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DANIEL OXONNELL. WENDELL PHILLIPS'S ADDRESS. TUE SILVER TONGUED ORATOR'S GREATEST EFFORT. rjSCTTJRK DELIVERED LAST FRIDAY EVENINO IN MUSIC HALL, BOSTON, ON THK RKAT IRISH LIBBRATUR. A hundred years ago to-day Daniel O'Counell was bora. The Irl&a rac, whereever scattered over tbesrAobe, assembles to night, pay faulig triOute to his isieujcry, oneof the most eloquent men, oueol tto mos: devoted patriots and the most wcrestful statesmao which that race ha ariven to Imtory. Wo or oiler races may well j in you in that trtbut sine the cau-eofwn stl'utional govern most ovr?s more to O'Counell than to any or her political leader tf the last two centuries. The English apeakiip race, to find hi- equal among Is slat earner, must p. by C'oa nam and Walpolt nd go back to Oliver Cromwell, or the abl men who held up the throne of Qnn fc"iizbetii. Ir t pu'.the civil and social elaa-aut of yourday into 8u"essal action and plant, tho t-eedsot continued -trench and progress lor comio times. If this is to ba statesman. thr in ?ti emphatically was O'Counell one. To exe rr this control and secure tr.i progress wniland btcaue ample awaim lie read? lor u under your hand does not rob Walpole an. I Colbert, Chatham and Richelieu or their title to be considered .rtatestnen. T o do it. ah Martin Lutner did, when one luubt ingeniously discover or luvent bis tool, and while the mighiest forc that ihlii.ence human affairs are arrayed against him this la what ra ks O'Counell with the ffw anas terly statesmen the E.iglish spaakiug race has ever had. When Napodeou'a soldiers" bore the negro chief, Toussaint L'Ouwrture, into exile, be said, pointing ock to fcan Domiu.40, "You think you have rooted tip the tree of liberty. Hut I am only a branch. I have plants lue tree itsel so deep that Ages will never root it up." Ana whatever inav be said of the social or indus trial condition oi Havti durinc the let seventy years, its nationality has uev6r beeo suecesstullv assailed. O'Cojinell is the only Irishman who can say aa much of Ireland. From tbe peace of Utrecht, 1713. till the fall of Napoleon, Grot.t Britain w4 the leadirg state iu Europe, while Ireland, a compilative! v insienitieant island, lay at it feet. .She weigbed next to nothing iu the scale 1 British politic. The continent pitied avid England despised her. Xl'Connell fouud her a mass of quarrelling races and pect, divided, dispirited, broken hearted and servile, lie made her a nation, whose tirt word broka in pieces the iron obstinacy of Wellington, tosned Feel from the Cabinet, s-nd cave the government t- the Whigs, wLose colossal tiut. 'ike the helmet iu Wrip oie'a romance, has Shed THE POI.ITICALSKY ver since, whose generous aid thrown into the scale of the three great Br.tisb reform. the ballot, the corn laws aud slavery, secure-! theirauccese; a natiou whose continued diontent has draajred -Great Britain down to be a second-rate power ou the ches board Earop. I know other eaus have helped in producing this result. Bttt th national! tv whicu O'Counell created ha-s bt-eti the main cause of this chance in England's im portance. Dean Swiü, Molvuenx ai. Ileory Flood thrust Ireland fjr a motcer.t ii the arena of British politic, a sturdy sup pliant clHtuoriPK- for juiti.: and Orattao teld er tnere ati fqnal and, as he th- ug'it a na Ion lor a lew years. But the unscru t uloua baud oi liliam 11 t brushei away in an hour all Grat tan's work. Wll might heeavof ttte Irish parliament wr.ica he brought to life: "1 t-at by its cradlp. I followed its hearse." Hue, after ttiat famous union, which ISyron called a uido:i of ibe shark with it pry," Ireland sank back plundered and nelpie.ss. O'Conueli lilted ber to a fixed and nernanent place f 'j Eng-ijh affairs