New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-03-27

that
stro the means whereby and maintain
les rghnlly discharge duties CITIZENS OF the Re
public winch tends 10 encourage the labor Of foreign coun
tres and IN like epfssS And believing that
the first duty of Government 10 build up and
protect the interests OF ITS own ciizens we confidently i1ok
10 YOU for that encouragement and protection that the diff
offs blessings will clear the widows heart preserve
labor lis Just ard enable fulfil with OF
intelligence and ardor the varied obligations resting upon US
VIII not other Trades and other Cities initiate
this example The danger is imminent and uni
versal. Let it be promptly met and arrested.
II Rev. HENRY CHESS Lecture on O'CoNSELL
last evening, was one of the nobles and most thrill
ing we ever listened to--and eagerly devoured
bv an audience of some twelve 10 fourteen hundred.
1t could not be reported without doing great njus-
tice 10 the author-it must be printed from his
manuscript-or rather, ii should be heard from his
own lips--you might well report Millions Para
disc Lost from first hearing II rapidly rected, or
Mozarts Requiem from once listening TO its per-
lormance It is a mighty Pcture-a grand and
stirring Poem. The only criticism we could make
regards i,7 title o'Connall Of the topics,
ably and fairly treaed-but the theme IRE
LAND-her History-her Degradation, her Wrongs,
her Woes, her improvement in the Present, her
bright hopes for the Future.
Commencing with the first struggles OF Ireland for
the removal OF the horrible penal laws and ucredi
bic civil disabilities OF the middle of the last century,
when the largest avenue opentoher Catholic mionss
was the large remuneration Of sixpence day and the
privilege OF being shot FOR the glorious Protestant
Ascendancy he drew irightully true picture Of
the Social Anarchy which then and long prevailedin
that isand-the intolerance and oppression OF Pro-
testan toward Catholic the intense hatred of Cath
Ole for Protestant the alienation of tenant from land
lord the coercion Of the former by the latter the
duels assassnations and outrages of horrible fire.
quency which marked the social condition Of the
whole People. He recounied in glowing language
the systematic corruption of the Poor al Elections,
and the Indignation and fury OF the powerful when
the tenanrry spurned their brides and dcled their
threats. He showed how most inadequately the
People were represented in the Irish House Com
mons TO which they were not permitted to elect one
of their own faith, but only members of the Estab
lished Church and yet how desperate were the
peated efforts made, how protracted the resistance
encountered, how lavish the bribery by gold, and
titles and Offices, required 10 corrupt this mockery Of
a National Representation TO defy the National Will,
to scon the National feeling, by consentng TO the
Legislative Union with Ireland. He showsd how
brilliant were the promises held out 10 procure to
cover this result and how utter was the failure even
10 attempt the redemption OF those promises. He
glanced at the results of that disastrous Union in the
ruined Trade and Manufactures, the banished Gen
try and beggared Peasanry Ireland, as we'll as the
extinction other shadow ofinterna independence, the
remnant of her National consequence. Tracing up
tie train of her history, through the increasing intel
ligence unanuity, sobrety and order of the masses,
he showed how the demand for Catholic Emancipa-
ton took It's rise, and gathered and sweed until
burst all the barriers OF despotism and intolerance
in the memorable defeat of the Beresiords in the
County Waterford Election of 1929 and the return
of O'Connell for Glare nearly at the same moment.
Now the mountain surges of popular feeling had at
tanned q vehemence and force which rendered resis
lance madness, and Catholic Emancipation
granted bv two of its deadliest enemies, Peel and
Wellington.
We will not attempt to follow him farther. His
portrait of O'Connell was good but as whole not
eminentv so III two points only-its picture of the
Iherator addressing forty thousand Scotchmen from
Cation Hill with Edinburgh ri his feet. and lis i'm
passioed defence of his ndiscruiinate and sweep
lug hostility to Slavery-did it strike Us pre-
eminent. The latter regard as one OF the noblest
achievements OF modern EloquenCe. His delinea-
ton OF O Conneli as unrivaled in his tknowledge OF
the Irish character-as moving the passions OF Seven
Millions of People al has will because he intensely
shared and embodied them-as true King, such
a. crowned monarchs were bur are not-as temper
ing holiness with prudence exhaustless in resources
untiring in energy powerful In debate, scorchipg
repartee, and unsulied in patriotism, alike for
chile and just. His defence Of the Liberator from
| the two charges mainly urged against hlm-ol re
ceiving pecuniary aid from line Millions IN whose
cause he labors, aad OF ndulging in abusive Ian.
guage toward his opponents-was hardly skiliul but
candid and just.
We have purposely avoided giving any thing be-
You'd skeleton of this magnificent Lecture, because
We trust it is TO be repeated in City TO still
larger audience. As an oratorical effort, it ranks
UNNECESSARILY above any Lecture we have heard,
while as truthful and mastery history and yindi
cation OF the present generation of the Irish People,
ii ought 10 be heard by our tens OF thousands who
now ignorantly hate that People and condemn their
righteous Cause: Its daguerreotype of Orangeism
| alone-as not Professionalism TOR Professionalism
is generous mot Toryism, for Toryism can be just
bat as the incarnate spirit of persecution and plum
dor-an intensely ant-National faction, making Re
lgiona pretext for spoliaon, and deifying the mem
DRY OF foreign conqueror-is oitself worth an even
Ing. This Lecture must be heard here again.