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THE OREG02T DXlLY JOURNAL, rOHTLANP. SAT TODAY EVENiyO. SEPTEMBER 10. 1003, IN MEMORY OF Sturgeon, of- th royal' atait corps and married him. : . r.v , Lin a fab ron m J&Ain. mm EMMET Bhavia bar . OOBOCBacOBATB t.' TK1 CSXTXV- uu&x. or m. ipatxzot's inro. '? f;,o" wrcx "a xaJnTnio ovi '''MtW HAMi TOKOSXOW. KamorUI Services Will B Xeld JUao U 4 SCoat of tli Cltiss of b Union Ms Vamous Speech rrom, tb Dook, Which I' WH pellvared Just 100 , Taan Ag Today arah Oonrsa, heart, Wo rorfottn. HI . Sweet- '-Ona hundred, year ago tomorrow Robert Kmmet, tha Irlah patriot, wa banged aa a traitor to Qraat Britain,' at be cloaa of bla unsuccessful rebellion. waa In ba 26th year. . At I o'clock 'tomorrow afternoon . in Foresters' hall, Sixth and . Washington ptreets,' a mass meeting of Irishmen, Under direction of the two dlvlalona of Tom Xoorfi Vosaa to the Sweetheart , Bnuaet X.eft Behind. , fair from tha land where young hero sleeps, And lover art "round her alghlng; But ooldly aba turna from their, gas '' and weepe, - ' For her heart In hla gray la lying. ? 8h alngs. the wild song of her dear vta 4 1 ti A .sAl a 4 n . , . Every note which ha loved awaking Abl little they think who delight In bar .... strains. ,, .. i. How tha heart of tha minatrel la- break- in r. He had lived for bla love, for hiseoun try ha died, , They were all that to Ufa bad entwined f'blnv . . ..." : Jor aoon shall tha, tear of bla country oe ariea. Nor long will hla lova atay behind htm, OhI make her a grave where tha suo- eama reet, Where they promlaa a glortoua morrow They'll ahtne o'er her aleep Ilka a a mile from tha West ' From her own loved Island of Borrow, snoarz nr tmm sock. Xla famous Vpeeob to tha ?adf aa on the Xt of Xla Baeoauoa. Htanrtfnar in tha AnrV IDA VMM the Ancient Order ot Hibernians of this t today, Robert . Kmmet delivered hla fa. city, will hold aervicea in memory orr.moua speecn, Known to every man ana ."SCmmet Dr. Andrew C. Smith, state senator, will preside, and r. 11 D'Arcy ot Bajem .will deliver the principal ad- child of ' Celtic blood the world over. Facing hla Judges "without a tremor be aald: "What have I to Bay why the sentence dress. Wallace McCamant win reaa . death ahnuM not h nronounod on Kmmet a speecn irom me aoca, ana u 'elin Fagan will alng "Sh la Far From .he Land." and thera will be a musical program. Capt 3. O. O'Halr, Patrick Smith, J. K. McOlno, Prof. O'Hara, P. Ryan, A. E. Moran and Ed ward Kllfeather, form tha commute In 'charge of arrangements. , For years the anniversary of Emmet'a . laath has ,' been . annually . celebrated In moat of the cltiea of America nd aome f the moat brlllta oratora In tha country have told again and again .tha thrilling atory of the young patrl . ct'a haiardoua life and Ignoble death, put tbia year tha oelebratlona are tOvbe of , still greater importance, some of the most notable of them to be held in this city. Columbus. Buffalo, Philadelphia, Chicago and elsewhere. i. While,' of course. Interest naturally -center in Emmet,, the Irish-American -women, have not forgotten tola broken-; hearted fiance. Sarah Curran, whoa d . votlon to tha martyred patriot ha never Ibeen forgotten by student of Irish his tory. A Fallow of Thorn XCoor. Robert -Emmet wa born at -Dublin, Ireland in 17I&V aon of Dr. Robeat Emmet, at on time physician to th viceroy of Ireland. Young Emmet received his early educa tion in the private achoola of hla blrth- ma, according to law? I have nothing to aay which can alter your predeter mlnatlon, nor that it would become me to aay, with any view to the mitigation of that aentenc which you are here to pronounoe. and by which I must abide. But I have that to aay which Interests me more than life, and 'which you have labored, aa waa necessarily your office in the present clrcumatancea of this oppressed country Ao destroy. I have much to aay why my reputation ahduld be rescued from tha load of, false accu- aatlon and ' oaldirmy Which ' haa been heaped upon It I do not Imagine that seated where you are your mlnda can be ao free from impurity a' to receive Uie leaat impression from what I am about .to utter I have no hope that I oaa anchor my character In tha breast of a court constituted and trammelled aa this la. I only wish, and it la the utmost I expect that your lordships may suffer it to float down your memor ies untainted by the foul breath of preju dice, until it finds soma more hospitable harbor to shelter' It from the rude storm by which It lsjLt preaent buffeted. Were I only to suffer death, after being ad Judged guilty by your tribunal, I abould bow In alienee, and meet the fata that awalta ma without a murmur, but the senteno of tha law which deliver my He waa tha youngest bodr to the executioner will, through th ministry of that law. labor in lta own vindication to consign my character to obloquy; for there muat be guilt somewhere, whether in th sentence of th court or la the cataatrophy, poster- place and October 7. 