Incidents of my life, professional, literary, social, with services in the cause of Ireland / by Thomas Addis Emmet.
- Thomas Addis Emmet
- Date:
- 1911
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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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![cancelled his former good work. He is politically dead and only capable of corrupting those about him. He has stHl a small following; such as any man may have among the unthinking and hero-worshipping portion of the people. But the best part of the law-abiding and God-serving among the Irish people would more cheerfully assent to a continuance of Balfom’s rule than to have any ftrrther connection with Parnell and his self-aggrandizing policy. One great good will spring from what we have suffered, that in the future there will be no chance for hero-worshipping, as the leadership of Irish affairs I think will not rest with any one man. The necessity for such a course I labored to present in the strongest terms while abroad, and I think it will bear good fruit. The leaders of the National Federation of America certainly have no intent to serve Mr. Mc- Carthy, or any other leader, but will work in the interest of the Irish National party, and this fact is well known abroad. The National League of this country is also dead to all intents and purposes, having outlived its usefulness. But we do not wish to supplant it, nor any other organization. It was simply necessary for the National cause that a new organization should exist—hence the Federation of America, into which I hope in time every Irishman in the land will become enrolled. During the past six months we have been at work, and in the near futvue I think the good fruit will be apparent to all, as the organization is now being effected throughout the country. Very truly yours, Thos. Addis Emmet. September 27, 1891. Note III See page 2Q2 [Dr. Emmet replies to Salisbury. The latter’s attack on Irish-Americans exposed in its true venom.] [From the Sun, Stmday, May 13, 1894.] To THE Editor of the Sun. Sir: In the issue of your paper on Friday, May 4th last, a synopsis is given of Lord Salisbury’s speech delivered the day before in Trowbridge, England, and with the headline, “The Tory Statesman’s Comments on Irish-Americans.’’ I have allowed several days to pass with the hope that some “ Irish-Ameri- can,” better fitted for the purpose, would answer these statements. As no one has undertaken to do so, I feel, from my position in connection with Irish affairs in this countrr% and consequently in closer relations with the Irish leaders than any one else, that it is my duty not to let these charges pass unchallenged. This is an old trick of Lord Salisbury in the exhibit of special pleading, a want of fairness and even of truth when dealing with men and measures with](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28034776_0570.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
