Opis: Speech of Senator Charles W. Jones, of Florida, Delivered at Boston, Mass (Classic Reprint) - Jones Charles William

Excerpt from Speech of Senator Charles W. Jones, of Florida, Delivered at Boston, Mass

But the great event at Bunker Hill has been well and eloquently commemorated, and I need not speak of its importance or results, for all the people of this great land are this day enjoying the blessings which it contributed so much to secure. And now I propose to say a few words in my own plain way about another land, whose whole existence, going back to the very dawn of civilization and Christianity, has been one long struggle for freedom. Centuries before the enterprising spirit of navigation ever contemplated the discovery of this continent, the ill-fated land whose sufferings and oppressions are now attracting the attention of the world was engaged in fierce contests for liberty. I don't think that there is a country on the face of the globe about which so much has been written, and so little is known, as Ireland. When you reflect upon the vast numbers of people of Irish birth, who, from the Revolutionary period to the present, have identified themselves with this republic, constituting a power great enough to form a respectable State, and with interests ramifying every part of society - the bar, the pulpit, the press, commerce, polities, religion, everything - and still there seems to be less accurate information of a general character in regard to Ireland than in any other enlightened country. This I regard as

Very Unfortunate For Ireland.

The public opinion of the United States is a great moral power in the world, and there is no country on earth where human suffering and sacrifice of every kind are more likely to meet with proper sympathy and appreciation than here. Time and again has the generosity of America been brought into exercise by the sufferings of Ireland, but after the occasion for relief had passed away, little or no inquiry was made touching the causes which produced her distress. It is often said that there must be something exceptionally bad, either in the people or the government of Ireland, to give that coimtry the prominence it enjoys for agitation. The recent outrageous murders there have produced a sensation all over this country which was hardly surpassed by the assassination of our own Executive. It is not necessary for me to repeat my condemnation of these dastardly crimes which for the first time in the history of Ireland have associated her open and manly struggles for justice with a kind of murder which has ever been held in detestation and abhorrence by the true Irish heart. If there is a country in Europe where hospitality is not a hackneyed name, where neither treachery, infidelity, nor immorality has made a perceptible foothold, that country is Ireland. If she has attracted more than her share of the attention of mankind by grievances and sufferings, it is because her sensibilities were acute and her oppressions greater than those of any other people. Her history is the "dark and bloody ground" in the annals of Europe. M. Thierry, a distinguished and impartial French historian, says: "The conquest of Ireland by the Anglo-Normans is, perhaps, the only one that has not been followed by a gradual amelioration in the condition of the conquered people. In England, the descendants of the Anglo-Saxons, though unable to free themselves from the dominion of the conquerors, advanced rapidly in prosperity and civilization; while the natives of Ireland, after five centuries, exhibit a state of uniform decline, and yet they are endowed by Nature with great quickness of parts and a remarkable aptitude for every description of intellectual labor. The soil of Ireland is fertile, yet its fertility has been unprofitable to the conqueror and the conquered, and the descendants of the Normans, notwithstanding the extent of their possessions, have become gradually

As Impoverished As The Irish Themselves."

This singular destiny, which presses with equal weight upon the ancient inhabitants an

Szczegóły: Speech of Senator Charles W. Jones, of Florida, Delivered at Boston, Mass (Classic Reprint) - Jones Charles William

Nazwa: Speech of Senator Charles W. Jones, of Florida, Delivered at Boston, Mass (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Jones Charles William
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331101345
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 20
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
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