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ELOftUENTJIDDRESS
Gov, “Bob” Taylor’s Speech to the Irish.
Americans at Nishville.
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PRONOUNCED THE EFFORT OP HIS LIFE
His Tribute Was Glowing and Clothed in Ex
qnisite language—iaCheered to
the Echo
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The following is the speech of Gov.
Taylor, made to the Irish Americans,
on the occasion of their celebration at
the Tennessee Centennial, and which
is said to be one of the most eloquent
things the Governor has ever said, and
that is saying a great deal tor it:
“And there’s only one Bob Taylor,”
shouted a red-faced Irish American
in the audience, as Gov. Taylor con
cluded his address,
“If I were a sculptor, I would chisel
from the marble my ideal of a hero. I
would make it the figure of an Irish
man, sacrificing his hopes and his life
on the altar of his country, and I
would carve on its pedestal the name
of Emmet.
“If I were a painter, I would make
the canvas eloquent with the deeds of
the bravest people who ever lived,
whose proud spirit no power can ever
conquer, and whose loyalty and devo
tion to the hope of free government no
tyrant can ever crush. And I would write
under the picture ‘lreland.’
“If I were a poet, I would melt the
world to tears with the pathos of my
song. I would touch the heait of hu
manity with the mournful threnody of
Ireland’s wrongs and Erin’s woes. I
would weave the shamrock and the lose
into garlands of glory for the Emerald
Isle, the land of martyrs and memories,
the cradle of heroes, the nursery of
liberty. '
“Tortured in dungeons and murdered
on scaffolds, robbed of the fruits of their
sweat and toil, scourged by famine and
plunded by the avarice of heartless
power, driven like the leaves of autumn
before keen winter winds, this sturdy
race of Erin’s sons and daughters have
been scattered over the face of the earth,
homeless only in the land of their nativ
ity, but princes and lords in every other
land where merit is the measure of the
man.
“Where is the battlefield that has not
been glorified by Irish courage and bap
tized with Irish blood? And where is
the free country whose councils have not
been strengthened by Irish brains, and
whose wealth has not been increased by
Irish brawn?
‘ Wherever the flag of war flutters
the spirit of Irish chivalry is there,
panting for the battle and eager for
the charge. Whether it be Welling
ton leading the allied armies at Water
loo, or Ney following the eagles of
Erance; whether it be Sam Houston
crushing the armies of Santa Anna at
Jacinto, or Davy Crockett courting
death at the Alamo; whether it be
Andrew Jackson at New Orleans, or
Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville;
whether it be Phil Sheridan in the
saddle riding like a god of war in the
thickest of the fight, or Pat Cleburne
Jeading the forlorn hope and dying at
the cannon’s mouth on the breast
works of the foe, it is the same intrepid
unconquerable spirit of sublime cour
age which flows like a stream of in
spiration from the hear t of Old Ire
land to fire the souls of the world’s
greatest leaders and to burn forever
on the altars of liberty.
“Whenever the banner of peace is
unfurled over the progressive En
glish-speaking nations of the earth,
this same irresistible Celtic blood has
ever been present, shaping the desti
nies of empires and republics.
“It warmed the heart of Edmund
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Burke, whose brain was a mighty loom
which wove tapestries of glory for Eng
land and for mankind. It inspired the
souls'of Sw'ft and Sheridan, whose
dreams will linger in English literature
forever, like the fragrance of roses that
are- faded and gone. It lighted up the
brain of Oliver Goldsmith, who broke
out in song sweeter than the song of the
nightingale. It kindled the soul of Tom
Moore into flame, and like an angel of
light from the realms of dreams he|
swept the burning strings of Erin’s |
harp, and 10l the whole world thrilled
with its melody. The body of Tom Moore
was dust long ago, but his spirit lives
in his songs, and breathes more hope in
every Irish heart and happiness in every
Irish home.
“If I were asked wby our southern
people are so impulsive, I would answer
it is not so much the effect of climate as
it is the predominance of Irish blood in
our veins. It was this that fired the
Irish heart of Patrick Henry to preach
secession from English wrath, and the
power of English arms.