no suppliant, but acjnqner or ui'.aatu.c her terras. I his i- th prop-r standpoint from which to lo-k at O'Countdi' work. This is the consideration that rnitks him, not with founders of tafes, like Alex ander, Vufhnr, Bis'iriairk. Napoleon aid William the Silei.t, Ihu witb men who, witi--out arms, by force or reason, have revoiu lioDiK-nl ihmr time wvitii Luther, I-ff--r-on Mh-zzuiL, eamu-t Adams, Oarruswo au i 1'raukHn. I know some ineu will arer et this oiaim ; thoe who have never looked at Jbim except through ibe pcta-!e ! IZ u lih critics who d-pisd bun as an IribmLu and a Catholic, until they came to . bate hin as a conoueror. As ura.tan saif ot arau, "Tn -urse of Sif was up-io Dknj. to nv ieea to.i au Irishman aud a msu of genius, aud have used his Klf s for bis com.try'a xh!.1 Maik whar. meure of Boces.i a tended fh able uieo who preceded in ii rcu instances as favorable as bis, perhaps even bttyr; ' ht-t lutaAure bira'by couip-arisou. An i-Uin so-ike-l wvth the blood of tliec luntles reb-1 li.x,p; t w-es-i)u nuchas would turn coward Into neroea; a rao whose discipnued valor J. m1 tterii proved on sltnoet every bnt Ik li-ld iu üur'rnj, anrt whoee reckis- dnrlrnf lifted it, auy time in aim sgaiut E iwUod wita Lop or w!th.ut. Wha'. inspired tnom? D-voi'n, eloquence and Dnoii!i eel -ouj parallele iu uibtory. VVtioJ.l tieta? Du iSili, accorling t Ad lis nt 'tb urea't u-.nms of hU ace" cllnd by the Pop "tb iucoupH?ari'i"; u man fertile iu resources of stubborn courage and tireie energy MASIKK OF AN SNCU-H STYLE uu?q ialhl, erh)rs, for its purpose then or since; a m-u who had twice lace J England in her aeyrie mood, and by that nia-'erly pea snbdufad her t bis will; Ileury Fl 'd. ol.iquent even forau Irisbman and sanac-iou-ji-s be was tloqafut tbeedlp of ttat rril liaiit liteone of thesaddesc pictures lo Irih biottrapby; Gra'tan with al! the courage, and more thin the eloquence, of bis rat a statesman's eequi-.k to seize ever? advantage, bouudlea- devotion, unspotted inie rlty, r -ooKniz d as an equal by the world's leaders and welcomed by Fox to the tl oiae a Couonops as the D jaio-thete8 ol Ireland; Emmet in tbe field, Sheridan in the 4nae, Crrn at the bar and atK' li, Edmund Barke, wboe naxn- makes eu'ogy aupetfiuous, more thau Cic ro in the Ssnate. almost Plat i". the Academy. All iti&Q sve their lirea to Ireland and when the pre-en eectury opened where waasn.? .HrtJ.i i - k slavt' in toe market place by her p ijureO master, William Pl.t. It wa- theo, that O'Cocnell flung himself into toe s-rugxh, cave Üy years to the service of ! c-i:rj, and wbno ü sbe to-day? N-t oidy tV deemed, bMit hr independen -e pu; h yo. J doubt or raniL Grattsu and hi pre Ucesora coulJgei hOüUtraiitees f ir La. n '. they gained Iu that sagacious, w-tc: tui and almst omnipotent public optnioo which O CounelJ crea'ed.'san all eumc:eot gaarmtee of Iryl tn i's lütar. Lo k .it hjr. Almo-t every shackle has fallen truui h -r lltnb';all that huui.i! wisdom hs a- yet ;ivised to remedy the e?ilsol bUowy and ndsrnle has ben d ne O'Cannell found Ireland a "hwsln and by-word" io Edinburgh od L ndon. lie rad ber the pivot ol British politics. She rules them directly or

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sway as toe States trom ) slave rmestion dU the United 1SÖ0 to I8G5. Look Into Earl Rassers book, and the blatorv of the reform till of inj-, and see with now much truth it may d. claimed that O'Connell and his fellows cave Englishmen the bnllot under tha: ect. t la bv no means certain tuai. inw crn " - could have been sbolished without their aid. n the anti-s'averv stnurßle O'Lonneil stands, iu influence and abilUv, equal with he best. I know tbe credit ail ir-ose me-m-ores ao to rjnauan leauers. jui, m opinion, the next eeneration will test he statesmanship OI reel, r-aimer'wui jum. and G lad vons almost entirely by their condectnf the Irnh question. All the laurels tiev have hitherto won In that field sro wasted In Ideas wnicn uraitan ana j v.uunell urged on reluctant boarers for half a centurv. N hv do liiamart aol Aiexacuer look with such contemptuous lnont-reDC on every attempt oi r.ogiauu u tuiciu n ETROPEAS AFFAIRS? Rcctuse tbey know they have but to irt a , I 1 s 1. 