The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-01-17
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the bellies of the horses, cutting the girths
which kept on the saddlcs as he went along.
On account OF the pressure of the dense crowd
on foot, the horsemen never noticed the boy
so, when the crowd fell back at OConnells de-
sire to make room for Mr.. Vandeleur's depart
ure, the hOrsemen near the carriage wheeling
round suddenly, came to the ground; a panic
seized those on horseback far up the street,
whose horse-trappings were uninjured, and who
were bewi1dered by what they saw /; they struck
the spurs into their horses sides, and never
rush, where they announced that Mr.. vande-
leur was coming home half dead, and that many
Of the men who had left Kilrush with them that
morning had fallen dead off their horses. This
disaster took away Fitzgeralds last hope, he
resigned the contest next day.
AT the close of the election, when the final
state Of the poll was declared, and OConnelps
return announced, Fitzgerald made u very lib.
towards those who voted against him. He did
not, but tho small gentry did; those who
lived by agencies, or~who found situations
u the
influence. Ehiel followed Fifzgersld IN 2
splendid grafton, i'm which he besought all
Bot
these landlords the appeal was made in vain,
and many of the voters at that election, men in
comfortable and well-to-do positions, were soon
after mercilessly elected from their holdings.
Fitzgerald returned to London, and advised
Peel and Wellington to make virtue Of neces-
sity, and grant emancipation. They did so.
They brought in the emancipation bill and car
ried it, and though at the same time they dis
franchised the forty-shilling freeholders, and
postponed the operation of the act for a year,
in order to exclude O'Connel as long pOssi-
BILE from Parliament, the victory obtained over
intolerance was complete. Most of the actors
in those remarkable days have disappeared
from the worlds stage. Fitzgerald, who was
elevated to the House of Lords Immediately
after the contest by the title of Lord Fitzger-
aid and Vesey, did not long survive: Sad to
say, Vandeleur died from the shock his system
received on the day after the scene have at
tempted to describe. OF O'Connells party,
himself, his son Maurice, Steele, Lawless, Shiel,
most of the less eminent men of the town and
county, almost all the distinguished clergymen
of that day, have passed to the same bourne !;
but two of the prominent leaders of that day
survive-Charles o'Connell, who enjoys the
quiet evening of life at his seat near Lisca-
MUIR; and the O'Gorman Mahon, who, after re-
presenting, first Clare county, and afterwards
his native borough of Ennis in the British Par
lament, has long resided at the French capital,
an attached friend of Napoleon I'LL, and even
now one of the most brilliant and courtly per-
sonages to be met with at the leyees, balls, and
private parties ut the Tuileries. Yet the I'M
pulse given to human freedom by those who
fought the Battle of Clare is still felt in the
world. Moral force, like the physical forces in
activity or dormant around us, is never lost
The Round Tower, raised at Glasneyen by
tori by whose side repose the remains of his
frst-lieutenant, Honest Tom Steele "-as Ma
poleon and the best-beloved of his generals
sleep meath the dome of the Invalides-may
lose through the lapse of ages, like its proto-
types it's signiicancy but the fruits of OCon-
nell's genius and guidance, and of the virtue
and sacrifees of those pure unselfsh souls who
followed and sustained him, remain imperisha-
BILE. The historical old courthouse has been re-
moved, but, thanks to the patriotic energy of
MT Michael ConsiGine, 1rishmen have got
compensation for it. The finest pillar, sur
mounted by the most striking and magnificent
statue which Ireland boasts, marks the classic
spot where the greatest moral victory of mod
ern days was achieved.
where the grim Iron Dukes sole conqueror,
O'Connell, his unequalled victry won,
And broke the chains through ages mkt upon
He atands and tsunders to earth's furthest shore
Where er the Isle of Sorrows claims q SON.
Whose would have oppressions cords undone
May sunder them without drop of gore
BY Union. Not Washington, nor Tell,
Nor he whom Freedom shrieked for as he Tell,
Not the brave Brien who drove out the Dane,
Burned with heller zeal to serve his kind,
Tn Freedom q ranks great Marshal of the Mind,
His EN- raid banners bore no bloody stain
O'Connell gained other victories; the irish
Parliamentary reform bill the Irish MUNICIPAL
reform bill even the similar measures passed
for England and Scotland were due to his agl-
tation. He was political Archlmedes, VINO
had found a standing-polnt outside the Wo Il !!
of our Governments, and moved them at ms
will In his tour through England ana SCOT
land previous to the passing of the reform Dils
of 1882 the crowds that met him have not since
been edualed. 5000 citizens of Glasgow uneu
with him at banquet given him In tnat Guy.
| He struck 25 per cent. off the amount OF tithes
nayable to the Church of England In nus Gay,