St. Mary's beacon., 1858-05-20
O'Connell on Dixraeli.

nell on Disrael, in reply to speech, in which
the latter spoke in most disrespectful terms o
O'Cmncll, using the words :-incendiary,' .'trai-
tor" and other still less complimentary terms
II will prove interesting to many who have not
before seen it.
Yet. sir, the NO Pope-y" cry is again raised
in England, and every enemy to Ireland in that
country does me the honor of directing the ar
rows Of his malevolence against me. But
have risen to a magnitude | never thought
would attain by the quantity of Slander poured
out upon me through the medium of the Eng
lish press. They make me a bGg-bear Of the
first magnitude though any bug Of my size
would be a humbug but, literally, nothing is
more ludicrous than the Importance they attach
10 my humble name. am not acssstsmed to
feel much surprised at their resora s~nnc for
lack Of argument but, / must confess, there
| is one of the attacks ON rne which excites in
my mind q great deal of establishment. 1t is
this-the attack lately made at Taunton BY
Mr. DIsracl. In the annals OF political torp-
tude there is not anything deserving the appel
Iation nf "blackguardiSm' to equal that attack
upon me. What is my acquaintance with this
man? just this-in 1891. or the beginning
of 1882, the borough of Wickham became va
cant; then knew him, but not personally. /
knew him only as the author of one or two no.
vels. He 60: an Introduction TO me. and wrote
me letter. stating that, as | was Radical
/ Reformer and as he was also Radical and
was going to stand upon the Radica, interest
/ for the borough of Wickham, where, he said.
there were many persons of that way Of think
ing who would he influenced by my opinion
he would feel obliged by receiving letter from
me recommendatory of him as Radical. His
] lat4.r p, distinct fba c,,l,i.,t
that Immediately complied with the request,
and composed as good an epistlc as could in
his behalf am in the habit Of letter-writng.
sir, and Mr. Disraeli thought this letter so val
liable that he not only took the autogra ph, but
/ had it printed and placarCled. 1t was in fact
the ground upon which he canvasseS e,.e bo-
rough. He was. however, defeated but that
was not my fault | did not demand gratitude
from him but | think if he had any feeling
! Of his own, he would conceive that had done
/ him at least civility, if not a service which
ought not to be repaid by atrocity Of the foul
est description. The next thing heard Of him
WAS that he had started upon the Radical in
! tcrest for NarylcbOnc, but was again defeated
! Having been twice defeated OF the Radical in
terest, he was just the fellow for the Cnnscrva-
tvcs, and, accordingly, he joined a conserva-
! tive Club, and started for two or three places
on the Conservative interest. How is he now
engaged? Why, in abusing the Radicals, eu-
! logising the king and the church, like a true
( Conservative At Taunton this miscreaas had
! the audacity to style me an incendiary =
! Why, | was greater incendiary in 1881 than
| | am mt preScnt-if ever was one; and, if
am. he is doubly so, for having employed me
Then he calls me tEaitor. My answer to that
! is-he is liar. He is liar in action aud in
words His very life is a living lie. He is
disgrace to his species. What state Of society
must that be that could tolerate such crea-
ture, having = audacity to come forward
with one set OF principles at one time, and OBJ
tain political assistance by reason Of those prin
ciples-and, at another to profess diametri-
caliy the reverse His life, say again, is
living lie. He is the most degraded of his spe-
cies and kind and England is degraded in
tolerating, or having upon the face of her soci-
ctv. miscreant of his abomn able. fonl, and
atrocious nature. My language is harsh, and
| owe an apology for it but | will tell you
why owe that apology. II is for this reason:
that. if there be harsher terms in the British
language, should use them, because it is the
hardest of all terms that would be descriptive
of wretch Of his species. He is just the fcl-
low for the Conservative Club. | suppose if
Nlr H. EEL Dccl vi INC WHY "Ici ne
was called upon to take Office, this fellow would
have undertaken to supply his place. He has
CalSehood enough, depravity enough, and sell
tiShness enough, to become the fitting leader Of
the Conservatives. He is Conservatism person.
flied. His name shows he is by descent jew.
His father became a convert. He is the bet
ter for that in this world; and hope, Of course,
he will he the better for it in the next. There
is habit Of undertaking that great and op-
pressed nation, the Jews. They are cruelty
persccuted by persons calling themselves Chris
tians-but no person ever yet was q Christian
who prosecuted. The crueiest persecution they
suffer is upon their character. by the foul names
which their calumniators bestowed upon them
before they carried their atrocities into effect.
They feel the persecution of ca!umny severer
upon them than the persecution OF actual force
and the tyranny of actual torture. have the
happiness to be aquainted with some Jewish
families in London; and, among them more
ACCOMPLISHED ladies, or more humane, cordial,
high-minded, or better educated gentlemen, |
have never met. 1t will not be supposed,
therefore that when / speak of Disreali, as the
tleecendant of a Jew, that mean to tarnish
! him on that account. They were once the
chosen people Of God. There were miscreants
among them, however, also. and it must have
certainly been from one of those that Disraeli
descended. He possesses just the qualities of
the impenitent thief who died upon the cross {;
whose name, verify believe, must have been
Disraeli. For aught know, the present Dis
raeli is descended from him; and with the inn
preston that he is, / now forgive the air-at-
| law of the blasphemous thief who died upon
! the cross.
| COMPLIMENTARY AND CHARACTERISTIC
The New York Herald, in its JEALOUS anxiety
TO prove to its Fremont colleagues that there
is no danger Of Southern leaders ever doing
anything more than talk for Southern interests,
thus paints the character and ways Of their
annual conventions:
The orators at the Southern Commercial
Conventions are the greatest bores Uf all, as
they are possessed of the greatest amount oi
wind and endurance. These assemblageS are
! ..hiofy as riliara oraforu vcho nan.