish land bills point to similar 
 measures for the most sodden and 
 miserable peasantry in the world — that 
 ot England. The fall ot the Irish State 
 Cnurch rang the death knell of the 
 ecitablishmeut in England. To Ireland 
 is due the pregnant aphorism — property 
 has its duties as well as its rights— 
 which points to the sweeping away of 
 more \buses than mere absentees. 
 
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IRELAND AND THE EMPIRE. 
 
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 Irtland'8 oiission for the world is not 
 jet accoinplisbed. Her voice will yet 
 pull dowu abusts, wliich are the vaet 
 liDgeiirig heritages ot feudalism held in 
 their places by ligatures ot mistaken 
 seutimeut.- In goicg througli an Alpine 
 valley you will sometimes see a huge 
 bulk Oi ice which could tear a forest 
 down if it tell. Those acquainted with 
 the coun'ry will tell you that a young 
 girl wandering through the valley, and 
 lu the gaiety of her heart slng.ng, will 
 Bom* times by the mere vibration cf her 
 voice caut^e that mass to descend. The 
 voice of suffering Ireland in the past has 
 destroyed time-honoured abuses, and 
 there can be little doubt that many 
 things which set-m established in Eng- 
 land to-day, as though they could never 
 be moved, will by the mere vibrations 
 from by-gone Irish struggles be precipi- 
 tated Iron: their pride ot place. (Cheers ) 
 I took you back a little over a hundred 
 years. At that time who coulu realize 
 the immense Ireland there would be 
 outside the boumls of Erin ? Canada 
 presented then, even to the imagina- 
 on of the poet, only the idea of a dreary 
 waste. Go back earlier and you Gud 
 every power that could be used against 
 a people, used agaiubt the Irish people. 
 The land was, time and again, ploughed 
 and harrowed by war. Laws which 
 might have subdued a race ot Titaus 
 into tame pigeons had been put in op- 
 eration. Then came the alternate 
 Mandit^hments and threats of powtr, 
 organized and wholesale misrepresenta- 
 tion. Kings and heroic armies have 
 fought against her, but like some 
 little pinnace against which whole 
 seas rise up in vain, she still rides 
 the waves, and I believe it is in 
 the interest ol the world that she 
 should preserve her distinct and marked 
 inaividuality. I do not think our 
 
 social and moral wealth, not to Hpeak ot 
 the picturet^queness ot life, would be 
 enhanced if the Irishmau wure tu dis- 
 appaar. (Cljeers.) 
 
 Have you considered the age of the 
 British Empire as an Empire? Have 
 you ever asked yoursilvfs who tiuilt 
 it up? 1 remember reading an un- 
 published poem of U'Arcy McGte 
 in whicb, on seeing the Union Jack 
 fl>iiie: across the Niagara River, he 
 apostrophized it as the «' (elun flag of 
 Eugland." He afterwards became very 
 loyal wO tbat flag and was indeed 
 forward to make proposals and 
 sketch schemes for the future of 
 Canada which breathed a b^liet in 
 the monarchical principle with which I 
 could not sympathize. I have heard 
 even Lord Silisbury say that it peo- 
 ple were commencing afresh the} would 
 not go and establish a House of 
 Lords and imitate in act of construction 
 the British Constitution, which was a 
 growth. But what is the Ufiion Jack ? 
 What is the British standard? As a tact 
 the British ensi^ is in part an Irish 
 ensign, and contains the blended crosses 
 of St. Patrick, St Andrew and St. George. 
 The Royal btandard In the same way 
 contains the insignia of England, Scot- 
 land and Ireland. It was hoisted on 
 ihe tower on Jan. Ist, 1801, and since 
 that period the British Government has 
 done nothing which could by the bold- 
 est poetic license be described as a 
 felony. When the crown of Scotland 
 was united to that of England King 
 James issued a proclamation that " all 
 
 subjects ot this iele and the King, 
 dom ot Great Britain should 
 
 bear in the m.\in top the red cros?, 
 commonlv callei 8t. George's Cross, 
 and the white cross, commonly called 
 St. Andrew's cross, joined together ac- 
 cording to the form made by oar own 
 
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 Man 
 
 Mi 
 
 12 
 
 IRELAND AND THE EMPinK. 
 
