New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-29
Ncm.lDork Daily 9ribumt
BIOGRAPHICAL SIX ErCll
JOHN Nj ITCH T. l. .

and e. The anon, NOUS authors Of lcgon Of addresses
aud articles We have read al diAcrcnt timcs In Amcrl
can and Irish political periodicals,
lonN MtrciiEi, the eldest son 81 y Cnliarian min
iscr was born in isn at Ncwry. in the County of
iowa aud Province Of Ulster Ills father instructed
him IN the clements OF education. ~ school he
WAS distinguished for his classical attainmcnts aud
mathematical ability AZ Trinity College, Dublin hc
acquired the reputation OF being accomplished adept
in the language of Homer aud lecnidas
The elder Mitchell. says awrlicr In TIE pr~ocr1hc
Krstsr for february, 1881 Assorted oven IN the
Of Ivlaud lthe MOck North religious freedom aud
political equality. Nature and education moro sou
cp II hcrrism than his country mon' see~ed 20 nave
rshe carver Ills family originally of the Scottish border
had been driven TO Ireland for political onenses against
England aud cid tradition OF border RAD anu i9ray
II outrage committed against his race and OF chvGrons
deed e. be donc 10y him. seems to have inspired hs chu
hood lheloeshy his youth wa. even more "aa'g' !"
train the man and nerve the scholar ieroHm ana me
suffering ptcpc became identical with him AT times.
with his walking stick and friend he would start ont and
stroll frvm till every nook of the North became
familiar 10 him his home His intimacy with the people
ard their habits and localities gave an intensity to his sub
s,QUons writings
From tho metropolis he returned to Nowry and im-
uedisIey aerward went 10 cambridge. where he was
entered and served his time as an attorneyat-law
Subsequently he became the partner of his legal pre-
ceptor AZ this business, much against his inclination
but with great success he engaged until the death
of Thomas Davis the principal organizer, most brill
liant writer and most industrious worker of the Young
Ireland party He died In September 1915 by this
event vacancy occurred in the editorial department of
The Nation newspaper Of which he was the SOUL al
though Gavan Duffy was commonly supposed to be its
sole conductor.
The Nation was the only organ of which the
Young Ireland party possessed AT the request oil
his friend and fellow -northerner, Charles Duffy,
Nj mitchell abandoned the legal profession, although
his business was increasing and already insured him
an annual income of G600; babe farewell to redtape
bundles and TO cambridge repaired to the City OF
Dublin and went to work in living earnest.
After years of mere stump agitation after Irish poll
cs had become and justly, byeword for high sounding
nothings this man, III few months hrew arounu
the dignity OF manhood and made that which was bomoas
tic aud ludierous, simple and heroic ..,
TO others of his party the Irish question presented
itself as the revival of dead traditions he alone tngng
all past ideas aside gasped the whole question at one
view and decided the course applicable to the time
MIrcREI threw himself on and among the people and
trusted on them only He much opposed to the idea
of government becoming the schoomaster OF the PEG
pe be TO Its becoming It's general feeder ITS COOK
is public worker its ailor its sexton or its landlord 80
ca.iic cenraizstons of whatsoever kind poor laws
which made an able bodied man, however willing to
work the enforced mendicant Of the government ana so
placed his life and the lives Of his family in the hands OF
power above them and which should be under him-anu
eli interference by the State in the affairs OF educaon re-
hgon or thought were equally detesable to him. See
Mr. Rellys writings)
OF his political principles and proceedings at this period
the Reviewer to whom have already alluded gives the
following account:
Prom his Unitarian birth he did not deem ii wise to
interfere with the priesthood; of the members OF
which his closest friend and most influential ADVISER
Besides he hoped in the contest upon which he was about
to enter that that body would not at all events back the
tyranny the government against the unhappy people
Int would at least remain neutral Inc Ehgnsh otato
Church he openly attacked and the system which made
be PRESBYTERIAN clergy Of the North the pensioners OF 'he
esrrisons But, viewing the British Empire as whoe as
huge edihce of prestige and military tyranny resting
mon number Of pillars all weak and so closely con
neced that by knocking down any one the whole ednce
would necessarily tumble about the ears oil the ars'oray
-sbnc them ip the ruins and restoring the several pop
tletions Of the Empire 10 individual ana oenocrsc VI
taty be determined to direct all his energies against ono
Ar,s,ocracy. 10 break down all feudal tenures
and laws Of eectment, and replace the people On
the land As means 70 'ns Gnu . m se;znres Of
rent thus avoiding further fsmnes by stopping the WHOLE
sale export the peoples food to England Mr. Soheh
b,d been horror Connen made it superstitously
fesTed by the people MITcBEL determined to drag H.
with hs hands through the gutter anu To
mad or treacherous policy Of bis predecessor had convert
the love Of the American Democracy into deep rooted
hostility by attacking Southern men and southern nsltu
tions and had es;ranged the Democrats OF the northern
States by abusing with the most vulgar epthets me mus
tr0us psriOts Of ys similar policy had npeIieu nun
10 disgust the French Democracy and TO drive INTO anag
ouj,m with HE cOunrymen the equally suffering Demo
cracy Of England Mitchell opposed Gil these acIs wncn
tley occurred and denounced them he now directed ms
his Efforts 10 remedy them. lie branded the drunken ny
tocrsy the English ogarchy and Humanitarian clas,es
by exhibiting before their faces their une1smped cruelty
10 their white slaves at home. lie made the men OF %
lie GODS and models Of the people. lie defended e Dem
oeracy o France and after journeys OF ana
union throughout England, he ebecuay ana Tor he rs'
iie IN history formed TN intimate, and cordial ana cndur
Ing union with the English Democracy whom lie rosaruea
lHd loved 60 bTOihern
He had not held his situation The Natton long be-
fore he drew down upon that paper the hostile notice
Of the Government
On The I'D Of Nogenaber 1886, an article appeared
in Tie London Morning Herald, On the subject Of
Railroads In ireland The writer argued, that the nd
ysutsges Of railroads 10 Ireland were too great 70 DO
oye,leoled By the Government; since II the system
va, perfected 10 that unhappy country every part
Of Ifeand woald DO within sI hours Of inc garrison
Of Dublin" and that tsus the laws would be spee'ny
INDICATED and sedition promptly crushed. IN rePy'
1if Mitchell said that while the military nAe, OF fhi''
,.sds were toeraby well Understood II might bo use
III 10 pfomugaie through tho country 10 be fea' U"
eli Ietsa Wsfdens Ia their parishes ~" s'''' ""'
ear, rles a. 4, the mode u dealing With railroads 10
esse Of ~ ene1y da5.DR " wske hostile pS % 'He"
eTLe bssge iollsndefs otee pfsyenisd he'f ~'p""y
from being o,effsn, VI aytng u under "hirf WA
he Dfelaee ~ Wat be- esileq fen pfarbf'l NSHs
eopcertfhg lhe disposI u tiese railroads ~ "sl""A
fefsnse ne iBieni u nbeb MOI bf mifffsl nun ib'
TIE eanels1l.e .enbssee Iietef, MN bic ha't
sJ,fsle.s eooi4 Lsfqi, nesfs b asSdls, 4@bp'D Nat
ne ssnta Il f.s deep ratings ~ ef@'lrst'
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