Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-17
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tBY DUNLAP CABLE coMPAEY.1
LONDON, August 16.-The death Of John
Boyle O'Reilly has been fruitful topic for
the papers this week, and many OF them
have given more or less lengthy notices OF
his death. The Pail Nall Gazette says;
"John Boyle O'ReilIy was the hero of a
checkered career and yet one that was filled
with romance. He was the best known
Irishman in America, and one of the most
graceful and touching of the Columbian
poets"
The Gazette goes on to say that Michael
Davitt. in speaking before the Parnell Com
mission, described O'Reilly as the Irish
American Admirable Crichton, as a gentle
man of great literary ability, as poet and
an American citizen, with pure, unsullied
reputation and one of whom Boston may
we'll feel proud.
NOT AN OFFICE SEEKER.
Further than this, the Gazette adds that
O'Reiily had been Land Lacquer from the
beginning, and yet had never filled an office
in an organization created for the purpose OF
agitating the subject and forcing it upon an
unwilling country, but he did good, effec-
tive work for the principle in his paper, the
Pilot.
The Belfast Morning Ne,Os says: 20 Reilly
worked for the best interests of ireland and
the Irish people, and did it so in every
possible way commensurate with his ripe
talent and his refined instinct. He never
advocated violence, but always urged those
methods that are sanctioned by reason and
sustained by the laws of justice and moral
ity."
Prof Stuart the new editor of the Euen-
ing Star, and successor to Mr.. T. P. O'Con-
nor in that position, was seen by Dunlap
reporter at mis- Office in Stonecutter Lane.
A FLOOD OF MEMORY.
He spoke feelingly, and said: "When
you name John Boyle o'Reilly, you awake
in me food of memory that brings to me
the vision of my most pleasurable hours,
those passed in the society and with the
knowledge that had the friendship of the
dead poet In him was embodied the best
elements Of a man, a patriot and an Irish
man. His was mind that arose
above the petty affairs of controversy, and
saw in the success or failure OF the great
scheme for Irish advancement only the good
and benefit of our entire race. He had the
perception of prophet and the justice of
god. He looked forward to an era for Ire
land that would bring its people peace and
plenty without one sentiment of revenge or
evil in the contemplation. He filled a great
place in the Irish heart
A WARM EXPRESSION.
Thomas P. O'Connor expressed himself
no less warmly when he was asked for an
expression concerning o'Reilly.
'fYou may safely say" Mr.. O'Connor re-
piled, "that O'Reilly, in his quiet and un-
pretending and strictly intellectual way,
had earned for himself a position in the
pantheon of ireland. His was labor that
carried conviction, not crime, with it, and
aimed at elevating rather than debasing the
great people of which he was such a noble
example. Perhaps he could not have full
filled his mission anywhere else as he did in
America. There the freedom he so
eloquently pleaded for was existing as he
would have it exist everywhere, and it no
doubt inspired him to many of those great
thoughts that burned from his busy pen."
CAUSE OF PROFOUND SORROW.
WHOSE I6C6DE hurried Lrlp
to Ireland has filed him anew with the fire
of patriotism, said: "No name has come
from America for years that has caused so
much profound sorrow as that of John Boyle
O'Reilly. His name is familiar in every
home throughout this land as that of man
who has conferred honor upon his race. He
has been my most intimate friend since frat
I met him in Boston, during 1863 1t
was at q meeting where he presided
and which addressed in the fall of that
year. 1t was at that meeting the Land
League movement was outlined. On the
platform he was one of MIR. Parnell's most
enthusiastic supporters. He was once a
Fenian, and, like myself, made sad &C.
euaintsnce, with convict life thereby.
Since the leadership of Parnell began,
O'Reilly has been pronounced
CONSERVATIVE NATIONALIST
among the Irish-Americans. There has
been no mission from ireland to America
since then, and no appeal made by Mr..
Parnell that failed to find in O'Reilly O
prompt and substantial support. He was a
better American for having been one of the
youngest and bravest of the 1rishmen. I
sincerely hope that land which gave him
birth, and to whose sad fortunes he devoted
his services and his uncommon genius will
be allowed to give him final resting place.
believe O'Reilly's remains should come to
Ireland for interment, and he would receive
a national funeral equal to that given to our
other heroes who have alreapy gone. His
name will be revered by the Irish so long as
we remember the part which our exiled
kindred in America have played in helping
to drive out landlordism.