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" An Irish Kiiiglit " tells the fine and sim- ple story of Eobert Ennnet ; but, as his story was also the his.tory of Ireland for the space of his short life, tlie writer— Miss Davis, the daughter of Jefferson Davis, whose recent visit to the Xorth will be renienibered — deals in ''An Irish Knight" not only with the ad- venturous and romantic life, and tragic death of the patriot, but with the conditions which created the need for such a man, and with the sad tale of Ireland, in which he became so nobly but so fatally implicated. 2840 AN IRISH KNIGHT. Evert man, be lie never so great a genius, is to some extent the creature of his century. Shakespeare wrote of Hamlet's father's ghost with a sincerity and reverence which astonishes his mod- ern readers ; Goethe believed in the di- vine right of kings, and Gibbon, affect- ed by the prevalent atheism of Young France, speaks but slightingly of the birth and progress of Christianity. If this be true of literature, where men have either to do with records of past events or with the creations of their own imaginations, how much more so is it with a politician or patriot, whose 6 AN IRISH KNIGHT. chances of success depend solely upon his ability to crystallize the ever-vary- ing temper of the masses and make the populace, that " many-headed monster thing," serve to attain his ends. Therefore, it seems necessary to take a cursory glance at Irish politics ante- rior to the time of Robert Emmet, be- fore it will be possible to understand the motive power which could force a man possessed of birth and fortune into the arms of rebellion and treason. Before the Danish invasion, toward the end of the eighth century, under Fergus, Ireland seems, from the beauti- ful account left us by the " Four Mas- ters," to have realized the ideal of a " land flowing with milk and honey ; " blessed in the humane Brehon law ; blessed in the possession of a country eminently adapted to the grazing of AN IRISH KNIGHT. 7 their herds, their chief wealth, and last- ly, blessed in the possession of the Christian faith. From her had ema- nated the first rays that had penetrated the heathen darkness of Germany, Hel- vetia, and England. Her monasteries were so renowned for their learning that students came from the main con- tinent of Europe to sit at the feet of Irish teachers, and ^\i\io\xg\i agricultui^e was in its infancy, the wonderful tombs of the kings, and those round towers that crown many of the heights (the despair of archaeologists), prove that they were well acquainted with the laws of architecture. Such was the condition of Ireland when first invaded. What was her stat- us when Henry 11. , in 1171, made use of a Bull granted by Adrian IV. ceding " the territory of Ireland " to him ? 8 AN IRISH KNIGHT. Torn by internal dissensions, united only, like clouds, by the storm-blast of foreign invasion, to be parted again by the whirlwinds of self-interest, Ireland presents the mournful picture of a conn- tiy which foi* neai'ly four centuries had been a prey to civil war. Learning, that child of gentle Peace, had tak- en to herself the wings of the morning and flown to the uttermost ends of the earth. However, the Brehon law still, in a measure, preserved humanity among the (contending tribes, and the septal ari'angement insured to every man his own tract of land, with a joint ownership in the tribal grazing ground. This state of independent proprietor- ship was, however, to cease. Henry 11. insisted on the introduction of the feu- dal law of tenure of lands, held direct- ly from the Crown, a system totally AN IRISH KNIGHT. 9 foreign to eitlier the spirit or letter of the tribal conditions nncler which the Irish had formerly existed, thereby lay- in c^ the foundation of that land ao;ita- tion which to this day forms the chief disturbing element in British politics. The second great factor in the dis- affection of the Irish people is the ad- verse legislation which, python-like, has since 1295 crushed, in its tortuous folds, the frame around which Ireland could alone hope to build a system of ecpal representation, namely, amalgamation. It was in vain tLat marriage with an Irishwoman was declared a penal of- fence, vain that they were subjected to the indignity of proclaiming their na- tionality by a black patch on the side of the face, vain also that a man could be executed and his lands confiscated, if he presumed to wear his hair long, or 10 AN IRISH KNIGHT. let his mustache grow, according to Irish custom. The attractions of the Irish maidens proved too strong for the prohibitory statutes, and intermarriages continued to take place. Fifteen years after Cromwell's invasion, the children of some of his troopei-s could not speak a word of English ! To kill an Irishman was considered no crime hj any English court, and, as late as 1647, Irish women and boys were shipped as slaves to the West In- dia Islands. The third, and probably greatest, cause of Irish hatred of English su- premacy, has been one which would awaken the sympathy of any lover of freedom ; namely, religious persecution. The Koman Catholics, to which deaom- ination the larger part of the native population belonged, were subjected, as AN IRISH KNIGHT. 