New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-09-23
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
GRAFTON on THE DEATH OF
DANIEL. OCONNELL,
L.L.r,r.d a Ca.lIe Grden. 81. z. b
BY WILLIAM Ii. SEWARD.

never see Rome. | am disappointed But ! am
ready to die. II is all right I"
The superb" though fading Queen of the Med
iterranean holds anxious watch through ten long
days over that majestic strangers wasting frame
Asd now Death is there-the Liberstor of Ireland
has sunk 10 rest in the Cradle of Columbus.
Coincidence beautiful and most sublime 1t 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, perish
ing by famine and pestilence in their homes and
in their native fields, aud on their crowded paths
Of exile on the sea and in the Ravens, and on the
lakes and along the rivers OF this far distant land
The chimes rung out by pity for his countrymen
were O'CosSELLs fitting knell; his soul went forth
on clouds Of incense that from affairs Of CHRIS
tan Charity and the mourniu anthems which re
cited the faith and the virtue, and the endurance
Of Ireland. Were his becoming requiem.
1t is holy sight to see the obsequies OF soldier
not only OF Civil Liberty, but Of the Liberty OF Con
science-of a soldier not only Of Freedom but OF
the Cross Of Christ-of beDelactor, not merely OF
race or people, but Of mankind. The vault lighted
by suspended worlds is the temple within which
the great soemnities are celebrated. The nations
the earth are mourners and the spirits OF the Just
made perfect descending from their golden thrones
on high, break forth into songs like this
Tears are no, now Thy due. From the worlds toll,
Come 10 assume ia Heave the brighter oirth;
A winged angel, from thy mortal coll
Escaped Thy glory fingers yet round esrtn.
Chdsls haIowed warrior living, thou wentst forth
Christ's champion didst thou die. And now, Oiest
shade
The crown and palm Ofrigbteousness and worth
Thou wesr'st, with j)ys unspeekabie repaid
The Priesthood of Genoa, grateful for the honor
Of dismissng the lofty spirit from its mortal CONNECT
cover the departing bier with sad iunereai weeds
Rome, ever avaricious Of relics, though she has
gathered into her Urn the ashes OF the great ana
good OF near thirty centuries, reverentlally claims
aud embalms and sbrines with her soul subduing
litanes the heart ofyct another
Who through the foes has borne her bsnishd gods
Behold now a Nation which neede,t, not to speak
its melancholy precedence. The Lament of Ire
land comes forth from palaces deserted, and from
shrines restored from Boynes dark water, wit
ness of her desolation, and from Taras lofty hill,
ever echoing her renown But louder and deeper
yet that waing comes from the lonely huts on
mountain and on moor where the people oil the
greenest Island of all the seas are expiring IN the
midst Of insufficient though worldwide charities
We'll indeed may they deplore o CoSsELL, for they
were his children;
Aud he bore them
"A love 90 vehement, so strong, squire,
That neither sge could change nor art could cure
Again and again az ii they feared To disturb him
with excess of sorrow, they plead
If yet we keep
Visis OF grief and echo Rroan for grosn,
Tia not for thee but for ourselves we weep
Whose noblest pillar lies In thee o'erthrown'
The pageant pauses Next TO the Chief Mourn
u space is opened for America, eldest OF the new
born Nations. Why shall not America accept that
3stDguished privilege OCossELL was cham
pkn Of Univeral Constitutional Freedom. That IS
her own cause-all her own. She arms and IN
nructs and sends forth all its chenans and when
one Of them falls in the ever. continuing conflict be
his faith his tongue or his lineage what II may
whether be die on the snowy plains OF Poland
smcns the classic Islands OF Greece, under the
bright skies Of Italy, among the vineclad bills o
France or in the green valleys of Ireland be he
Kosciusko or Bozzaris, or La Fayette, or Council
America hastens to bear witness that he was he'
Soldier, Citizen and Representative.
Panegyrio commonly begins its picture 10y calling
up revered ancestral shadows from long forgotten
graves to fill the back ground and then surrounds
It's hero with contemporancous forms of kindred
greatness But there are figures so majestic rs tC
exclude from the canvas all living companonship
while they derive no grandeur from being grouped
with even the awful forms OF the illustrious dead
Sach is every one who. by permission OF Providence
the devotion OF his soul, aud the consent siver
By his fellow men or extorted from them, losing hi'
own individuality, becomes for period the repre-
sentative OF arace, people nation or II may o.
ct many races. peoples OF nations. You recognize
NAPOLEON in the brilliant scene of his Coronation
IN No'Te Dame, or when taking leave ofhis veteran
T" fo"'"'"e"eaa-butyo you are transported with aw,
W P"S "nen you contemplate him among the soil
'anes OF the rozen Alps or hooking of ON the i'm
prisoning sea nom the inaccessible cliff ~ :,
Helena. You perceive the serene dignity of w ASH
I,GroS in the picture that CONNIE morste. M. ,oo,,
lance of his dangerous commission in the hall. os ~
Continental Congress; and you weep when no /;
seen dsmissing his unrewarded though triumphan
army on the flights Of the Hudson. Bu, your 50,
noyerpowered with his greatness when you com
to the uncanopied place where GRsKNoueH
sccurste taste banishins even the drspery OF tt
living age presents to you inc FATHER OF
COUNTRY in colossal marble alone
From the beginning there have been two COMO
tons Of Man, and these in perpetual opposition
Force and Resistance two agencies working Of
his destiny. Power and Freedom, and these In u
ceasing conflict; two elements of Government
Arslocrscy and Democracy, and these IN everlastir
war. Nations inspire US with awe, or hate or re
erenee, or sympathy, as they sustain one or u
other OF these conditions, exert one or the other
these agencies. manifest one or the other OF thes
elements The Man who for time becomes sal
sfituted for Nation is clothed In res ard wit
The national attributes The people OF Ireao
during near 700 years have maintained coniit
Tor cur common race. Of Resistance against Fore,
Freedom against Power, Right against Usurpatior
Through more than 30 years Of that conflict DASH
QcoSsrLL was the impersonstion Of that people