The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-03-18
JOHN MICHEL.
RENEW or IT'S POLITICAL Positions ~; .as.
FEDERATE RECORD.
Grom the Cork Examincr.l

From the Cork Examiner
4 hrse audience assembled at the The tie
Royal last night to hear Mr. Mitchol's lecture
Which WAS looked forward to with a erea
deal OF interest. For half an hour the hous,
waited with the greatest patience, whilins
away the time ny ftcctiouS remarks and iron.
zeal cntreale5 for cheers for Judge Eeorh ;
then il WAS whispered around that MIR hIitche
had taken very III and could not possibly come
down. After preparing himself for the lee.
ture it appeared he tainted, and any move
ment on his part would, II was feared be very
dangerous.
At this crisis som" members of the commit
tee we've dispatched to SUNDAYS Wen, and
Mr.. Mitchell, making great effort rose from
his sick c0nch and accompanied them back
10 the thea'er. At 9 O'clock the curtain rose,
and 5lr. Mitchell was seen sitting IN an arm
chair looking very III and physically pros
tratc. Alr. Mitchell WAS greeted with tremen-
dous cheering, renewed again and again, the
entire audience rising and waving hats and
pocket hanakeic hiefs. When the excitement
had subsidized Mr.. Hally, T. G., moved that
Alderman DSyor take the chair
Mr.. Mitchell lecture Was read for him. as
has been announced by another gentlemen.
in the course Of the lecture he said: "Tne
Prime Minister has dared 20 say that my
grounds one that | am Row Il felon, and
this is the only legal ground alleged: the
other Is, thai | broke my parole of honor, a
matter whlca has nothing to do with the law
Of the case ~ All, aud i, only dragged III to
cover me with eAtcrttion. and to bring. nv
constituents INTO contempt for having elected
such person. The London Times. indeed
has discovered third di-graceful crime OF
which | have been guilty, viz: that | was
Southern Confederate during the war in
America.
AS to this last charge, | own The soft i'm
parchment, WAS q Confederate, ana so We're
all the best men that met in America
1Iear, hear. Ny three sons served in the
Confederate army, and two Of them fell in
battle. ! am not such i craven recreant rs
TO affect t. be ashamed OF that cause As for
the other tsr more dreadful crime charged
against rae namely, that | broke my parole
~ honor IN escaping from a penal colony. |
might perhaps, content myself with referring
to the authority Of Mr.. Martin, member for
Meath; 81 ali Smyth, member for Westmeath |
and of Mr. smith O.Brien CHEERS, who have
all indignantly viudAcated me against that
rutlian charge. Does Mr. Disrael imagine !
for moment that II had done the shameful !
dacd he attributes % me | could now stand |,
up ana look my conntrymen IL the face
-lI hilCBCI HC+lI Oh from inns POINT to de- Il
fond lbs actica IN escaping from the penal |
settlement ~ already given. He said The
events passed more than a quarter Of il cen
fury ago, aad the only narrative Of III the de-
tails is tia; which | have given myself, IN 4
Journal wEich kept at the time. That Jour
aGl however, was published in America and .
is circulation was prevented III this country
ay tie interference OF Dublin Castle, SO that
probably not one in forty Of those present
ever saw It. hol3 that volumne now in my
hand, aud shall presently read the page OF it
reforming to my escape. But first | point
your attention 70 this fact that was three
years AZ large IN Van Diemans Land, confined
there only N he promise which | had given.
although thtct vas no day or night when
nigd. not haNe Quilted the colony with ease
md security, II had condeScendel to escape
.Anaest.nely, ana therefore dishonorably
Gentlemen furnishing their own goods can
ave them mace into SHIRTS Al Leighton's.