The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-01-10
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rs, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUA
a similar cause in Chancery, or Queens Bench,
laughter which succeeded his witticisins and
jokes had not ceased to resound from the great
dome ere you might have heard him, If you fol-
lowed him behind the green-baize which sepa-
rated the courts from the hall. amid breathless
silence, unwinding the intricacies ofsome weigh
ty argument. Even the Crown had acknowledg
could not give him the silk gown of Queens
Counsellor, because of his religion, bestowed o
patent of precedence upon him which placed
him at the head of the Irish Bar. Coming with
the prestige derived from all these sources,
among the people Of Clare, it is hard at this day
to realize the enthusiasm he created, the depth
and strength of the love which the people laid
at his feet. When he stopped outside q village,
perhaps by the side of an old abbey wall, to ad-
dress the crowds that followed him, men, and
women, and children would actually stoop to
that they had lived to see, and touch and hear
him and he himself was so perfectly one with
them, that he was compelled to pause more
the tear which the wealth Of their unbought
and pure affection had brought to his eyes.
His speeches on these occasions were the an
fatherly, pathetic His large human sympa-
thies made him at home with every audience.
If the people were poor, and had proud and
eXacting landlord, whose forbearance the poor
creatures would win only by the most abJect
submission, his task was difficult and trying.
In such cases he would lament that the neces-
sity arose for his coming amongst them but he
trusted in God, to whom he babe his hearers
look up to, to overcome for them al the conse-
guenccs of inevitable duty. He would point to
the abbey built by holy men, who, rather than
subscribe to a faith they abhorred, left the
affairs they reared; and the quiet cloisters, and
| the tranquil studies which they loved, to wan
der poor, and naked and solitary, over strange
and distant lands. .'Their bodies have perish
ed, but not their principles" he would say !;
% and their sanctitied spirits are looking down
upon and shall rejoice if you, too, are found
ready to sacrifice all tor God and your country S
sake" The country people returning from gum
or Newmarket, or Fergus to SiN-mle bridge or
Kiikethcn, would be met by their neighbofs as
they entered the village, and stopped TIL they
should tell over all the counsellor had said and
done. The enthusiasm he excited became !,
contagion. The peasantry threw off their ale
! glance to their landlords. They carried away
with them those priests whom interest of some
| kind or other, private friendship, had bound
to Fitzgerald. Labor was everywhere suspend
ed. The village schoollnasters shut up the
| schoolhouses and began to write ballads, which
they sent to certain printers in Limerick, who
gave them out ut small charge to ballad-sing,
ers, who swarmed over Glare from all the sur,
rounding counties. Many OF these ballads mad
a long existence. '.The Shan Van Noucht,'
| /" The Peeler and the Coat" Rise up, ye
Brunswickers, bundle and 60" Some OF these
are sung at the present day. Factlon-nSnts
| hurlin q matches, all were abandoned; and II
has been often said that for the three week'
| du,ipr which the preparation and the contest
| lasted not one man in Clare was even accused
| of any crime which made him amenable to the
laws of the land. H.
Fitzgerald now began to entertain tnos'
doubts which agitated O'Connell few day
before O'ConnelFs entry into Ennis was III
unexampled ovation. The trades OF the towi
purchased, at their own cost, new and beauti
full 81 k banners, on which were inscribed man.
|, a rallying cry often used since:
" Heredjtary bondsmen, know Ye not
Who would be free ,
ION our side is virtue and Erin;
On theirs is the Saxon and guilt
We tread the land that bore us.
/, The green flag flutters DER us;
{ The friend we've tried
: Is by side,
And the foe we hate before us, -
! were some of these many were in the vernaeu
, lar Celtic 10000 men, it has been calculated
: marched with O'Connell into Ennis. MS cal
= riaoe was drawn by O body of men told-oh fo
. thai Office Bands of music, in some instance
. consisting of pipers and violinists only, mac
= believe to play, the tramp OF the immense niu
a | titude which filled the road across, anu the
:, shouts and huzzas, the chorus of their song
= which rent the air, making it lmpossiDie
q hear note of the music. After the two ,
. three carriages which followed oConhell
:, came a long line of carts-farmers' carts, q
a which feather beds and quilts had been lal
Il where ole men and the women and chilu[eh
i families took their part in a display winch WI
q never to be forgotten. ,.o,,,o
n There were about 1000 men on horseDac
- MANY of whom had come from the-ad3oihiI
~ counties. and marshals with green sashes roc
= along the, line to keep order. Certainly, mn
"a body of men was never seen. 1t was suhihe