The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-02
Getting Scorched.

Who has not heard of William Goblet,
the author of the " History of the Referma-
ton ~ One of the clever things he said was
to foretell to the Irish in 1926, In twenty
years the potato will become etfete In your
islaud." Like Cassandra he was not lis
tened to, but the very year ms prophecy
fell due the poor people beheld with dismay
how the potato was more than effete. An
other clever saying of his was to O,Connell
on his entrance to Parliament: Ian, see
that your wings do not get scorched:
There is warning in the words to all pubic
men. Cobbett had been private SOLDIER,
and rose not in the army list, but to pc one
of the foremost men in Great Britaln, and
to take his place among the senator's OF the
land. Here he was surrounded with genius,
rank, culture, wealth, refinement, all or
which had been brought to bear like so
much temptation on the incorruptiblc man
of the people. Unlike the moth that flies
in narrowing circles around candle till it
gets sucked into the little maelstrom OF
light, Cobbett saw the danger and in turn
put O'Connell on his guard. O>Connell
needed the warning. Not so his kindsman,
O'Donohae, who thirty years after entered
Parliament with prospect before him
such as few young men have had. He was
then the best looking officer at Aldershott,
and few cared to joke him on his Kerry
extraction. His maiden speech was
splendid success. Even the Prince OF
Wales came down to the house to hear him.
He made some clever hits, while YEP he
met them warm and young with all his
truth about him. He next attracted the
public notice by challenging Robert Peel,
| then the Secretary for Ireland. Peel
showed the white feather. Then old Pal
merston got around the O'Donohue, ex-
plantations followed, Pam got Peel out or
the clutches of the Irish tire-eater WITH
some loss of prestige to Peel as duelist
but with a whole skin. 1t was then the
Irish people warmed up to the young
patriot, proclaimed him their coming man.
| and we're about freeing the Kerry estate,
encountered with debt. 1t appears at this
point of his career he had got dazzied with
the glare of popularity: once faimerston,
patriot with his Basilisk eyes, he deter
mined to have him, and succeeded, for after
wards his voting was rather equiyocai. HIS
descent from deep to lower deep was rapid,
aud those who remember the great amnesty
meeting at Dublin, 300, 600 strong, must
also remember the whitening dennhclaVl""1
of the Bayard of Irish politicians, George
| Harry Moore, on the now contemplate
O'Donohue. Since then we have lost slght
| of him. till on Thursday night last we
| found him in the House of Com mons, de-
nouuciug the honest Home Rulers, whose
shoes lie is not worthy to black cSlhDS
them all that be was himself. His oratoTy
is now mean, for how can a man be eio-
ouent when he has nothing to De eio-
Guent on Z To tell what he has come to we
| need but say that the Home Rulers were
beaten, ass to 6I, and that O'Donohue was
ably supported by the man whom oDon-
ohue's kinsman called the leneal descenuenT
of the impenitent thief. We would not SOIL
eur columns by the wretched mans name'
but it serves to show the base uses men
NAV be brought to by vanity and the Prlde
of iife.-LouisuilLe Catholic AdUocats.