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 heralds." Tliis whh the first Union 
 JHck. In 1801 a new Union .fuck w«8 
 pri'pared, and in my opinion, seeinf? that 
 thf! crowns were united, it miji;ht liave 
 licen prepared before. But to return. 
 What is tlie age ot the British Empire? 
 It did not exist in the d'iy« ot Eliza- 
 iieth. Then you had Enj^land in I'er 
 vouth, after intefitine feuds and civil 
 warn, growing into maturity, and 
 phe fjave the world Shakespeare and his 
 rontemporariep. It is about this period 
 — the peii"d of the reformation — that 
 the English Government acts towards 
 Ireland in such a mauner as leaves with 
 peoples memories of resentment, 
 ildury II went to Ireland on the invi- 
 tation ot one ot her princes. He was 
 not an Englishman. On the contrary, 
 he belonged to a familv which had dealt 
 out dire oppression to Englishmen, and 
 here let me say, respecting this 
 and succeeding periods, there is no 
 ground tor the Irish people or for 
 any Irishman wiiatever his opin- 
 ions, hating the English people, as a 
 people. (Cheers). The English people 
 had no power in the time ot theTudors. 
 England was governed by an oligarchy 
 up to 1832 and the reform bill of that 
 day enfranchised only the " raiddlt» 
 class." Not until 1867 could it be said 
 the English people had power. Ail 
 peoples should love each other. (Cheers). 
 If Irishmen have any quarrel with Eng- 
 land on the field ot history it is not with 
 the people, who love justice, but with a 
 class who oppresed the English 
 people themselves. (Renewed cheers). 
 The first invaders of Ireland were not 
 English or Norman, but Danes. The 
 Danes never could have obtained a foot- 
 ing in Ireland only that they found the 
 island torn and divided by petty wars 
 between petty chiefs— the '< kings " into 
 whose bowels run the roots of so many 
 
 family treep, my own amongst tiie 
 number. A country in the con- 
 dition Irelar.d was in at the 
 period of tiie batt'e of Clontart was 
 at the rat^rcy of any unite 1 p'opie 
 whicli siiould choose to atta 'k it When 
 Ma'lmnrra, stung by a sharp word over a 
 g^me ot ches«i, roused his whole clan 
 against Bria'^, the O'lvourkes, the 
 O'Neils, the O'Flahartys and thu Kenrys 
 promised to assist him, and tiie result 
 was wholesale destruction of pro[)erty 
 88 well as loss of life, O'Neil ravi'.ged 
 Meath. O'liourke atticked Malachy 
 anrl slew his grandson and heir, but 
 Malachy soon defeated his assailants, 
 and of course pr/iceeds to plnutcr Lein- 
 ster. Malachy calls on Brian for pro- 
 tection, who " ravaged Ossory," and 
 marched on DuV)lin wlicre he was joined 
 by his sou Murrogh " wlio had devastateil 
 Wicklow, burning, destroying and car- 
 rying off captives until he reached 
 Kilraainham." Gormtlaith, a much mar- 
 ried lady of great personal attrac 
 tions and force of character, col- 
 lects fcrces against her two husbands, 
 Brian and Malachy. She sent her son 
 Sitric to bring foreign aid and promised 
 her hand and the Kingdom ot Ireland to 
 each of two vikings if they would come 
 and help the Danes. Brian on his way 
 to Dublin " plundered and destroyed 
 as usual," says the Nun of Kenmare. A 
 thiru ot the forces on the Danish side 
 were Leinster men— Irishmen — under 
 Miclmurra. After the victory of Cloii- 
 tarf dissensions arose, and on their way 
 from the battlefield the victorious clans 
 .separated and drew up in order of bat- 
 tle 1 O, my countrymen, what is the 
 lesson ? ^ hat is the lesson ? Have 
 you more capacity for union, more 
 capacity for self-suppression to-day than 
 you had then? When the Normans 
 arrived, the annals of the four Masters 
 
IRKLANl) AND TIIK KMl'IKK. 
 
