New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-08
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
o,Covvrt1 AMI VOTING IRELAND.

O'CONNELL AND YOUNG IRELAND.
ro1rn WEARS or IRISH HISTORY. BY Sir CHARLES
GAvAN DUFFY. svo. PIP. $50. Cassei' re''eI' O''-
pin q go. a.
The " Four Years" embrace one OF the most crltI-
cal periods in Irish hstory-1Slo-4o; anu 'uo
volume is "A sequel to Young Ireland 10y tne same
author published few years ago anu regarueu
by all fair minded critics as slngularlE candlu anu
;mnortioI narrative The new recital opens
with the winter of 1915, when The remnant
of The Young Ireland party was reorganlzed, aud
Duffy called upon to direct Its policy upon
the death of its leader Thomas Davis. The Repeal
,oova,,,nt WAS waning: the Repeal Rent
from the pcasanIry was scarcely tenth of what IL
had been a tv elvemunth before; OCOnnelIs per-
sonal ascendancv was a. great as il had been, but
the attempt to transform the Repeal ASSOCIATION
from n national into a secariau body had createu
serious dissensions and dshearened the 1rlehds OIL
the Irish cause Duffy determined that one post
at least. should not be surrendered to the enemy
That was the Office of the journal when no was
conducting The rally for Ireland in that despair
ing period began there Mccarthy and Barry tOON up
their lahors anew: OGorman and DoheIy leap
peared at the Repeal headquarters III OoncliiSuoh
Hall. and brilliant circle of new writer's aud work
ars inclndIno Meacher Mitchell McGee and Reilly
bevap 10 take an open part in public AFFAIRS III was
arallv tor Young Ireland but quarrel with OId
Ireland as the Immediate adherents OF OOohhell
delighted to call themselves, was Huul"u9y
avoided Yet that quarrel was lneVi'aoio i
Iiberator was secretly planning a COMPROMISE Win
tbe Wings; and il was fundamental prlncipio Va
Young Ireland that compromise with any pol'ut'.
party in England would be fatal 10 the hauoh"i
cause. -,
The first division of the narrative embraces inc
rally of Young Ireland and its new recruits OCoh-
h.. COnclliatlOO
Hall the Wing Alliance, the Peace resolutions the
Loco of the Dunparvan election and the secession OF
the leaders of Young Ireland from the Repeal Asso-
eiaton The central fact of this peilou was
O'Cunnelrs abandonment of the Repeal question LOT
Parliamentary alliance with the wings Duhy Is
forced to establish this TACT IN order to justify the
resistance which he and his associates offered TO the
tactics of Old Ireland. He SHOWS that alter the res
iCnation of Sir Robert Peel in December, 1915,
OConueli came to an understanding with tie new
Government IN London. headed by Lord John Rus
,.u tn support them in Parliament and to secure
,be election of their colleagues in Ireland, and in
returp WIS reinstated in the control of Irish patron
aoe IN all its branches fully as he had enjoyed
II when they were last in Office. . ConneI knew
fom the speeches of Smith Ol}rien and the leaders
IN The Nation that this alliance wonld he resisted
nv the Young Irelanders in the Repeal Association
He determined, therefore. to silence or EXCLUDE
W m should
itv IN decide this mon,entous question He denied
and repudlated the intention he mad formed ana
the compact he had made but the evidence points
in the cnnosite direction from his denals. He de-
,ibsratev forced those who would not be led by him
in the natb of dishonOrable compromise and dis
crsditable surrender to secede from the association
and leave him and his to pursue their new pol
,cv m peaee. O'Conne's motives dispasson-
atelv considered in this striking passage:
Jtmay be that he despaired of carving Repeal in
his own lifetime that seeing the Government were
not frightened into a surrender oy the monster
nnaetn1, he believed he had played his game and
inst Cor the time beiug-or it may be that he had
came 70 regard not only then but forever
bnpeless from the relative forces engaged III the
trnoIe. in either case how worthy OF great man
enrrnsted to think for his nation 1t would have been
TO have said so in the Dlalnest terms Many IN
Hnances combined 20 preclpltate HIM into the less
franl and honorable course. He was surrounded by
nersns who hated or feared the Young lreIanders,
and longed for rupture WIN Ihpm, AMONG tne
Wings with whom he had been associated III puoIlG
lite there we're men of honor and ability, who mad
n genuine and perfectly honest dread OF them as
dangerous fanatics: and a more numerous section
who d,tested them the chief impeachment To re-
fnrn of the pleasant tunes when patronage ana
nrauotion were distIi butod from Merton Square
Tha tai of hired apitators who lived hy nominal
offces or salaried missions. were persons whose
onncn or advice would have no direct lDIluence on
O,C'onnes conduct, Int they had the opportunities
vhicT always belong to a yaetaille: they had con-
to his ear they could carry stories. DIS
tnrt facts and Initiate MIN Dy sly Suggestions vi
siyalry and they probably produced more posi- .
results than grayer counsellors III was one OF Vie
fatal weaknesses OF his life to surround himself by
men whose chief characteristic was abIect 5uDnls-
son men capable of wiliully misleading him Tor
their private ends, more than one Oh whom w9uld
hay, scutted the ship to carry OIL an aIhiui Oh
ninnder But a more powerful factor tuan any
~ these and one which lay at the root OF all Others
was the nsensate ambition OF Mr. JONI oCohhelI
to succeed his father The time was at hand when
the aged tribune must have successor, and II the
successor were chosen. like the lanlst or an irish
fhA CHI ffHgf N iAQh M
rnle IL was too plain that the sceptre would pass
from the house Of Darrynane Human motives are
story TO the end will, i think, be OF opinion
that OConne!l fell, as the first and thlId Napoleon
fell, in a vain attempt 20 found dynasty without
competept dynast. Nor Will they fail 10 recognize
fbat his fall was essentially his own work. There
was not indeed in Ireland at that time any man,
en- any station. who could have seriously disturbed
the sway UConnel exercised over the affection
and Judgment of his race, except only VConnell
h,mself In the eyes of the trusting multitude he
h,Id commls son as clearly from GU high that of
Masses or the Maccabees. to lead his people through
the desert to the Promised Land to men OF more cul
tuIe and reflection he was at least "A statesman OF
nroved capacity and wide experience who ii he left
or lost his position the organ OF tine nations Will
could probably never DO replaced, ne cue woaIu
have thought 1T sacrege, the other madness TO
displace him. And no one knew that u was no
longer the OCOnnell OF Old they had to deal WIN
that his brain was undergoing rapid decay; that
a oisease had set in which clouds The judgment ana
slackens the WILL AMI 1t may be presumed Invades
the neghboring domain OF mntals; me fa;n
niellect and the enfeebled will left him prey to
connsels which he would have uesplsed IN the day
of ms strength; and he proceeded with his own
hand to deface and dilspdate the image OF pa
triot chief so long cherished by his race
As the narrative proceeds evidence is furnished
that while no abandoned one after another of the
agencies by which toe national cause had been pro
noted he cIanorously insisted all the while that he
was sti on the march to the original goal Appear
Ing at Cancellation Hall, he strenuousy resisted
mock proposal that the Repealers should suspend
nrocesdings and place confidence in the new Minis
try; but his speech, his subsequent action in al
lowing a Government Minister to be returned anop-
posed at Dungarvan, Repeal borough, and in fore