The New York herald., 1844-10-08

LIBgRATIoN OF O'CoSNELL-THE VIRGIN MARY
| OPPOSED TO QUEEN yIcToRIA-In looking over
| our files OF Irish papers, find IN the organ OF
Daniel O'Connell, the FeenIan's Journal, OF the
| l4h ut, full account Of the very extraordinary
religious ceremonies which took place on the libe-
ration Of OConnell. Amongst them Is one OF the
most remark able ceremonies probably ever preached
since the memorable Of the crusades. In the
time of the crusades, the bands oil heroic men who
went into Palestine TO redeem the "sacred soil''
from the foot of the Infidel put themselves under
the protection of favorite sants-some of them
choosing this and others choosing that illus,rious
name In the calendar; and all great political move
ments OF that age We're undertaken in the same
way, no one thinking of moving step until the
favor OF some canonized patron had been secured
The enlightened friends Of Ireland on the other
side OF the water have, it appears, been proceeding
IN the same way, and it is now discovered that an
agency IS now working in favor of their cause,
which must unques:ionaby put down Queen VIC
torla, and all opposed TO the great "Llberator."
II has heretofore been generally supposed in this
country, since the arrival Of The last steamer, that
MIR. O'Connell was liberated from the Richmond
Penentiary by the opinion OF the English law
lords, three to one, of whom the majority was COM
posed Of Lords Denman, Cottenham and Camp
| pcIl. Dut IL - now apparent from the dutHcHtiC
intelligence OF the Dublin Freeman's Journal, that
we have been laboring under a mistake The
great patriot of Ireland has been released from pri
son by much higher power than that of the law
lords, and for the proof we refer to the on
our first page-the most extraordinary sermon
preached or published for one thousand years past
-and which was delivered by the Rev. DR.. Mlley,
| in the church Of the Conception, Dublin, on the
II. IF has IN th pf
gated thousands; and the Lord Mayor Of the city,
with Daniel O'Connell sitting on crimson colored
cushion beside him. In this sermon it will be seen
that it was through the influence Of the blessed
Virgin Mary that O'Connell was liberated, and not
by the law lords OF England at all
Seriously, it Is very singular to mark the strange
mixture OF superstition, shrewdness, patriotism,
| and fanaticism which mark the Repeal movement
| In Ireland, through all its stages. Here find
men OF intelligence, learning, eoquence, and good
sense, in the enlightened city of Dublin, actually
making declarations, and promugating with the ut
most gravity, opinions relative to the nterpositon
Of Heaven in the affairs of men, which are as
owtre, as fanatcal, and pueriie any put forth
| by The Mormon elders, in the holy city of Nauvoo,
on the banks of the Mississippi. In what lamen-
table state Of moral and intellectual darkness must
island, when, IN an assemblage of the most
intelligent and influential of the community
in the great city Of Dublin, such puerili-
ties, such absurdites, such blasphemous non
sense about the affairs of heaven and of earth,
such absurdities are solemnly put forth =
Just contrast this sermon, delivered by Of the
most distinguished oi the Catholic clergy, with
any of the revelations OF Joe Smith, the Mormon
| Oh
tian and enlightened eloquence falls short Of the
ignorant impostor IN absurdity and fanaucism.-
The vast congregation are told that The lib
Grafton of Mr.. O'Connell a miracle-that
Heaven specially interposed through the agency
of the Virgin Mary" the ever Gracious Queen
"the Mother Of Mercy" the comfortress Of the
afii ,cted"-and delivered the Lkerator from the
walls of his prison. And this is not the language
| Of an uaeducated priest, IN an obscure country
chapel, to lit,le congregation Of peasants but II
| ls the language of eminent Catholic divine, ut
tered in of the great churches of the metro
| polls, in the presence OF thousands of the most
intelligent citizens, including the civic officers,
aud many distinguished men Of erudltion, and
great mental requirements. This is, indeed, pro-
baby, the most extraordinary-the most singular
and, in many points of view, the most pain ul
spectacle presented by the newspaper press Of this
generation.
| This singular sermon also discovers, in very
| forcibe manner, that the movements OF Mr..
| O'Connell have been altogether local-Irish-sec-
| tartan in their character. They have been con-
6aed merely to class-a sect-intended, obvl-
ously intended, to benefit only a fragment, and
not the great mass of suffering huma nifty in the
British Empire. This truth is, indeed beginning
to force itself on the mind of O'Connell himself,
and he has already made another speech at "Con-
ciliation Hail." in which he shadows forth his
future course; and the probability is, that he will
endeavor to create party of a much more COM
prehensve character by associating with the Irish
movement, similar popular movements in Eng
land, Scotland, and throughout the empire But
we are afraid that OConnell never will succeed in
his purposes, simply, because his purposes are
local, sectional, and sectaran. There are many
millions in England alone, oppressed by the ex-
uemest poverty-a poverty, that has been produc.
by the political and civil institutions of that coun-
try-as are TO be found in Ireland any day. So,
too, in Scotland in proportion to the population
And no change-no repeal Of legislative union
no scheme like that proposed by O'Connell-cau
relieve these suffering masses. No. A radical
thorough, searching, universal revolution of the
present civil and social condition of the British
people, alone can elevate the down-trodden mil
Iions, and deliver them from their degradation anc
suffering.
And this great truth should be admitted by the
proessed friends of Ireland here, and should actu
ate their conduct. BY their present course Of sec
tartan and local policy, they only excite prejudice
and Ilwi But let them commence a grand
comprehensive movement for extending sympathy
sod aid TO all the suffering in Europe, ant
dhen they may command the assistance and sup
or OF all the genuine friends Of freedom, and IN,
elevation ot the human race, Of whatever cline OF
lineage, Ia this great country OF free institutions
and practical liberty And even such movemen
as that, 10 be beneficial and successful, would re
lulre 10 BE- kept most carefully distinct from an,
polIncal movement IN this country The using o