11 were also tlie Presbyterians, to a tyr- anny rivalling any practised in tlie Netherlands. Prohibited from buying land, from holding a lease, and, lastly, from the free exercise of their religion, they were enjoined, on pain of death and forfeiture of their property, to leave their children uneducated ; the privilege was also denied of sending tliem abroad to acquire that instruction which was refused at home by this truly paternal Government. To pro- mote the better execution of this hu- mane statute, a premium of one-third of his father's estate was offered to any son informing against his recusant par- ent. A wife, too, by joining the Epis- copal Church, could obtain a large por- tion of her husband's income, together with the permission of the law to marry again without forfeiting her alimony. 12 AN IRISH KNIGHT. No Catholic was allowed to possess a horse valued at more than five pounds, in which case any Protestant might ten- der him the Test-oath, and on his refus- ing to take it, seize both his steed and lands. Marriages between persons of differ- ent creeds were declared unlawful, and the children of such unions illeofitimate. These poor people, whose religion was their only crime, were debarred from entering the army, navy, or practising at the bar. The career of a politician was closed to them by the Test-oath, as were also the colleges, and if a Catholic ventured into trade, he was again met by the regulation that no recusant should have more than two apprentices. The crowning statute was passed in the reign of George 11. , by which every Eoman Catholic was deprived of his vote. AN IRISH KNIGHT. 13 Remembering this persecution, we can well understand how the people rose against the payment of tithes to support a clergy so intimately con- nected with the Government that it was naturally concluded religious per- secution emanated from them. While their own ecclesiastics were driven from the country with a price set upon their heads, it is hardly to be ex- pected that the Irish would bear in silence the imposition of a tax to sup- port a Church of which they did not approve. True, a few priests were allowed to remain, but stationed so far apart, and the laws so strino^ent ao^ainst their over- stepping the boundaries of their par- ishes, that they only served, like a fee- ble rush-light in the catacombs, to intensify the surrounding gloom. The 14 AN IRISH KNIGHT. clergy, too, of the established Church were, with rare exceptions, absentees, whose poorly paid curates had not the heart or the energy to persuade the peo- ple into their manner of thinking. So the Avork of sowing the wind went merrily on ; but the Irish, like their emblematic shamrock, only grew the more luxuriant for this tramplhig, and before 1660 Irish ships and Irish enterprise wei'e beginning to be recog- nized as factors in the commerce of the world. The Liverpool merchants then immediately raised such a cry that the Government was persuaded into the very wise expedient of putting a quietus to Irish trade by providing, in tlie "Ship Bill" of 1660, that it should be illegal for any Irish vessel to enter the carrying trade ; and later, that Ireland should only be allowed to export her AN IRISH KNIGHT. 15 goods to Mi] ford, Chester, aud Liver- pool. Tlius Stafford crushed out the enterprise which promised to make the " Green Isle " bloom ao^ain. It has been said by some that Eng- land was bound to repress the tenden- cy to rebellion by stringent statutes. That this argument is utterly false and pernicious will l)e evident to any think- ing mind. When is a man most ripe for revolution — when he has a larire fort- une at stake, or when he has nothing" to lose, and probably all to gain ? It was not the bourgeoisie of Paris that led the Revolution, but the ragged denizens of the Faubouro- St. Antoine. It was the armed peasants of the moun- tains, and not the titled gentlemen of Home, who first raised the standard of United Italy. To come nearer home, the revolt which set America free was 16 AN IRISH KNIGHT. led, not by tlie great lords whose plantations were equal to a dukedom in extent and revenue, but by a man springing from plain people, and edu- cated as a simple surveyor. No man can strike as good a blow when his heart is with his money-bags. Had the gentlemen of Ireland always stood true to the peasantry, the dissolution of the union had not now been the chief per- plexing problem of English politics. That such -a penal code should have been followed by rebellions innumer- able is not surprising ; that the people should have been repressed with wanton cruelty was the sequel to be expected. Sir Walter Kaleigh thought it a worthy deed to put a whole garrison to the sword without mercy, after their surren- der, on condition that their lives should be spared. Lord Ormond boasted that AN IRISH KNiaHT. 