Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-23 00:00:00

MR'. :MASON-;JONES ON THE GENIUS 2

• - CHARACTER OF O'CONNELL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
~
Sir,—On Monday, night I .was.one of the audien,_:
at Hope Hall, assembled to hear the lecture of NJ,
Mason Jones on the " Genius and Character the
O'Connell';" and I must certainly say that if t%
claim of Mr. Jones to the title of " orator " has
better foundation than the specimen of his oratorica4
ability that Was witnessed on Monday night, hi.ce.
fame will not outlive himself, but, like the deceP.tlo
brightness of the ignus fatuus, will blink la
obscurity, when the miasma which produced it
ha
been dissipated.
With the exception of a few- stale jests which thae
modern " Joe Miller has " long put on record, ,ina
specimen of O'Connell's brilliant, versatile, a," t
powerful mind, was suffered to escape—none of till
wild and thrilling eloquence which held cutoff f
the myriad thousands on the bare hill-side—nnuei„g°
the irresistible language in which he pleaded ie.
country's cause, when, alone and unfriended,4l
forced his way beyond the portals of the-En
House of Commons, and with the potency
ich
wizard's power had borne down the barriers wue"
for centuries had prevented the admission 0' a
Catholic within its walls—none of the keen 48.
biting 'sarcasm with which he scourged his opponents
in the Senate House—words of fire, scorching e. le
burning as they fell, and leaving such indello
impression on his foes, that, like beaten curs, tu f
crouched at his look, awed into terror at the eery
e
thought of castigation. Instead of this, we °ea,
treated to Shell's celebrated answer to Lord LN'll
hurst ; but it was intended more as a foil to bike_
the dismal outline of O'Connell, than as a tribute 1"
the oratory of the gifted Sheil. ; able'
His character of O'Connell as a mean, desPLe a
man, a tier, and insincere, with all the vices, an
none of the virtues of humanity, was as desercdit3uo,
to the lecturer, and as egotistical a bit of bombs t,
self-conceit, as it has -any time been my le"
witness or listen to. A nilt
•
His physical force allusions were ill-timed and "•th
of place. O'Connell naturally doubted, and NCrind
good reason, all his physical force followers, aar
never wished to be the means of inciting civil too
among his countrymen. He had, in early life, "of
much experience, amid the horrors of the
ed
Terror in France, of the baneful results of unbriu-oi
passion and lawless violence, the usual attendant; la
civil war. He had seen in his own land the sea the
groaning under the weight of its victims, ouu.o:et,
harrowing spectacle of the roadside gib of
with its loathsome burthen. It will
be wondered at, then, that he endeavoured by
force to wring from the hereditary oppressors of 0
country such concessions as he could obtain, anu'fics
he often said, to take by instalments that jurlth
which he could not get altogether. He had un feed
in platform bravery, and physical-force patriots Do
no inducements strong enough to offer to cause 40.3
to expose- his countrymen to certain ruin
enslavement worse than that under which '

groaned .
When Mr. Mason Jones again ventures to lec,tll.6le
ineConnell, let him not forget" that, while pre,eo
tAs
necessary ingil•edinft for truth in other men,
e i
peripatetic lecturer ; and when si!,ciiiic(l,l,l:
cvL
indulge in vituperation and falsehood agalust",
memory of the historic dead, he had better select for
his subjects those whose contemporaries are uatnillorf
existing. As in the case of O'Connell, " his me—it to yet too green in our souls " for his country:ll%oj
forget the sacrifices he made, the self-dental aTota
disinterestedness he ever exhibited in his noble 01
exalted struggle for the freedom of his country, of
of civil and religious liberty to his fellow-131%11g -
every class and creed. If O'Connell's genius e°A-Aing
ted in the coinage of stale jokes and jack-pudgy
encounters with apple-women, then the leetll`" to,
character of him might have some dal! °De
credibility ; but when we consider that he N'15_7.."
of those men who arise only once in a long fieri
years, and shine through the dimness of the rare
like beacon lights upon a receding shore, We the
tempted:. to think- that the lecturer perverted tea
noble position to which public favour had elevs
him, to traduce the character of the mighty dead, uci9
else, that he knew as little of the subject in his ha
as he did of the " waters of confirmation " to uflch
he interestingly alluded in his lecture. tiler
The attempt of Mr. Mason Jones to measure
to him, infathomable mind of O'Connell, betreisht
rashness and temerity not unlike that which ml
_.„O
be supposed to actuate a pigmy when criticin't
Hercules. O'Connell's fame and character are
more lasting stability than to be in any
°
affected by anything which, with school-boy Ito
bility, may emanate from Mr. Mason Jones, vrod
seems to have placed himself in that undignified the
very unenviable position well exemplified ia
fable of the living ass kicking at the dead lion.--
I am, sir, yours &c.,
Kirkdale, April 18th, 1859.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. f
Sir,—Allow me to add my testimony to that',„f
Mr. Redmond, in his letter in Thursday's NORTII;1
TIMES, on Mr. Mason Jones's lecture on Di:ji
O'Connell. After hearing Mr. Jones's inoitv-35
discourses on Swift, Milton, Curran, &c., ilOO
most melancholy to listen to his rabid atnert
poor Daniel O'Connell. It was harmless, hofegr,
because of its virulence ; and no one who heru„ced,
Jones on that evening will, I am sure, be Mole'
by his opinions.
Sir, I assure you he so far forgothimselfas, to
some dissent was ezEpressed from the galleri,'.o,
shake his hand in that directioa,and shout ge
hiss if you will and I'll tell you more of it.' for
became quite indistinct in his utterance 'foill
•oeAtt
FrA,...tvat, quite
11/1101.an.... ..tat.rOU tv
through a trap-door in the platform as if afraid
face the audience.

Du
This latter circumstance could not help btl4. 'unie
remarked by those who had attended the 1"-041
course of his lectures, and had seen him, at the cwo
of each, rest for a moment on the platforn and t"
leisurely walk down the hall
Liverpool, April 21, 1859

—I am, 8z(

AN Ims

THE REFORM MEETING AT
AMPHITHEATRE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. 0
Sir,—ln looking over the report of this in -"to
paper of Thursday, I am sorry to find that you rtv
the trouble and expense of printing all, of_Tere
greater part of, the silly exclamations that %if,
uttered during the proceedings. Any expre.ss'of
on the. part of the meeting, to show approbati°llo4
what is said, or disapprobation, is, no doubt, 1344
valuable in a report ; but it must have been obi.c)to
to every one present that the remarks and noises
.which I allude came almost entirely frog' 1,-01
individual, who must attract attention, and s"
us-
that his wit was superior to that of any one elleheoe
the meeting. As " one fool makes many,"l7,ll
Interruptions are a very great nuisance; and, altu°oo
it may not be possible to get rid of them in rithe
meetings, I hope it may meet your views to set
example of denying them the honour of type.-I°ll.ll ?
- April 21, 1859. A CONSTANT ItEA°-

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