Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-10-16
Fron the Bg9aio Con-. .9ireffiser.
O,Connell's Decentralization of
Cow SEWARD


neIl i'll that city, on "Wednesday, September
22d, as very grand and imposing ceremo-
NY. The procession was immense, even
for SO great city, and the pageantry---tho'
all was not pageamTy, for, among people
of such ardent and inpulsive feelings as the
Irish, with all the recolections of their be-
loved country, It's glory and its shame, its
centuries Of suffering, its heroic spirits, all
forced upon them at such time, made a
most profound impression--was all that the
occasion should have commanded. II is es-
tiliated that not less than 1900 persons
united in the procession, under the banners
of their respective associations and socie-
lties-and bearing their distinguishing in
sigma. Those not in the procession, who
lined the streets and followed IN the wake
of the pageant, were lnnumerable - esti-
mates ranging as high rs 100000. The
adopted citizens Of New Haven, Ct, and OF
Patterson and Newark in New Jersey, con-
tributed to swell the funeral train of the IL
lustrious dead. The Evening journal says,
g In numbers and splendor, it was pageant
of which the survivors of monarch might
have been proud. In the homage of the
heart, it was what monarchs rarely deserve
or receive
The Grafton of Ex-Goy. Seward, deliver
ed to the assembled thousands in Castle
Garden, would I'll some eight columns of
this paper. Ii is conceived in that gentle
mans highest sfyle of impassioned elo-
quence, and strongly marked by his charac-
teristic grace and ornate felicity of lam
guage. The opening is very beautiful;
"There is sad news from Genoa. An
aged and weary pilgrim, who can travel no
farther, passes beneath the gate of one of
her ancient palaces, saying with plous re-
signation, as he enters its silent chambers,
IL Well! 1t is Gods will that ! shall never
see Rome. am disappointed. But am
ready to die. 1t is all right
The superb though fading Queen of
the Mediterranean holds anxious watch
through ten long days, over that majestic
strangers wasting frame. And now Death
is there-the Liberator of ireland has sunk
to rest in the Cradle of Columbus.
g Coincidence beautiful and most sub
lime! Ii was the very day set apart by the
elder daughter of the Church for prayer
and sacrifice throughout the world, for the
children of the sacred Island, perishing by
famine and pestilence in their homes and
I in their native fields, and on their crowded
paths of exile, on the sea, and in the ha-
vens, and on the lakes, and along the rivers
of this far distant land. The chimes rung
out by pity for his countrymen, were o.
1 Conncll's fitting inell; his soul went forth
1 on clouds of incense that arose from Affairs
of Christian Charity; and the mournful am
thems which recited the faith, and the vir-
tues, and the endurance of Ireland, were
his becoming requiem"
/ Nothing can exceed ia artistic effect this
happily blending of the names of Columbus.
and O'Connell, linking them together in as
~. I'll 81. nth, ,,l.r
of the .iiscoyerer of America, was the death
place of the 'Liberator of ireland,' and
/ shedding over this coincidence, the hallow-
I lug influence ofthe hottest rites ofreligion.
The Grafton proceeds with rapid, clear
and boldly sketched narration of the history
of Ireland, her expressions and wrongs for
more than six hundred years, down to the
extinction of her nationality by the act of
union, and concludes with magnificent BIZ
biographical sketch of 0'Conncll and d eulo-
gy upon his character and services. We
copy the concluding paragraphs:
g Who has ever accomplished so much
Z for Human Freedom, with means SO fee
lble? Who but he has ever given Liberty
to people, by the mere utteraneo of his
voice, without an army, navy or revenues
l-without{a sword, spear or even shlelds
\ g Who,but he ever subyerted Tyranny,
saved the lives of the oppressed, and yet
spared the oppressori
e Who bur he ever detached from a ven-
cradle constitution column of Aristocracy,
dashed il to the earth, and yet left the an
cent fabric stronger and more beautiful
\ than besore'
"Who but he has ever lifted seven mill
lions of people from the debasement of
ages 10 the dignity of Freedom, without
exacting an'o ounce Of gold, or wasting the
4 blood of one human heart!
Whose voice yet liBgers like O'Con-
inelfs in the ear of tyrants, making them
sink with fear of change, and IN the ear OF
the most degraded slaves of earth, awaken
ing hopes Of freedom'
g Who before him has brought the schis-
mates of two centuries together, concliia-
ting them at the Altar Of Universal Liber-
tyi
g Who but he ever brought Papal Rome
and Protestant America TO burn incense to-
gether,
q Ii was O'CoDnell's mission TO teach
mankind that Liberty was not eHranged
from Christianity, as was proclaimed by
\ Revolutionary tranee--that she was not
divorced from Law and Public Order
that she was not q. demon like Moloch, re-
auiring to be propitiated with the blood of
human scrifce - that Democracy Is The
daughter Of Peace, and, like true Religion,
works BY Love.
= / see in Catholic emancipation, and in
the repeal Of the Act Of Union between
Great Britain and Ireland, only incidents Of
an all prevailing phenomeroii;a phenomenon
of mighty interest bgt not prOtentiOus Of
evil. II j. the universal dissolution of Mon
arehisl and ATisarrafical Governments,
and the establishment Of pure democracics
IN their place.
8 know this change must come, for
even the ,aenaced ssoteru5us.ffs feel and