The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-05
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER s. 1869

manner; his voice in conversation was yer,
SOY anu gentle: at all times it was beautiful,
| rleh and meiiow--in his most excited moment!
| OF political controversy it sounded like til,
notes OF the key-bugle which have heard OF
the hlllarney lakes and on the Summon, neal
the mouth OF the Fergus, many years ago
! 1hen no had a peculiar caressing manner
winch wonderfully attracted young people
| ana he was fond of having the young about
! him, Curious enon~h. not one characteristic
of this kind was inherited by his sons--except
IN part by the cleyerest OF them az az l.Avnnd
comparisons, Maurice but his life, poor fellow
was sad one. O'Connell had a beautiful.
sweet, womaniy smile and when he told hui
hlorous anecdote the twinkle of his gray eye
made you laugh before you heard q sentence
lie was uttering. The young ladies actuallv
dotted on the great old fellow,
he talked of his gentle Mary, lis bnrie5 WIFE
anu the moisture would come to his eyes, and
the moisture would inevitably come to yours
noo-he mad dreadful tongue when his indig-
nant passions were aroused. He once described
wellington as the stunted corporaln He and
Joseph dume, the great English economist
had taken Benjamin Disraeh under their nat
fohhSe ana lifted him into political promi-
nenee ;and when that enlightened SO n of Israel
deserted his friends and went over to the ranks
OF the Tory. party, OConnell, with burning,
lhg denounced him as the '1ineal de-
aaIs satir1c attacks on Sir Robert Peel were so
SaiIng 20 that very peaceful Statesman (then
MI. Feel2 That the latter actually alenged him,
70 adaet winch was to have been fought on
the French coast; but Peeps friends had both
very conveniently arrested aud bound over to
ss s}e sss 81 ~
sarcasm with which he's siltst n31n an Enulfsh
military functionary when he was fighting the
popular cause against Vesey Fitzgerald in
Clare. Inc troops had been sent down to En-
ms, nomlnally to preserve peace, but really to
oyerawe o'ConneIl and the populace Dan
was ada! esslng his audience in the court house
When tins person stood up swaggerinyly and
extensively. "Make that soldieF sit down.
said the great man. q Pm no soldier-I'm an
MIR. Officer and no SOLDIER said OConnell in his
crushing manner, !" sit down and keep quiet"
1t Is unnecessary to say that that fool was in
stantiy distinguished.
His readiness of repIy was most q;,,, arl,olle
VIII give an instance "a an amusing anecdote
related to me by my friend, the Rev. DIR. Cahfll.
w men the Precursor Society was in existence
at whose meetings OConneu as Il rule presftf-
ed, one day of meeting he was n couple of
hours late. But the business went on in his
absence, nevertheless. A very pretentious gen
tieAah was addressing the audience and talk
ing great deal OF blatant nonsense, all of !
very reasonable character. Suddenly Il loud
Stertortan voice was heard shouting:
v. III i, nobody put sop Of hay in that calf's !
mouth !" and amid roars OF laughter OConaeu
came forward aud took his usual place in the |
president rial clsair.
The orator instantly collapsed. But an hour
Or so after when he had recovered his edtIattfu-
Ity, he rose and, addressing the chair, said !
meaning TO crishingly sarcastic the
time
Mr. Chairman: at an early period of this
Mr. OConneil extensively called me a
calf Now, SIR can tell him and this meeting
that am gentleman of education, and here
nre the proofs that have taken my degrees
both in Trinity College, Dublin, and in GAM
And he sat down with Overwhelming dignity |
-~GUd help him .
Dan o'GonnelI slowly. rose, with that pecu-
iar twinkle III his eye that always meant mis-
chief, and, in his softest, mellowest voice, he |
said 49,
My friends, have heard and you have
heard the observations of the gentleman who
has just sat down. What he has said reminds |
me of an incident that occurred in my moth !
er's household. She had a calf Which had an
appetite. 1t took the milk of two
cows to feed it but it grew great and fat; and
II was said that the biggest calf ever seen on
that farm was the calf that had been fed on
the two cows milk" s,....-
Amid the upr0arious laughter of the audi
ence, the gentleman who had been fed on the 4
milk of two universities made
tracks and it is unnecessary to say that he
was never seen on those premises again.
Many readers are, doubtless, acquainted with
the story of his encounter with Bfddy Mortar
ty, the notorious fish woman, the most accom-
plished scold of class notorious for their
powers of abuse. O'Counell, then in bis prime,
bet ono evening among party that he could
Scold her down. The wager was accepted and
next morning he went down to the market.
Under the prcteSt of buying fish, he. contrived
to pick quarrel with the foul-tongued fish
wife, Then scene of mutual abuse unparal-
lelcd took place, to the intense qualification of
the appreciative audience.
But Biddy was unappronchable in that style of
eloquencej and O'Conncll, getting the worst of
it, was about TO retire from the contest defeat
ed, when n bright thought struck him. He
had recourse to the mysterious vocabulary OF
Euclid Ho called her a ''rhomboid," and she
stood aghast. He followed up his advantage |
and called her parallelogram; !" and the batlied
when he. poured into her ribs the following ter
rife vOlley: You're an internal old hypothe- 1
mise Of u right tangled triangle" Didtiy host all
seifeontr9l With q fearful imprccation shei