Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-03-11

| w ucH Iue applause uitu SuDSIucu,
the reverend gentleman spoke sub
stantially as follows:
| Ladies and Gentlemen-I thank you from
my heart for this kind reception. This
immense audience is one of the many
proofs that love of the old land, our
father land. our natise land, is entwin-
ed with every fibre of the Irish heart.
\ story is told of a simple. but patriotic
Irishman. in this country, whom the
priest visited in his last Illness. The
priest said, snow, my child, l hope you
will go to Heaven Il hope so,'' said
he; '.but does your reverence think /
could go through Ireland in getting
there ?" daughter and cheers.)
The name of my immortal subject
here this evening is Daniel O'Connell"
that mighty man, whose matchless
genius won Emancipation; who shiv
cred the chains that bound the hands of
his countrymen for centuries; knocked
off the load that weighed down the
physica and moral energies of the peo
Pile; tore away the barriers that sepa-
rated them from the privileges of the
Constitution, and gave religious equal
ity to every man Ill the land (enthusi
astic applause.) This extraordinary
man, who ever stood upon the law, and
ever found some lever of the law to up
hold the sinking liberties of his country
| (hear, hear) who did by the weapon of
peace what no man before him accom-
plished by the sword; who showed the
world that mind was superior to mat
| ter. and that the true road to liberty lies
not through blood and carnage, but
through the agencies of enlightened
minds and benevolent hearts (applause).
This man, who stood between anarchy
on the one side and tyranny on the
other; who balanced the public mind,
raising it up when it was to be reused
against tyranny, and keeping it from
every wild outburst which might lead
to greater slavery than ever; whose
motto was, s'Obey, but demand your
rights; respect the rights of power. but
don't renounce your own; subordina-
ton always, but degradation. or mean
crouching, never" (great cheering( :;
who. if he were an enemy to open re-
sistance, was as great an enemy to pas
sive obedince, which leaves at the ty-
rants will the property, the honor, the
life of the subject, degrades him to the
condition of the brute, which is entire
ly at the disposal of him who possesses
it Cloud applause)-leayes him nothing
Of humanity but the form, in which no
longer is shadowed forth his divine or
igin or the dignity of his nature. This
man. who loved his God, and revered
his Mother, the Church, whose sole am
bition was to save and honor his coun-
try; within whose heart that loye OF
country, like ball of fire, burned out
every selfish consideration this noble
patriot. who. for his country's sake.
spurned the bench and spat upon til e
red cloth of Office that England would
throw around him (bursts of applause
this mighty man, the chosen king OF
seven millions of people. welding that
gigantic force as general does his
trained soldiers; who held such sway
over constituencies and municipalities.
monster meetings. assembiages Of thou
sands, whom lie gathered together with
the crookening of his finger. and dis
perSed with the waving of his hands
his words reslstless, for they were the
echoes of the hearts around him, infus-
ing the new spirit OF peace, order. vir-
tue and perseverance into the minds OF
the whole people, breathing a new life
into the whole body. and moulding its
loose and iarring elements into moral
beauty and power; this man, who made
the British Parliament tremble to its
centre, and who there Il may say alone)
bravely stood the target of six hundred
marksmen, ana made the Prime Minis
ter of England, with the power and the
wealth and the genius of Great Britain
at his back. reel and stagger, and eat
the barbed shafts of an eloquenee era
died in Ireland's mountains; this man.
whose name is not only sacred in the
liberty OF his country, but in the liberty
of man, and the fame of which viii be-
come wider and brighter as freedom
covers the earth and a slave is unknown
in the world, was cradled in the Amer
lean Revolution tremendous cheering)
for he was born on the 9th of August
1775; that memorable year in which
England received her death-blow in
this country Cloud cheering). and Amer
lea sprung into her glory from prov
ince into a nation. From that year,
this vast Republic of the U. Slater. the
rival of England and the friend of per-
secuted Ireland, dates her Independ-
ence.
The history of Ireland's struggle tor
liberty for half century. isis simply the
history of Daniel O'Connell. In him
were centred and fixed the hearts. the
hopes, the blessins of Ireland's millions
All the political movements of Ireland,
during that time. circled about him
He was the soul and center OF Irish pro-
gress. He formed and developed the
political opinions of Ireland. In him
the nation spoke. Ireland and O'Con-
nell they were body and soul. What
| were Ireland at that time without o.
Connell? and what We're O'Connel
without Ireland? OF the boyhood OF
Daniel O'Connell nothing very remark
able is related. After studying in col
leges in Belgium and France, where his
professors said, they were much miSta-
ken, or young Dan would yet fill large
space in the eye of the world. he re-
turned to Ireland. and, after the usua
course of study Of the law, he was call
ed to the bar in the Easter term of The
ever memorable year of 1898.
O'Connell, in his prudence and polit.
ical wisdom, did not join in the rebel
lion of '9S. He saw it would only leat
to an unavailing effusion of blood, ant
that it was hastened on by the govern.
ment. to take advantage of the confu
sion Of affairs, in order to rob IRELAND
of her Parliament, and destroy her ma
tiOnal existence. The crimes of the
government during that year were new.
er effaced from O'Connell's mind. Bu
he had to look, with a bleeding heart
on his country covered with the bloot
of her devoted heroes. He served hi
country, however, the best way that h
could, with that legal ability that Fla,
be, perhaps, equaled, but never sur
i. passed.
With that Wit sharp as pointed steel
he spoke and thundered with such force
vehemence and fire, as to make the cor
rupt Judges of that day blush and trem
BILE on their seats; conffning himself tt
his duties at the bar. but still watchin!
the first moment ofhis country's return
ing courage, to catch the spark as it em
anated, to nurse it into flame, until i
would overspread the land, and mel
down the brazen pillars of English as
l cendancy Qoud cheers.) At this time
, so far as political life was concerned
O'Connell may be compared to a rive
4 whose course was stopped, the waves o
t his honest anger collecting at the gates