The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-01-28

been no O'Connell at all. Sydney Smith
says of Lord Russell's five feet, when be
went down to Yorkshire after the reform
bill had passed, the stalwart hunters of
Yorkshire exclaimed, What, that little
shrimp, he carry the reform bill!' "No,
no." said Smith, "He was large man,
but the labors of the bill s:lrunk him. y
You remember the story that Russell
Lowell tells of Webster when we in Mas
sachusetts were about to break up the
Wing party. Webster came home to
Faneuil Hall to protest, and four thous-
and Wings came out to meet him. He
lifted up his majestic presence before
that sea o human faces, his brow
charged with thunder and said, Gentle
me amfsshy hig; a NJ +ssachusetts Whig;
q Revolutionary Whig; a Constitutional
Whig; Fansuil Hall Whig; and if you
break up the Wing party where am [ to
go?" And, said Lowell, I'VE all held
our breath, thinking where he could
60" "But," says Lowell, IF he had
been five feet three, we should have said,
confound you, who do you suppose cares
where you go?" Well, O'Conuell had all
that's and then he had what Webster never
had, and what Clay had, the magnetism
and grace that melts million souls into
his
When I saw HIM he was sixty.fve,
1.-the as boy. His every attitude was
beauty, his every gesture grace. Why,
Macready or Booth never equalled him.
It would have been ap!easure even to
look at him if he had not spoken at all,
and all you thought of was a grey hound.
And then he had what so few American
speakers have. voice that sounded the
gamut. I heard him once in Exeter hall
say, Americans, send my voice career
ing like the thunder storm across the
Atlantic, to tell South Carolina that
Gods thunderbolts are hot, and to re-
mind the negro that the dawn of his re-
demption is drawing near,'' and seemed
to hear his voice reverberating and re-
echoing back to London from the Rocky
Mountains.
And then, with the slightest possible
flavor of an Irish brogue, he would tell
a story that would make all Exeter Hall
laugh. and the next moment there were
tears in his voice, like an old song, and
five Thousand smen would be in tears.
And all the while no effort-he seemed
only breathing
'sAs efortless as woodland hooks
Send violets up and paint them blue
Appropos of this grand tribute to the
Irish tribune, the following reminis cen
ces of the Emancipator contributed by q
correspondent of the Kerry Evening Post,
may be given: SIN the course of Mr..
Pierce Mahoney's examination on Mon
day, Dec 19,he said that his grandfather,
father snd himself had always been Prot
estants, and that although his grand
father had once had political fight
with Daniel O'Connell, M. P. (who died
in 184O, they were afterwards good
friends. On which Mr.. Justice johnson
remarked, i think we have had quite
enough Of the family history a remark
which caused some laughter in court.
Kerry people naturally, however, take
more iaterest in the family history of
the Mahonys and O'Connells than they
do in the wittiest criticisms, obiter die
tum, of all Her Majesty's judges and
counsels- learned in the law. l hope
the following little anecdote will not be
deemed by Judge johnson to pa take
of the nature of that awful offense known
as contempt of court nor by Mr.. Pierce
Mahoney to be slanderous accusation
against his respected grandfather. When
the great Daniel, better known as the
Liberator, paid memorable visit to
Tralee Immediately after his imprison-
ment, a large ball was given in his hoaor
by family residing in Denny street, re-
latives or connections Of his. Invita-.
tions were sent out, in some cases seven
teen and twenty-four miles, by mounted
messengers to Dingle and it's neighbor-
hood, and every part Of Kerry, to gentle
mems houses, for this t1iumphal festival.
Only few of the strongest Tories re-
fused to come, the majority lot the
young folks at ali events), however Con-
servative in their politics and Protestant
in their creed, basely swallowed their
convictions with the capital supper and
wines provided for them and danced un-
til daylight. The hero of the evening,
the Liberator, sat on 6 large sofa in 9
room adjoining the dancing room, with
opened folding doors between them. As
each guest or party Of guests arrived
they were ushered into the Liberator's
presence. and formally introduced to
him, and then sbake-hands took place.
The whole affair Of this Introduction was
9 queer imitation OF 9 levee, and the
study of some Of the lady ultra-conserva-