Connecticut western news., 1875-08-20
DANIEL O'CONNELL.
Tribute to His NIemOry--FHs Powers of
 ElOQuenCes

A Tribute to His NIemOry--FFs Powers of ElOquence.
 The New York Stua editorally speaks of Daniel O'Connell as follows: The darling of Ireland and spoiled child of her affections, he held 8 power and at tained dominion given to few rulers of men to reach. By an industry which knew no tire, persistency in applying every and any means to his end which no difficulty could shake, by marvellous genius for politics, and an eloquence of astonishing magic specially suited to en- chant and enchain an imaginative race, he won and wore that dominion to the last.
 His grand achievement, indeed his only one, was Catholic emancipation. His was the hand that wrung it from England. When 8 hundred years back he first saw Ireland, she lay seemingly dead. But he who loved her with an enthusiasm as passionate as that of the Italian lover for his mistress, saw diff ferently, and was wont to exclaim Thou art not dead. Beauty's ensign still is crimson in thy cheeks and in thy lips, and deaths pale flag is not ad- vanced there." He touched her with words of fire, and she rose and walked.
 The victory of emancipation obtained an influence for O'Connell over his peo- pie commensurate with that of the greatest historic personages - Moses, Epaminodas, Mohammed, and Napoleon. He used it to organize his forces for his next grand deed-repeal. With this ob- ject he endeavored to increase in every way the power, wealth and influence of the Roman Catholics of Ireland. He filled most of the offices of value or dis tinction, hitherto sealed to them, with men of his own race and religion, and made the government of England inn possible without his cooperation and consent. He abjured all the old methods of action, and became the inventor and apostle of what was termed moral force," specially abjuring the sword, and declaring that all the liberties of the world were not worth the cost of one drop of human blood. The moral force principle, indeed, may be accurately de- fined as
 "Rebellion's secrets never to rebel,
 Elude all danger, but evade all laws" And he stood himself the safe ideal he drew, and always eked the foxes with the lions skin. His second grand deed was in the future-repeal. He did not live to see it's triumph. At his death it was deemed splendid phantom. In battling for the redress of his own country's wrongs. O'Connell never for got those of others. He lent a most powerful aid to the English Liberals, of whom he was an effective ally, and was the friend of the oppressed in every hand and of the fullest civil and religious lib erty. He carried this spirit so far as to incur the displeasrre of his church, his reverence for which almost reached su- perstition, by espousing the cause of the Liberals in Spain in opposition to Don Carlos. His hatred of the institution of slavery in this country was vehement. When Archbishop Hughes once attempt ed to soften this feeling, he silenced him at once, saying: "My lord, that is 8 subject I cannot speak on. Remember, you and were born slaves"
 l When O'Connell first went to Eng 1 land, flushed with his emancipation tri- umph, he was hailed as the Irish hero, and was the rage ofthe hour. As he en- tered the House of Commons, where his success was immediate, with an easy, swaggering gait, his cloak drawn close around him, and his big, broad Irish face, expressive of glorious, racy Hiber- nian humor, buzz might be heard: "There he is." Every eye was turned toward him, and for every one he met he had jest and greeting. Then when he arose might be heard strong, rich voice, redolent of luscious and peaty brogue. The House is still. O'Connell is pathetic. He is depicting the woes of Ireland, dwelling on her wrongs, dis playing her desolation. But suddenly l the House is ringing with laughter. He is turning some one into ridicule, and at his command come forth the most ap- propriate nicknames. And in 8 moment again he returns to strong and passion and forcible images, those hardy mascu- line ideas. A giant intellect is reused and in full action, ungovernable in the rapidity of it's workings, and throwing off its creations in such copiousness that the body tolls to convey them.
 But O'Connell's popularity in Eng land was not of long duration. His greatness was in Ireland. His close sympathy with an oppressed race se- cured their confidence, and no man By accident of education he possessed a 1 OA WOAASAy by affection he was one of "the wild Irish without the pale. His powers were of kind to excite their peculiar administrations flowing eloquence, his ready wit, his turgid images, his gesticulative expressions of emotion. His faults were of a kind they could not ciriticise, since bis schemes were copies of their own, and all his purposes exact reflections of theirs.
 At the bar O'Conne1 was fully as great as in the Senate and before the multi tude. His arguments in "the Trim bleston case" and Persse vs. Persse " were splendid pieces of legal work, strong in the accumulation of facts, and close and crushing in their application. He died at Genoa, on his road to the tomb of the apostles. With him religion overruled even his national love. He used to say: '' The pleasure of serving one's religion stands first. It is divine. That of serving,'one' s country comes next. It is half divine" Both his religion and his country honor him to-day; and those of other lands and alien faiths may we'll join in the tribute.
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