The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-12
DANIEL O'CONNELL.
WENDELL PHILLIPss ADDRESS
THE SILVER ToNGUED ORATORS
GREATEST EFFORT.

IN MUSIC HALL, BOSTON, ON TIE GREAT
IRISH IIBERAT0R.
A hundred wears ago to-day Daniel
O'Couuell was born. The Irish rsce, where
ever scattered over the globe, assemblies TO
night To pay ftSiHg tris5ute 10 his memory,
one of the most eloquent men, one OF the
most devoted patriots, and the most sdc'
cessful statesman which that rHce has given
tn history. We o. other races lEay we'll Join
Won in that tributs--siuce the cause OF con
stftutiouaI govern mebt owes more to O'Con-
nell than to any other political leader of the
last two centuries. The Eneiisn
speaking race, TO hnd hiH equai
among is statesmen, must pass oy
Cha nam and Walpoie and go oack 10
Oliver Cromwell, or the able men who held
up the throne OF Qasen kitz toet a. IL L"
pus the civil and social elements OF youroay
into successful ac5ion and plant tho seeds OF
continued strength and progress tor comlis
times, If this is To be a statesman, then III -
empha5ically was O'Connell one. To exert
this control aud secure this progress Wnile
and bscause ample means lie ready iof use
under your hand does not roo Waipoie an'i
Colbert, Chatham and Richelieu OF their
titles co be considered statesmen TO d. IL,
as Martin Lutaer did, when one must I'D :
geniOGsly discover or invent his tools, ana
while the nighiest forces tnaS influences
human affairs are arTayed against Dim-Inis
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terly statesmen the English speaking race
has ever had When Napoleon's soldiers
bore the negro chief, TOussAint Lower
ture into exile, he said, pointing Dack 70
San Domingo, "You think you have rooted
up the tree of Iibersy. But L am only a
branch. / beve planted the tree itseli 50
deep that ages will never root 1t up." Ana
whatever may be said of the social or indus
trial condition OF Hayti during the last
seventy years, its nationality has never been
successfully assaiied. 0'CO1neli Is the only
Irishman who can say much of Ireland.
From the peace of Utrecht, I7l3. till the fail
of Napoleon, Crest Britain was the ieaIlng
state in Europe while Ireland, a compare
lively insignificant island, lay at its feet.
She weighed next to nothing IN the scale oi
British politics. The continent pitied aud
England despised her. OC0nnell ioOnd
her a mass of qusrTel!iDg RACES and sects,
divided, dispirited, broken hearted aud ser
vile. He made her nation, whose hrst
word broke in pieces the iron obstinacy oi
Wellington, tossed Peel from the Cabinet.
snd gave the government tn the Wings,
whose colossal tigufs, ike the helmet in
Heipole's romance, hos Alied
THE POLITICAL SKY
ever since, whose generous aid thrown into
the scale of tie three great British reforms
the ballot, the corn laws aud slavery, secured
their success; a nation whose continued dis
content has dragged Great Britain down "a
be a second-rste power on the chess board 0i
Europe. know other causes have helped
in producing this result. Bat the nationaIi-
ty wh hich 0'CouneH created has been the
main cause of this change in EnglaDd's i'm
portauce. Dean Swift, MOlyueux aud
Henry Flood thrust Ireland for moment Ia
the arena OF British politics, sturdy sup
plant clAmOriDg for Justice: and Grsttan
held er there an equal and, as he thought
nation for few years. But the unscru-
pulous hand OF William Pit brushed away
in an hour all Grattan's work. Well mighi
he say of the Irish parliament whicn he
brought to life: al sat by its cradle
famous union, which Byron called "union
of the shark with ITS prey" Ireland sant
back plundered and helpless. O'Connel
lifted her to fixed and permanent place IN
English sffsirs-no supplisnt, but conquer
or debating her terms. This j. the prOp-r
standpoint from which to look at O'CoDnell'-
work. This is the consideration that ranks
him, not with founders Of states, like Alex
snder, Caesar, Bismarck. Napoleon art
William the Silent, but with men no, witt
out arms, bV force or reason, have reVOlu
tiOnizsd their times-With Luther, J ffsrson
MazzIni, Samuel Adams, Garrison ant
Franklin. know some men will sneer II
IhIs claim ;thOse VINO have never looked a
him except through the spectacies of e. z
lish critics who despised blm an IrShmaI
cODGueror. As Grattan sale
Ot kerwan, "Tne curse of SUif
was upon him. to have been DO
an ITishman and man ct genius, and q
have used his gifs tor his couEtry's good.
Marx Wha5 measure OF success al itenued th
able H8eu who preceded in circumstances n
favorable as mis-, perhaps even better; cher
measure him by con- parisOO. An i-lanC
soaked with the blood OF the cpuntless rebel
HOas-p preston such ss would turn coward
into heroes; race whose disciplined valO
had bson proved on almost every Dat lG
field in Eurrpe, and whose reckless darinl
lifted il. any time in arms against England
VITA hope or without. Wbai INSPIRED tnem'
Devotion, slOquence and patriotism sci rou
DsrslieIed iB history. Who led GneTa? Dsa'
> witt, according to Addison, the creates
genius of hia sgen-c4llad by the Pope "tb
IucOmpa1aoie"; man fertile in resources
OF stubborn courage snd treiess energy
MASTER OF AN ENesLIsa STYLE
unt ntqusiIed, perhaps, tor its purpose tben o
since; msa who had twice faced Englen,
in her augriest Dood, and by that ma-ierl:
pen subdued her to bis will; Henry Flood
eloquent even for an Irishman and ssgaciou
As be was eloquent; the eclipse OF tpat bril-
liant lite one OF the saddesL pictures Ia Iris
biography; Grastan with al! the courage
and more than the eiOquence, OF bis race-
statesman's et eteQaick to seize every sdvan
tage, Donnciess deFOtlOn, Qnspotted lnteg
ELy. rscogniz q an equal by the world
leaders aud welcomed by Fox TO the HOus
-of Commons ss the Dsmosthenes Ot Ire
land" Emmet in the field, Sheridan in tn
senate, Currsn at the bsr-aad above ali
Edmund Burke, whose mans makes Ell iog
sup6fhuOus, more than &c r
in the Senate. almost Plato /,
tie Academy. All these CAV
their lires to Ireland-aud when the presen
century opened where Was SUI? sold IKE 4
slave in the market place by her psIjar-,
master, William Pit. It was then. Jba
O'CoEDell AuDg himself into the struggle
gave ffSy years 10 the service of II cDabcrS
and where is she to-day? Not only -
deemed, tsut her Independence pus beyo Z,
doubs or psTiL Grattsn and his predeces
sors could ge. 10 guarantees for wba. r. O.
they gained La that sagacicus, waichfu