The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-08-07

Ii matiered not 70 them whether the man
was an advocate OF moral force or
or the stern arbltrament or the sword
whether he was Protestant or Catholic, Celt. Nor
man or saxon so that he stood mp Tor Ireland ant
indicated her rights. whoever the man mign
be they would 7 our out tue rich enthusiasm q
their natures in his honor. Not one per cent
that immense crowd were believers In OConnelr
doctrine OF moral force, as was evidenced DJ tht
tremendous nd spontaneous outburst OF applause
that greeted tne very first mention OF the Dam
OF Thomas Davis the young poet and journalist
who founded the Young Ireland" party. IL wat
decidedly the most hearty and vehement burst
enthusiasm or the evening. O'ConnePs name
was cheered Justify. and there could be no mis-
taking the earnestness OF the applause, but there
was decidedly more vigor III that which greeted
the names OF any OF the more advanced school
OF nationalists that happened TO be mentioned.
me oration, or rather the lecture, by DR.. Nc
Glynn, though highly eloquent was not exactly
such as to draw the applause OF a popular Irish
audience. 1t was scholarly, elaborate, historical,
but failed TO touch the national heart. The audi.
ence was remarkably attentive and respectiu
throughout. and the delivery SLOW distinct
aud deliberate.
owing TO sickness Chief Justice Daily was un-\
able to preside, and General Martin n. Mcmahon
occupied the chair In his stead. list or vice
PRESIDENTS was read, comprising men OF all rellgi-
Gus denominations, but lew or tnem were present,
and this portion OF the proceedings was more
OF an empty form than anything else.
O'Brlen's Sixty -nInth regiment band PLACED a
number OF appropriate Irish airs and was heartily
appiauded ana the gallant regiment itself was
present fun force and In Uniform.
Among those present were August Belmont,
Andrew ii. Green, Thurlow Weed, Commissioner
Thomas s. Brennan. Judge Quinn, DR.. John Dwyer
last OF the Irish Brigade; I. b. Meagher, son o.
General Meagher; John Nolan, Honorary Secretary
lrisn Amnesty Association, accompanied by mrs
O'Donoyan Rossa Colonel James Cavanagh. Sixty
nlnth regiment; Jerome J. Collins. p M. Haveriy
Algeruon 5. Sullivan, Maurice Power; Fatnera
Drumgools. Gockiln. S. j. McCready, Curran,
Larkin, Young, McKenna Newtownlimlavaddy),
Mckinley. MCGUIRE, Costlgan, Mccarthy, McCabe.
Sheridan, or Maryland Rev. DR.. NcGauran and
several Others.
The heat was sufocating, ana 1t hard
ordeal to have TO remain, perspirlng, during two
hours but great deal OF patience was SHOWN and
much good humor, Notwithstanding the adverse
circumstances.
At the conclusion a vote Of thanks passed
to the eloquent lecturer and to the Chairman,
after which the vast audience dispersed.
DIR. M'GLYNN's ADDRESS.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-The
greatest orator OF ancient Rome tells Us that there
Is nothing IN when the virtue OF man approached
so closely TO the power OF the Deity as wnen he
establishes new States or rescues RON ruin those
ALREADY established. The one and the other glorJ
belongs, III no sna measure, 10 hun whose
memory we are here 10 honor. The almost unan
lmous voice OF his people awarded to him tht
trAnscendent glory OF having restored and re,
created Their r, nationaLy when they proclaimed
people, tut multitude OF slaves aud, by the
testimony OF their own grateful acclamations. ha
lett them nation, In large measure dis
entnralled, and with sucn sense OF national dignty
and such unity OF noble national aspirations
they had hardly ever shown from the earliest days
OF their history. What wonder, then. that the call.
dren of tals race Ia their own native island and
wherever they have found home, should cele.
brate to-day, the hunuredth anniversary OF hls
birth, Win music and with speech and with re.
