The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-01-10

row streets of the town of Ennis and round it, |
from almost every house young children or well
dressed women show cred bouquets and wreaths
queror who had been decreed n triumph receiv-
ed with such enthusiasm. When, after the |
days excitement had ended, he entered Carmo-
dy's Hotel, wearied of JOY, and passed from the /
carriage through the way which those friends
who remained always nearest his person made
for him, to the parlor, whore, with q nice APP
pared for himself alone, he took Father Dan
Lynch into the room with him, and nOdding to
the friends outside, who wished he should be
left uninterrupted, shut the door.
"Dan" said he, you are a true man and q
true priest give God thanks for the glory and
the success He has given our cause to-day; m
follow your words"
And so, kneeling ut the window before the
closed blinds, did these good men breathe their
gratitude to Heaven, and pray for it's contin-
ued protection. Years q ter, when the papers
announced that the Chief Justiceship of the
| GUmmon Pleas and the Mastership of the Rolls
were offered to OConnell for his choice and ac-
ceptance of either-as they no doubt were
only Father Lynch knew how vain were those
offers of dignity and emolument, and that
! Q'Connell had concluded the Thanksgiving at
ways enable him to resist all offers Of emoIument
| or dignity from any English Government, and
let him live and die the faithful servant of the
people whose great love he truly reciprocated.
The night following O'Connell's triumphant
entry into the capital of Glare, the streets of
Ennis and the roads around the town exhibit
ed strange spectacle. Under arcliways or on
the doorsteps of houses, or on the flags close to
the wall, where the flags were broad enough,
in the town, outside it on the pathways or
! grassy banks which skirted the roads, the
weary multitudes bivouacked. Some of these
men had conc from Tualngraney, Scaritf, Xii.
laloe, OBren's Bridge, Carrigahot, towns,
villages and parishes thirty miles away, at
tended, in numerous instances, by their wives,
daughters mothers, who had, with provfdent
forethou ght, brought little culinary matters
a kettle, perhaps, and Il mug or two-with
them Here the females waited on the men,
and IL little oaten cake and butter brought
from home. and 'the cup that cheers but not
inebriates." made haplX conclusion OF the
DAYS fatigues. In no instance i'll his entire
| career did O'Conncli exhibit more wise precau-
ton than in requiring from the men OF Clare,
and making his wishes universally known, that
| no man should taste spirituous liquors of any
kind during the election. LIN no instance did
he prove his singular power over the masses
more perfectly. Old, young and middle-aged
obeyed him. Not only IL total abstentlon
from into xcating drinks observed, but 1t is an
uncontro verified fact that, during this memoir
able contest, in which almost all the male popu-
lation of Glare above the age OF boyhooa TOOK
n part not one arrest was made not one allie
CATION of improperly against any one OF these
people was made by the Government party:
But this self-control and moderation demanded
by OConnell were essential to his success. The
landlords remained faithful to Fitzgerald, and
nettled by the new-sprung opposition they en-
countered from those whom they looked upon
, rs mere dependents and serfs, would have been
glad to take advantage of any preteNt Tor ven,
, geance, even though the bayonet and the PAL
should be used and innocent blood shoulo now
, And they had made every preparation, ana the
, | Government had lent them its ala, TO teacr
the rebels lesson" A large force of horse
foot and artillery was placed under canvas III
mediately outside Ennis, on the rising grounds
on the left of the road to the town OF Clare
The new mail-car road since made runs throngi
the fields then occupied by this camp, whict
then stood in the centre of the town OF Ennis
Gen. Sir John Milley Doyle commanded th'
little army, which was placed at the dlsposa
of the magistracy of the county, that Is, o
Fitzyerald's party. Contested elections haV'
taken place in Clare since; and we nave seer
how an agent of one of the candidates, Col
= Vandeleur, brought soldiers to the village o
. Six-mile-bridge one of the polling places, 10
;, "a he alleged protect his men; and how TIM
r agent, who was also a magistrate, ordered TIL
8 soldiers to fire upon the people, seventeen o
q whom were shot down, the majority bein
l. killed Taking that fact as a sample OF VIVA
r n landlords agent can do in Ireland with IN
nunitv. and with the aid of the law and tn
~ | authorities we can the better measure tn
" gravity of the task undertaken by oConnell
q 1S2S the chivalry and national spirit OIL TN
N noble people of Clare, and the moral force {
L. the obtained victory. -,
4 The nomination of candidates took Piac
a next day Steele and O'Gorman Mahon, wv
landed proprietors of Clare, proposed an
k seconded OConnell. They We're the only me
~ of the landlord class in Ireland who had Jolne
le O,Connelps Catholic Association They WEI
err Young men, not perhaps above four or hve an
r twenty years age, and enthusiastic ADMIRE
T. of O'Connel.