The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-31
MORNING STAR AND CATHOLIC MEsaKNGKR.
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY. May 81, 1858.
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preciative ever heard on the subject
though it has been treated by masterminds.
It will scarcely be necessary for US to say,
that we dissent totally from. the lecturer in
his peculiar views on the South and slavery.
We are induced to give the concluding por-
ton, because we recognize in it features
doing full justice to O'Connel's towering
genius, his thrilling eloquence, his hercu-
lean labors, and resplendent achievements.
We would remark upon that portion of it
which has reference to the rejection of one
thousand pounds from New Orleans, that
from his ignorance of the real condition of
the negro, Daniel OConnell was quite in
competent to form an impartial estimate OF
the realities of the case. He heard great
deal about imaginary grievances, never YER
flied. which moved his great heat, because
of the cruel sufferings of his own people.
Hence, some allowance must he made for
the false position which he occupied, in mag
nnying evils as they were transmitted
through distorted medium. At the period
referred to, three eloquent Scotch ministers
visited this city on behalf of the Free
Church of Scotland, then disrupted, under
the leadership of DIR. Chalmers, from the
parent kirk. Their visit created consider
able sensation, and the South contributed
literally to the fnnd-Dr. SCOTS church,
opposite Lafayette Square, alone giving-as
we recOllect-fve thousand dollars. At the
General Assembly in Edinburg, anti-slavery
sentiments ran high; boisterous and I'M
seemly scenes ensued, highly personal and
damaging to the clerical participants, amidst
which slavery and SHAREHOLDERS were de-
nounced in unmeasured terms, and clergy
men from the South--Dr. Scott included.
refused admittance to the Scotch pulpit. A
Dr.. Cunningham, to test the sincerity of his
brethren, moved that the contributions from
the South be rejected, as unhallowed. This
fell like bomb on the " venerable Court
Church ;" but after considerable discussion,
much more decorous in tone, on motion of
DR.. McCandlish-the great gun after Chal
money" The canny Scot showed himself
there. However mistaken, the course of
O'Connen on a similar occasion, shows mag
unanimously in CONTRACT as different as
Hyperion to a satyr."
His triumphs he owed mainly to eloquence
that was never equaled. Perhaps You doubt
my testimony. If you do will vouch for
it with the endorsement of a man who never
Roanoke. Laughter. When he went in
and heard O'Connell, the old Virginian
cried out, "There are the lips, and this is
the tongue of human eloquence." / think
he was right have listened to the i'm
pressive solemnity- of Webster, been de-
1s--1~x- ~ Il
with the rhetoric of Choate; I know the
iron strength of the logic of Calhoun l
have been beneath the magnetism of Henry
Clay it has been my fortune to sit at the
feet of the great speakers of the English
tongue on the other side of the water; but
l think O'Connell's oratory blended into
one harmonious whole the solemnity of
Webster, the grace of Everett, the logic of
Calhoun, and the magnetism of Clay. APP
plause.] Nature seemed to have intended
him for q Demosthenes of our epoch. She
gifted him with everything that goes to
make up the great tribune of the people. In
the first place, he had a magnificent pre-
sence, impressive in hearing-imposing like
that of Jupiter-Webstci himself hardly
outdid him i'll the majesty of his appearance.
And this is much more than You fancy at
first in the qualities of an oratorhis ply
sique. l remember Russell Lowell telling
us that when Mr.. Webster came home from
Washington ut the time when the Wing
party thought Of dissolution, year or two
before it's death, and he Went down to Fan
euil Hall to protest, and drawing himself
MP to his foftest impressivcncss, his brow
clothed with thunder, he stood before the
listening audience, and said, g Well, gen
tlemen, am Wing, Massachusetts Wing,
a Faneuil Hall Wing, a Revolutionary
Wing, Constitutional Wing. If you break
the Wing party, sir, where am to go ?"
And, says Russell Lowell, owe held our
would 60" [Great laughter If he had
been five feet three, we should have said,
''Who cares where he goes 2" Renewed
laughter.l SO it was with Council. There
was something majestic in his presence be-
ster had not-what Clay might have lent to