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 tell UH th«y were nnt icyurded iv^ dantr^r- 
 oiH— the Irish c\u tn "set n tbmg 
 by the Flt'iiiinyfi." It seemed ap- 
 parently to theiu in the orflio- 
 ary course ot thinjis th it lorei^n 
 troops should he lirouMht kit > the 
 country to reinstate t> petty prince. 
 Disunited and selfi-h chiettains were 
 easily hronfj;bt to suhmit to the Nor- 
 man, and thenceforward the history of 
 Irehind is the history of a halt suhdned 
 <ltpendency in which the miseries ot 
 reheliiin are a^gravttcd by domestic 
 broils. Tl e Normnns thoroughly con- 
 /Quered England. They only halt con- 
 quered Ireland. But their tyranny in 
 each country was equally systen)atic 
 and cruel. We tind in Henry VlII.'s 
 day France interfeiing in Iielnnd, but 
 like subsequent ittermeddlings this 
 interference anaoun'ed to nothing. 
 When O'Neil revolted in 1597 and de- 
 feated the English at lilickwater he 
 invited the SpaniHtds to come to 
 the country. 'I'he fact that when- 
 ever there was a revolt against Eng. 
 land foreign aid was sought, what 
 does it mean? W )uld Ireland de- 
 pendent on Hpain have been a hap- 
 pier country than she has been ? The 
 government of Irel md to a period 
 within living memoiy was characterized 
 l)V want of statesmanship, tyranny, 
 f-reed. But, I repea', for all this the 
 English people thera twelves were in no 
 way responsible. Ani now once more I 
 ask wtio built up the British Empire as 
 we Bee it to.day ? If Is little more than 
 two hundred years since the English 
 East India Compacv retired from the 
 Eastern seas to the continent of India. 
 Not until 1718 was the knell of Dutch 
 snpremary in the East, rung, when Clive 
 attacked the Dutch at Chineurah. iJat 
 it was durin? the great French war, 
 from 1781 to 1811, that England wrested 
 
 from Hi'Iland nearly every one of her 
 colonies, and our Indian Empire bfcame 
 a great imperial fact, where we rule 
 440,000,000, exactly double what Gihhon 
 ret koned as ruled by imperial Horn- » 
 Now, what soldiers during the great 
 French war, what soldiers since have 
 been aii.ong the bravest f.rui most e!bc- 
 tive in the British army? You know 
 what w ik Irishmen have done in every 
 field of activity since then. In America 
 duriutf the eighteenth century Irishmen 
 were found on all sides. To-day thute 
 are njillious of Irishmen in England 
 and Scotland, and hundreds ot thou- 
 sands bearing English names whose 
 blood is in part Irish. In Aus- 
 tralia and Canada and India they 
 have played their part and played it 
 well. Whoever brought about Con- 
 federation — it was an Irishman — 
 Guy Carlelon, the founder and saviour 
 ot Canada— who first conceived the idi'a. 
 '[■"here is the fabric cf the British Em- 
 pire. It is a sttitely structure. It 
 affords room for genius and activity of 
 nvery kind; opens up careers lor all. 
 Well, there is not a stone m it on which 
 there is not the mark ot an Irish chisel. 
 (Cheers.) Irishmen have as much right 
 to claim part ownership in it as any- 
 body else. It is a Hiberno-British 
 Empire, (Cheers.) They have as good 
 a right to enter its best rooms as any- 
 body else. Mind, I am only show- 
 ing you your right. I am not 
 giving you any advice. But if 
 I did do this I would say to yon 
 " Never abandon Iielaud, your country ; 
 so long as there is one t'lin^r she ought 
 to have — 'f you live in Ireland — strug- 
 gle for it; it you live here give that 
 struggle your moral support ; but do 
 not deprive yourselves and your sons of 
 your birthright ; for there is no man, call 
 he himself English or Scotch, who has a 
 
 . 
 
It 
 
 lUKLAND AND Till': KMI'IKIL 
 
 (letter rij^ht to Wrtlk into the beHt roota 
 iu that huildiriu; tbnu you." Tho Irlab 
 rac« liiiH, US WH bavo seen, expauded be- 
 yond tbo boimdB of Irelaud. Its tocuad 
 otl-sh')()t8 are found in all parts of the 
 world. Irisbmen, as I have before pfat- 
 ed, are found in large nutikbtrd iu all 
 the great cities of England and Scotland. 
 I iiavo just comn from our Pacifiu 
 cO'ist, and in Han Francinco th'j leading 
 oiilliunaircs are Irltili. As 1 showed in 
 a book publiKhed some years ago, they 
 are after the b'ronch-Uanadians the oiost 
 numerous here. In the States they form 
 a powertul factor iu the formation of 
 the Americtn race. In the lndi>»n Civil 
 Service examinations the graduates of the 
 Iri b universititB have distanced 1.11 com- 
 petitors tor the Civil Service in India. 
 In Ha — which an Irish Governor. Gyuerai 
 s^ved for the P^rnpire — is lull of them. 
 Hi! They are fjuud in tons of thousands in 
 
