The Irish standard., 1892-09-24
DANIEL DOUGHERTY.

DANIEL DOUGHERTY.
The Eloquent Tribute Paid to His Memory
by Archbishop Ryan. of Philadelphia.
After the funeral services of the late
Daniel Dougherty in st. Johns church,
Philadelphia, on Sept. s, Archbishop
Ryan ascended the altar platform and
delivered the following panegyric OF the
deceased as an orator, citizen and public
man:
1t is not necessary before this audi
ence to enter into detail of the fine quail
ties Of our departed friend. To speak
would open wider wounds already
bleeding. In private life and in his fam
lily he was the favorite of this great city,
and nature SO fashioned him that he
would have been favorite in any COM
munity. Who can forget his noble,
genial face, the grasp Of his hand, the
fash Of his eye? AS a public man he was
ever loyal 10 truth, as he understood it.,
and devoted to his country with all the
intensity and chivalry Of his nature.
But some one may say he was not
loyal to party, and changed. He was
right to change il his convictions SO led
him. I hate the cowardice Of imnuta-
bility. 1t requires more courage 10 face
friends made foes by your changed con-
yictions than to meet an army in battle
array. Who shall dare to say that he
changed from unworthy motives? What
office did he ever beg for?
Mr.. Dougherty, said PRESIDENT Bucha-
nan, is known in political campaigns, but
never after. 1t is rare fer presidents to
pay such compliments. They are gener-
ally obliged to prolong their acquaint-
ancs with campaigners. IL a sketch Of
Mr.. Dougherty in g morning paper Of
this city, edited by az exceedingly able
public man, who knows much Of political
life, our dear dead friend is represented
as ''blindly aisinterested statesman
a statesman blind to his own personal
interest. No nobler tribute could be-
paid to him.. Pennsylvania ought to be
proud that in this selfish nineteenth cen~
fury she has had two public mon who
We're not. like many others, merely disin-
terested and pure, but blindly disinter~
ested, possessing heroic virtue, sacrific-
ing personal to public interests, and she
can write these words beneath the sta
tues in her temple of fame OF Daniel
Dougherty and Samuel J. Randall.
On Mr.. Dougherty's eloquence it is
not necessary TO dilate You have been
thrilled by it many and many a time.
Nature fashioned and blessed him for a
great orator. He had more of the natural
qualities for such mission than any man
I have ever met. There are others as
great or greater il some points, who,
however, lack his polished elegance and
grace. IT. has been said that hs would
have been the greatest actor Of his day
had be sought the stage as his profes"
sion. To be the greatest actor in ones
day is no mean achievement. But MIR.
Dougherty was more He would nave
been q great actor, but he was great
orator. The actor is great with other
mems thoughts, the orator is great with
his own. It has been sometimes said
that his best speeches were not long, pre-
pared orations, like those Of Edward
Everett or Wendell Phillips, but short
flashes of eloouence, rather like perora-
lions Of great speeches.
This is great compliment, The ora
tor has much to do before he dares to
cone 10 al impassioned psroration. He
must convince the intellect, appeal to the
heart and then seize on intellect and
heart by bis peroration. The man who
can at bound, with the intuition of
genius, master both at once, is great
orator.
Massillon did this in six words. The
body Of Louis XIV.--Louls the Great.as
he was called, and in many things he de-
served the name, though infamous In
others lay in the kings chapel in Paris.
Massillon arose to preach. There was
the vacant throne covered with Grape;
there all the insignia OF royalty as if in
mourning for the great monarch; there
the French mobiles and courtiers Of that
proud, highly cultured and voluptuous
court. The preachers were accustomed
to address the king first as the great
sire, and then addressing the others to
say, my brethren. But, looking on the:
dead kim and all the evidences Of the.
vanity Of all things human, he remained
silent for some moments, transfixed by
the. scene. He could not address the
king now as great, but Il q mingled in
SEPARATION Of religion and genius he ex-s
claimed aod alone IS great, my brethren. I,
& How clog uent, whether Is original or]
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