Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-06-24
Currnn,. Contemporaries.

Curan's contemporaries were rare fellows at speech. duel, or bottle. Curran himself fought several duels; and one of his rivals the Urutal Toier. actually fought hS way to the chief seat on the bench Of the Court of Common Picss in irelaIid. 10 a peeTage. aud to an en9tmols fOr- tune. H. was the bully of the governments and he was rewarded for his ready pfstol n thus mar. ner. curse, however. would seem Q hang over hiS dcseendeuts Ills eldest son tihe late Lord Narbury) was shot al the door Of his own house; and member of his family was cruelty and m instly pointed at by Mfr. UCauneli, in connection with tl4s crime. l. clearly proved, howevlr. that he was in England st the time; the fact sraas ptrHg m a tgai ioF the maintenance of an lllegt- IIGate child, which he was sued 5y teirale ser want. Lord PlHnkett was likewIse eoHieInpora- Y of Cuuan. and much distinguished as a rising barrster. The lapse of ages, however. will never be able 10 eace from the public mind the idea that Plunkett volunteered to prosecute Robert kmInet. albeit friend of the prtsoners family; and though ihs s.celehta'ed man has denied the fact of 'vIl- unteering" upon hiS oath, stAi he admits ths; he Gsde such an address to the jury as tiie elTeam- stances Of the tunes required: m other words, an address h obtain the youthful enthusiasts con vfCtloa. And he was successful The main facts, however. VIZ: thai he fTiend Of Enmets fam fly. and that bis WIS the tongue which demanded the forfeit of EDInet'S life, have never yet been queStoned;- they are uBqueSuQnable. Another important fact IS equally uHqueSuoasbly. namely, that Emmet only earned out into acton inc propo- sitlon of PlHnkett himself. when, in the debates on the Union that took place three years before, that great orator said will resist Il to the last gasp of my existence and with the fast drop of my blood; and when feel The hour of my dissolution approaching, will like the father of Hannibal, take me my children to the altar and swear them 10 eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom" As MT. Phillips truly remarks of Plunkett, |" the only two oi his sons that ever touched the altar. was, one of them bishop" But patriotism is rarely laStngin awyeT-it lives just lone enough 10 "feather his nest" and then Il dies. "Can anything good come out of Naza- rethF' ApPropos of Emnet, his last occupation
 -he was condemned 10 death in the early morn ing, and executed n the afternoon Of the same day was plating tTesS of Sarah Cuuan's hair, which, when he was cut down from the rude gal lows on which the authorities hung him, was found m his bosom next to hiS heart. Its of this lady. whom her father literally turned out of doors when Emmet was arrested, that Thomas Moore wrote hts beautiful song
 "She s far from the land where here young hero
 sleeps"
 and that Washington Irving narrated the most touching tale in his Sketch Book The last act of Emmet was 70 write 10 her father and eEplain the history of his love for hls daughter in such manner as 10 burden himself with all the blame, and to leave her free Of obIoquy. Verify the poet has, with no more than justice, designated him |" young hero.n There IS home for be country which perennially produces such Scrop~of human virtue among her youth-LOnd0H Obseruer. No tice Of PhitpS's CGrraH.