 Australia *vhero, as in Canada, Irishmen 
 have held the highest positions. Uow 
 are you goia*< to crowd the tens of 
 iniilions into Ireland it you make Ire- 
 laud independent? Anil look at the 
 pustnou of an Irishman in the British 
 Einpir.". He is born a ci a n of that 
 Ernpire. There is no position in it to 
 which he cannot aspire. He has helped 
 to build it up. Reinnve the last vestige 
 of wrong which may throw its shaoow 
 on Ireland ; but do not go and make 
 yourselves alims where you are sons of 
 the house and can aspire to rule. 
 (Cheers.) 
 
 And now, sir, let me point to the 
 greatest duel of modern times — a 
 duel between a constitutional country 
 ever progressing to greater freedom and 
 a despotism and a despot; between a 
 cause which had on it the dawning light 
 ot a liberty that is refulgent to-day in 
 Canada and a dark cause whose bale- 
 tul wings dung the blackness ot the 
 
 slia<iow ot death ovr Europe. In th it 
 duel Irishmen played a great part. Let 
 me read to you somy remarks of Mr. 
 Grattan made in one of his noblest 
 speeches, that delivered on the escape 
 of Napolecm from E'.bi. Ho paints the 
 ruin which would be brought on Buropo 
 by Bonaparte's success- by the con- 
 firmation of a military «^yranny in the 
 he krt of Europe—" a tyranny founded on 
 the triumph of the army over the prin- 
 ciples of Civil Government tending 
 to universalise the douaiiiatiuu of tho 
 Svvord — to reduce to paper and parch- 
 ment Magna Charta, and all our 
 civil institutions." VVoll, sir, the last 
 struggle was at Waterloo. In the 
 earlier tights in the Peninsula the 
 Irishman was where he always is, 
 when there is dtniger, in the front. 
 The victory at VV iter loo was not the 
 victory of England and Ireland aud 
 icotland and I'iussia merely ; it was the 
 victoi-y of modern civilizition. Heir 
 tho language of Grattan speaking of tho 
 N<po!eoaic regime : — " An experimont 
 such as no country ever made, and 
 no good country would permit, to 
 relax the moral and religious iulla- 
 eaces — to set heaven and earth adiifc 
 from one another — make God Almighty 
 a tolerated alien in his own creation — 
 an insurrectionary hope to every bad 
 man in tho community, and a frightful 
 lossou of protit and power vested m 
 those who have pandered their allegiance 
 from king to emperor, and now found 
 their pretensi.ms to doininr.tion on tho 
 merit ot breaking their c-uths and do- 
 posing their sovereigns." Sir, we are 
 pioud of the charge of the Irish brigade 
 at Fontenoy, because it illustrates our 
 traditional valour, though it was in a 
 lOIei^n service and f'u( a despotic king. 
 May we not be at least equally proud of 
 that charge at Waterloo made by Irish- 
 
IRELAND AND TICE EMPrKC. 
 
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 rigade 
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 kiug. 
 oud of 
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 niHU in tlie iuteroHt ot fret dom, of human 
 ity, of pio^reKB, ot all tf blewHings we 
 eiij )yto-diiv in Caoida, that cliiirge, before 
 wbose fiery onset br> ke those veteran 
 legions of the Apollyon of Europe' 
 Jegiou? trained undur the eye of him 
 who stands all but peerless in Ids genius 
 for war, legions wldcli nnvor reeled in 
 the shock ot war before ? (Loud and 
 prolonged cheers.) 
 