1793, entered Trin ity college.' Ho wa a fellow student or jty muat determine. A man in my altu Thomas . Moore, th poet and much be- letion, my lords, haa -not only to en loved by that celebrated Irishman. (counter the difflcultiea of fortune, and In college Kmmet waa noted for hla the force of power over mlnda which atteraaice in lavor or xnsn noma ruie jt has corrupted jr subjugated, but the nd upon th llt to th Institution in difflcultle of established prejudice. The 1T9S of iJord Clair and Dr.-Oulgenan. maB dlea, but hia memory Uvea. That l waa pointed 'out with- II -others- aa min may not perish, that It may live the ringleaders of tha opposition to th in the respect of my countrymen, I seise government. Because oi- mis mcmem i upon thl opportunity to vladicate my Bmtnet Withdraw from' chooWana de-aeit from aome of th charges against voted tha rest of hla ehort career to the m. when my spirit shall be wafted Intereats of the United Irish, leagu. I to a more friendly port when my shade What JJtue rortune n naa waa ae- shair have Joined the band of those voted to tha cause and ha mad a visit martyred heroea who nave abed their to tha continent of Europe to aeeure b00d on th scaffold and in the field in tmtslde -aW -hi-a vevolf atarftlnst Eng- defense of 'their country and of vlr- land. -H conferred with' Napoleon andltue, thla Is my hope I wish that my Tallyrand. and jthe former agreed to aa-1 memory and name may animate thoee slst tno man. However, mmmex seems wno survive me, while I look down with to have placed no faith in this promise complacency on the destruction of that and proceoaea a, u no aia naa oeen p(rfldloua government which uphdlda lta "offered. domination by blasphemy of the Most XI ramon Xbnioa. . High which dlsplaya lta power over On July 33. '1802, at the head of a man, as over th beasts of tha forests hundred wild, followers Emmet began which' sets .man upon hi brother, and his march from Marshaiaea to Kath-l lifts -his band, in tha .nam of God. farnhamu which ended In disaster. Em-1 against the throat of hla fellow who met waa unable to restrain hla men and Relieves or doubts a UtUe more or a lit their acts of violence caused him to fly I tie leas than- the government standard In dismay from Rathfarnham to the a government Which is steeled to bar Wicklow mountains where he went IntolbarTty by th erles of the orphans, and biding. - . But lov for an' Irish lass proved tha undoing of-this young patrtot and It was while attempting to' pay a visit to his sweetheart; Miss Sarah Curran. that be was captured, " Hla arrest -occurred at Harrolds Gross,'' August 25, 1801. Before Lord Korbury - and- Barons fSti: .THE : -v 7 . V , " :". ' 4 ' : . , .. 'r; - 'I-- i J th tears Of th widow which It has mad. a . "i appeal to ''"th immaculate ' Qo6 -I swear by the Tbron of Heaven, before which. I must shortly appeajvby the Wood Of j-the .murdered patriots who have gone before , me that my conduct has been, through aa - this peril and through all my purposes, governed only George and Daly.-JEmmet iwa on Sep tember II. convlctod of treason and wa hanged on the . following day.' Thai by th convictions which I have uttered, speech made by the doomed man In the I and by no other view than that of tha dock la one or the noted utterance' or emancipation or my country rrom tne history and there is scarcely an Irish I superlnhuman' oppression under which schoolboy who has not felt his blood I she has so lone and too patiently tra tingle with the reading of it. I vailed; and I confidently and aasuredly The body of Emmet was Interred at I hope- that wild and chimerical 'as It Bully's Acre, but at is said to have been may appear, thera is still union and removed to either St-Mican's church- strength in Ireland to accomplish this yard or to . Glasnevin cemetery. At noblest enterprise - Of this I . speak either nlace today a plain marble