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DANIEL O'CONNELL,
Extracts from Wendell Phillips Eulo
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| do not think / should eX"gge! Ate II
said that God, since he made Demos
themes, never made man so fit for the
great work as he did O'Connell. You
may think | am partial TO my hero,
very naturally. But john Randolph,
OF Roanoalie, who hated an lriShmall al
most as much as he did a Yankee, when
he got to London and heard O'Conneil,
the old STAKEHOLDER held up his hand
AID said "rhis is the man-those are
the lips, the most eloquent that speaks
English in my day.n And | think he
was right. Applanse.] Webster could
a ldress q bench Of Judges: Everett could
charm a college; Choate could delude
a Jury Clay could magnetic Senate;
Tom Corwin could hold the mob in his
right hand; but no one of them could
do more than that one thing. The on
der of O'Connell was that he could out
talk C0rwm; he could charm a college
better than Everett; deludaa jury bet
ter than Il Choatc, and leave Clay him.
self far behind in magnetizing Il Senate.
| have heard all the majestic orators Of
America who arc singularly famed on
the worlds circumference. | know
what was the majesty Of Webster; |
know what IL was to melt under the
magnetism Of Henry Clay; have seen
elopllencc in the iron logic Of Calhoun;
but all three together never SURPASSED,
anl no one OF them ever cIuallcd,
the great Irishman. [Applause. In
the first place he had-what is half the
power with a popular orator--a niaJe5-.
lie prcscncc.-God put that royal soul
into Il body as royal. He had, in earl y
1f /f f,p
the stature Of Apollo little O'Conncll
would have been no O'Connell at all.
Sydney Smith said of Lord John Rus
sel's five feet, when he went down to
Yorkshire, after the reform bill had been
carried, the starlwart hunters Of York
shire said: That little shrimp! What,
he carry the reform bill?" $50, no,n
said Sydney; "no; he was q large man,
but the labors OF tie bin shrunll him"
[ Renewed laughtcr.l do you rrmcm-
bcr the story Of Webster, that Russell
Lowell tells, when VIC, III MassacIlu
setts, were :.hout to break up the Whig
party? Webster came home to rancuii
Hall to protest, and 4,0JO Whims went
to meet him. He lifted up the majestic
pre-encc before The sea of hunnu, faces
his brow charged with thunder, and lie
>'tl" t,Iii ~ " MS -'t''''''t~ii' 'TN -
Wlig--a Revolutionary Whig-a Con-
stitulionaI WhiG--a iiancui Hall Whi:3,
And, if you break up The Whig party,
where am to go:' And RN-sell Low
ell SAYS awe held our hrcaths, think
ing where lie could CO., laughter.
"Dut if ne had been five feet five" >aid
Lowell, 1--WE would have said Well
hang, it, who cares where you go??' y
Renewed laughtrr,l We'll O'conncll
had all that. Then he had beside what
Webster never had and what Clay had
the magnetism and grace that nlelts Il
million souls into his. When saw him
he was SiNty-siX little as u boy; his
every attitude was beauty; every gcst-
urc was gracc.--Macrcady or Booth new
cr.c1ualcd him. Why, it would have
been delightful even to look ut him, if
he had not even spoken at all and all
YOU thought of was greyhound. Then
he had-Wlat SO few American speak
crs have-a voice that sounded the gam
ut.