 Did not Irish blood flow freely during 
 the Crimean war ? Is thtre an Iiid;au 
 battle-field >vhich ha' not been staiued 
 with Irish blood ? To-day what do we 
 see in the Soudan ? Irish soldiers 
 fighting with their native bravery. 
 The Commander-iu-Chiet is an Irish- 
 m m ; seveu of the eleven olhcors killec! 
 at Abou Klea were Irishmen ; Stewart 
 was an Irishman ; Eyre and Coveney 
 were Irishmen. Nor is it only by offi- 
 cers th'it the Kingdom of Ireland is 
 reprtsented. An Irish rtgiment won 
 Lord Wolseley'a prize for the short 
 est time on record up the Nile. 
 Are people going to make thouisolves 
 aliens in an Empire iov which they are 
 pouting out their blood, and which they 
 have built up, and which, therefore, U in 
 part an Irish Empirt;? Is it not mad- 
 nesc to throw away your birthright pur- 
 chased by 80 great a price ? The Em- 
 pire is really a Brito-Hibernian Empire. 
 (Cheers.) Bui what is the word Brititin 
 itself? Herodotus, the earliest writer 
 who mentions the British Isles by name, 
 says that buy "ud the pillars ot Hercules 
 there are «'two \ecy large islands called 
 British, Albion and lerue, lying beyond 
 the Keltoi." The word Britannia, to de- 
 note the larger island, is first found in 
 Cir3sar. It was applied to England at 
 a time when no Sbxon had set foot on it, 
 when it was inhabited by Celts, and 
 is, therefore, a name no Irishman, 
 even if animated by unhlstorical and 
 
 misguided hatred of naxons, need ob- 
 ject to use as his own. Again I jay 
 I am not awking you to turn jour bar k 
 on your country. I despise and detest 
 thr national bastard who could do this. 
 (C'lieers.) And, alas! there have been 
 such. When I was travelling in the 
 States Americans frequently spoke to 
 me as if I was <'m Englishman. I al- 
 ways told them, " I have lived a good 
 deal in England, but i am an irish- 
 man." "Oil!' they would say, "I 
 like to Bee a man not ashamed of 
 hia country," a remark whicli was 
 conclusive to me that they had mt-t 
 with men so base; and in fact I 
 have mot with them myself — men who 
 would deserve immortal scorn if they 
 were not beneath a moment's contempt, 
 (Loud cheers.) 
 
 And now let me turn to a sub- 
 ject wnich every Irishman should deal 
 with, and especially on a day like 
 this. If there is one thing for which 
 Irithmen are eminent throughout the 
 world it is for their kind-heartedness. 
 Thackeray said no Irishman ever gave an 
 alms without a word which was better 
 than ihe gift, Mr. Mahafty, quoting 
 lines from a Greek poet painting the 
 miserable condition ot an orphan in 
 ancient Greece, how he was spurned, 
 points with pride to the kindness with 
 which old friends and neighbours care 
 tor the orphan in Ireland. It was 
 an Irishman — Ion? before Wilber- 
 force was born — who first broke a 
 lance against slavery. Go to any great 
 public library and who will you f7ud 
 expounding most eloquently the prin- 
 ciples of civil and religious liberty ? 
 You have only to recall the massive 
 thought and pregnant sentences ot 
 Burke, the burning words of Curran. In 
 many an immortal page traced by an 
 Itisb hand you are brought lace to face 
 
IG 
 
 niKLANl) AND THE KMPIUK. 
 
 m 
 
 \mi 
 
 i^fth a large humanity, full of tender- 
 ness for the helpless; with justice who 
 raises her awful eword to guard the in- 
 nocent life, and with that meroy which 
 droppeth as the dew trom heaven and 
 whose quality is not strnJned. The ideas 
 prodaced by a people when they are 
 wise and Iruilful of tj;ood are their 
 most precious heritage. An Irishman, 
 Mr. Sterne, touches us by painting the 
 captive starling ; he gets to the fountfiin 
 of tears when he describes my v le 
 Toby's sorrow for poor Lelevre. He 
 swore by the Eternal the poor officer, 
 sick and far from home, and anxious 
 about his child, should not die. Pity 
 must be the same in all natures, divine 
 and human; and Sterue finely says: 
 " The accusing spirit wlio flew up to 
 heaven's Chancery with the oath blushed 
 a^ he gave it in, and the recording angel 
 dropped a tear upon the word and blot- 
 ted it out forever." We all remember 
 bow the poet Moore pleads for the poor 
 child of the blacking brigade. But 1 
 forget. Whose day is it we are cele- 
 brating ? We are celebrating the day of 
 a saint renowned for his kindness of 
 heart — his pity for the unenlightened, 
 Lis succour of the poor, his broail 
 humanity, his Christian love. The 
 saint of England, Saint George, appears 
 epear in hand dealing death, no doubt 
 to an obnoxious foe ; the saint of Ireland 
 U seen explaining the Trinity by the 
 shamrock, touching the heart of rude 
 chieftains by his tender eloquencei 
 pleading the cause of the captive and the 
 condemned. With such traditions of 
 kindness and bravery, with such a na- 
 tional Saint, good God! sir, in what 
 dream of madness can men connect the 
 idea of Irishmen with ministers of 
 stealthy death and death to the inno- 
 cent ? It is a long fall says the hero 
 of Tennyson's great poem tho " North- 
 