ligious WORSHIP and THANKSGIVING to the "Fathef
OF All Good Glftsn The new law gtver OF his ma
ton, the uncrowned king OF has country, The
this aud more tnan this was Daniel o'CoGnen. So
wondrous were his CUTS, so magical his hower to
win the hearts OF his country men and TO weld
them into one, the comblna ton OF he best
traits OF his race, so opportune his gifts and his
character to the work tnat ne was 10 DO, tnat NOS
only
THE WARM RELIGIOUS HEARTS
OF his country men, but even more calculating and
less ervld natures might well be compelled to
pronounce HIM and his career provldental. and
God.n me few great men VINO make epochs in
history; VINO boldly change It's currents; who
leave marks ana VINO impress upon the race ideas
aud impulses that no lapse OF time and Jury oil
revolullsn can entirely efface or neutralZe, are
themselves, first OF all, conscious oil that whici
the whole world soon comes TO recognize, that
they are but the instruments OF power Wiser AMI
mightier thar themselves that wlelGs them for iis
provldentlal purposes, OF winch IL gives taeH
prophetic tnstlnc.. 1t Is not merely the
heaven-born fire OF genius that caused
even the pagan poet eXclalm, ''There IS n God
within US :" but 1t IS consciousness OF destiny
such as caused the first CAESAR TO exealIn, 'What
made the first Napoleon say that the buuet was
not yet cast that should end his career. Such al
made Daniel OConneIl deliberately undertake a
task that even TO the greatest human sagaclty
should have seemed hopeless, and TO bear up
disappotntments tnat should have bowed and
dlsplrted the s.outast heart not animated and
comIorted by the consciousness OF suca a mission.
Tnis CONSCIOUSNESS OF the work That they ere Ia
90 Is thus proviaentlal means OF us
oi tne mission OF Dahlel OConnell
abundantly evidenced in the acclamatlons or his
greatness that began during mis- lifetime AID nave
never since ceased to ring throughout the word,
prociaming what Ia best OF all, that his mission,
unlike that oil Others destined TO chastise and 10
destroy, was one only full OF beuetcence; so tnas
not only do the sons oil the race that he liberated
rise up to-day IN every land ana cali MIN blessed,
hut even his wnilom enemies unite with US IN pay.
ing homage 10 his gifts, IN acknowledging tEd
purity Of his purpose, aud even pralslng the WORK
that he accomplished and that they mad done theli
worst TO thwart, to derlde ana To denOunce. Tnt
unaHimlty OIL praise tnar the world Is 50 ready &c
bestow upon the greatest oil lrishmen on tne buu
dredth anniversary OF MS birth mas It's glorloui
counterpart IN the veneraton that 1t unstlntedlJ
awards To the Mtner CT our own country-tne lm
mortal Washington, the truly providentla man.
To whom given toe rare glory, pronounced
godnke by the Roman orator, OF resculng STATE
from ruin anu creating new one Wnen, withina
brief year from Will come TO this land from all
the world tnronss to celebrate The hundredtn an-
nlversary o. the nation oil which he vas the chief
creator not the least numerous nor the least cor
dial in their manifesto ton OF reverence and afec.
ton Tor his memory VIII be the chlldren ana the
grandchildren OF those VINO opposed him III the
CABINET and In the field ana VINO denounced nm
as a rebel and traitor.
IL IS not Tor me, IN the brief limits OF this even
ing's DISCOURSE tell the oit-old tale OF lreands
history, OF the aspratlons OF its people from the
earliest days toward
NATIONAL UNITY AND GOVERNMENT,
ana the strangely centrifugal force that was ever
Iounfto Lhwart these aspirations, IN the narrow,
sectional aud clannish Jeaouses prejudces and
hates OF its people 1t Is not Tor me TO tell OF
conquest by the hated stranger, invited by her
own lthless sons; how Tor centuries the would.
be conqueror harried and oppressed a race tnat
he hated as alien. ana ali The more because
II was the victim OF his tDjusuce: how
this hatred and oppression became even
more intense when IN the sixteenth century
the two races became amen IN religion, ana to the
cruelties OF political servltuce were superadded
tue deeper horrors Of religious persecution; how
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