The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-08-01
Dublin.
DUBLIN, July ID, 1912.

DUBLIN, July ID, ISi2.
"The Friends of the Liberator will feel that the
Collection for 1911 should no longer be postponed !;
each OF the parishes IN arrear is looked to eagerly
at this moment, and IL is implicitly relied upon. that
in none of them will the Just and necessary work
he longer delaved All collections that have been
completed. should be RENTED TO Dublin within the
next wee6 = o. ConneR Paper.
The foregoing is the last made appeal of the " Lii
berator." The mendaclous application of this re-
lentless mendicant, to the pockets OF the more gull
lible and suffering portion of his fellow countrymen
whose wants have been in part created by their es-
arrangement from those paths OF industry and exer-
lion, IN the pursuit, or expectation OF that change
the sudden improvement in their fortunes which
the rey adaptation OF his principles and the political
vagares with which he has been dosing them
(without any effort upon their par) has led them to
expect. Repeal" is still the nostrum which he
presents to the dlstempered vision--the panacea
which is to relieve the country from the accumsla-
ton OF misery and embarrassment that every where
abounds. drowning men, tits said, will catch at
straws;" So in like manner, will the man of des-
perate iortunes-oi uncertain and precarous means,
seize upon every fleeing shadow-the most distant
prospect of a change OF circumstances however
brought about, or however visionary and uncertain,
the medium of Its Accomplishment. lis thus that
OConnell numbers amongst his followers, the reck-
less of every class--the adventurer, the visionary
and spcndthrft, the anarchist and Disconnected of
every creed, and but few of the stald, the ndepen.
dent, aud more rejecting of the community filctine
as ne goes dong, from the pockets OF the Iconfdng
1.-The needy and dependent, who hope by sustaining
HIM IN ms present position, to work out some eili-
cieni chlage IN their own circumstances, through
his instrumentihy. Curiosity persuaded me within
the last few days, TO make visit to the rooms of
the Z" Repeal" association, on the occasion of one
oftheif weekly meetings What a melancholy ex.
hibition and falling off was there what lament
able change fro the times gone bye, nd the soul
stirring scenes have myself witnessed in the same
room Immortalized by the presence of large
portion Of the intelligence, rank, and independence
of the nation--the impressive and manly eloquenOc
of that house of Patriots, who, by united and vi
gorous effort in 1929, worked out their country's
regeneration, and forced hostile and reluctant mi
misty TO concede fan equal measure OF freedom TO
eight millions of their fellow subjects, now desecrat-
ed by the coarse tread and rDad Jokes of some two
score of idle and necessitous-the offscourlngs of
the neighbourlng streets and alleys, with some
eigh or ten of the actors in these exhibitions, but
OF such unseemly aspect, and ont of sorts, that
query IT their appearance would guarantee them an
ordinary meal credit in any hotel, or tavern, in
this city Yet, tits with such materals-such a
compound OF wckedness and absurdity, that fur
ther change IN the political condition and instu-
mons OF this country is intended to be realised
that It's severance from England is TO be effected
and Ireland made once more according 10 their
vision) free and independent nation / query if
uchbarefaced buffoonery, everbefore attempt.
ed 10 be played off upon the world, or a more sue
cessful effort made TO extor money from an abused