Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-10-15
THE LIBERATION OF o'CoNNELL. PUBLIC
FEELING IN IRELAND.

IRELAND.
THE LIBERATION OF o'coNNELL. PUBLIC
FEELING IN IRELAND.
The excitement in Dublin when it became
known that the House of Lords had rever-
sed the judgment OF the Irish court, was in
tense. Great crowds had assembled on
Kngsown per. The packet arrived before
five O'Clock and some repeal agents on
board holding up white tllgs, inscribed
Judgment reversed by the House of Lords
-O'Connell is free the crowd hurraed-
the news spread-and cheers re-echoed
throughout the city. Mr.. O'Connell'S room
in Richmond Penilentiary weere at once in
yaded by crowd of congra'uarors. He IS
said TO have borne the intelligence "wih the
same calmness that it was manifest he would
have shown had it been of an opposite IA
ture." The repeal Association held spe-
cial meeting TO concert measures for giving
sclat TO the occasion and ii was resolved
to escort Mr.. 4O'Conaell from gaol in pro-
cession.
Having entered his own house Mr.O'Con-
nell mounted the balcony and addressed the
people. He began with, 'This is great
day for Ireland-a day Of justice. All that
we ever desired was Justice, and we have
got an instalment of it at any rate. The
plans of the wicked and the conspiracy of the
eppressor-ihe foul Encouragement of the
jury panel--the base conspiracy against the
lives, the liberties, and the constitutional
rights of the public, hive all, blessed be God
been defeated. Justice has thus far been at
tanned; and Ireland, may, if she deserves it,
be free. But do doubt the people of Ire
land deserving it? If | did, would be the
most stupid as we'll as the most base of man
kind. How could doubt them" Afiera
brief allusion to the monster meetings, he
remarked that one meeting alone remained
unassembIed, that of Clontarf, and he finish
ed by promising to attend at the Cancellation
hall on Monday.
The effect of the Liberation on the cause
il is easy to forsee O'ConneIl has come
forth from his prison coDqueror The
shadows of his confinement have melted
away in the glory of his release; he has
overlhrown all his enemes-prostrated
Peel, trampled on Wellington's malice and
Brougham's ha e-and astonished the
whole Empire. He comes back 10 his
stand before the world, with laurels that
have grown brighter from the darkness in
which for time, they lay enshrouded-
his people wee faithful in his absence;
he finds them stronger than ever, and they
find him more than O'Connell was, before
the State Trials, ike comrades who have
rested for moment on a half sunken rock,
they go forth wi h irmer strokes ana easi-
er breath, battling with the storm, and RI
ding over the foam of faetious opposition.
Ireland will be anon, a Nation. REPEA-
LERs OF AMERICA, HURRAH FOR REpEAL.
Hurrah on the hill tops Of the Allegheny!
Hurrah on the benk Of the Ohio! Hurrah
East, West, South and North! The prison
has given up its victim-ihe PenlteE;iary
has yawned, The tyrant is worsted, and the
man Of the people, once more is FREE.
O'CONNELL.
The London correspondent Of the New
York Evening Post gives the following ac-
count of the reversal of the judgment VS..
O'Connell:
"As soon as the Irish Court had pro-
nounced an adverse sentence upon the ira
versers, they appealed to the House of Lords
against the judgment-tha House being the
highest court of appeal in the United King
dom. the lords referred the different points
at issue TO the English Judges, in order to
have the benefit OF the opinions of these le-
gal authorities as guidance for their own
Judgment.
Six of the counts in the monster indic,.
ment the English judges proved TO be bad,
or informal, for various technical relsons.-
The sivth aud seventh counts, which the
Irish judges had pronounced 10 be unex-
cep,ionable, the English judges pronounced
utterly bad! These counts charge the PR
soner with seeking to gain these ends by