 ern Cobbler" after he recalls on the 
 morning of a debauch how he had 
 kicked his wife over night, and then the 
 contrasting picture of his courting her 
 in the summer field — the lark singing 
 to break his heart up in the sunny 
 clouds ; but he did not see the lark ; he 
 was looking into his sweetheart's eyen, 
 and then came the first kiss—" Het^r war 
 a fall fro' a kiss to a kick." Sir, it 
 18 a long fall from our national apostle 
 to the apostle of dynamite. Who dares 
 to connect the name of any Irishman 
 not shunned and spurned of men with 
 the demons of dynamite? 1 say 
 with a few men advertising them- 
 selves and professing to act in the 
 cause of Ireland with dynamite it is the 
 duty of Irishmen, especially when they 
 assemble on a national day like this, t ) 
 utterly denounce such tactics and rt^. 
 nounce all share in such shameless 
 wrong. What do the craven hucksters 
 of dynamite make war on ? On build- 
 ings and the innocent lives within, and 
 when the h1 ok comes, where are they ? 
 They nave left some clock-work 
 machinery to run the danger — if I may 
 make a bull — and they are safe and 
 far away. (Hear I hear! ana cheers.) 
 G rattan in his early days used to prac- 
 tice speaking in the moonlight in Wind- 
 sor Forest. In one of these moonlight 
 walks, while in his grotesque way 
 apostrophising an empty gibbet, a wag 
 tapped him on the shoulder with, " Pray, 
 sir, how did you manage to get down ?'' 
 Th'^ joke was a good one. Irishmen 
 ha\ ; 8 much to do with dynamitards 
 as Graitan with the gibbet. (Cheers.) \j 
 
 Nothing can be more delusive than the 
 opinions which prevail regarding Ire- 
 land and [rishmen. The popular 
 Idea on this continent and else- 
 where is that the country is a 
 witch's cauldron — a scone of com- 
 
IRFLAVD AND TITP. HMPIRr. 
 
 17 
 
 build- 
 u, and 
 they ? 
 k-work 
 I may 
 and 
 heers.) 
 to prac- 
 WinrU 
 >onlight 
 w.-iy 
 a wag 
 " Pray, 
 down?" 
 risbmen 
 itnitards 
 Cheers.) y 
 ban the 
 Dg Ire- 
 popular 
 elue- 
 iB a 
 { com- 
 
 motioD and danger and blood8hed. 
 At this hour j on conltl go throuKh 
 the length and ()reHdtti of Ireland 
 witbuiit riht^irj^ H ^ign ot 8ucb dlH- 
 orders. Ti ihi same way the notion ol 
 certain employer-* in Kn^l inl la dis- 
 mi8Rini{ IrlMhnmn rtbow8 a complet*) 
 misntiderfltaiidinif o- tli lir cbirnoter and 
 the extent to wbicb the dyn'iinite bnsi- 
 nesH ban Hpr .'ad. Bat ttiis nttiken It all 
 tbti miire incinultunt on every Irialiiuau 
 at thJH h)nr to denoua''o luoq wlio are 
 Iryiuk; tor the Huke ol i)erson>il gain to 
 Inungnrate a solvent of civil life. I have 
 noticed that theaition ot one or two iu- 
 dividualrt, all tor their own intorent, t)e- 
 comeri the signal lor the b.vrk against 
 Ifiubmen to he he«rd on every Hide, arid 
 the Irihh name, which is a lociia of glory 
 In every tield of art an 1 kriowledge ik 
 dra^tced in the t(iitt«r. With aH much 
 authoiity aK uny prophot 'oiiM utter it ; 
 in the name ot Ctiridtianity, whose 
 teachingrt they outrage ; in the name of 
 hntuanity, whose instincts they ahhor ; 
 in the namo of Ireland, which they be- 
 tniy anii befoul, I say, " Woe to the 
 Aposilws ot Dynamite, and to you, 
 " Stand aside troin such meu and be ye 
 separate." (ijond cheers.) 
 
