The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-29

poet, the scathing wit of the orator, to the
wretched torture of some unfortunate
to daughter holding both his Sides" 1t
was Charles James Fox-upon whom our
cultivated Governor lectured 50 admirably
the other night-who pronounced Sheri-
dan "the Whilst man be ever met" horne
Tooke said of Curran's wit, sit was mine
of virgin gold necessarily crumbling away
from its own richness.D Then from this
unrippled sea of music, verse, and 'mirth,
I come to the majestic heaving ocean, sos
sing and foaming in it's might, to that
realm where the voice of the great orator
is lifted up-where the s..,.
POWER OF GoDLIKE ELoaUENcE
hold sway. The power Of eloqaencei
not brimmed with hope or thrilled
with keen delightf Its voice is in the |
storm and in the Tyre its home the pas |
sion haunted soul of man Ii throttiea
treason in the marble isle !t unmasks
murder in the face of morn! 1t rends the
midnight veil from the torch and knife 1t
lit the eyes of Patrick Henry when ne
raised aloft the plumes OF liberty which
sprang from patriot tears as beauty from the
sea foam, and waved them high, I'LL IN the
crimson front of war they flashed and
dropped not till our banded states were
free It found it's sovereign in those great
men we honor tonight, who held In their
voices the keys to human hearts--those
colossi among their kind, swko so emblaz
| oned their names in the memories OF the
Irish people that no change, no time can
| erase them-those names which glitter In
letters of living Are upon Ireland's por-
tails, whose mention still summons, not To-
Irishmen only, bat to the world, visions OF
| victories won in, the cause of human righte,
| visions, of the grandest of all victories
the triumph of genius over injustice.
nell, She'll, Plunket and Phillips T. What
q group of men to gather around one ma
ton and call her mother! Sheridan was q
wonder. 1t was on the third charge
against Warren Hastings that he made his
most wonderful speech.
AS high as fifty guineas were offered to
obtain O seat to hear him. For five and q
half hours he commanded the wonder and
admiration of the House. His fellow-mem-
bers were startled aud spell boand by the
clearness of his logic, the flashes of his Wit,
and the splendors of his rhetoric. That
other great Irishman, Burke, declared it to
be "the most astounding piece of eloquence,
argument, and wit united, of which there
was any record or tradition" Fox said
"that all he had ever heard, all he bad
ever read, when compared with it, dwindled
, into nothing. and vanished like vapor be-
, fore the sun ~
Blazing in beauty like beacon light,
Burke's eloquence always pointed the way
. of safety to his countrymen. 1t was Burke
whose orations are full of material for the
!, would be Statesman of to day. Would &c
/ God they would read them 1t was Burke
r who first dared to propose that the CALLING
woke of subsection to the British king
t should be stricken from American shoulders
f. and we stand out in Gods sunlight free
i and untrammelled men. By his whitening
+ invective, his rhetorical splendors, hi
vivid painting, his narrowing descriptions
of Hastings crimes in that great trial, hs
, actually so shattered the frame and palsiet
e the strength of the accused that he wa
. entirely overwhelmed by it, and in describ
! ing the scene afterwards eaid "For owe
! an hour looked at the orator In yer!
y reverie of wonder, and actually felt mysel
= to be the most cuipabie man on earth"
Here was one of the effects of Irish clio
= Quence. Gentlemen, these ere but tlco O
! the great group we are honOring. lean bu
= glance at the others they are almost a
il glorious. There was the fiery and impet
- uousI Grattah, who moves in the heat of tn
- mental conflict "With all his country bea m
. ing in his face" whose eloquence was
y combination of "clOud, whirlwind, an
fame" How beautiful his reply, hot
,. worthy of patriot, when during his las
illness his physician declared to him b
would imperiI his life if he spoke again i
g Parliament, which he was anxious to ado
r. 81 should be happy to die in the dischSrg
a of my duty"
a. CURRAN. e
l. There was the daring and delightful Gu
70 ran-the very impersOnation of the rsE
8 orator, whose ''eye glowed like Twin
GOALS" who carried his hearers with b
10 tenderness and pathos into food of tear
In or made the walls resound with shouts {
t. uproarious laughter. Pouring out hi
re- invective like stream of lava, he infiame
le almost to madness the minds of his country
In men by q recital of their wrongs" and
r, would take hours to relate the wonderf1
I'd stories told of his transcendent powers. T
I'd this day the memory of Curran and his vi
l is treasured among his cOhntrymen wit
z the same alteration the mother feels for he
ID darling boy. How beautiful and thriliin
BIT his apostrophe to liberty He said: "
p speak in the spirit of the British law whic
~ makes liberty commensurate with and In
n. separable from the British soil--which pre-
sy claims even to the stranger and the sojourn
or err, the moment he sets his foot upon Births
~ earth, that the ground on which he thread
~ is holy, and consecrated by the genius {
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