17 he had put to death eighty-eight cap- tains, fifteen hundred and forty-seven rebels, and four thousand others. Famine and pestilence, those two gaunt sisters of war, followed close upon her footsteps, so that, in the time of Elizabeth, Froude tells us, "The lowino; of a cow or the sound of a ploughboy's whistle was not to be heard from Valentia to the Rock of Cash el." Nor was this the only occa- sion on which whole towns were de- populated and counties laid waste. Cromwell's proceedings in Wexford and Drogheda are another instance of this kind ; as well as the depopulation at- tendant upon the colonization system under James, Charles I. and II., Will- iam III., and George I. During the ensuing period, the fire of Irish animosity was kept aglow by re- 18 AN IRISH KNIGHT. peated acts of cruelty through which the Government sought to quell the ris- ing tide of liberalism. However, in the year 1782 a free Irish Parliament was again established by the eiforts of Grat- tan, supported by the volunteers, who, with arms in their hands, were in a po- sition rather to demand than petition their rights. Their efforts were, as may be imagined, hailed with delight and gratitude by their oppressed fellow- countrymen, and had this body been allowed to exist for a longer period there is little doubt that Ireland would now be a land rich in commerce, rich in agriculture, and richest in peace; but the promises of England to this un- happy country have ever been like the gifts of fairies, which crumble into dust at the first touch of the morning sunshine. So, the freedom which Grat- AN IKISH KOTGHT. 19 tan's magnificent eloquence had recon- quered for liis people, was bought of a carefully packed parliament, in no sense representative of the country, for the sum of £1,260,000, twenty-two Irish, six English peerages, twenty-two pro- motions and forty-eight patents of 'no- bility. Having cursorily reviewed the general march of Irish history down to the Union, which now hangs in such a delicate balance, we have reached the time of the illustrious, though unfortu- nate, subject of this sketch. Robert Emmet was born March 4, 1782. He was the youngest son of that Robert Emmet who, for many years, filled the ofiice of State Physician in Dublin. Dr. Emmet seems to have held most patriotic views as to the duties a man owed his country, and to have early impressed his children with 20 AN lEISH KJS^IGHT. these opinions. Curran tells us of the " morning draught " of freedom which he gave his sons. We catch a glimpse of him asking his eldest child. Temple, " What he would do for his country ? " "Addis," the second, ''would kill his sister for Ireland." Temple, alas, did not, like his broth- ers,' live to exemplify the deep root their father's precepts had taken. He was cut off in the full bloom of his promising manhood, not, however, be- fore having made a name for himself at the Irish bar as a young fellow "who knew more law and divinity than any judge or bishop of them all." Thomas Addis Emmet became an exile, and died in America, because of his efforts for equal representation, and the career of Kobert is one long story of patriotic devotion. AlSr IRISH KNIGHT. 21 Unlike Byron, no one seems to have had a premonition of his coming great- ness, so the records of his childhood are but meagre. We hear, however, that he possessed remarkable aptitude for exact sciences, especially mathe- matics and chemistry, which, indeed, he continued to study until his death. He had an inveterate habit of bitinir his iiuger-nails, which at one time came very near abridging the record of his life to but small compass. When still a child, he had one day been experi- menting with corrosive sublimate, but, taking up his algebra, became engrossed in a difficult problem, and fell into his usual habit of biting his nails ; the con- sequence was an attack of severe pain caused by the poison. However, this peculiar little fellow consulted the En- cyclopaedia and finding chalk to be the 22 AN lEISH KNIGHT. antidote, took it and crept to bed with- out alarming anyone. " When he came down to breakfast next morning," says an eye-witness, " his face was as little and yellow as an orange, and he told a gentleman that he had suffered greatly during the night." Neverthe- less, the algebraic problem was solved. Very strongly does the picture rise be- fore us of this strange, knightly child, who met the probability of death with the same utter fearlessness which formed so marked a characteristic of his after life. How eagerly must this boy have drunk in the stories of oppres- sion and tyranny of which Irish history is but the partial record ! How must his young heart have answered to the call of liberty, that goddess who ever smiles fairest upon her most youthful devotees ! How his bright eyes must AN IRISH KNIGHT. 