The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-05
From Our Own Correspondent
DupL1N, September II, 1873.
OUR IRISH LETTER

The O'Donoghue yesterday visited his con.
stituents in Tralee, aud the event has created se
may say, throughout the,whoie country; for
there is no place In all ireland where the most
desire does not szst to sec snsh ont nf
parliamentary life. He had made elaoorats
preparations for this tremendous step. First,
he made stealthy visit to the place .;s rev
Then he got up last week meeting IN XII
larney to protest against the manner in which |
he had been ATTACKED ~ Sne ans ala Ida bi
good in the world, but harm; for no one at |
tended the meeting but q few persons---butch-
ers bakers and % w nna by he ni9
they know, until he gets sa&ary from the
government. Next, he sent two men into Ira
Mems Reading to play him into the town or at
ali events to stand neutral in the contest; but
this likewise was failure, for his emissaries
place from which they came. All his efforts
to secure good reception for himself in Ira
Lee having come to nought, one would imagine
the attempt to visit the town. But, it has
turned out, he really seems to have thought
that he had only to show himself to the people
vivSa. he aooordingiy aent word BY Telegraph
or letter to his few friends i'm Tralee to meet
him on "wednesday OF the railway station, and
from fro Killarney, bringing With him hired
mob. The plan was for both sets Of symPa-
thizers to cheer him on stepping out of the
shat regular auH ovastons awaited HIM The cheer
was raised, but IL only served to call forth at
once tho hostile action of about three-fourtbs
ghue and his party were not Ave minutes
Cheering each other when they were regularly
surrounded by a multitude which drowned
their cheers by their hootings and yells and
threatened to infct personal chastisement on
the fallen chieftain and his followers. Indeed,
have heard that the ODonoghue was struck
k1,,k Id II nnf
mako o long story short, he and his friends bad
at last to be escorted to hotel by an armed
force of police. After short time he appeared
at one of the windows and 1t was announced
that he was going to speak. Then it was tn NJ
the shouting, hooting yelling, catcailins c"Gt-
menced in earnest. The roar was almost deaf Il.
epinp, and his opponents had the street all to
thennSeIves For an hour he stood at the vim
dow scanning the howliug multitude, and dur
ing that time not one single wora WORD o ne spI he
side him. The speech he intended to deliver
he handed in manuscript to the reporters, ana
before allude to it let me just ade InaG n 4
yentured out into the street to canvass put
although protected by pohce, lie ala not care
to enter the house of a single voter. ANA nov
for his updeliyered speech. me nase senS s6s
the yyay ha was received. 1.-THE reception yor
have given to me to-day is tho most. cheering
NOT strike such passage as this out of hi
manuscript can account for only on the sup
position that he was temporarily carried GU
OF his senses Dy Cn0 lL0AtnOu1 u WV
He wrote them, probably expecting that
would have some ground for them; ana ca
well imagine him rehearsiug them Tor seVeEa
nights and days opposite looking glass. 70
the reader must know that this curious perso
ia about the vainest of his kind. myself ea7
him one night some three years ago in Irnlet
rehearsinR q speech which he was to delve
that niuhT at a banquet of the Agriculture
society which the Lord Lieutenant was TO a.
tend. He was standing opposite LOOKING
glass in o window of the very hotel frol
Which he in vain attempted to address the pei
Die Yesterday, and every now and then IN To
midst of his Eesticulstions he would put n
his hand to smooth down or turn up o look
hair or to even his beard, or to arrange
necktfe or collar coat 1t was really vel
IanChable, considering that he was mau
some forty summers and of some ten or fftee
wears of public life. But to return to b
sneech. After thanking the people for 7
cention he never got, he proceeded to repe
his previous declaration that he had acte
bonestly in everything he had done. Then
entered on an attack on John Martin-tl
nnrest patriot and gentlest man probably
The world Mr. Martin recently wrote a lett
to a Tralee newspaper pointing out nc
ODono0hue was once an ardent naClonall'
O,DonoGhue in his speech replies by characte
izing John Martins conducS IN the h1use
Commons Is ridiculous. de cockSd nitnS ~
up in the gallery amongst the giris' saio u
foui-mouthed fellow, " instead Oh Young
1noat important qpestions"-an ahuslon 70 =
Martins well-knoEn resolutlon-p[oclSS.tu
openly by him before he was ele cted IoT nee I:
to recoRniz6 the legality OF EDBu