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to propose practical measures which will recognize this right in all countries as well as in Ireland.

What I urge the Land Leagues of the United States to do is to announce this great principle as of universal appli- cation ; to give their movement a reference to America as well as to Ireland ; to broaden and deepen and strengthen it by making it a movement for the regeneration of the world a movement which shall concentrate and give shape to aspirations that are stirring among all nations.

Ask not for Ireland mere charity or sympathy. Let her call be the call of fraternity: "For yourselves, O brothers, as well as for us ! " Let her rallying cry awake all who slumber, and rouse to a common struggle all who are oppressed. Let it breathe not old hates; let it ring and echo with the new hope !

In many lands her sons are true to her; under many skies her daughters burn with the love of her. Lo ! the ages bring their opportunity. Let those who would honor her bear her banner to the front !

The harp and the shamrock, the golden sunburst on the field of living green ! emblems of a country without nationality; standard of a people downtrodden and oppressed! The hour has come when they may lead the van of the great world-struggle. Types of harmony and of ever-springing hope, of light and of life ! The hour has come when they may stand for something higher than local patriotism ; something grander than national independence. The hour has come when they may stand forth to speak the world's hope, to lead the world's advance !

Torn away by pirates, tending in a strange land a heathen master's swine, the slave boy, with the spirit of Christ in his heart, praying in the snow for those who had enslaved him, and returning to bring to his oppressors the message of the gospel, returning with good to give

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