The New York herald., 1875-08-24
A Very Serious Danger Mar
rowly Escaped.
ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION.
Ecclesiastical Influence Weakened and Eng
lands Fears Of the Effect.
INTERVIEW WITH UCONNOR POWER, M. P.

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danger of another furious outbreak "How was this
danger indicated 9' you will naturally ask superdcay
no very extraordinary agitation was visible. The
oConnen festival passed of bloodlessy, at least in
Dublin There was some bad temper, to be The
eminent Cullen and the lordy Mcswiney on the one
side, and Messrs Butt Sullivan, Nagle, Downing Co.
the other side, not the most loving people IN
the world Cardinal Cullen, they say, blessed his
opponents every hour in the day, your true church
man should while Butt Co. never tired of speaking oil
His Eminence in the most endearng terms during the
very height OF the excitement IL is true that during
the procession the coal porers assaulted the amnesty
carriage bearing the banner which we're inscribed
the significant words " Remember the prisoners in
chains" 1t is true that later in the day the traces OF
the amnesty carriage by order Of somebody
the McSwney side OF the controversy. is also true
that at the end Of the procession the amnesty people
petely retaaod and outgenealled the McSwiney side
by taking possession Of the platform Carlisle Bridge
and preventing the official programme from being carried
out Ii is again that the Centenary banquet was
broken up in what might be termed an extraordinary
peaceful by uproarious call for Butt when the
OF the Legislative Independence Of Ireland" was
announced by the Lord Mayor, who, consistently
enough, opposed any infringement of the official pro
gramme But what did all these amount toS There
was not a single blow struck. No knocked
WHERE, THEN WAS THE pASeERS
will tell you where it was In the first place, Eng
land does understand the yearnings Of the Irish
people for home rule Nor do Americans, foreign
generally. There is impression outside OF
Ireland that all the talk and excitement about homo
rute are mere empty sound and idle hectorng the
part of certain class Of political adventurers like
Butt who at time a deadly foe to every
tional movement, like Sullivan, who say is
coquetting with the government to procure
some snug position for life, like many another
''lrish patriot" who lived before him. l do not
say this as representing my opinion Of either Butt
or Sullivan, OF whom know nothing personally. The
former looks somewhat like the late Horace Greeley
possessing the same honest and benevolent expression
of countcnance and they do say, talking in the
dreadfuy frank and reckless fashion for which the
Sage of Chappaqua remarkable. He is a good,
ready speaker If not orator; but gather from all
learn that he is lacking in the elements Of great
leader He has neither the force the brains to com
mand the attention of great nation hold in
sonable check the most exctabe people in the world
excepting the French Never was the match
less power Of O'Conuen over this people more beaut
fully and truthfuly expressed than by Lord o'Hagan
in his undeiyered oration, wherein he says that 1t
the Liberators great aim keep Ireland profoundly
submissive the laws yet morally ungovernable; to
stir depths the passion of the people, and yet
make them shrink from violence and outrage"
A SECOND ocoSNELL WANTED
Butt has not that power He is popular because he
represents whether sincerely no principle deeply
imbedded in the Irish heart That is all Were some
boder and more reckless leader up
and tell the people that the road to home rule be
cleared with cannon and musketry could no moro
check the storm that would follow than could straw
resist the force Of tornado Sullivan who has
forced his way to prominence by skful man@uvring
and suave They like him in London because he
is polite They listen him in the Commons because he
generally talks sense and also and chiefly because he
is so consderate ofothers But he is only Of those
people who must follow popular movement not head
it guide it, shape it for his his country's
good In truth there in Ireland competent to
the task Of real leader Where, then, is the danger?
THE PERIL WITH WEAK LEADERS.
In that very fact The peril always where leaders
do not exist to check and control popular movements
Look at the first French Revolution and look at the
Communistic rebeionl Would there have been SO
much blood and outrage had there existed real
and leader to put himself at the head Of eitherG
Clearly not II was because there were too many weak
men, too many mediocres and of commanding
ability that anarchy ruled and ndscrimnate slaughter
ensued No one can deny that there was some good
underlying both movements-even the FIRST French
Revolution. But how the good swallowed up
the evil
HISTORY APT TO REPEAT ITSELF.
say is because there great leader in Ireland
that danger exists and very nearly developing
unpleasant fashion during the late O'Conne celebra-
zion.
These home rulers and Fenian apostles con
sfanty preaching about the wrongs of Ireland They
nsidously teaching the people that the foe
to their freedom is not England but the Catholic
fruit the ungody doctrines Of Voltare Rousseau
and their fellows France The people beginning
TO believe that the priests are very good beacons in
Of religion but when il politics they
be trusted they false lights more apt
lure them to rocks and quicksands than into har-
Dor OF safety. The consequence s too that this
Trajectory teaching is bringing up good many young
Irshmen as absolute freothinkcrs sconers and scep-
tics about everything but the central idea that
Ireland should be free Young Ireland is very
much like Young France just before the first Rev
olution.
YOUNG IRELAND rScENsED AT PRrEsTLY DrcTATIoN
Consequently when the home rulers lately raised tho
cry that the priests headed by Cardinal Cullen. had
taken hold of the oConnen celebration and had resolved
10 make il purely Catholic demonstration, Young Ire
land became deeply agitated Secret meetings were
held in Ireland, England and Scotland, and II re-
solved that an outrage" would not be tolerated.
Cardinal Cullen and Lord Mayor Mcswuey laughed at
the opposition. Perhaps they did not hear until too
late OF the decproocd hostility their scheme make
the celebration ultramontane as possible whether
or not 70 be undoubted fact that many Of
young Ielanders both here and In Scotland and England
determined 10 be at the celebration with concealed arms
on their persons, resolved If need be- to carry.their
point the dead bodies Of their opponents Had
single shot been fred the day Of the procession
Heaven only knows whero the thing would have ended
Had o'Hagan persisted in attempting TO deliver the
GRAFTON Of the day be would have been torn from the
stand and. The imagination OH up wha
might have followed This is sketching Of fancifu
plot but the outline Of plan actually resolved upon
THS APPRKHENSoSs M'swNEY.
II appears that The day after the procession Cardina
Cullen beard Of this plot Like good priest, b
undoubtedly is, be Immediately visited Lord Mayo