The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-17
TRIBUTE TO MEAGHER.
Compliment to the Leader
of the 10th Massachu-
sets Veterans.

Webster, Oct. 16.-Richard j. Kenne-
dy, local merchant, who is a relative
through marriage of Brig. Gen. Thomas
F. Meagher, has received a copy of The
Nationalist from Clonmel ireland, IN
der date of Sept 30 1t contains the re-
port of a speech delivered there by R. P.
O'Brien on the character and deeds of
the brave Irish general whose home was
in Clonmel. 1t will be interesting to
old veterans hereabouts who were I'M
der Meagher's command. Here are
some of Mr.. OBriens remarks:
Every American citizen who loves
Ireland, who cherishes the memories of
her illustrious men, who feels any OBJ
ioquy cast upon such memory as a
wound should now strive with enthus-
iastic earnestness to make the monu-
ment triumphant success 1t is true,
indeed, that the heroic memory of gal
liant Meagher needs neither STORED urn
nor animated bust to perpetuate his
character and fame. That character
and that fame are imperishably en-
balmed in the annals of two countries,
and the lofty niche he occupies in the
temple of Irish eloquence is evermore
secure.
"Of Meagher's character as a soldier
it is almost superfiuous that I should
speak. Is it not the theme alike of the
historians tale the orator S eulogy and
the poets song? What American with
Irish blood in his veins does not feel
the ruddy stream bounding with tumul-
tuous pride through every fibre of his
frame when he reads of the deeds of
Meagher and his brigade at Fair
Oaks, Malvern, Fredericksburg, Antie-
tam and Charlottesville?
Let US see what the correspondent.
Mr. Russell, who watched the battle
from the heights, has to say Of Meagh-
er's troops from fredericksburg;
Never, at Foutenoy, Albuera, nor at
Waterloo was more undoubted courage
displayed by the SONS of Erin than dur
ing those six frantic dashes which they
directed against the almost impregnable
position of the foe with dauntlessness
of a race which has gained glory on a
thousand battlefelds; and never more
richly deserved than at the foot of
Marye's Heights en- the 18th day of De
cember, 1892
"0h! what g picture for the brush of
MISSIONER was that scene when Mea-
CHER babe adieu to the war-worn rem
nants of his once magnificent command.
When the concomitant circumstances
are considered greater, nobler, more
pathetic was that scene than that 9TH
err memorable episode which took place
in the Place de Cheval, at Fontaine-
bleau. in 1915, when the great Napoleon
parted from his OLD Guard
Possessed Of a bravery of a Bayard
or Ney, the tenderness and poetic fer
vor of a Sydney, Meagher was not on
ly hero on the battlefield; in the realm
of oratory art he was a king.
1T is a cherished hope that l may be
permitted to behold monument wor-
thy Of the man, his race, and his
adopted country, raised to the memory
OF one Of the noblest Irishmen that ever
left his bones away from the old land. "
The republican representative con-
Vention Of the seventh Worcester
county representative district, a double
district, comprising the towns OF
Southbridge, Webster, oxford, Dudley
and Charlton, viii be held in Firemen' s
hall, Webster tomorrow afternoon. The
meeting will be called to order at :
o'clock by Dr. T. A. Brown, chairman
of the Webster town committee
Elmoine D. Clamans of Webster and
Fred A. Putnam of Charlton are can
didates for the nomination