Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1847-07-03

tHpiIg AEsgGlAtIUn III 1880 WA SbtAh
O'Conncll eontradicts the statement TINT
the fret idea Of II occurred to Mr. OCob
nell and Mr. Shell 1t Il friend house Ii the
county Of Wicklow. tfe snls tbs idea
had originated long before IL his falhefs
own mind and, llat when he mentioned II
To Mr. Shell, on the occasion IN question,
The latter expressed his faars aud doubts Us
to tho working when tho other said, he
awauli a4te It work. The first meeting
was held IN Dompsy's Hotel, 8aclgille.
street-Lord Klllecn In the chair. This
was on the 18th May 1879. The nnti'
Nthe agitation soon after threw the union
intea Renzy, which seemed TO alum Mr.
OEonnell, 80 that he agreed suddenly to It
compromise, by which the clergy lost, but
the people did not gin,
The ogitntion for the Repeal Of The
Union was then taken up, but It was grent.
~ m]itigated by the liberal policy Of the
Whies. 'Jnstioe for Ireland would have
aa.iafed M O'Connelfs secret wish ut my
time, ghateyar he might have been driven
todeeiare In th6 excitement Of public moot.
inas. Sir T.. Peel came into power, aud
lbe agitation for repeal watad dereef and
derser. We must cbaritably think that
Mr. O'C0nnelI believeIin ia practieabillfy
and speedy accomplishment otherwise,
j., there would have been great efiminalIty N
those positive aud vehement promises
made to the people, mud ratified by solemt
appeals to heaven-proniseg which led +
i. a great deat Of miichieyol5 dal0aion.
The state prosecutions cannot be defend
!, cd, we think. on constitutional grounds, Q
ID on principles Of sound policy. But i mus
be- admitted that they were eminonlly sae
- ceasfd. They broke tho heart Of the ag
go bli0n. From the moment Of imprieot
+ ment, NJ OtConnell was an altered ma
10 seemed to gee aud fsei that "the splei
did phantomg was IN igais (atuas that WI
q, very near leading him 10 ruin. The ID
af~tagaant in the lotun1o, the volunteer u1
- form, the crown cap, tho solemn pledge
r.. were MI endured for the cake Of c~onsiste.
cy,and to prevent Mr. Smith O,Brlcn u
the young tlelanders from running NV.
with his well.earaed glory. He wag t
4. glad when the Wings amt into pow
l. again 10 get d]eeentiy ont Of the movemel
81 But to do SO with any advantage 1t wins u
lie c~easary to crush young ireland, who p
a. pared for agitation with u view 10 utter
~ ends, which Mr. O'Cobnell thought per
NJ. ciols. Had he beea in the spring u Il
ar he would have combnted them fairly, Il
.rIy out down such foes IN the open field. ]
dy, health aud strength were waning, and
~ 6eheld in prospect all his efforts, and
IL very machinery which be had created, Ii
" to be turned 10 ends that he diBappro'
,,ts and extremes that be dieaded. He the
fore undertook somewhat sutnmarily 10
linn liosliyh aYo1ng trclau1.' saecoesfl
a appearance, he was moi altogether 81
ties. reality. IN the attempt he laid hiinseIfe
and to much obioqly, And the refoaindf
ter. bis LIE was doomed, had he been spa
atry. 10 u painful st ugglo.
d How far these contentious aided an1
'F .
JaJ veloped the disease which now]o hjcra'
81. and threatened his existence is dafic,
reoIy aoy. BUTT was evident, on bis rovi'
London, that II fatal change bad
of,ra place; that tho strength and splrit o
was man were gone. He fingered, how
. ,ho "a we have seen, and undertook n pill
g.. age as much Of devotion as Of heath
wards Rome, when his life and jot
.l,i, closed at Genoa on the 18th uIt.