The North-Carolina standard., 1845-11-05
CHARLES GAvAN DUFFY.

This distinguished man deserves at this moment
from Ireland and from Irishmen whercsoever they
be, peculiar consideration. He has lost in one
week, his brilliant friend Davis, the Ajax Of
Irish literature, and his afectionate and beloved
wife This, heaven knows, is enough to cover
his heart with VOL Mr.. DUFFY is an extraor-
binary young man. 1t is not the talent, enter
prise, and genius that characterize his career for
which we value him the most. No it is for that
settled resolved patriotism, which is at the bottom
of all his written thoughts; resolve as strong
as Hugh ONeiPs, as methodical as Tones, as da.
ring as Emmet's. The brilliant flashes Of poesy
or wit that startle US in his Sheet are merely the
accessions to his great object the Independence of
Ireland. This leading idea pervades every line
published in his unparalleled paper, and it most
naturally communicates itself to all his associates
correspondents and even his readers.
A trouble or a loss of an ordinary nature be-
falling such man must unnerve US who struggle
with him, though at great distance, in the ma
tional contest; but when that loss includes the
partners of his patriotic existence and his bosom,
il becomes severe bereavement extending its in
f1uence to the wide national party of which he
is one of the animating spirits. We are all bound
in those circumstances to tender him all the con.
ISOLATION in our power.
The paper in which the mind OF ireland is so tru.
ly and so brilliantly reflected, is under all circum-
stances wonderfully well edited: The very last
number is full of soul-strrng poetry, and nstruc-
tive polished, passionate prose. The spirit of
DAVIS haunts its columns. The usual contribu-
tors rise rather than decline in the character Of
their articles, and the pen and spirit of Mr. Dur
Fly himself are apparent in some Of the leading
essays live were not informad by an undoubted
evidence that DAVIS was no more we should not
suppose him absent from the chair Of the Nation
1t is this pcrsevering dauntlcss character Of Dur
Fly that marks him to US as an extraordinary man
one we'll fitted for the task he undertook-the In in
struction and redemption Of a nation. We hope
and the excessive labor which now are his !; for,
a paralysis of his pen and energy would be still
greater loss than that which Ireland has Just en-
'-; -"
The lady whose affections were Mr. Duffy's.
and whose death in the bloom of life he is doomed
to deplore, was native of Belfast, and related on
the parents side to the Nc Dermools of Coolavin
near Sligo. They were but three years married,
and were in the enjoyment Of uninterrupted con-
nubia happiness. She was 25 years of age, and
though cut off thus early, had secured the affec-
tionate regard of all those friends whom the
giant undertaking of her husband called into the
family circle .-'L7 - ''s''< ~ ~
We sympathisc with Mr. Duffy upon these Sc
we're strokes of fortune Every lrishman upon
This broad continent will sympathise with him we
cannot arrest the hand of an al-wise-alseeinp
Providence but we must shed tear for tear with I
one whose destiny is Unidentified with Ireland,
whose heart pulsates her emotions, whose pen de- |
lends her, and whose arm would be among the |
first to strike for her independence.
si"5t -, ". Y Truth Teller.