The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18

all their gladness and glory. Meagher
has been compared ito Richard Labor
She'll, the renowned rhetorician whom
Gladstone in his address recommended
to the London preachers. But there
was no resemblance; She'll was small
and slight with a voice that screamed
like a scalded eagle. Meagher was an
athlete, She'll was as the commingled
voices of the rapids 1ashing the rocks
with his brilliant defamation; Meagher
was the broad cataract throwing its
beautiful sprays In profuse diamonds
She'll was the impetuous torrent fling
ing up succession of fiery rocks and
Eapor. She'll was a. torch that blazed
Meagher was a lamp that shone stead
lily: She'll had more fire and energy,
Meagher more brilliancy and grace: he
had little fervid defamation, sometimes
he hesitated for a word, but when he
rose to his most impassioned moments
all the orator stone in him. His eye
flashing, his voice thrilling, and when
repelling some Islander his face would
become pale with excitement. His ora
tons We're always beautiful, adorned
and ennobled with a train of images.
They flashed and sparkled all over with
the gems of a brilliant fancy, polished
TO the highest sheen by the rhetorician's
art. Perhaps the most finished of all
upon Australia, his description of the
infant colony sleeping in a peaceful
cradle while all the world Is torn and
rent by the revolutions of 1S4S, was real
ly grand and powerful, and when he
pictured that at no distant day she
would form a new constellation of free
and mighty republics. the orator be-
came a prophet, for the colonies have
become all that he predicted.
General Maa CHAR
shortly after the war, secretary of state
for Montana, where he afterwards be-
came governor. 1 received several let
tiers from him while he was there. Never
We're letters more welcome; they were
as refreshing to me as a spring of pure
water to thirsty traveller.
My appointments in the regular army
prevented my acceptance of his kind
invitation to become a citizen of that
young commonwealth. These letters
show cultured intellect, fine descrip-
tive powers, devotion to freedom, en-
thusiastic love for Ireland and an in
tense admiration for Montana. Alas,
that the hopes so rapturousIy expressed
were never realized! Alas, that the
noble woman Of whom he speaks SO
fondly never reached him! 1t is to be
hoped that the monument designed by
the Irish citizens of Montana will be
erected With such a man as Marcus
DAILY, and backed as he is by Senator
Carter and my old friend, Major Ma
sinnis, it cannot fail. | have said moth
ing of Meagher as soldier. In my last
book, Under Three Flags" l quote
General Lees estimate of the Irish
Brigade and its commander.
The confederate chief in his CONVEX
sations with me, which l relate fully
could pay the gallant Irishman no
higher compliment than to compare
him to their own famous Cleburne and
StoneWall Jackson.
In one of Meagher's letters, which
has been lost, there is a sentence which
wildly remember; it was on the
union army: THE pride and beauty of
which are irreparably blended with the
sudden blaze of victory which rose
above Fort Donelson and Chattanooga
and travelled in unwavering lines of
glory through the storm that shook the
earth" He also wrote a tender and
touching letter when I conferred his
name upon my youngest son.
The premature and unexpected death
of General Meagher filed the whole
country with profound sorrow. 1 was
stationed in the regular army at Raj
eigh; General Miles, now commander of