There are others of the patriot leaders who died in exile, far away from the land for which they suffered, and whose graves were dug on alien shores by the heedless hands of the stranger.  This was the fate of Addis Emmet, of Neilson, and of M’Nevin.  In Ireland they were foremost and most trusted amongst the gifted and brilliant throng that directed the labours and shaped the purposes of the United Irishmen.  They survived the reign of terror that swallowed up the majority of their compatriots, and, when milder councils began to prevail, they were permitted to go forth from the dungeon which confined them into banishment.  The vision of Irish freedom was not permitted to dawn upon them in life; from beyond the sandy slopes washed by the Western Atlantic they watched the fortunes of the old land with hopeless but enduring love.  Their talents, their virtues, and their patriotism were not unappreciated by the people amongst whom they spent their closing years of life.  In the busiest thoroughfare of the greatest city of America there towers over the heads of the by-passers the monument of marble which grateful hands have raised to the memory of Addis Emmet.  In the centre of Western civilization, the home of republican liberty, the stranger reads in glowing words, of the virtues and the fame of the brother of Robert Emmet, sculptured on the noble pillar erected in Broadway, New York, to his memory.  Nor was he the only one of his party to whom such an honour was accorded.  A stone-throw from the spot where the Emmet monument stands, a memorial not less commanding in its proportions and appearance, was erected to William James M’Nevin; and the American citizen, as he passes through the spacious streets of that city which the genius of liberty has rendered prosperous and great, gazes proudly on those stately monuments, which tell him that the devotion to freedom which England punished and proscribed found in his own land the recognition which it merited from the gallant and the free.

[Footnote:  The inscriptions on the Emmet monument are in three languages—­Irish, Latin, and English.  The Irish inscription consists of the following lines:—­

   Do mhiannaich se ardmath
     Cum tir a breith
   Do thug se clu a’s fuair se moladh
     An deig a bais.

The following is the English inscription: 

   In Memory of
   THOMAS ADDIS EMMET,

   Who exemplified in his conduct,
   And adorned by his integrity. 
   The policy and principles of the
   UNITED IRISHMEN—­

   “To forward a brotherhood of affection,
   A community of rights, an identity of interests, and a union of power
   Among Irishmen of every religious persuasion,
   As the only means of Ireland’s chief good,
   An impartial and adequate representation
   IN AN IRISH PARLIAMENT.”