slab I with, tha confidence of Intimate know! la pointed to the visitor as the resting I edge., and With the consolation that ap place of Ireland's patriot f pertaina to that confidence. Think not Sarah Curran was the daughter of I mv lords.' I say this for th Petty rratl- Joim . JBhilnolJ2ujTft brilliant attorney, in a period conspio- easiness. A. man who never yet raised uoua for its wit; curran a was tha brightest of all. His was the most go nial nature that flowed and sparkled at the social board. In a crowded school of orators, each one of wnom waa prom - Inent and towering, ha stood, If not the foremost second only to the foremost When corruption was let loos he wa unpurchasable and inviolate, and In a reign of terror1 dauntless and invincible. From tha beginning , to the end Curran clung to th fortunes of his country gav to her his love, his labors, his .sorrows, th inspiration of hla courage, Jthe exhilarating warmth of his genius ' gave them all to her in the fullest meas- ; Oeatle ana Xoble. i Robert Emmet's fiancee was tha daughter of this man. She waa one of the gentlest, the most amiable, the alra ' pleat-minded, the freest from affecta tion, the moat patient, the least willful -of womankind, and yet there waa no sac 'rifle she wa not capable of making for the man aha loved. , ' Through her devotion for Emmet, Miss j Curran had strained relations between 'her father and herself, and in her home ,Ufe the patience and self-renunciation . manifested by her were indeed self-sac 'r tricing. Curran undoubtedly treated his daughter with harshness and severity, but it cannot be wondered at how vexa tious to him must have been the arrest ' and execution of Emmet who was en gaged to hla daughter, and which event left him at the mercy of the government and rendered it necessary for him to ap ;pear before the privy council in th j character, no longer of an Intrepid advo .'oate for others, but of a suspected per- son. who had to enter into explanations (Of his own conduct - Curran had ren dered himself obnoxious to the govern ment by so many years Increasing oppo jsHlon to-every administration and by the part be Jiad taken In 'th varloup Utat trials' ftoav 17 to a7SV ! But all through this period of turmoil and discomforts of home Miss Curran re . mained. faithful -to Emmet but after his bis voice to assert a lie will not haaard hia character with posterity, by assert lng a falsehood on a subject o 1m portent to this country, and on aa oc casion like this. Tes, my lord, a man who does not wish to have his epitaph written until bla country la liberated, Will not 'leave a weapon in the power of envy, nor a pretense to impeach the proDiiy wnicn no meana to preserve, even In the grave, to which tryanny con signs him. e "Again I say. that what I have spoken was not Intended for your lordships, whose situation , I commiserate rather than envy my expressions were for my counrtymen. If thre Is a true Irishman- present let my last words cheer him in th hour of his affliction. '-- "I have always understood it to be the duty of a Judge, when a prisoner haa been convicted, to pronounce the aen tenoe of the-law. I have also under stood that Judgea sometimes think it their duty to hear with patience, and to speak with humanity; to exhort tha vic tim of the lawe, and to offer, with ten der .benignity, their opinions of tha mo tives by which he was actuated In the orima of which be waa adjudged guilty. That -a Judge has thought it his duty so to have done, I have no doubt; but whece ia the boasted freedom of your institutions where ia tha vaunted lm partiality, 'clemency and mildness of your courts of Justice, if an unfortunate prisoner. whom your . policy, and not pur justice, is about to deliver Into the hands of th executioner, is not suffered to explain hla motivea sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by Which he was actuated? My lorda. It may be a part of the eyatem of angry Justice to bow a man's mind by humili ation to tha proposed Ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the pur posed shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would b the shame of such foul and unfouhded 'imputations .aa have haa laid against me in ibis court. Tau, my death she did not remain long- in her j ford, r a Judge; I am th supposed father'n home. Her wrttrherinxna fniinA ( noc alleviation there, and the very con. . stralnt Imposed on her freedom was. pro i ductlve of