The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-09-20
The Two Monuments.


The Two Monuments.
1t is seldom that as complete an instance
of mental obliquity comes to the surface of
literature as is furnished in recent issue
of the Philadelphia Bulletin. 1t is worth
preserving as rare specimen of extreme
error-as scientific curiosity in the mu-
scum of bad logic. A Dublin correspond
emit is writing concerning cemetery in that
city. He says
On visiting this cemetery an American will |
come away thinking of two monuments-that |
of Daniel O'Connen, one hundred and sixty
eight feet high, dedicated to the Great Liberia
5Ss aaa the er1 Of William Dillon
Walker, &" who fell in the battle of the Wilder
ness, May 5, 1865, combating for the restitution
of the Great Republic of the United States"-I
Two emancipators-one of Ireland and one OF
America.
Daniel O'Connell and w. D. Walker on
the same pedestal of fame, patriotism and
national gratitude ! O'Conne)l is illustri-
GUS, not SO much for his truly magnificent
intellect, his splendid oratory, and his sue
cess as a statesman, for his lifelong de-
tvotion, his heroic fidelity to the weaker
side through every temptation of rank
and fortune, through every encouragement
of failure and delay. Daniel O'Connell was
the champion of the weak. Like giant
he stood between his people and the tor
rent about to overwhelm them. He may
have been right or wrong, he may have been
successful or unsuccessful it was not the
Justice of his cause nor the success of his
efforts, but it was his heroism that made
his name one of the proudest boasts of hui
manity. He stood between the weak and
the mighty, he faced the flushed hosts OF
conquest, not the small band of starved and
: weary resistance.
: Was the magnanimity of Mr.. w. d.
, Walker of this orderf He found twenty
, five millions of people arrayed against four
millions, and he gallantly took sides with
those who had enough already. He found
' on the one hand, q country swollen with
s wealth, arrayed in the most splendid pan
g only of war, it's railroads, canals, factories
a fields, all in the full tide of perfect pros
: perity, it's navy sweeping every sea and
i blockading every doubtful coast couD
:, try, with it's wealth and influence, bring
e ing from Europe allies and reinforcement
r by the hundred thousand. On the othe
It side, he saw a few stern but scanty lines o
is men, still more scantily supplied with TIN
- appliances of war and the necessaries o
% life, a country devoid of factories, unskille'
in general agriculture, its railroads goinl
ID to decay, no shipping, no foreign commu
lie nication and no credit abroad. This coun
Or tryman of O'Connell does not hesitate t
no throw his weight into the scale of wealt
i'd and APPARENT respectability. What
lis dauntless hero! What champion OF tn
ed friendless sMagnanimous man!
Isl However, the Dublin correspondent
nd not altogether to blame in ignoring the i'm
of mense discrepancy of power on the tw
", sides of the American conflict. Unite
" States authorities persistently refer to tn
rs. Southern population during the war
Ie about twelve millions, leaving that of tn
on North only snfneteen millions, while I'll
nd Southern press, SO far as we see, makes Il
on effort to vindicate the truth of history an
en- place the falseheod in its proper pillory
nd contempt. The ten Southern- States, omi
to ting Western Virginia, comprised abo'
so six and a half millions ofSpOPulation,
lar whom some four millions We're white. Th
cir would leave the Southern population
four millions opposed to twenty-fi five mi
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