The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-09-12


lor Of Ireland since the reign Of James II. and
was, therefore, well qualified and In . measure
entitled to deliver On oration on OConnell on
suon an occasion. But tine macs mas OF tne irisn
Lord O'Hagan had sold his talents to the Eng
lish government and was even still PEN
sioner of the Grown, and they conceived that
such man could not do justice to several
points in O'Connelrs career, especially to his
noble refusal of all English honors and emolu-
ments and to his supreme devotion to the
cause Of Irish legislative independence The
Committee and the Lord Mayor were made
aware of these views, bnt they needed not the
warning. The fact 10, as the sequel has proved,
they are parcel OF Catholic Wings, aud they
stration into one in favor of Whiggery-tbat
political creed Of which Gladstone was the
great apostle and which was SO signally de-
feated at the last general election in Ireland
by Home Rule. Their plan was, accordingly,
to lay rs much stress as possible upon those
deeds of O'ConDell-the winning of Catholic
now displessing to the English-to represent
him only as the great Catholic statesman, and to
bury out of sight his other great character as
THE GREATEST IRISH NATIONALIST
of his age; and to carry out their design Lord
O'Hagan was pre-eminenty the man; Just as
Nationalist leaders of the present day, would
be the men to speak of 0Connells career in
its totality. Well, the Lord Mayor and his
others) proceeded to settle the whole affair in
their Committee room in accordance with the
purposes have noted, and Lord OHagan pro-
ceeded to prepare his address. which, as we
now know, would have exactly answered their
anticipations and suited their views if it had
been delivered. say, If it had been delivered;
for it never was deliveyed after all. At the
put forth to the whole Irish people in behalf
of the Nationalists. urging them to prevent
such an outrage on Irish feeling as the appear
ance of I" a pensioned minion of the English
nrrfF ant fhA MI in Xvi lla
street. Immediately afterwards it was an.
nounced-and believe truiy-that Lord
O'Hagan has been summoned to the country
through the illness of his daughter! 1t was
further announced that he would probably not
bo in Dublin on the Centenary day. Then
the Lord Mayor hit upon another device. He
would himself g % on the platform. announce anne uns
q portion of the prepared oration and all this
he actually attempted. He mounted the plat
form amidst the cheers Of the people; the
platform, as 1t was thought was kept free of
all persons but his own supporters. 1t was SO
constru oted that the managers thought it
could not be scaled, and the only entrance to it
was guarded by q troop of mounted horsemen
excluded every one CncIuding Mr.. Butt) who
would not promise to assist in carrying out the
| traitorous programme he and his friends had
devised But all their arrangements were
broke down when it. was attempted to carry
them out. No sooner had the Lord Mayor
mentioned the name OF Lord OHagan, than o
00Ou6 OF lnO1GQAuOn rose up On every BlQO,
from twenty thousand mon; and CRY of
" Batt, Butt" drowned all the sounds. Not q
sentence was tho Lord Mayor allowed to speak
After Ave minutes delay, he descended, got
House, unattended save by a body of mounted
horsemen! While he was in the act of descend
ing,
Mr.. BUTT WAS LIFTED To THE FRONT
amidst treme6dous cheering and proceeded to
addresses the mighty assemblsge; after which
Mr.. oConnor Power, M. r, and Mr. A. y. Sui
popular wish, emphatically, expressed
glorious victory that had just been achieved
for the Irish National cause over WhiRgery and
faction. Tremendous was the excitement
which followed the conclusion of Mr.. Sullivan's
speech, but the people did not break out in to
any act of violence. They separated peaceably,
vile street was easily to be traversed even by
pedestrians.
Another disagreeable but very notable incl
dent of this great display is nos to be noticed.
THE ASSOCIATION FOR OBTAINING AMNESTY
| for the remaining Fenian prisoners applied to
the Centenary Committee some weeks since for
| a distinct place in the great procession. In
| view of other matters already noticed, it may
be important to note that this body is presided
| over by Mr.. Butt and that most of its members
| are " hat is called extreme Nationalist. To
| the application referred to, no answer what
| ever was returned. The Amnesty Association
| 610u r06OlV6u 10 udN0 Juo hIS1 plhCO III bhe
processon-no doubt, in order to be first at
the platform in Sackville street; and, to
| achieve this object, they simply marched, after
| the procession had started, to q point ut about
the middle of the route, and put themselves at
the head. The CGal-porters, however, who
had been, as "O'Connelps Body Guard" as
signed the FL ct place and who were headed now
by Mr.. P. j. Smyth on horseback, dashed for
ward, attacked the Amnesty contingent, cut
the traces of the Amnesty car, and passed on.
It is charged by five credible witnesses that
Ne; smys6 gave the order to cut the ,dS traces, s
charge, 1, for my part, believe his accusers, for
he has before now been p9blicly convicted Of
falsehood. The Amnesty Association has be-
lieved them too, and by an unanimous vote
has expelled him from their body !; which con-
demnatiOn closes Mr. Smyth's political career
in this country. Should he, at any time hence-
forward, appear on public platform, he will
certainly be hooted from it; and, on the whole,
the best thing he can do is retire to the South
of Frsnce-his fsvorite retreat when danger
looms. As for the Amnesty contingent of the
great procession, it kept the second place till
Ssckville street was reached, volunteers being
at hand to take the place of the horses and to
draw the Amnesty carrisge with the banner