Incidents of my life, professional, literary, social, with services in the cause of Ireland / by Thomas Addis Emmet.
- Thomas Addis Emmet
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Incidents of my life, professional, literary, social, with services in the cause of Ireland / by Thomas Addis Emmet. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Note I See page 283 [Circular issued by Dr. Emmet when appointed President of the National Federation of America.] New York, June 9, 1891. To THE Friends in America of Home Rule for Ireland: From all in sympathy with the sufferings of the Irish people, due to centuries of misgovernment, and all who advocate Home Rule as the only remedy to better their condition, we ask co-operation and assistance to bring about a consummation. Deep has been the disappointment suffered by one generation after another. Each in turn has passed away, with hope deferred, to join the majority, yet with prayers ever raised on high that the sunburst of light and happiness might yet in the near future dawn on their beloved land. How often have they been betrayed! In our generation the Irish people have suffered and almost lost their cause when success seemed within easy grasp. For months past every effort has been paralyzed through the aets of one man, most trusted of all, who sinned and fell by his own hand. He thus betrayed the welfare of his country, so blindly entrusted to his guidance, and dragged the chaste name of Ireland into the gutter with his own sullied reputation. The necessity for assisting the starving and evicted tenants of Ireland was deeply appreciated in this country, and a noble effort was made to effect the purpose. Mr. Parnell was fully pledged to carry out this object, but he has betrayed his trust by his duplicity, his equivocation and his utter disingenuous- ness. His continuous selfish subordination of the welfare of the Irish peasantry to his own personal ends, in the matter of Home Rule, is no less conspicuous. Mr. Parnell stands to-day responsible for the present sufferings of the evicted tenants of Ireland, so far as they might have been mitigated by the use of the Paris fund, in the application of which he has refused to act with the other custodian. This fund consists of over two hundred thousand dollars, the greater portion of which was raised in this country. This he now holds, as he does his political position, by false pretenses and to forward his own personal ends. The people of this country are too sharp-witted not_to fully](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28034776_0567.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
