The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-10-11
CHARLES S. PARNHLL.
Views Of An Exile and
Nationalist OH the
Dead Leader.

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Charles Stewart Parnell lived to see his
mission accomplished. In the brief space.
Of dozen years he converted the Irish
people from an attitude of hostility TO
one Of Cancellation to British rule. He
found Ireland deeply welded to physical
force methods, his regime has resulted in
establishing party pledged TO coustitu-
tionaI agitation. The old rebel spirit has
died out. or Is qafescent. True, this
change OF front is but a necessary means
to accomplish an end Home Rule was
the goal to which he had bent his energies.
While not actually established, Home
Rule Is within the peoples grasp Paraeli
led the embattled hosts within sight OF
the promised land. They are only kept
without the gates long enough for the
great charter of their liberties to be
drafted and subscribed to BIZ the
high contracting parties. His was voice
In the wilderness proclaiming the saliva
ton that WAS ut baud. He set the wheels
OF the machinery In notion supplied the
motive power, that in good time will reap
and garner the rich harvest which is fast
ripening. To do more would have been
glory too much for one man. Theirresis-
tihlel logic of contemporaueou history
so ordered il. a nation must not be over
Swallowed by the genius of al Individual.
We live in an age where the common
people are the rulers and arbiters OF their
own destiny. The republican idea which
now dominates the hearts OF mankind
ordains the downfall of auoocrats and
dictators, or their counterparts who as
snme the role OF one man power. Whose
ever sets himself against this law must
inevitably perish. Conspicuous examples
of the correctness of this reasoning have
been too recent to demand proof Of the
syllogisn.
Whar, fha daad chfof firsr orrao~o1 ~
the clowded horizon OF Irish politics. he
possessed but slight qualifications for the
distinguished station thab awaited him.
He vas not gifted with any com manding
ability, such as qualify a man to be
great national leauer, AS speaker, like
Curran. in his crystals stage, he had not
vet burst the she'll OF his eloQuence
Indeed, au orator he was not. He was
plain but forcible speaker, aud unlike
every known popuhlr orator of his coun-
trv, he WIS not at all impassioned of
speech or ford of tongue. lie appealed
to the head more than TO the heart. IL
did not possess any one OF the qualitle
that were so coHspicuously displayed by
dead and gone ieasiers, such as Grattan
aud O'Connell- These were orators as
we'll as statesmen. They were, above all,
patriots. Grattan. had he lived in our
day, would be regarded as among those
whom O. w. ParneIl dubbed hillside
men," Grattan was fighter. O'Conneli
was not. The former believed with Vat
tel IF the people do not voluntarily sub
nit. q statesof war EXIST OConneii
would not seek liberty at the risk of she'd
ding blood. In politics ne was u Quaker.
His famous dictum was that Ireland s
battles should be fought on the floor of
the House of Commons. He failed to
win over Ireland TO his peace-at-any price
programme. He lived to see his policy
repudiated by the Young Ireland Party.
Meagher was their prophet. Like Sym
pronious, his voice WAS raised for war.
O'Connell's shibboleth WIS ''agitate, agi-
tate.n Smith o. Brien's slogan VAS:
Strike. for your affairs and your fires
Strike, till the last armed foe expires
Seeing his hopes blasted and his sceptre
shattered. O'Connell died of broken
heart. The spirit invoked by Smith
O'Brien though crushed WAS not con-
Quered. The sons OF those valiant hill
side men came TO the front In '65 and 61.
History of the sort that is known TO
Irishmen was again repeated. The phvs-
ical force party was IN the ascendant as
in. the dark and dismal days OF '9S
aud AS.
Gladstone proclaimed that the "inrens-
ity of Fenianism' brought about the dis
establishments of the Irish church. The
people had lost faith III the teachings of
Daniel O'connell. the Nationalist were 4
rebels to the core
Parneil came at q dark and wretched
period The doctrines and teachings of
James Stephens still ruled mems minds.
Parnell brought a discredited message Ito
the Irish people. He was not the bearer
OF glad lidlngs TO long suffering and
patient nation. They had grown
weary and heartsore of demagognes
aud place hunting politicians. Like
Joseph and his brethren the Irish people
were sold into servitude. In their des-
pair they, had they but the strength.
would gladly have pulled down the pill
lars of the constitution, even should they
like Samson, have perished in the ruins.
Parnell originated no new or startling
policy. He only rehabilitated and in
fused energy into an old one. Grattan to
save the Stale would see the constitution
perish. O'Conneii's reverence for the
constitution was even greater than his
concern Tor his State. ParnelI was be-
lever that the constitution was made for
the State, not the State for the coustitu-
ton. Ireland was placed between ScyIIa
aud Charybdis; between Wings and
Torres. Isaac Butt, good natured mau.
thought he conId wheedie John Bull by !
Whispering soft noshings. la compari-
son with this post praadiai Datriof. Par
nell was VERT abls separatist: an OUT /
and out revoiuti0uist. 4
Parneil first established his claims TO /
the confidence OF the Irish peopfs by 1
proving himself 4 lighter. lie was not !