The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-12


Hall with Buxton and Broughau1, here are
tweDty- seven votes for you on every Irish
question. If you work with those abolition
ISIS. count us always against you." It was
terrible temptation. How many a So
called sta esman would have yielded ?
speak for the ssddest people the sun sees.
But may my right hand forget its cunning
and my tongue cleave to the root of my
mouth if to save Irelsnd-sven Ireiaa6-I
FORGET THE NEGRO
one single hour" ''From that day" said
Buxton, 'Lusbipgton and never went into
The lobby that O'Connell did not follow us. -
Learn of him. friends, the hardest lesson we
ever have set US. that of toleration. The
foremost Catholic of his aga, the most stal.
wsrt champion OF the church ne was also
broadly aud sincerely tolerant Of every
| faith. His toler2tiOn had no limit and no
qualification" / scorn and scout the word
"tcleratiop." 1t is an insolent term Ne
man, properly speaking, tolerstes another
do not tolerate a Catholic-neither does be
tolerate me. We are equal, and acknowl-
edge each others rights; that is the correct
statement. That everv man should b. al
lowed freely to worship God accord
| ing to his conscience-thati no mans
civil rights should be affected by bis re-
| ligious creed, were both cardinal PRINCIPLES
trine of his faith could be endangered br
the freest possible discussion. earn nf him
also sympathy with every race and every
| form of oppression. No matter who was
the sufferer, or what the form of the inius-
tiee, starving Yorkshire peasant, impris-
ODed Chartist, prosecuted Protestant. or
negro slave, no matter of what right, per-
soBsl or civil, the victim had been robbed !;
no matter what complexion incompa. ible
with freedom an African or an Indian sun
he'd burnt upon him; no mstror what re-
ligiOus pretext or political juggle alleged
NECESSITY" IS an excuse for his Oppress ion: :
no matter with Whist solemniGes he bad
been devoted on the altar OF slavary-the
moment O'CcDDelI saw him, the altar and
the God sank together in the dust
the victim was acknowledged p
man and brotber-equal in all rights s.o
entitled to all the aid the great lrshman
could give him. / have no time 10 speak OF.
his marvellous success at the bar; OF tha,
profound skill in the law which enabled him
to conduct such an sgitation, ALWAYS or he
verge of illegality and violence, without
once subjecting himself or his followers to
legal penalty; an agitation under a code of
which Broughem said "nO Catholic could
lift his hena under it without breaking tba
law" L have no time to speak of his still
| more remarkable success in the House of
Commons OF Floods failure there Gratfan
had said: she was an oak oftbe forest, too
Grattsn's own success there was but modre-
ate. The power O'Connell welded against
| varied, bitter and
UNsCRUPULoUs OPPOSITION,
was marvellous. have no time to speak oi
his personal independence, his deliberate
courage, moral and physisal, ! Il uns pottad
| private character. his unfailing hope, the
versatility OF his talent, his power of tire
less work, his ingenuity and boupdless re-
source, his mstchless self possession in
every euer1 ency, his rea iy nj ne Sha ibie
wit But eny reference TO OConpel that
omitted his eloqu+Uce would be painting
Wellington in the House of Lords without
me- tion of Torres Vedrss or Waterloo.
Broadly considered, bis eloquence has never
been equalled in modern times, GER
tainlv not in English speecb. Do you
| think l am partial? / will vouch
| ] hn Randolph, Of Roanoke, the Virriuian
| slave holder, who hated an Irishmsn almost
"a much az he hated a Yapkee-bimseii an
orator of no mean level Hearing OCon-
nell he exclaimed, This is he man. these
are the lips, the most eloquent that speak
| English in my dsyi" thick he was right
| remember the solemnity of Webster, the
grace of Everett, the rhetoric of Choats; j
know the elOqueDca that lay hid IN the iron
| logic OF Calhoun; L have melted beneath
the magn tism of Henry Clay. Prentis ,'Of
4 MiBSlSklppb, Nlrlu6O power lew nl6Af 0St-E
had. IL has bsen my fortune tn sit at the
4 teet of the great speakers of the Engli>h
| tongue the other sido Of the
ocean. But / think ali OF therl
| together never surpassed. and
/ no one OF them equalled O'Copnell." Nature
intended bIm Tor our Demostbenss. Never
since the great Greek has she has sent for b
aoy ore so lavisbly gifted for his WORK a.
tribune OF the people. In the first place he
had magnificent presence, impressive in
| bearing-msssive ike that of Jupiter
Weheter himself hardly outdid him iu the
majesty o. his proportions. To be sure, be
| had not Websier's craegy face and precipice
of brow; nor his eyes glowing like anthrscits
coal. Nor had hs the lion roar OF Mirabean.
| But his presence filed the eye. A small
o Connell would hardly nave been an
O'Copnel at all. These physical advantages
ara half the battle. remember Russei
Lowell telling us that Mr..
| WEBSTER CAME HOME
from Washington at the time the whig par
tv thought of dissolution year or two be-
fore his death. and went down t. FaneuiI
a n tn protest: drawing bimseli mp to bis
lpitiest proportion, his brow clothed with
Thunder. before the listening thousands. be
said: swell, gentlemen 1 am a whig, a
Massachusetts whi-. a F3neuil
Hall whig, a revolutioary whig. q
constitutional whig. II You break
the wing party. sir. where ami to go?' Aad
ssys Lowell, I'VE held our breath, thinking
where he could 90" II be had been five
feet three we should have said, who
| cares where you go?" So ii
was with O'Connell. There was
something majestic in bis presence be-
f,re be spoke, and be added t. It what WEB
| ster had Dot-what Clay might have lent
grace. 1.-the as boy at 20, every atti' ude
\ picture, every gesture grace, he was still
ali nature: nothing but nature seemed Ia
speak all over him. Then lie had q voice
that covered the gamut. The majesty IF his
l1ndie nation titly uttered in tones of super
humsn power made him able to "indict' 3
| nation, spite of Burke's pros est. l beard
him once say, 81 send my voice across the
| Atlantic careering like the thunder storm
against the breeze, To tell the slave holders