1. linger and ire ana siaos oer ia m i Where was the statesmanship of English f alers when they allowed such an e il to grow so lorniioaDieT l nis is ireianu io-oay. What was she when O'Connell underio-k her cause? It wan a community impover isl ed by five centuries of oppression four millions ot Ca hol ca robbext or every acre of their native land. It was an island torn by rcs-hatred and religious LUotryber priests indifferent aid her nbles hope.ess or traitors, too wuiest ! oer nueuiim. Protectant Irishman, mied the British Sn ale; th sfernnst of her tyrants, a Protectant Irishman, led the armies oi Europe: rnntan hate, which bad grown blinder and more bitter since the dav3 of Cromwell, gave them weapons. Ireland herself lav bound m the iron iioks oi a coae which Montesquieu said could have ben und only by devils, and should be rrgis . tered only in bell." Her millions were oe j ond the reach of the great reform enelne f modern time, since they could neither read nor write. In this ma-sof iarnoance. wknesa and quarrel, one keen eye t-aw the hid den, the element- of union and streng' h. Wish rarest skill be called them rorw. and marshalled them into rank. Tnen bis one man, witnout birth, wealth rr office, iu a land ruled by truth, wtaltn or rfü. e, inould-?d from those unsuspected element a p:wer whlcb, overawing king, senate sr.d people, wrote his single will on in Statut bKiK of the most obstinate nation in E ir Safely to emancipate tie IrNh Citb dics, and in spite ot Sxon Protfts'ani hate, to lift all In land to the l-vel o KrttHh ritizTisbp this was the problem whu-h statesmanship and patriotism ha-l been for two centuries to solve, ror this, blood had been poured out like water. On this tie genius ot Swüt, th lernirg of Molyneux, and the el- quence or tin-pe, Hrattanar d Burke had been wasted Eng lish leaders, ever since Fox, had studied this problem anxiously. They saw that the safety ot the empire was compromised. At one or two critical moments in the reign of George tbe Third, one signal from an Irisn leader would have snapped tbe chain tba bound Ireland to his throne. Ilia ministers rec -gnir d it, and they tried every expedi 'if. exhausted every device, dared every peri!, k'-pt oaths, or broke them, In order t ucced. All tail d and not only failed. but acknowledged they could see no way in which snccees could ever be achieved. O'Connell achieved it ! Out of this dark nes HE CALLED FORTH LtOHT. Out of this most abject, weak aad pitiable of kingdoms be made a power, and dying. be leu in parliament a spectre wbicb, un less appeased, pushes Whig and Tory ruin isters alike from their stools. But Brcug nam says h was a dvmsgogue. Fie on Fox a, d Pitt, Wellington, Derby, Peel, Palmsr ton. Liverpool, llu-sell and uriu,hsm to b looted aud ruled bv a demajsogu ! Wba mu-t tney, the sübj-cfs, be ii O'Couneil teir king, he only a bijiot aud a demagogue? A tiemae- cue rides tbe st'rm. 11 ha ueyer really the ability to create one. use it narrowly, ignorantly, and for t-elii? ends. Il not crushed by tbe force wbii-h without his will, has flung him into p w.r; ha leads it with ri Ji- uioin raUcticala Monag.iiust some insurmountable obstx.ci? which H-aters it forever. Dyiutr. he Itj.ver no mark ou the eieiuen's witn Die he ban t eu mixed Hj epirre will -erve t r an illustration, it u.ok u ( oar ei: thit.