New-York tribune., 1868-05-13

voting as he likes let him lock to his mortgage for by
3e voeF T1s asr TGS Sat T lost S s ' cot Apaue The
ment had clause in the Convention act, that l0Ipaue
with wonderful patience and marvellous industry, Win
treess aud unfaltering toll OConnell sent into every
great OF the Island, organized meetings with fTes
dent Treasurer Secretaries, Speakers and proceedgs
all ended IN u days Then another IlsS.rs secre
tary and Treasurer and other orators-an 1Ii1S w
years. until at last the Government sent Angesy with an
order that political meeting should he allowed Tor any
man, any party Then the great Irishman showed ms
power No Lord Lieutenant ever landed on the beaat M
ul wharf Of Dublin who had not been welcomed by the
his proclamation oConnell issued notice :" Every
Irisnnan Who loves England VII go 70 tne %n % stav aav
his hundred eleganty-dfessed officers, and not
one Irish citizen went to the wharf TO well
come him. lApplausel Ho issued his proclamation
going to the Dublin Hotel and inviting his friends to
breakfast with him, and talked politics with mullins and
Voitare says, "a foolish man would call rash. and
would call brave" he announced to the coun-
and claim his seat, and in 1929 after fierce con
test he was returned for the County clare and went TO
House OF Commons the first Catholic that had sat under
two the oath aburng the Popes allegiance
and the other a1urng the doctrines OF ihe Catnono
e and the other suspect to be one" Grea laughter
and applausel After long debate the House OF Com
right to his seat While this was going in 1929, tho
throes Of the French Revolution that unseated Louis
PHILIPPE had commenced. OCOnnells Influence begin
ming TO be felt in Europe Men heard the mutterngs OF
the coming storm The Iron Duke at the head Of the
OCopne riding on the storm a9d & before u they et a
swept from the statute book every vesge OF the obnox
iOus code OF England They surrendered TO the ten
pause and iaughterj OConne went back TO Clave aud
returned second time TO his scat IN $780, opening the
the days OF Elizabeth. IL was a triumph that
he owed mainly to el9quence that was ne, never SG
equalled Perhaps you doubt my testimony. II you DO
VIII yOuch for IL with the Endorsement OF man who
beVsd lGyed Ireland, ana that 70 Jon 4 4hnoPd P 9,c o. @
NELL the old Vrgnian cried out There are the lips, and
this Is the tongue Of human eOquence" think he was
right l have listened to the impressive solemnty OF
Webster been delighted with the grace OF Everett daI-
zled with the rhetoric OF ChOae know the iron strength
OF the logic OF Calhoun; have been beneath the mag
netism Of Henry Clay 1t has been my fortune to slt at
tongue on tho other side OF the water; but
think OConnell oratOTy blended Into one harmonious
whole the soemny OF Webster, the grace OF Everett tho
logic OF Calhoun and the magnetism OF Clay Applause
Nature seemed TO have intended him for Demosthenes
OF our epoch She gifted him with everything that goes
10 make up the great tribune of tho people. In the rt
place, he had magnificent presence impressive in bear:
hardly outdd him In the majesty VI his appearance And
this much than you fancy at first in the qualities
telling lin US that Wien Mr. webster came home from
Washington at the time whom the Wig party thought OF
dissolution year two before It's DEATH and he went
down 10 Faneu Hall 10 protest. and drawing himself up
to his loftest impresslVenes his brow clothed with
well, gentlemen, am Whig, Massaehusett. WING.
/ 70 90 And says Russell Lowell, Owe held our
breath thinking It fearful thing where no would GO"
three we Should have said, WHO cares where he
goesi" lRenewed laughter SO II WAS with OC0nnell.
