2025-07-07
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Many as are the great public servants of this nation who have been buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Illustrious as are the soldiers whose remains lie there.
Today's funeral of Sir Henry Wilson will evoke emotions far stronger and more burning than those which are customary at the graveside,
even of the most eminent and venerated.
The thought uppermost in men's minds will be not the distinction of his military services,
but the foul crime, the revolting mischance,
which has cut off so noble a character and so fine an intelligence
while they were still at the height of their powers.
The assassination has horrified the whole civilized world.
Whatever measures the government may see fit to take,
the responsibility for those measures must rest solely with the Irish nation.
For months past, that unhappy island has lain under the curse of Cain.
Morally, she is an outlaw, and there can be no hope for her regeneration.
unless she can brace herself to cast off the infection which at present threatens to drag her down into complete social anarchy.
No amount of goodwill, good faith,
and good intentions on the part of Great Britain can be of any avail to her as long