New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-06-18
Daniel O,CouBeIl.


Scottish Theologisn. and the Irish Les6er DAsIEL
oCossTLL. The latter died at Genoa, in Italy
on the 18th ult and gave directions that his heart
should Be deposited a, Rome, and his body buried
In ireland, in the cemetery Of bis ancestors
Napoleon Bonsparte owed much OF his unparsl'
leled success TO bis military skill and tact DIS
powers Of psrsassioD were very limited Daniei
O'Connen. on the contrary, gained bis victories
nd,hey were many and important witboutspi'ling
drop OF blood He knew that all power ultimately
res,s on opinion, and combined his countryne
with unrivsled skill and ability, considering bis
means and position; enabling them 10 make unusual
and in many respects successful Efforts Tor the con
centration Of public sentiment throughout the
British Empire in q suitable channel, on matters
having reference 10 their gradual emancipation
from .hraldom of many centuries. Let those who
look at what Ireland was IN 1910, and what she Is
pow--uhat her Press, her Legislators her munl'
cipsl corporations, her religious privileges, her
iories. her Judges and Der Government, were then
and what tn sy ere Dow-psu'e before they join in
the abuse unthinkingly bestowed by some on the
great Irsh Leader. now no more.
Hewssthe first Roman Catholic who had occupied
seat in the House Of Commons Of England Tor
centuries, and the first Lord Mayor Of Dublin OF that
religious persoason In three hundred years ne
was the life and soul Of the Catholic As'ocahon
by means Of which very many disabilities affecting
the greater portion Of his country men were re-
moved. aud without the aid Of his eloquence and
influence il is very doubtful if the measure OF Par
lismentsry Reform would have been carried in 1892
He aided Protestant dissenters as well as Cstbo-
lies. by supporting efficiently the repeal OF the
Test Act the repeal Of the Vestry Cess, and the
reduction Of the 1.-THE Charge, By Is per cent. al
over ireland. He succeeded in obtaining various
enactments for improving Irish municipal corpora
tons for aid from the State to educate Catholics In
Catholic colleges, and for better political admins
trstion Of affairs and more equal distribution OF
power and patronage. He aided In amending the
partial Jury laws, and was a steady advocate oil
the free importation Of grain. He could say long
before bis death what other lawyer Of his creed
could have said during succession Of ages, that
while up to 1892 Inshmen, If Catholics were pro
hibited from pleading q cause in any lrish Court,
either as attorney or counselor be bad been offered
by British Ministry, through an Irish Lord-Lieu'
tenant the Offices Of Master Of the Rolls, with
$40 900 year income for life, or Lord Chief Baron
worth $50 900 year vast patronage, and sabttan-
t;al power and that he had refused both. When
blamed by the London Times for accepting the
rent from his country men 20 enable him TO main
tain the position Of leader Of the nation and deiray
the enormous expense Of the agitation IN which he
was necessarily engaged, it was forgotten that he
had refused power and place, and abandoned most
profitable practice at the Irish bar The writer
of these remarks has listened to Mr.. O'Connell,
while speaking at political tavern dinner
at a political union Of the wo king classes, in a
court of and ia the British Parliament, and be-
lieves him 10 have been the most eloquent the
most powerfully impressive public speaker OF his
day in the British islands. To use q common phrase
one might have heard pin drop while he was
pouring forth his indignation in the old Chapel Ct
ST. Stephen, against the speech put into King
Williams mouth by his Ministers at the opening
of the Reformed Parliament in 1888, in which they
had recommended for Ireland not Cancellation and
me redress Of real wrongs but coercion and the
curfew law Of darker and more inaus picious times
Macauev. Shaw of Dublin, Stanley, Peel and
ury to hear them, but in that music of the human
voice which charms the listener when combined
with talent, wit and humor. O'Connell was surely
unrivaled. Throughout England. as an agitator,
his progress was a series Of triumphs Glasgow
and the West country Wings were enraptured,
and the Presby terans Of Edinburgh welcomed the
Chief of IreaHd's Pspists" to the Scottish CAPT.
tai with a sincerity, an enthusiasm that would
have astonished John Knox himself could he
have witnessed it, Eloquence and intellect OF a
high order proved their powers on the Cation Hill
as elsewhere; and on that lovely day, when Ire
lands advocate demanded that the peerage of Eng
land should be reformed, that they should be made
elective fifty thousand voices oheered the senti
ment and the orator until Arthur's Seat echoed
with the sound.
What change had come over mems minds
since the day on which the Scottish Judges had or
dered the trans portation Of the mild and gentle Muir
to Botany Bay, for merely proposing far more
moderate infusion Of the democratic principle, than
Lords Grey and Durham obtained in 1892
Daniel O'Connell vas born in the wilds Of ker.
~, Ireland on the 9Th Of August l775 and died in
Genoa Italy, on the 18th of May ls47, in the ed
year of bis age. His father was a member OF an
ancient and honorable Catholic family, extensively
allied by consequently and marriage with the old
families Of the country. Young Daniel was an ar
dent Catholic received bis education partly at the
College Of ST. Omers in France, and partly at
Dousy and Louvain, and loved the religion Of bis
ancestors 90 much the more because its votarie.
were prosecuted and oppressed for their opinions
he was altogether opposed TO the French Revolu
ion, and studied law in England. where be wa,
called TO the Bar in Easter term l7s9 in the strug
eles of which In bis psve land be took part what
ever being of his Informs US In biographi
cal sketch Of bis early lie opposed to hs, movement
1 be VISA very conss,en,ly, ever sfterwsrd. His FIRE
SPEECH on record against the union Of bis country
with Eoglsnd and be there declares his preference 70
the Irish Parliament without emancipation, TO
/ ton TO England XIII e.
His success At the Ear was very rspid. He sooi
became tAs rising young Catholic lawyer His prsc,ic
drst lay IN defending prisoners snd In subs quen
period Of bis Efe he admitted to be the best crmi
, us lawyer At the Bar Al that time Catholic lhshmsi
hsd only road tor ambition, by the Bar and
inest Counselor was looked up to with the srestes
respect The superiority of bis forensic powers
became manifest that be took up leading position n
the profession and be hsd acquired some le
gal dissnevon hs began to engage In Catholic agitation