additional misery. She .quit i ted her father's house at length and (went to Cork., where at th house of a JtrvFtnros, a SuaJwf. ibs met, Captain culpi also. lprlt ; I am a man; you are a man might change placea. though we never could cltang character. If I stand at the bar of thia court and oar not vln dicat my character, what a farce is , your Justice! If Ijtaod at thia bar and : . FTBl 3 GIVES the most perfect niumination for either interior or exterior of your store at a mini mum cost. The greatest economy and the most abundant lights are only secured by the use of is lamp. These lamps are now used almost exclusively by the largest merchants in every city of the Union. WHY NOT BE I THE SKEW . Lamps are installed at a very nominal cost, and are kept in order by competent inspectors. No expense to customers after installation is made except ACTUAL AMOUNT OF CURRENT USED ON A METER BASIS. Don't delay this matter, but take advantage of , the opportunity while you have the chance. . V , We are pleased at all times to explain the merits this mode of lighting over all others. 5 9. o o ft- irtnvmn a n in ninii trrrn an cu V i rum, L.n iwu yL unm t J I L On Ifl ff-Mn U M V V V Seventh and Alder Streets V o 0 9-o 9- dare not vindicate my ckaraoter, how dare you calumniate it? Does the sen tence of death, which your unhallowed policy lnfllcta upon my body also con demn my tongue to silence and my rep utation to reproach? Tour executioner may abridge the period of my existence; but while I exist I shall not forbear to vindicate my character and motivea from your, aspersions; as a man, to whom fame Is dearer than life. I will make the last use of that life in doing Justice , to that reputation which is to live after, and which is the only legacy can leave to those z honor and love, and for whom I am proud to perish. As men, my lord, we must appear on the great day at on common tribunal; and It will then remain for the Searcher of all hearts to show a collective uni verse, "who was engaged in the most virtuous actions or actuated by the pur est motives ray country's oppressor, or- "Mr lord, shall a dying man be denied the legal privilege of exculpating him self in tbe eyes of the community 'from an undeserved reproach, thrown upon him during his trial, by charging him with ambition, and attempting to cast away for a paltry consideration th lib erties of his country? Why did your lordahfp Insult me? Or rather, why in sult Justice, itt demanding of me, why sentence of death hould not , be pro nounced? I know, my lord, that form prescribes that you should ask the ques tion. .Th form also presumes the right of anawerlng. Thla, no doubt, may bi dispensed, with, and so might th whols cartmoDX of, tit trlalj sine aentenc , waa alreday pronounced at the castle before your Jury waa Impanelled. Your lordships are but the priests of : the oracle I submit to the sacrifice. But I insist on the whole of the forms. "I am charged with being an emis sary of France. An emissary of France! and for what end? It la alleged that I wish to sell the Independence of my country; and for what end? Was this the object of my ambition? And la this the mode by which a tribunal of Justice reooncilea contradictions? No. I am no emissary; my ambition was to hold a place among the deliverers of my coun try not In power, nor m profit, but In the glory of the achievement. Sell my country's independence to France! and for What? A change of masters?. No, but for my ambition. On. my countryl waa it personal ambition that influenced me? Had it been th soul of my actions, could I not by my education and for tune, . by the rank and consideration of ray family have placed myself amongst the proudest of your oppressors? My country was my idol. To It I sacrificed every selfish, every endearing senti ment, and for it I now offer myaelf, O Ood! No, my lorda: I acted aa an Irish man determined on delivering my counmj try ironj tnt yoa or a roreign and un relentiof tyranny, and from th laer galling yoke of a .domestic faction. Its Joint' partner and perpetrator in the patricide, whose reward is th Umomlnr of existing with an exterior of splendor and a consciousness 'of depravity. . It was the wish of my heart to extricate my country- from this ' double rlvetted despotism I .wish to plac her. lnda-1 pendenoe beyond the reach of any power on earth I wish to xalt ner to that proud station In the world which Provl dence had destined her to fill Connec