The New York herald., 1875-08-16

The voice of foreign lands which speaks the OF
contemporary posterity ackaowledged ms great,
the cOquence OF Lacordaire when he strove for free
education and found n the divine religion Of the Cross,
the condemnation OF intolerance and the high
est sanction for ordered liberty Admiration OF his
genius and his virtue made the Young Montaembcrt--
then preparing for troubled, but brilliant and most
noble life-a pilgrim his home in the wilds Of Kerry;
and his eulogist, in pathetic and powerful words,
when, long years after he passed through France a
bowed and broken man, 10 die in Genoa. Gustave
de Beaumont, Dc Tocquevilles friend, described him
in phrases combining fervent admiration and critical
analysis And these witnesses TO a reputation which,
has lately been said with authority continues to this
hour perhaps more dfused than that of any English
speaking public man of the present century had their
praise widely repeated IN Germany and Italy and beyond
TIE ne Atlantic There was no European state in which
OConnells action not watched with intcrest-the
interest OF apprehension in the uphodcrs Of dominant
injustice the interest OF hope and joy in mutudes pm
ing 10 be free His speeches translated into all
languages. They read in Poland and Hungary and
not unknown TO the slaves of America, for whom he
pleaded when they had no hope those Of our own
colonies for whom he toed until they were set free,
as earnestly as If his Celtic blood had bounded IN
their veins.
THE vyDIcATIoNs TIME.
So il was during his life and now that he has rested
in Glasnevin under the shadow of the Irish Round
Tower for nine and twenty years, we have oday do
csive evidence that time has dealt gently with his mem
ory and accumulated honors round his tomb The ac
cordan testimony of many distinguished men, of var-
and distant landssome of whom with you after
weary journeys and others have spoken from aar with
no uncertain soundproves that the world has not for
gotten trlunpnS lot MS CHurcu ana people;
and that their history furnishes, and will furnish long,
guidance and impulse to those who, hereafter,
may be called to maintain the rights of conscience and
strive as he strDve at once for faith and freedom. Eu
rope has been prompt TO respond this occasion TO tho
call of Ireland and have greetings from the Ameri
can Republics and from the young nations which are
rearing themselves the Australasian contnent-n-
snct with Irish spirit and Irish bood-denonstrating
that oConncll is still in benedicton, wherever civilized
men have known
The name and the fame
OF the seadivided Gael.
His centenary, celebrated in such way, will affirm
his right TO take his place among the rare beings
whose lives but the beginnings of their earthly inn
mortality whose work endures through ages and
affects the fate of untold generations He has passed
beyond the sphere of contemporary hareds the mists
and heats of party ceasng TO envelop him; what
was accidental and neeting in his life fades gradually
away. But the great events of which he was the
author, the high qualities which fitted him to achieve
them, came prominently forth, and the figure of the
looms out before in its true proportions and its
real grandeur We are not far enough removed to miss
the vision OF bots upon its surface for bots thero
were as upon all things human. But time, which mol
lows tints and rounds anguarities, is telling
even upon these, and coming to honor
o'Conne the great Irish Ce who conducted fear
fu struggle to happy issue with unexamped patience
skill and mastery escaping soil from the dust of the
arena and the shock of the combat but emerging from
II to resplendent victory, which will remain forever
the glory of his nation and lesson and example TO the
world
HIS LIFE AND GREAT WORKS.
OF the general incidents Of his life shall not think of
speaking in detail. The generation which his ma
estc form and heard his voice of music is fast depart
ing Not many exist who took part in the fight for
emancpaton and even the excitement of 1843 and its
monster assemblies becoming traditions OF the past
But the uncrowned monarch, who then held over mill
ions a than kngly sway, needs here no annalist
To you his life and labOrs are as household words and
the occasion only requires that should rapidly point
to OF the principles which were dear to him, some
of the methods OF his work, and some Of the results
which he attained.