- yers o. ii:rut and sagaiiou labor to mil ,- luei.ts wi ose existence n man, ho-tve; Aide, bd ever uicerned bef re. 11 uevi ti.eni utisciüdbly, only t P'K.k tba y.-ka ot hi ruce. Nearly fifry yoara have p.used si-ce his triumph, but his iuipres-i -tili 'aads forth ci- r and sharp mi the empire' ioiiev. Ireland is wholly moebied t bin. fri- p:i i al duatlou. Keson-b ;it educates. II lilted her to broai'.er rexpoobi U' lines. Hr po-st sion of poer mkestt ihn ke"ii inter stoi oth r clao-es t j se sbe i weil in. or med. lit associated her wit ail the e. or oi uiovemuuta f Great fjniai;.. Tw.s is the education ot at lairs, broader, deeper and mor real (bar, ut hooi or c;Ufe oau give, I m s snd pow-r his n,iit aru th lever which lifts bei Pj evry oiher right and priv ll-r,:. liow iuocU Eigldad oe him we can .i.ver know, since how great a danger unj carse Ireland i -uid have U en to the empire hi -ne ct.tiinufU the chapter n:- u (JnsUeresgik ef. hue ia a chap er ;I h.-lury v b;c i. p-itu- ely, van never tKi written N demagogue evr walked itirou'u -he wir--ih ) D-iodii, as O'Couueil an ! Gratia; did more luau ohce, botued aud mobbed oecauce tbev opp.ised lhem-lvos u tli.i ms l purpose o i h pooplt ai d cruslieil it by -. : . . . . j. . siern rejövaai;w. uwuisogu vu o have offrrd hiii-ell to a rMCe l.kc t: Irish the posiio of pesc ; pleüüiiiic hiined i ibe British government that in Ibe long a.i-'-atiou leforrt uim, with brave millions behind P'iiJ, SPOIUSU FOR A riOHT, be would never draw a sword. I have pur p8ely dwelt long on this view, because tbe ex.ei.t and the far reacning tff-cts of O'Cou n ell's work, without regard to the motives wb cb inspired him, or the methods be used, have never been fully recoguizsd. lineflv slated, he (ltd what ine ablest and bravest of los ffjreruuaers had tried to do aud lüi.ed. ile cheated a public opinion aud a unity f purpose (no matter wnaibenow the dispute about iitethotla) wd.;h make Ireland a ration; be gave uer Bridsu ciiiz-insuip mil a place In toe imperial parliament; he gave ber a itx4 aud a puhii-; vitb the tool-, tier des' in v im in her owu bands. A'heu the ah olitionisu got- tor the negro sciooU and t ie vote tney settled the rlavequeiiou, nr trey planted toe ure Bed- oi civil eqtii;:y. O'C ictiell did lb s lor Jroiacd r!ils, wi ic;i no frihijian b'jt'ore had even dr'-Aoied of -temp ing. 8 4 Hi a.id M-ily ncux m abi-; Gr t II l-iie, Sauriu, Burr .v''-, P u-.ket., ('urnn sod Brke were eluqaemi; throusfh out the Island cura was a druu:; tl.ev gained now one p iat aud now anotner, but alt-r all they lett the hsltn ot Irtlnnd's ds tiny in foreign aud hoe-ile Land. O'Counell was brave, sagacious, eloquenr, but more than all, he was a statesman; lor l.e gave to Ireland's own keeping the key ot ber future. As L rd Bacon marches dowii the centuri-s h mav lay one hand on toe telegraph aud the other on the steam engine

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and say, "These are mi'ie, for I taught you how to study natur0.' In a similar sense, as shackle alter shackU. lalls from Irish limbs, O'Connell may s'ay, "This victory la miue for l taught you in method and I gave you the arms." I have hitherto bon speaking of his ability and uccets; by and by we will look tt his character, motives and methods. This unique ability even his enemies have been forced to confers. Harriet .Mari:neau, iu hr incomparable history of tbo "Thirty Yt?ar' Peaco." has. with Tory hate, miscon strued every action ol O'Connell, and invented a bd motive for each one. But even she confesses that "borrsein power. influence and notoriety to an eminence such as no other individual citizen ha attained in modern times' in Great Britain. And one ot bis by no means partial biographers baa well said: "Any man