tion with France was, indeed, intended, but only so far as mutual interest would sanction or require. Were the French to isnurne any authority inconsistent with the purest independence, 1 would be the signal for their destruction. t We sought their aia ana we sougni it as we naa assurances we should obtain Itas auxiliaries In war, and allien in peace. Were th French to come as Invaders or enemies uninvited by the wishes of the people, I should oppose them to the Utmost .of my strength, yea, my coun trymen, ' I ' should advise you to meet them on the beach with a sword In ono hand, and a torch in the other. I would meet them with' all the destructive fury of war; and I should animate my coun trymen to immolate them in their boats, before they had contaminated the aoll of my country. If they succeeded In land ing, "'and if forced' to retire before au perior discipline, I would dispute every inch of ground, rase every house, burn every blade of grass;-th last spot on which the hope of ffeedom should desert me, there would I hold, and the last en trenchment of liberty should be my grave. What I could not do myself -in my fall I should leave as a. last charge to my countrymen to 'accomplish; 'be cause I should feel conscious that life, any more than death, la dishonorable when a foreign nation holds my country in subjection. But, it was not, as an enemy that he aueoors of Franca' were to land. t.-looTted. indeed. Tor the as--slstanc ot France l I wished to prove, to France and to the world that Irlah men deserved to be assisted that they were indignant at slavery, and ready to assert the independence and liberty of their country; I wished to procure for my country the guaranty which Wash ington procured for America to procure an aid which, by Its example, would be as important as its valor; disciplined, gallant, pregnant with science and ex perience; that of allies who would per ceive the good, and polish the rough points of our character. They would come to us aa strangers, and leave us as friends, after sharing in our perils and elevating our destiny. These were my objects, not to receive new task masters, but to expel old tyrants. And it was for these ends I sought aid from France; because France, even as an enemy, could not be more Implacable than the enemy already In the bosten of my country. ' "I have been charged with that .im portance in the efforts to emancipate my country, aa to be conaldered the keystone of the combination of Irishmen, or ss your lordshipiexpresaed it the life and blood of the conspiracy.' You do ma honor overmuch; you have given to the subaltern alt th credit of the superior. There are men engaged ia thia con spiracy who are not only superior ; to me. but even to your own conception f youraelf my lord; men before th splen dor of whose genius and virtues I should bow with respectful deference, and who. would think themselves disgraced . by shaking your bloodstatned hand m m . m . "."Rnatt my, lord! shall-you tell me, on the passage to th scaffold, which th tyranny of which you are only the in termediary executioner, has erected for my murder, that I am accountable for all the blood that baa been and will ba shed in this struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor? Shall you tell mo this, and must I be so very a Slav aa not to repel ? "I, who fear not to approach th Omnipotent Judge to answer for the con duct of my whole life am I to be ap palled and faiatfled by . mere remnant of mortality here? By you, too, who ir T it were poaslble to collect all the inno cent blood that you hatfe shed in your , unhallowed ministry in, one great reser voir, your lordship might swim in it. "Let no rrtan dare, when I am dead, ( to charge me with dishonor; let no roaij , attaint my memory, by bMvln; that I . could have engaged In any caus b that of my country's liberty and' Inde pendence; or that I could hav become the pliant ailnlon of power, in th op.--, presslon and miaery of my countryman. The proclamation of th provisional gov emment speak for. my views; no in fareno rail b tortured from it to cotin tehance barbarity or debasement at home, or subjection, humiliation er treachery front abroad. -1 would : Pt have submitted to a foreign CTPr"r, tn tha earn reason tlmt I WO'ild r!tt th domestlo tyrant" In th 'dignity ef freedom, t would nav rouam upon ? . threshold Of roy -country, and H f)nf. should only entr by tuM-i- vr toy ..iContloued ea; . li' i i I )