When Daniel O'Conne first saw the light hundred
years ago the race from which he sprang and the re-
gion Of his forethcrs seemed hopecssy sunk beneath
the weight of degrading ana complete
ever overwhelmed people The Irish Catholic was
worse than q serf IN his own land In his person all
human rights were tramplcd down. all human feelings
outraged He denied the common privilege of self
defcnce he incapable of holding property like other
men he forbidden to instruct his own Children and
a wicked and immoral law tempted his brothers TO de-
fraud him, and robbed him that 1t might reward the
apostacy of his ungrateful SON Since time began,
system atrocious devised to crush the
human conscience. Well said Edmund Burke-'1t
was machine Of wise and elaborate contrivance, and
as well fitted for the oppression mpoverishment and
degradation of a people and the debascmen in them Of
human nature itself as ever proceeded from the perverted
ingenuity OF man. "
worked with fit results 1t mitigated in its action
by the kindly feelings of those whose supremacy
invented to sustain but it brought the country to tho
deepest depression and left it sprtlcss and impotent at
the mercy of its taskmastcrs. look back from the
happier present the nolcrable past in spirit Of
bitterness and with no desire TO perpeuate the memory
of wrong; but, if would judge fairly of OConnells
character and history must know what obstacles no
had to encounter what enemies to confront from what
i'' ~ -, ~
ties he needed to compass his achievements
IRELAND oUTCAsT IN HER CHAINS
ireland Law as have described her without hope or
help-the oucast of the nations But the hour OF her
deliverance camehe hour and the man created TO de-
liver her 0Connell was born into world which was
soon see commissions, disturbing its ancient order
and shaping its destnies anew and, in the scheme Of
providence these were to give occasion for the use OF
his singular endowments, which, but for them, might
have rustcd in inactivity The year Of his birth wit
messed the outbreak OF the American war of indepen
dencc and the battle of Lexington was the herald of
VapfC tha fna mnrun nf wl
brethren occasion for centenary festival happy
our The spirit of the insurgents passed across
the and poured life into the outworn national
titles of Europe Their success animated the efforts of
mon struggling for freedom and compelled attention to
claims which had been 1outed with contempt Thus il
came TO pass that the penal laws partially relaxed;
and when the revolution of France broke forth
TO EMPHASIZE TEACHING OF AMERICA,
the privileges of the Irish Catholics received great
largement the vital right OF voting bestowed and
in 1893 when OConnel was just of an age to take adj
vantage of the boon, he found himself permitted to
become barrister The preparation was complete. If
he had lived earlier he would not have had chance OF
developing his genius and marshalling his countrymcn
for their political deliverance But the concessions of
the Irish Parliament gave him instruments Of action
His admission to the Bar enabled him TO them and,
after moral struggle without precedent in history he
employed the franchise OF 1893 to MASTER the Cabinet of
Peel and Wellington and found in the freehoders OF
Glare the irresistible pioneers of emancipation.
THE YOUTHFUL ADVOCATE or UNIVERSAL FREEDOM.
O'Connell came 10 the Bar in 1885, and almost from
tho opening Of his career he devoted himself to the
public service. He had no force to aid him in the gi-
BantC tdSk ne phySiOoi vi hOlh htiP was
equally denied him. He led no army. There
trained and organized opinion to stimulate his efforts
reward them by applause His lot was cast with an
utterly PROSTATE communitywantng all strength Of
self assertion almost without the courage to complain
Indeed they had fallen so low as to declare while they
grovelled before the throne that they respected from
the bottom of their hearts, the infamous laws under
which they suffered But in himself, O'Connel had
lmitless resources-a buoyant nature, unseepmg vig
lance untiring energy, patience inexhaustbc nven-
ton without bounds faith in his cause which hevcr
altcred and resolution which no reverse could daunt
and no Encouragement subdue. And accoutrcd, he
prepared TO play the part of the mighty Jew of old
The dread of IsraeIs foes, who, single combatant,
Dueled their armies ranked in proud array
Himself an armyi
His brain and tongue at first his only weapons
but the brain massive and fertile, and the tongue
many ways has never had an equal His powers as an
orator were all his He had, perhaps, greater
riety and completeness OF control his auditory than
any speaker OF ancient modern times Others have
been prc-emnent in special gifts but he had singular
command of the widest range of persuasive coqucncc
He had humor and pathos and nvective and argument
and he could pass from one to the other, sweeping
across the human heartstrings with an astonishing
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