23 have shone as he listened to the tales of generosity and daring that are asso- ciated with the names of O'Moore, Ger- aldine, and Sarsfield ! It was at the feet of his father that E-obert Emmet learned to love down-trodden Ireland better than his life. He was sent to school at an early age and came, immediately previous to his entrance into the University, under the care of one Dr. Lewis, who, although a minister of the Episcopal Church, was- a liberal man and fully awake to the injustice of Catholic disfranchisement. In 1793, when fifteen years of age, Emmet became a member of Trinity College, Dublin, where his career was marked by brilliant success, both as a student and orator. Moore gives a picture of him at this time drawn with such a loving hand, that the young pa- 24 AN IRISH KKTGHT. triot seems to live again, clothed in all that ineffable sweetness and personal magnetism wliich made men and women in after years suffer torture and death rather than betray his hiding place. What a gay life the coUegiates of that day enjoyed ! Their parties out to Dalkey, where they crowned a monarch with all the ceremonial of regal state ; the pasquinades they wrote against the government, the songs they sung, and lastly, the suppers, in consequence of which the ^'king lost his crown while measuring both sides of the road on his way home," as Moore expresses it. There is much doubt whether Emmet took part in any of these mummeries ; to him, young, all aglow with the burn- ing desire of freedom, and the ever poig- nant sorrow for his oppressed country gnawing at his heart, that men should AN IRISH KNIGHT. 25 waste their time on masquerades must have seemed worse than frivolous. No one takes life so seriously as young people, that is, when seriousness does become a factor in their theory of existence. The old have reconciled themselves to much, relinquished many hopes, and even to the boldest democrat gray hairs seem to bring a modicum of conservatism. Many a weary man drops his oar as age comes upon him, and driftino^ with the stream of events, forgets in his selfish ease the Cliarybdis of anarchy and the Scylla of despotism which await the helpless ship of state. Moore tells us that when he entered the University, Emmet was already cel- ebrated for the wonderful purity of his life, as well, as for the remarkable qualities of his genius. These two, so unlike, yet having so 26 AN IRISH KNIGHT. many points in common, seem to have drawn very close together. Emmet, wlio was passionately fond of music, ^^^ould sit for hours listening to the melodies he loved played by ^'Little Tommy ; '' and one evening, when he struck the last chords of " Let Erin re- member the day," Emmet sprang to his feet exclaiming, "Oh, were I at the head of twenty thousand men, marching to that tune " Yet this high-souled young Irishman never mentioned the plans of that society to which he al- ready belonged ; but when, during one of the long country walks they took to- gether, he discovered that Moore was the author of a very revolutionary let- ter which appeared in "The Press," a liberal organ of that time, in his won- derfully sweet voice and with " a gen- tleness almost feminine," he persuaded AN IRISH KNIGHT. 21 the rash boy to hold himself aloof from the political movements of the day. He thea went on to expound his theory of a man's true duty to his country — to act, not merely to write or speak. It is a singular instance of generosity on the part of Emmet, that he should not have sought to enlist the already budding genius of his friend in Ireland's cause, for which liimself had ventured life and honor. At this time the whole island was ablaze with patriotic agitation. The broken faith of the Ens^lish crown, and the disappointed hopes of the perse- cuted Catholics, caused Avidespread dis- satisfaction among the rank and file of the people, and cast many into the out- stretched arms of the United Irishmen. The discovery of the proselyting efforts of this society gave rise to a timorous 28 AN IRISH KNIGHT. and unworthy policy on the part of the government. The pretext of outrages committed by the '* Defenders," was the cause assigned for putting the coer- cion act into practice, by which any man being found out of his house be- tween sundown and six in the morning, rendered himself liable to arrest, and if unable to give an account of his busi- ness satisfactory to the officer in com- mand, was transported to an English man-of-war, where he was forced to serve as a sailor. The militia, chiefly composed of Or- angemen, were permitted to break into any house, at whatsoever hour they pleased, to search for arms, or to ascer- tain if anyone besides the regular occu- pants was within. That a party of men exasperated by constant outrages and reprisals should not have been the AN IRISH KNIGHT. 29 best preservers of tlie peace in a coun- try already ripe for rebellion, can easily be imagined, and one is not surprised to learn that in every county under mili- tary law, the emissaries of " The United Irishmen" should have found fruitful soil, and that the branch societies should have grown with the rapidity of Jonah's gourd. Pillage, murder, and arson are not the best methods of pacifying a gallant peo- ple, and well might the " Keceipt to make a Rebel " have been given as follows : "Take a loyal subject, uninfluenced by title, place, or pension, burn his house over his head, let the soldiery ex- ercise every species of insult and bar- barity toward his helpless family, and march away with the plunder of every part of his property they choose to save from the flames." :\() AN \UVMl KNKillT. 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