who turns over the mac;-iziuee and newspapers of that pe riod will easily perceive how grandly O'uonneil'a figure dominated lu politics, how compietsdy he had dispelled tie iuduleieace that had so loniz prevailed on llilsll qCKSriONS, how clearly his 3KiUtiou Stauda forth as the great fact of the time. Tbe truth is his po sition, so tar from being a common one, is absolutely unique in history. We may search in vain through . the records of tbe pavt for any man who. without the effuion of a drop of blood or the advantages of ollice or rank, succeeded in govern i tig a people so ahs uutfcly and so long, and In creatine so entirely the element ot his power. There was no rival to hi supremacy, there was no restriction to his authority. He played with tho fierce enthusiasm Le had aroused wltn the negligent ease or a master; be governed the complicated orm nation ho had created with a sagacity that never failed. lie made himself tbe foe a. of th atteution of other lands and tbe eenter around which the rising intel-It-c: of bis own . rtvoUed. He had transformed tho whole social system of I reir' ; sUuost reversed tbe relative posiloiis of Protestantsaud Catholics; rt mod elled by hi influence the representative, ecclesiastical aud educational institutions and created a public opinion hat surpassed the wildest dreams of his predecessors. IV. a ab wou-itr ai toe proud exultation with which he exclaimed 'Gr-ttan sat by tbe craile of bis country and followed h?r hearse: it was left for me to sound the re surrection trumpet and to show she was not dead but neaping?" It Is natural that lro Und should remeinber biui sa her liberator. B'it, strange as it may seem to you, I think E'iroue and America will remain ber him by a higher title. I said in openiug that the cause of coosti'ulioi-al government is more indebted to OCohiifL ban to say other political leader ot the last two cooturies. Wlmt I mean is that be invented tbo great mttood of c-institu'ional Agitation. Agitator is a title widen, will last Linger, which kugg'Sts a broader and more permanent itdfaei.ce, and entitles him to tbe gradtude of far more millions than tbe name Ireland loves to gite him. The first sreat agitator Is bis proud est title to gratitude and tame. Agitation is tbe method that plants tbe school by the side of tbe ballot box. The Fremont can vass was the nation's best school. Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps tbe peace and se cures progress, livery step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are tne weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmospheie oi of brains. Tbe old Hindoo saw, iu his dream, tbe human race led out to its VARlOrS FOBTUNiS. First men were lu chains which went back to an iron hand. Then he saw tLem led by threads from the brain which went npward to an unseen band. Tbo first was despotIsm, iron and ruling by force. The last was civilization, ruling by ideas. Agitation is an old word with a new meaning. Sir Rob f rt Pee!, the first Eugüsb leader who telt be ws its tool defined it to be t- e marshalÜDg of the conscience of a nation t mould its laws." O'Couueil was the first to show and use its power, to lay down its principles, to nn-dvzo its e lements aud mark out it. meies ad bounds. I: is volunl-tty, public and tvive board; no oath-bouud stcrt-t s K-ieties like those of old time in Iff land and of the continent t tay. lis means' are reason and argument, no appeal to arms. Wait patiently ir tbe slow growth oi public opinion. Ihw I-rnchmau is angry with his government te throws up barricade and shots his gan to the m,m. A week's fury dras the nation ahead a an i a breadth; reaction Ms il settle ball wa back again. As Lord Cueslei field said a ou nd red years ag , "Y ju Frenchmen erect barricades, but. nevtr