There was something majestic IN his presence before
he spoke and he added to It what Webster had not
what Clay might have sent Mr. Adams-grace. Lthe
az boy at TO- perfect In attitude every gesture PIC
ture natural IL effort art, nothing but nature
the whole gamut He could endow the nation with tho
majesty OF Burke. AS heard him once say" send
STAKEHOLDER OF the Csronas think Gods thunderbos
hurled, and 70 remind the b0ndman that the morning
OF his redemption IS already breaking. lApplau.el
Then with the slightest possible Irlsh brogue-whch
the pleasure OF it; no would tell story that would
pat 5000 men into fun, and the moment after no would
melt the whole OF Exeter Han INTO tears. And ali the
while he seemed 10 bo breathing oIurtless, wood
land nook sent y!oles up to paint them blue We used
TO say of Webster IL great effort Of Everett IL i
speaking Of OConuel. II provoked you that be would
not make effort Applause and laughterl You said
20 yourself II he only made effort what great he
would be, aud all the while you were slave at his feet
d ana @ ss be aRed YOU With ms Wit e made
Won Ills resources Of selfposscsson wero never dis,
turbed IIe was once hunting Dclmaine, when an
old peasant friend Of his cOabOrcr In the great work,
two hours trying break down the chief witness who
had Identhed hat foudd on tho body OF the murderer
Counsel could not move him from IT, They summoned
oConnell. lie entered The courtroom anq TOOK IN ~
said "This hat belongs 20 tho witncssr "Hes, sir"
You know o it G9 sT me h9S Et5 2n ySt tat Te re.
sponsbliiy YOU swear IL Is tho bat belonging 10 the
ts pome s sS m 'SSs You Tc@d M II M nt
the tmep 81 did There is nP name IN IT." lGreat
Of Commons in $780, The London Times had always hated
him as Harriet Martneau and Mr.. Brougham dld-and
Times covered him with rdicule turned bis
speeches inside out made his sentences sentences
used TO treat US 20 years ago Laughter and applause
Finally he stood up. said hel"Mr speaker have tolled
work and standing here is II English fair play 1t the
Justice Of English gentlemen that should not DO treated
/ Hko he rest London
out with card Of thirteen reporieIs saving that
would notice him at all Perhaps are that the
gallery OF ths House OF Commons not open 10 the public
and was not then. No one has right 20 sit there
IN any member chooses their presence IL IA
sufcient 20 say Mr. Speaker see strangers and they
are removed. The next day, when OCOnnell arose 10
speak the thirteen reporters OF The Tsies arose. folded
their arms. and placed their pencs ostentatiousy be-
they would write word O'COnnell got up aud said
Mr. Speaker, observe thirteen stringers 10 the ga
lery" llaugter and they were removed and that day
no man I'm the House had line OF his speech reported
The next as @OfHaE e4sd i95 GuareP G @ nsa sntS
Mr.. 0C0nne VIII give up tho quarrel we Will Laugh
again ten years but when he held his monster meet
ing Ireland, 10000 strong. The Times again followed
which he held az which The Times reporter present
and was afraid attend the meeting alone ho went
and tooE him to the meeting in his carriage Hc pro-
cured him table aud every convenience and then said
reporter answered that he Was. Mr. oconnel
then turned around ana addressed the meet
Carlyle says: "He Is natural k!Hs, nc melts al Wills
mo MS and doubtless that Ia the greatest evidence Of
power You only understand 1t by comparison Let
Inc carry you back 70 the mobyear OF 1855 IN this coun-
try when the Aboltionists were hunted, when your
seefs r0ared with riot when from Boston 10 Baltimore
frn st. Louis TO Philadelphia the mob took possession Of
the city; when private houses We're Invaded and pu6c
the river and Loyejoy baptized freedom with his blood
You remember IT, Respectable journals warned the mob
HAT they were playing into the hands OF the
Aboutionists Webster and Clay and the staff OF Whig
told the people that the truth noated further
ON the shouts of the mob than the most eloquent lips
could carry IT, But law-abidDg Protestant educated
America could not be held back from nObs. Neither