 And now, sir, in conclusion, let me 
 say that the rtrst duty ot every man liv- 
 ing in Canada is to Canada. *Vbether 
 you agree or not with ii man who, born 
 in a country, thinks it his duty to resist 
 its government — provided his methods 
 are just and are consistent with hu- 
 manity and honour — you cannot det^ise 
 him, tor he tikes his lite and his 
 liberty in his bands. But to come to 
 H country like Canada — voluntarily 
 choosing it as one's home — and 
 then under the shelter of its hospi- 
 tality and away from danger to disturb 
 its peace ie an act of uuparalelled base- 
 ness. Canada is a free country, that is 
 
 enough. But if additional considera- 
 tions are uecesiisry to make Irishmen 
 abhor such tactics, let it be remembered 
 that when the United iStates shut its 
 doors on the fever-stricken and half- 
 8tar»red Irish peasints of the fan ine 
 years Canada opened her arms to them. 
 In Canada Irishmen are the most nu- 
 merous ot the Euglisn speaking races. In 
 Canada Irishmen h .ve made themselves 
 names and careers and happy homes. 
 To menace the peace ot such a country 
 — no, not the peace — some public build- 
 ings and a tew innocent lives, is more like 
 something that would emanate from 
 Bedlam than anything else. Such an 
 act has do meaning in it, un- 
 less it l)e as a ruftianly adver- 
 tisement. It could accomplish noth- 
 ing good. It could only reflect the 
 lurid light of criminality on whoever 
 symp^tliiziid with it. It is not sane 
 unless it be as the ruse of scoundrels. 
 It is without the pale of humanity. 
 (Enthusi'islic cheers.) 
 
 On Saturday night 1 attended a ban- 
 quet at wiiich your eloquent friend, 
 Mr. (Jurrttu, was present. He showed 
 wliat be bad shown in Fariiament, that 
 the process of the formation ot a great 
 Canadian people was going on in 
 Canada. In that process it is the 
 nohle privilege, the bounden duty of 
 us all to Join. We have a country of 
 boundless fertility, ot great rivers and 
 inland seas, ot untold mineral resources, 
 a country in which men enjoy the ut- 
 most treedom, 
 
 '• A land where girt by friend or foe, 
 A man may speak tbe thing be will ;" 
 
 and I pray you with as much oarneat- 
 nesB as if it were the last word uttered 
 before I went before my God, to worthily 
 perform tbe duty immediately at your 
 door, to do your part in building up a 
 
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 IKELANU AND Till.' KMPIRK. 
 
 young, a free, a great, a pronperoas Oa- 
 nadian nation. (Loud and prolonged 
 applause.) 
 
 Mr. Edward Murphy proposed a vote of 
 thanks to Mr Davin, and in doing so said 
 that not since lie heard bis friend the late 
 Mr D'Aicy Magee in that very hall bad he 
 beard anything to equal the speech to 
 which they had just listened. He asked 
 tor a vote of thanks to Mr. Davin not only 
 for the speech to which they had just 
 listened, but as an honour to the Irish 
 race. (Cheers.) 
 
 Mr. McShane, M.P.P., seconded the 
 vote of thanks, >':'hich was carried with 
 enthusiasm. 
 
 Mr. Davin in acknowledging it said 
 be had at least as good ground for 
 thanking the auiience an thtiy had for 
 Ihanking bitn. Ho bad addressed many 
 audiences but nevjr one more Intelli^eot 
 and few lo leady to seize with almost in- 
 stinctive rapidity the point. Not dis- 
 encouraging or unhelpful to a speaker 
 was the presence ot so many ladies. He 
 might, looking round those boxes and 
 that halt, parody a well-known verse ot 
 Moore — 
 
 If hearts that feel and eyes that smile 
 Are the dearest eifts that beaveo sup- 
 plies, 
 One never need leave this bpautiful isle 
 For aensitive hearts and for sun-bright 
 eyes. 
 (Cbeers.)