any barrier. " An Englishman i dissatisfied with pu'licat-fal-s. He orlr gs bis Chams, offers his pro f, aus f r prju i.ee to relax for j ublic op-n ion t intotm itself. Tceu every s ep tiike.t istikeu forever; an abuse once rtmiv-d U'- er reapfesrs m history. Wi ere d d ho 1 arn this method? Pric;Ically speaking, rum O Uoui.ell. It was ne planied i s sirner-stone. Argument, no violeic; No p 1: ical chauge isworiha drcpol bu iiiu bisxL rlis o her motto way, "fell the Mb de rutb." No cooceulmeut of half of iieTs couv .ctl.ihs to make tbe other hau more acceptable. Nolti.ial ot one truth to gdu be.iririn lor auotner. No comp-Oiiiise, k r, as he pn a d it, ''Nothing ia p l tioaily nht abieo is morally wrong." Ab.ve all, pUni Oure If ou the millions; thnsmpu thy of every buuitu beiug, oo ma Ur biiw iguoraut or how Lumblti, &1is weight t public opinion. At the oui-set ot his career the c.ervy turned a deal ear to his appeal. They had seeu their flocks 1-d up t u-elts. slaughter lor eei-lunts, aod counselled su mission. Tbe isobilitv lepudiated hiui: i hev were either traitors or Lupeies. Protestant had touched ih-ir ultima tbule with Gra lau, aud seemed SETTLING DOWN IN DESPAIR. Engl'.sU Catiiolics a i vised waiting till the ty-ant grew merciful. O'Connell, leR aloni sid, "I will forge these four millions if Irish hearts into a thunderbolt which will so thee to dash this despotism to pieces. And be did it. Living under an aristocratic government, himself ot the higher clas, ne anticipated Lincoln's wisdom, and framed his movement "lor tbe people, ot tbe people, aud by the people." It la a singular lac : hat the freer a nation becomes the more utttrly democratic the form of its iustitutl ins. The ueceaslty of this ou side agUation, this pressure oi puoiic opinion to direct political acton, becomes more and mure necessary ONionuell has leen charged with insincerity iu urging repeil, and tsiose whodeieuded ni eioceiity nave leaded toward allo-A-iog that it proved his lack of common ss-is-?. I ttiiiik both critics are luitikea. His earnest speeches point to rtpalas his uliiinafe object indeed, he valued emanclpa-cT-.-iii largely as a tr tuat cud N 'air vi of bis whole life will hveihe alightesi irroan 1 to doutt his sincerl'.y. As ior the reas -naoleness and nec;essity of the masurn, I think every year proves them. Cmfeidering O'Connell' position, I wholly sym patbiZtjin hisproioundand uushakenlo a tv I t ths empire. Its shart in tlio Britisii empire mskes Ireland's strsng hand importhiih. Standing alone am ng the vast aud ' massive sovereignties ol Europe sbe would be weak, insigniticaut and helpless. Were

I an Irishman I should cling to the empire. Fitly or slaty ears hei:ce, when scorn of race has Lena biipisced and bigotry is les

sened, it may ljoPsit)lfl for Ireland to be snfe and free while holuirg the relation to Englapd that .Scotland oofs Bot darimt thi.1 general ion and the next O'Connell wag wi-e in . exc'alming that Ireland's rights would never bo safe without, "home rule." A nbstarJtial repeal of the Union should be every Irishman's earnest aim. Were f their adviser I saoii id constantly repeat what Grat tan said iu 1S10, "The bet advic.', gentlemen, I cm give on all occasions is, 'keep knockinc at the Union.' " We iaiuzma nu Irishman to be only a zealot on Ü re. We lancy irish snitrr and eloquence to be only blind, reckless, beadlocg enthusiasm. Bat In truth Qrattan was tbe soberest leader of his day; holding scrupulously back the disorderly elements, which fretted under his curb. There was one hour at least when a word from him would have lighted a democratic revolt throughout the empire. And the most remarkable of O'Conuell'a gifts was neither his eloquence nor his ssgacii;;it was his patiem-e "paLlsuce, all (ho passion r'great pouIs" the tireless patitno which, lro na lSOO to 1S20, went from town to town, littl aid txl by the press, to plant tbe sctds ol anintelligeut and urjited, s well as hot patriotism. Then, alter many years and long toil, waitiog for rivals to be Just, for nrtjudices to wear cut and for narrowness to grow wise, using British folly and oppression aa his wand, he moulded tbe enthusiasm ot tbe most excitable of races the just- and inevitable indignation. of four millions of Catholics, the hate ol plundered poverty priest, noble and peas ant into one fierce, though harmouious mass. Then be held it in careful check, with sober moderation, watching every opportunity, attracting aliy atter ally, never forfeiting any possible friendship; allowing no provocation to idir him to anything that would not help hisc3U3e compelling each hottest and most iguorant of his followers lo remember that " ne who commits a crime helps tbo enemy." At last, when the hour struck, thU power was rnde to achieve justice for itelf and put him in London him, this despised iiisDtnan, ibis bated Catholic, this mero demagogue and mau of words; him to hold the lory party iu one band and tho whig party in tho other all tbia without sheddlrg a drop ol bi?od or disturbing tor a inommt the psae ot the empire. blle o council beid Ireland iu bis hand her people were more orderly, lawabiding and peaceful than tor a century betöre or during any year since. The strength of his tuiirve lions control passes compre hension. Out West I met an Irishman whose iattier held fciin up to see O'Connell address the 200,000 men at Tara literally to see, not to har him. I said: "But you could not all hoar even his volco." "Oh no, sir! only about 50,000 could bear him. But we all kept as s ill aud slleht aa if we did!" With magcardmous frankness O'Conneil once sid: ''I never could have held those monster nK-eUcgs without a crime, without disorder, TUMCLT OR QUARREL, except ior Father Mathew's aid." Any man can tsi.ld a furnace and trrrn water Into steam yes, If careless, make It rend his dwelling in pieces. Geuius builds tho loco motive, harnesses this terrible power in iron traces, holds it with master-hand in usetul limits, and gives it to tbe peaceable service of man. The Irish people were O'C M.n-ll's locomotive, eazacious ptie:;ce and moderation tbe genius tht built it, parliament and justice the statt in he reached. Everyone who has studied O'Conuell'a life sees his marked likeness to Luther; the unity ot both their live, their wit, the same missive sttenth, even it core grained; i he ease with which each reac ed the masses, tbe power wi-h which they wielded them; t'.e same unrivalled el. que nee, fit tor any audience; the same instinct of geuius that led them constantly to acts which, aa Voltaire said. " -sliaH men caii rah, but wisdom sees to be brave ;" tbe sa-re brotd success. But O'C-mnell ha 1 one great element which La her lacked the universality of his sympathy: the far-re achins sagacity which discirr.ed tru'-h atar rff, j istsirug gling above the horizon; th- h yal bravo and rank spirit which acknow ledger and served it; the profound and rie faith welch b Sieved tuat " the whole ot iru'h can novn do harm t the whole ol tin te." From the serene height ol intellect and judgment to which "God'.s giüs Lad li'ted him. he saw e eaily that no one rigi-t was ever in the way of au'ther, that b jus ice harms the wrongdoer even more t'isu the victim, that whoever puts a cbiia on another fat-ns it also on himself. Serenely confident t- at to.e tr-ith ia slways sa'e ai d jutioe always expedient, he earn that i'-.tolerance i onlv watit o: fai'.u. H who title- free dis cus-ion socr-t!y doubts whether w bat l.e pro'essesto believe is really true. Coieriog tays, See how