The union Democrat., 1869-01-30

Election OF Eenina Mayor of Cork.

The Town Council Of Cork unanimously
elected, November lst. Alderman Daniel
O'Sallivan as Mayor Of that city for the en-
suing year. The selection Of Mr.. O'Sullivan
was only, says the Cork Herald, compliance
with the popular voice, which demanded that
the man who had been Superseded as a j. p.
| by the Government for having acknowledged
| his substitution to the fund for the families
Of the executed Manchester Fenians should
be elected to the ofiice of Chief Magistrate of
Cork. Mr.. 0sSulivan. in returning thanks,
went at length into the story of lreland's OPP
preston by Eagland.eS Referring to. .the~with-
| drawal from him Of the Commission Of the
| Peace, he said
| Our tellcw-countrymen, YOU remember,
were executed at Manchester. No doubt
England thought she had a perfect right to
do that deed. But | say lrishmen-indepen-
dent lrlshmen-are just as much entitled to
the same right Of entertaining their opinions
and expressing them on their sail as English
men on English soil. Hear, hear 1t is
! DOT because one country is far more powerful
than another--it is not because she has re-
timed that power for some time-that she is
to crush the weaker nation and although
she may crush the weaker nation, the weaker
nation is not bound to acknowledge that the
stronger nation is right. Cheers. We are
divided from England by 60 miles of
NJ. Nagle-A melancholy ocean. Laugh
ter.
No. SallirGR-Yet the Irishman has lust
as good right to live on Irish soil as the En-
glshman has on his, or the Frenchman on
French soil. Hear. After the execution of
our three fellow-eountrymen in Manchester
one or two papers in this country-tLe
Consultation and the MgH-which represent
the conquerors of the country, thought fit to
find fault with donation of mine toward the
families of poor fellows. These journals
the Constitution and the Ndil-what are
they. | ask you? What do they represent :?
They represent the Cromwellian conquest in
the country Hear, hear. What right have
these journals to dictate to us as 20 whether
we should give or should not give any
thing to these poor families of our unfortun-
ate countrymen who were wrongly murdered
Hear, hear. What right have they to ask
us why we should give to these families any
of our money! Hear. What right have
journals representing these opinions in this
country to dictate to the Irish nation
Hear. They are no portion Of the Irish
nation-they merely represent the conquest
of the Irish nation. Hear. hear.
p o. O'Sullican-They are paid for their ad-
Nocdcy AppiauSe.
ID. O. Sullirdn-I answered the letter sen.
to me from the Castle, and the Lord Chancel-
lor considered it necessary to deprive me of
the commission of the peace. l can tell the
Lord Chancellor to-day, and | am delighted
to tell him in this council-and I am very
glad to be in n position to tell him-that |
have been elected Mayor of this great city.
notwithstanding his opinions. Applause. I
| would ask the Lord Chancellor what does
he represent in Ireland? Nothing but En-
glish opinion in this country He does not
represent Ireland at all. You in clecting me
as Mayor, represent the opinion of Ireland.
Applause. But the Lord Chancellor of
Dublin Castle Kisses and the Lord Lieu
tenant of Dublin Castle great kissing =
who refused to listen to the voice of the Irish
nation renewed kissing merely represent
the opinion of England in Ireland But you,
gentlemen of the City of Cork, in electing me,
represent the opinion. l believe, firmly, the
opinion of the Irish nation. Applause.
The Mayor proceeded to say that he hoped
brighter days were in store for the country
that he believed Bright and Gladstone were
desirous of doing Justice and that he trusted
the Irish Church question would be soon
solved, and that good remedial measures
would follow and that Ireland would be
elevated to her proper position. He sat down
amid reiterated rounds of applause.
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