The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-13

aspect Of the evening large number OF most respectable
citizens In attendance. Shortly after the doors
were spenedseven o'cock-and at the hour named Tor
the commencement Of the DISCOURSE eight O'CLOCK tnere
could not have less than fifteen hundred people con-
gregated In the building In this sssemblage were mer
chants lawyers doctors mechanics and aborers, with
large very elegant ladies' all drawn together
by the attraction of wishing to hear the young orator Of
the old land speak Of the patriotism and intellectual
greatness ofhis departed countryman.
Mr.. Meagher assembled the platform at eight O'Clock
And received with enthusiastic cheer and repeated
bursts Of applause which seemed to affect him sensiby
After it had subsded he said thank YOU my iends for
your kind feeling and support support which s to be
valued the more account Of the unavorable state of
the weather this evening" Previous to opening my dis
course viii mention that next Monday week. will
lecture here taking tor my subject the Present Pros
poets Of Ireland in connection with the National Cause
cloud cheers.)
Mr. Meagher then proceeded to deliver the following
LECTURE.
deep tone Of sadness vbrates all through this noble
lite. All the flowers which beautiaed it Seem to have
sprung from the earth where the dead sleeping The
hveest songs which made it musical to have
out from the sad foliage of such the cypress and
the yew Yet over all and through all, there shone,
more less intensely the changed the light
q divine genius and whether like Of the rivers Of
his native island, 1t Swallowed with rocks Clouds
or sparhled In the sunshine among the white lilies,
widened into stu expanse the buried ruins Of 9TH
NOOPCASu
ships and tumu of the great CITY, the current of his soul
was ever fresh ever beautiful, ever strong For that
explanation in the and nursing his childhood
Inere were bubbhng brooks and deep rivers noory up
ruins Of castles-so Davis tells us-al within sight and
bearing Of that house in which, July oath 1850 he the
wahed IN swaddiing clothes As he grew up, be went
to the wakes, and the fairs and the weddings of the
ssshGS,nU0a for miles around and spoke there
10 love her old music passionateiy; and from his
mother "who had waste Of old passions and tradi-
tons lying grand and gloomy in her soul he learned
many song and legend, and wild story--many wild
story Of outlaw, priest and hereof rogue and raparee
and fairy No wonder, then, his nature such
have found to be- No wonder that Through the golden
atmosphere Of his genius there hoaed this pale mist
son when the sunset But that nature was ever
and anon lit up with loving thoughts they had seen
and with mirth and droery they had yet to The
Nay where its depth was dsepest its brow was darkest
it would sometimes give giddv twrl toss up bubbles
did not spare his unes need be told. He
jokes about his poverty jokes about his not having
and writes home to his mother to say he watts only i've
more to make up the DOZEN Jokes about his dismal lodg
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ment; jokes about having family for whom he had
dinner and andlady for whom he had jokes about
his not having this rent and the probability of his
having it. "As for my rent he whispers Arthur Wolfe
Lord Kilwarden, 1T stands pretty much the
same chance Of liquidation as the national debt" Such
jokes might sound to strangely out of tune
Strangely out Of tune, whore the scene winter
scene and the wind passed through ii like wild lament
But they from the chords Of the Irish heart Chat
Irish heart That poor old Irish heart That rule in
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so thrilling and yet subduing irregular in its ut
terances and yet so measured in many Of its gandest
intonat ons; which, with magic hexibty of its own,
could soOth the sorrowfui nce the vengeul, inspire
to the charge swell the loud hurraR in vct s and
through the dripping Geld of death itself duse the
could they Who had been csmed in sorrow BY it. who
in the storms had been encouraged by its strains,
who had heard its melting melt whispers in their
had been mpelled could they fling aside that heart
and for it substitute something discreet mo
lulae It's tonesY Had that heart been otherwise than
sod had made It there would not have been even YES
tge Of what they call Irish nation the earth this
lay Here Mr. Aeagher gave an amusing and graphic
Srn Inc us Sa the o. Tc SGnn
composed Of the brightest wits and nobes and
tors Of the day in Ireland There Dean Krwan the
ing the lamp Of charity he exhausted the lamp Of lfe
that with him the preachers desk became throne of
ther-but the cure IF swift hmhe was nm irish
man and man Of genius and used That genius for the
ate Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Ben ii
with his sweet SMILE eye beaming with benevolence,
Die features and tongue OF exquisite tome There John
whom Charles Fox pronounced to be the most eminent
jobber in Ireland, who had daughter gazetted to
squadron Of horse who having obtained the Chief secre
tayshp the Prime serseancy and twenty other great
places insisted Majors half pay and Of whom Lord
Townsend the ~ Lieutenant weared with ha in.
cesssnt importuntes for Office used to excaim -"By
heaven gave Hutchinson England and Scotland for
An estate he solicit the Isle Of Man for potato garden
But who presdedy Who ruled that quaint world Of fun
Who the little dark man. with protruding chin, and
short, Cat nose and brown cheek, and an eye like live
Market where, as he said himself he q little ragged
apprentice to every sort Of ideness and mischettle
good bye to Ireland with heavy heart-the they
had seen Hay Hill Dublin where he had family for
NO rent Currans Wit was as widely known as his name
Every one the world had little spe :men Of it, and
xGrs in lScket q were o. ~. wiGklow gold set in
blue devils though their name was legion. Every
knew what he ssd when some one told him that Lord
believe" said curran, he's sc,undrel enough
to live 9. die, just as Il suits his own
that very soveny sngy barrister had started
change either in he comes back again said Curran:
sersssst Hswit's speech. aThe learned sergesnts
speech" said he, reminded Of familiar utensil in
began point, and It went widening and widening
until i put the question out altogether" But he was
han genius something more than q generous, genial
mpressionable loving nature He was gifted with an
souS could subdue The Growing
nth all its of fraud and force he feared not
The Bench which the worst OF men sat In Judgment
md from which many frown an menace cast upon
him, he feared not The yeomanry who used to crowd
the court and brandish their weapons in his face he
feared not He had spirit which could confront, Crap
pie with and defy them oil. For the lcentious noble
men who had wrecked the hopes, the honor the happ
meas of the poor mans house for the savage
soldier who went prowlips through the city, lay
ing foul hands on youth, and beauty, and inno
cence all that was sacred, and all that should have
been involbe for the spy who had wormed himself into
the confidence Of bis victim been welcomed to his FIRE
side and had played with the rineet Of the child whilst
weaving and twisting the halter for the father for the
wealthes the bodst, the most desperate criminal Of
them ALL he had blow which made them reel and the
mark of which they bore through life, and carried with
them to the grave Lord Carleton hints to him he may
lose his silk gown which he Kings counsel for
appearing in defence of the rebels sWel" replied Cur
ran, his Majesty may take the silk, but he shall have
to leave the stuff behind" He does his work neither
weakly treacherousy The clients whom he pleads
are TO him than clients They friends for whose
salvation ne would pour out his blood They are bro
theirs who have strven by he thought desperate
to free their country and he comes Thomas Davis has
With such solemn beauty said inspired by love and JUS
ftce genius nv a walk the