The Irish standard., 1895-03-16

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Continued hon FIRST Pass.
on Shore, e my great Joy and surprise;
my friends. who watched my movements,
waved . kind adieu, tho Juverna slipped
her cables, and at one bound Was out Of
the river. Z
Shortly afterward ], too proceeded TO
Cork, and found shelter IN 8 friends
honse, where I met Mrs. Downing,
.Claribel' Of the Nation. 4 famous poe
tess Of that day. She asked me to come
to London il the guise Of her maid, and
added 81 will provide you with woman's
clothes. You will pass unnoticed in that
attire, for your features are still beard
less.
i accompanied her to London, thus
clothed, and resumed my usual attire at
her house, from whence I proceeded to-
Paris The success Of my escape from
arrest was due to Mrs. Downing, and
partly to my friends in Kilkenny. These.
latter, hearing that / was wounded at
Ballingarry, circulated 9 report that I
had died from loss Of blood. Two Of
them proceeded to Tipperary, where they
purchased coffin, and deposited therein
my supposed corpse. The casket was
conveyed to Kilkenny on car, and my
alleged remains received the honor Of q
magnificent funeral. was then buried
under the shad W of the round tower Of
st. Canice. The local newspapers had
sympathetic obituaries, dwelling on the
good qualities Of the deceased, who they
said was juvenile of much promise, but
who, unfortunately, in an evil hour
.sioined the unholy ranks Of the al
disturbers Of his country
Shortly after my arrival in Paris, /
received from home several Ir sh news
papers, from which learned that Smith
O'Brien had been arrested at the Thurles
Railway station on the 9th OF August,
1848. He was brought to trial, and he
and MacManus, O'Donohoe, and Meag
her we're senteDced to death on the
charge of high treason, but this sentence
! was afterwards committed to penal
servitude for life in the Bermuda islands.
! On the 9th Of July, 1S49, the English
man of-war Swift, spread her sails in the
direction Of these islands, having on
Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meag
hsr, MacManus, and O'Donohoe. John
Martin, brother in-law Of Mitchell, who
had been previously transported to the
Bsrmudas, and Kelvin Izod O'Doherty, a
medical student Of Trinity College, who
was also fslon, we're conveyed to Cork
| on the 10Th OF June, l849, where they
Il were put aboard the ship The Mount
Stewart Elphinstone, bound for the same
islands.
/ John Mitchell was liberated a few years
after his arrival in the Bermndas, thanks
to the efforts Of P. j. Smyth, fellow
Young Irelander. Smith O'Brien and
the other political prisoners were pardon
! ed some time subsequently. OBrien re-
turned to his Manor House, Limerick
county, Ireland. Meagher became
famous as brave soldier in the civil war
in the United States, and rose to be gen
eral of that gallant band of regiments
known as the Irish Brigade. MacManus
did Lot long survive his liberation. His
remains were conveyed in steamship
from New York to the Cove of Cork in
1861. His funeral in Dublin was attend
ed by tens of thousands of men who
marched with the step of experienced
soldiers behind the hearse. This great
demonstration in memory of an Irishman
who risked his life in the cause Of Irish
liberty mas was, so to speak, the result
OF my previous labors in Ireland in start
ing and developing the I. R. B. organiza-
tiop, after had left France and return
ed to Ireland in 1856. O'Brien, Meagher,
Dillon, Dohney, O'Mahony, and ODono-
hoe have passed into the valley Of the
shadow of death. The only leading
surviving members Of the 48 movement
are Gavan Duffy, Kelvin Izod O'Doherty,
Denny Lane, Of Cork City, and Richard
O'Gorman, Of New York.
I may add that none of these gentle
men with two excsptions) Through no
fault Of their own--took an active part
il the attempted rebellion. Gavan Duffy,
the proprietor Of the Nation, was arrest
ed at that time on the charge Of having
written rebellious article, entitled
"Jacta alea est" '.The Die is cast"
During his first trial, 'Speranza," Lady
Wilde (who is still living and residing in
London), declared proudly, as she sat in
the gallery Of the Court:
1T am tho author Of the incriminR!od