New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-09-23

ron. had pleaded for Catholic Emancipation IN the
British Senate had shows the s5suriity, the uu-
righteousness and the inh1manity OF the Penal Re
lisious Code, and had demonstrated that il was
only less ruinous 10 Protestsnts and to England
than to Catholics and to Ireland. The British Par
lament were already convinced. Reason, argu.
ment and conviction would not be enough The
British Government must be made to fear and trem-
bic But how should Opinion be made 30 poten.
tisl
IL must begin in Ireland a country divided by
faction and sunk m despair. And if Ireland shoud
become unanimous. what then She had only
twenty seven Bsrons in the House Of Lords. while
Great Britain had nearly four hundred Ireland
had only one hundred delegates in the House of
Commons and not one true representative. Great
Britain had FIVE hundred representatives there
The Church of England, standing on the ruins that
were TO be restored, was one OF the great estates
ofthe Empire. Even if all these obstacles should
be surmounted, there stood the King, pledged and
bound as he thought by his Coronation Oath to re-
Jet the Bill tor the Liberty Of Conscience But
even the Catholic Church and Clergy were not yet
reliable Britain was Jntinually temporising, and
Rome seemed not unwilling to compromise, and so
divide the Irish People.
The Agitator needed therefore character and po-
stion which would enable him to speak with some
show Of authority to the People of Ireland Catho.
lies and Protestants. Clergy and Laity,-to the
King Lords Commons and People Of England
to Rome herself and to an impartial World
What then were O'CosNELLs character and po-
sition He was British subject. member OF the
Catholic Church and lawyer in the -Four Courts
of Dubn-merely lawyer, Catholic and sub
ec, and while Catholics remained disqualified he
could be no more than this
He determined to invest that humble and obscure
character and that position with power and strength,
aud this power and strength were to be obtained
from the consent OF the Clergy and his cOuntrymen
So bold Reiormerneeded rare powers and quail
tiles and needed them in extraordinary combina-
ton. He must have transcendent genius TO CON
ceive so great an action-courage to dare the at
tempt-energy to pursue it-moderstion to concili'
ate-paciic temper to avoid irritations to force
prudence md sagacity 10 circumyent the strategy
of the adversary-sympathy with Catholic Ireland
to be its organ-reverence for the Clergy to gain
their inhuence-loyaty to the British Constitution
20 disam those who converted il into an engine
/ Oppression--ardent and impulsve eloquence Il
rouse iterate aud unrefecting masses-logica
acumen and rhetorical power to coniute sophistry
and convince the esrned-,act and address to gair
coadiutors and hold them in their proper spheres
patience in bearing the nsoence OF offended powel
and the tmidity, waywardness and caprice OF pop
ular masses and with all these he must combine 9
devotion which would make the great enterprise
the sole business of whole life. Providence
guards against the collisions Of mighty minds by al
lowing to exist only one at any one time, capable
/ of conducting a nation in great emergency.
There was only one WAsHrScros in America
and there could be only one o 'CoSsELL in Ireland
Time and experience ripened tho Liberator-
/ The Bar of Dublin opposed the young heiormer-
/ He exposed their mercensry spirit and cast the
herd behind him. The Corporation OF Dublin sen
a champion who called him to the field of combat
He slew the supercilious adversary and pensione
his widow; and mourning over his almost invoun
tary crime trampled thenceforth under his feet TN
false code of Honor He claimed nothing Tor him
self and even less than an equal share OF poiti
cal power for his Catholic countrymen
"Non ego nee Teucris ltsos psrere juoebo
Juncts gentes eterns in iosiers militant
Opposition, oppression, even imprisonment could
not extort from him a breath OF disloyslty to the
throne, nor even to the Protestant succession. H'
maintained inhexibly that the Deliverance OF Ire
land would be hazarded by a single crime and los
by the sacrifice Of a single life. He detected witt
piercing sight the defects Of laws designed to coun
teract the Revolution and organized all Ireland oil
a basis as narrow as the technicality OF specis
nles Feryd and vehement he carried with hin
the passions of the People as cloud that covere'
his person whenever he discussed to them OF hI
great theme perspicacous and deliberate, he wo
the admiration of mankind by the profoundness 0
histestimony before ritish Parliament concerning
the evils of Oppression. He waited imperturoaoll
to mature his preparations and watched unceanns
for the hour when his opponents should be eneeoie
by faction. a lineal descendant Of oppressed ger
erations and living and majestic mark OF perpetr
al persecution FOR conscience sake, every physics
and moral element of his constitution confessed tn
Celtic stock Strong from the cradle and Of stu
DIV brood his stature. complexion, gait, gesture'
voice and attitude betrayed him for an lrlshman
unmingled blood Cheerful even 70 constant MIA
ity. and generous 10 self desh.ation, be was u
depository of all the public and the private gries
his countrymen. He relieved their wants II poss
BILE and, if impossible, taught them how to endu'
privation. When they fell Inadvertently under ID
power OF the law, and even when they wiaail
rushed into its grasp against his advice, be nan
himself betw cen them and the prosecution and bon
them oil in triumph His industry and sNsdui'
never relaxed although the cares not only OF III
evolutionary state. but OF every suffering member
il, lell upon bis shoulders. He scorncd allurem''n
% wealth which might divide him from the PeoPi
subsistsd on such rewards OF his own sbors as cou
be obtained without negecting Ireland and ~he
the country required bis exclusive devotion ne r
jected pension and place offered by the Governme
and with distin guished magnsnimity relied Tor
daily support oa the unsolicited and voluntary co
tributions ofhh, co1ntrymen.
Thus endowed trained and disciplined y 20
YELL found the Irish heart instrument VIM
answered TO hia slightest touch, for " he kne" y
strings in which its music dwelt lie 'une'
anew to it's ancient themes Of patriotism and p'e'
A, length the old King Of England, alter io