Year: 1875

the second vas that as civ liberty docs not nece,sar


associate itself with revolution, religious liberty noe
to be identified with indifference to the truth OF God
He found the weapons OF political action potent
when they welded under the sanction Of the a~
and in susanmont Of the order OF society and the rm
Of his Catholic faith animated and nerved him for
the battle Of freedom. That is lesson worthy OF an
acceptance now Men are swinging loose from tho
moorngs Of religion. and assail as Il was never as
sailed before, the system of belcf-whch has founded
and built up the institutions OF the modern word-as
enete and obsolete and endurablc longer
For Us, at least in Ireland, il viii
DO fitting 10 remember that the most fearless
champion Of our liberty was also the most
aocile chd Of the Church and the most resolute de-
lehHer ol her integrity and independence pray you
70 lay TO heart this lesson also age when the


ar seeks TO dssociae itself TOO much from the spirit
nal aud We are confidently told that mani we'll being
WI oe advanced by The denial and dethronenent OF his


The third great lesson was that which was taught by
otonne IN thousands Of speeches aud accepted with
unqusuohIs SUBMISSION by millions of brave men,
anu stamped WITH authority by the results II wrought
Tor those who learned It, IL wac that moral force
should always be preferred TO physical; that peacc-
iul agitation IS adequate 20 tho removal of every
grievance, and that the who casts away the aid
Of legal action and trusts 20 violence under constitu-
ton adequate OF the needs and if they only will it
protective to the rights OF all Is mad or criminal Ths
the Characteristic erhng Of his life to which ha
cl0ng in the face Of all opposition and discOuragement
and which he equally maintained in the darkest aud The
brightest days of his weary struggle


THE UNION or IRisliiKN GRASpgsr LESSON or AIN.


To one other lesson, and only shall dctan you
by adverhg me union OF lrlshnen was always one Of
the fondest aspirations OF 0Connei He labored TO in
uuCc them 10 Nofk together their common good H0
longcd 10 established among them that brotherhood
of affection which for any wise purpose and in any
worthy would make their combination irresstbie
For this he hoped and prayed but the time for it had
not arrived and he failed 10 join in love those whom q
wayward fate had put asunder. We have fallen bet
ter days. The motives and the means of social union
greatly multiplied Old lines of dcmarcation arc
botted out Old Influences which held Us in antag0.
nism TO a large extent exist no longer The law doeS
not tolerate the sembiance OF ascendancy place
premium on civil strife We enjoy equality OF
rights, which should involve identity of duties
and Of interests; and although the divisions Of
turies may not be ended in hour the way
is open for their roconccment II has begun This
celebration should specdit onward There is
why we should not soon look back upon gloomy
history seeking indictments hatred subjects for
recrminaton but regarding what is good in IL with COM
mon PRIDE, and deriving from il common guidance for
our future conduct There why should not
recprocay recognize great qualities and heroic deeds dis
payedby our iorciahers in nernccine cus by for
ever. Why should not North and South emulate cach
other in doug homage TO the magnanrnous endurance
OF Limerick and Derry and in honor the gal


liant clergyman who held the Maiden City against all
comers, and the noble exile who caught up the lifo
blood yelling from his heart in foreign quarrel on n
foreign field and murmured, with his falling breath
"Oh that this were Tor IrelandI


must conclude. What have said, with some dni-
Guilty and under painful circumstances may not have
attained my end; but have striven describe 0'Con-
nell as he was in life, and 10 indicate OF his es
to the enduring admiration of his country and mankind