Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-03-11


he spoke his hand his eye, his mouth, his foo each and all
language of nsnuaton, coercion and persuasion His
prehnsion quick his wit KEEN his scow terrible his look
whitening, his revenge crushing. There chord OF feel
ing that he could strike with power At moment he
melted his hearers by his paos another convused them by
his humor he first held them the heights of imagination then
bound them by the chains of logic He controlled at will the
widest emotions OF Irish mob and passed with the OF
from bursts of passion the enderest pahos There
rhetorical cery He like Shiel to strike
and dazzle create sensation and be admired His bursts OF
passion displayed that genuneness and freshness which
seldom counterfeit His speeches the masteu utter
of great naughty and times doubt
naughty arrogant because the speaker the pride his
integrity from the depths of his soul all and
Few the men, is ad "who have such power
the multitude, who thoroughly rule the people about
who completely within their grasp the rns of
political Pegasus The rbune of old had greater in
uence the Romans The Gracch Rienz Mirabeau could
have surpassed him. He magnificent orator. renchent
versatile selfposessed in all his denuncaons ready in
unudied effective native natural persua
sve, resourceful and unsurpassed.
Moreover he constructive What the present
generation knows OF him and remembers that he found the
Irish Catholics of great political degradation that he
freed them that he began the conflict against the emend
odds when he still young and that he had
he day before he fifty though doing it he had attack
the od self-satisfed and mpeous in the world
deepl-rooted prejudice. Never
yet the history of peaceful agitation has done
much OConne the Catholic If he had been
removed then emancipation would have if from the
development of the English conscience, rather than in the
and nober way from the struggle of the Catholics them
selves Ireland be secured for the Irish peace
theirs be theirs; social political and religious
rights be theirs constitutional government and unver
sal freedom all be theirs Justly could OConne say,
by cradle of his country and followed her heae
left for sound the resurrectionumpe and show
she not dead, but sleeping
1t from this standpoint that OConne only with
who revoltionzed their times like Kosuth Luther, MAJ
zini Voltaire of like
Alexander dused the language and civilization of Greece
wherever victory led him, but he did through blood and op
preston His marvellous also dazzed his judgment
and nhaed his passion. Caesar styled The Father of his
Country ruled BY military His policy like
Of Augustus in his person the emf off
Of and thus establish single rule This he did but only
by of the Ambition, cold heares him
later PROSTATE the foot of Pompey Bismarck the
guiding spirit of Germany its PeaceNaker and PeaceKeep
err" Austria Prussia France his feet But
he also the man Of blood and IRON holding in his military
desposm the whole German Empire Napoleon Emperor Of
France the foohardy risks in the hope of obtaining
results which would dazzle the world regulating his policy
accordance with his own ambitious schemes AT the zenith
of his glory he arber of Europe the head of
confedeacy OF princes but he obtained his glory through force
of And that aber of led him his Waterloo
and St Helena. OConnel the Monarch OF Ireland"
He king without sacredoa royal descent
usurpatona king without guardsa king of
millions by of clergy and a-a king with power
levy maintain conclude peacea king who
forth carnival of revenge He reand-eand revived
and regeneratedeand but ruling with the iron heel of
tyranny the rod OF oppression the sword of carnage Rather
he exerng his souls efforts and influence behalf of
religious and constitutional liberty
Washngon's glorious victories Trenton and Princeton,
Chad Ford and Germantown his prvation Valley Forge
all haowed in the memory of He who changed
the ideals of political greatness established American government
and reared the columns Of American Liberty But there
who revoutonzed the whole of Ireland who
modelled its representative educational and ecclesiastical ins
ton who gave Liberty Conscience country only
but to all Europe and who by his individual efforts nstgat
ed Universal Freedom This the glory of OConncl He it
who maintained national conictthe conflict of resistance
against force freedom against oppression and right against
usurpaon who banhed the Penal Code and severed the ALI
with England yet who maintained her deverance
should not be hazardd by single lost by the sacrifice
OF single life Civil and religious liberty for Ireland but lib
erty without war, Instruction or ret>' on.
He left his mighty enterprise unfinished So did the Found
of the Hebrew State did Hampden did Emmett
Fitzgerald But has he done enough for fame? Who
accomplished much for freedom with simple? Who
but he subvered tyranny saved the oppressed spared op