The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-05

lung fish at his head, crying; ELL t,
tb par soui, We ioni-monthed villain, get cut O.
sne market or III brain YET Did mortal ma,
ever near an honest woman called nv sI,ci
infamous names before ~
ooenneiHs opponents, who had been speota.
! tors OF the scene, laughingly confessed tint M
4 bad won the wager. -
OConnell did some wonderful things during
| US. MS iegaI career. 1t Is not generally known
Hnat Wneh ne retlred from the bar. to assume
the national leaaership in yrs,an,i ~, was earn
: AnS ron Thousand pounds fifty thousand s,aId.
len dollars) year. He had been offered nv
IN. Inc Melbourne government the easy post of
MASTER OF the Rolls, with splendid salary. and
with the promise of an immediate promotion
TO the Chief Justice of the Queens Bench.
But he refused the tempting OFFS icL
proves that, no matter bow men may disap-
prove OF portions of his political career he
was an honest lover of Ireland I know soma
things about him which shall tell presently.
wh h; few other men know; and they are ali
When the great Irish Tribune Law dead In
Genoa, the Times, of London, wrote q spitefili
ana contenptuous memoir of him, In which Ii
assersed thas ", as lawyer he was almost below
contempt. The meanness and spitefu1ness of
such an article, following fast on the death Of
y lhe great old man, are indescribable The fell
low low, who wrote It had the instinct Of seoun
3FeI IN his heart. But where did O,Connell
md MS defenderg In the London Mor4i,,g
Herald, the Tory organ which had nniiinchi,ig-
assalled I'm through all his political ifie
it !. sa als something to this effect:
-. we have eYer opposed this man, bri4 ms
tice must ne done to the dead. 40 say 'tfIag lie
was not great lawyer u M qE lie
And It Is etitfons 1ssct thar fss ia fJsl i.s6SE
beautiful eufogi1lns written on his isiefla3 i fe
from the pens of two of ais political adverse
ries, Lord Lytten, formerly Sir Edwards Bul-
wee Lytton,@ and England,s late Premier. Rem
Jamin Disraeh. 5 49, 80
Z Rnt to go back to his lawyerly faculties; his
skl,l N cFoss-examination. was uneqaaled. He
took the measure of doubtful witness imme-s
diately ana the way he unset some of these
creatures seemed actually the result of inspira.
ton In a celebrated viii case, where the
question at issue was the authenticity of tho
dead mans signature, he noticed that the but
ler OF the deceased, in reply to counsel who
asked what was the testatoris condition when
he signed the wall, answered more than once
Tho life was in him. 20
q O'Connell rose to cross-exarnine aud fixinp-
tiiht terrible eye of his on the Witness he said:
You have sworn that the life was in him ?"
" fc--yes,' stammercd tho Witness 4
"Qn the virtue IF your oath sir is IL not the
truth that living fly had been nut into the |
dead mans mouth, when his hand was dra gget
over the paper to write that signaturet =, I
Inc miserable cTeature, trembling from head
to loot, confessed that this was so, and O. Con-
nells clients won the case.
IN the case of the Doueraile Conspiracy
(so-calledt he was engaged ct the last -Four
while taking holiday at Derrynane Several |
of the prisoners had been already convicted
aud sentenced. but rs 0'Conneil strobe into |
Court counsel for the
ing the bench. - ~ 4sz4sa-z=5z- |
. MY lord he shouted, to the amazelnent of !
the whole court, that's no law
Then he came forward, apologizea for the in |
terruption, explained that he had travelled all /
night from Cahirciveen, on the Kerry coast, /
and asked for some moments delay, TIL he Il
should get little refreshment. The said 80 lit
tie refreshnlent consisted of vast bowl Of !
warm milk and bread sealed2if Then I}ai1
went in for his work gl0rzousfy, extiuguished1
Long J aok o Doherty," who WAS eventually I
Chief Justice OF the Qneen's Beach 4 and the I
batch he defended were acquitted. sss.r |
But he lad remarkably good fortune as we'll /
as ability. heard Cardinal Wisemnn, at one
of his receptions IN Golden Square, London,
(where his eminence then resided, } tell q curl
GUS story of one great success he made. 1t was
a case of water rights by no means unfre-
quent cause of litigation in Ireland; and as
we'll as remember, the trial took place Mt the !
assises in tho city Of Waterford. II had
reference to q river and mill-race in III
thiRk> the More Tho weir was what is called |
ir@s T reFftGE WHERE 'ns U@p p 6sys
taking advantage of the modern English |
meaning of the word lax, contended that it
nell's clients maintained that the weir had
never been an open one. In the midst of this
dispute the erierD Of the court pointed his
rod at the great lawyer, at the split end Of
opened the paper and read
Your opponents are altogether wrong. This
is not an open weir, but a Salmon weir. The
word Tar LgeE, laclts signifies sal
mon. Consult the Copenhagen dictionary in
the city library aud you will find all you want
thereG H. r
On this hint o'Connon won his case and for
further confirmation of the truth OF the infor-
nation he received, Ionly ask my American
reader to consult his nearest copy Of Noah
Webster.
0'ConneH did al he could to hunt.up the
man who had set him on the right track and
enabled him to win his case bat he could
never find any trace of him.
He sometimes got hard hit from some of
even his most ardent admirers.
E g wonder, sir said Tom 8Ieagher to him
Que day in Consolidation Hall, what are all