North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-07-06
WHOLE No. 7l6.
O'COnnell on Disraell.

O'Connell on Disraeli.
As the name of the distinguished author
of "Lothair" is now upon the lips Of most
every person in England and America, it
may be interesting to our readers to know
What Daniel O'Connelrs opinion of him
was.
The provocation.. for the following bitter
extract from speech delivered at Taun-
ton about 80 years ago, was furnished by
some remarks of Disraeli in the course of
which he alluded to O'Connell as traitor
and an incendiary. The great orator, ris-
ing in his wrath to the full majesty of Irish
invective, thus replied:
This miscreant had the audacity to style
me an incenaiary. Why, l was greater
ncendiary in 1881 than am at present,
if ever 1 were one-and if am, he is
dosbly SO for having employed me. Then
he calls me traitor. My answer to that
is, he is liar. He is q liar in action and
in words. His life is living lie. He is
IA disgrace to his species. What state Of
society must that be that can tolerate such
IA creature-havipg the audaeity to come
forward with one set of principles at one
time. and obtain political assistance by
reason of those principles, and at another
to profess Numerically the reverse2 His
life, l say again is living lie. He is the
most degraded Of his species and kind =
and England is degraded in tolerating, or
having upon the face Of her society, a mis-
sreant of his abominable, foul and atroci.
Gus nature. My language is harsh, and l
owe an apology for it, but will tell you
why l owe that apology. 1t is for this rea-
son, that if there be harsher words in the
British language l should uso them, be-
cause it is the harshest Of all terms that
would be descriptive of wretch of this
species. He is just the fellow for the Con.
servative Club l suppose if Sir Robert
Peel had been cut of the way when he was
called upon to take Office, this fellow wo'd
have undertaken to supply his place. He
has falsehood enough, depravity and d..self.
ishness enough to become the fitting lead.
er of the Conservatives. He is conserva-
tism personiied. His pane shows him BY
descent Jew. His father became con-
vert. He is better for that in this world !;
| hope, of course, he will be better for it
in the next There is a habit of underra-
ting that great and oppressed nation-the
Jews. They are cruelty prosecuted by per-
sons calling themselves Christians but 40
person ever yet was Christian who per-
secuted. The cruellest persecution they
suffer is upon their character, by the foul
names which their calumniators bestowed
upon them before they carried their atroc.
tiles into effect. They feel the persecut'n
Of calumny severer upon them than the
persecution of actual force, and the tyran.
ny of actual torture. haye the happi-
ness to be acquainted with some Jewish
families in London, and amongst them
more. accomplished ladies, or more hu-
name, cordial, high minded, or better edu-
catad gentlemen, l have never met. 1t
will not be supposed, therefore, when I
speak of Disrael as the descendant of a
jew, that mean to tarnish him on that
account. They were once the chosen peo-
pie of God. There were miscreants among
them, also, and it must certainly have been
from one of those that Disraeli descended.
lie possesses just the qualities of the i'm
penitent thief who died upon the cross,
whose name, ! verify believe, must have
been Disraeli. For aught l know, the
present Disraeli is descended from him -
and with the impression that he is, now
forgive the heir-at-law of the blasphemous
thief who died upon the cross.
Pith And Point.
"How long can fool live ?" asked q
lawyer of witness. II don't know" re-
piled the witness. How old are you ?'
"That charming woman and myself are
in sympathy with each other," "How
so, my dear fellow?'' swell hate her
husband, and she hates him too.''
"Why, Charley, am surprised to see
you making faces at your mother ~
Charlie Frightened up at once, and retort-
ed, "Why calculated to laugh, but,
mamma, my face slipped"
"Jenny," said q landlady to her help,
the other morning, "Jenny, was there
any fire in the kitchen last night, while
you were sitting upr' ''Only just a
spark, ma'am," was the reply. The
landlady looked suspiciously at Jenny,
but the innocent girl went on scrubbing,
and humming "Katy Darling.
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