“It was this that nerved our Irish-
American President, James K, Polk, to
have Mexico thrashed before breakfast.
It was this that woke the lion in the
Irish bosom of John C, Calhoun, and
impelled him to thunder the doctrine
of state’s rights under the constitution,
and it was this which finally put the
north on the pension list, and the south
on crutches. ,
* ' ‘An Irishman was once shipwrecked
at sea, and floated on a broken spar to
the shore of a strange island. He drag
ged himself, half dead, from the water,
and confronted one of tbenatives. ‘And
have you a government here?’ he asked.
‘Yes, sir,’ replied the native. ‘Well,
then, begorra, I’m agin it.’
“The Irish impulse is first the achieve
ment of liberty, and next the determina
tion to at nil hazards, what
ever he undertakes to do.
“An Irishman once came from cork to
America and hired himself to a farmer.
The farmer gave him a box of axle grease
and ordered him to go and grease the
wagon. In about three hours Pat returned,
weary and dapping with sweat. ‘Where
have you been, sir?’ asked the farmer, ‘I
have been greasing the wagon, your
honor.’ ‘And did you get it greased?’
asked the farmer. ‘Yes, sir; I got it
greased all over except the things the
wheels run on. I couldn’t get to them.’
“Ladies and gentlemen, my Irish im
pulse is about to plunge me into a digres
sion. I am about to grease this glorious
occasion all over except the things the
wheels run on. The delightful task as
signed to me is, to give welcome, in the
mime of the commonwealth of Tennessee
to this splendid gathering of Irish-Amer
icans. J am especially pleased to perform
this task, because Irish blood runs in my
veins. My great-grandmother was an
Irish woman, and spoke the Irish brogue;
her pigs grunted Insh and her turkey
gobblers strutted like an Irish policeman,
and gobbled in the Irish tongue, and she
had an old ‘nager,’ and he was Irish, too
“I am proud of the opportunity to
give you welcome, because I am proud
of my Irish blood, but I am prouder
still that we are all American citizens.
Eor under the ample folds of our flag,
the accident of birth is neither the
passport to power, nor a bar to the
highest positions of trust and honor.
“Lincoln began life as a rail splitter,
Grant as an bumble tanner, Andrew
Johnson as an apprentice to a tailor,
and Garfield as a mule driver on a
towpath in Ohio. But these children
of poverty all rose to the presidency
of the republic. I have heard it said
that such men as these were self
made, but it> is not true, God Al
mighty made them and gave them
their glorious opportunities in this
land of democracy and liberty. There
is only one self made man in this
union of whom I have knowledge,
and that is Dr, Mary Walker—and she
is Irish, too.
“I trust my Irish-American friends will
pardon me for leaving out of this shoit
address the long list of Irish names,
whose noble deeds have illuminated all
the pages .of American history. It is
enough to say that without our Irish
names, the sky of our national glory
would lose half its stars. And yet, how
can I give you a complete welcome with
out giving utterance in the same breath
to the names of Grady and Father Ryan?
Grady, the impansioned southern orator,
whose eloquence calmed the spirit of sec
tional hate, and wooed the nation into
the fond embrace of fraternal love and
peace. Grady, who, like the morning
star, blazed for a moment on the horizoi.
and was then lost forever from mortal
eyes in the light of God’s eternal day.
“Father Ryan, our own Irish hero
and poet-priest, whose mournful melo
dies of despairing love for the ■ cause
that was lost and the flag that was
furled forever, still melts the hearts of
the old grizzly veterans of the south to
the tenderness of childhood. Father
Ryan, the Tom Moore of Dixie, whose
spirit shall keep watch over the folded
stars and bars until the morning of the
resurrection.
“Ladies and gentlemen, again I give
you welcome, thrice welcome. ”
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Captain Munger, has arrived from Un
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from St. Michaels and the surrounding
country.
The steamer Bertha arrived at Una
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snow at St. Milhaels. Mayor Words’
party had their boat nearly completed
for sailing up the Yukon and expected
to leave St. Michaels Sept. 14. They
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ered. Hood was from this place, where
his parents,reside.
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