triumphant in debase and ac i-o O'C't-nuell i-! Wh? Because he a-se-tsa broad principle, acts up to it, reot hN body on it and dins faith in is." Coworker with Fatber Mhthew ci ampion ot t he dissenters friend ol tbe chart sts loeoi the corn lnv-battling against frl-wry, whether in India or the Carolinas tbegrta' democrat, who in Europe seventy oar a o called the jvple to bis side; starting a moveiiif-nf oi the people, for the people, by ihe people1 Show me another record aJ boid aud orav as this In iht European history ot our centurv ? Where Is THK KNGL1S3 8TATSSMAN, where the Irish leaJer who 'can claim one? No wonder every Englisnman hated and feared him. lie wounded their prejudices at every point. Whig and Tory feared and hated ttda broad, brave soul, who d-red lo fallow Truth wherever he saw her whose toleration was as broad as human nature and bis sympathy boundless as the Bea. To show you that be never took a leaf froinoar American g.sipol oi ouipmrnl; tbat be never filed bis tongue to siien -e on one trutn, fancying so to help another; that be never sacrim-ed an v race to save even ire laud let me compare him with Koasutb, hose only merits were his eloquence ari hi patriot pm. When Kossuth wasinFaaeull tiail he exnUlmed, Here is a flair wit-e m as ain a cation without a crime." We abolitionis'.s Mptsaled to blm, "O eloquent son of the Magvar, come to break chains, nave ton ex word, no pulse-beat for roar nail lions of negroes bending under a yoke teu limes beiavi r than that of Hungary? He answered, "1 would forget an? bod v, I womd praise arytbing, to nelp Hungary." O'Connell never said anything like that When I -a in Naples I asked Sir Thomas Fowe.'l Buxton, a Tory, "is O Council an honest ma ?" 'As houeat a man as ever breamed, said lie. and then told me this story: "When in 18?.0, O Con tiell eiderfl-1 Cariiamei t, the ami slavery caus '.:t- so weak that it had ouly Lushington and my81? to speak f ir it, and we agreed that when ho spoke I should cheer Lim, and wbeu I spoke he sbould cheer l1:; and these were the only cheers w ever got. O'tJonnell came with Oos irsh me nbr to support him. A large number of membors (I think tht Bu x urn said Ü7), whom we called tbe W est India interest 'ne B itol party tbe slave party, wont to him, sayln, "O'Connell, at last you are in the House, with one heifer.

If you will never go down to Freemaonp' Hall with Buxton and Brougham, here are f wer. ty-seven votes forjou on every Irish question. If you work with tboM abeditionws, count us alwavs against you." It was a terrible temptation. How many a socalltd ptaemaii would have yielded? O'Connell said: "Gentlemen, God know I speak lor the saddest peonle tb9 sun sees, but may my right harjd torset Us cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if to save.Ireland sveu Ire.auti I FOKQET THE 5E0R0 one single hour." "From tbat day," said Buxton, "Lustirgton and I never went into

the lobby that O'Connell did not follow us." Learn of him, friends, the hardest lesson we ever have tet us, tbat of toleration. Tbe toremost Catholic of his ag the mrs: stalwart champion of the church be -vas also broadly and pincerely tolr-r-tnt of every laith. Dis toleration had no limit aud r V. qualification." 1 scorn and sooat tb word "toleration." It is an Insolet.t term. No man, properly speaking, tolera'ea another. I do not tolerate a Catholic neither does fee tolerate me. We are equal, and acknowledge each other's right; tbat is the corroc Statement. That everv man should b allowed freely to worship : aiad according to his conscience that! - no. .man's civil rigbts should 1)9 affeetel by h!3 religious creed, were both cardinal principles of O'Connell. He had no. fear that acy dC: trine of his faith could be 'endangered bctbe freest possible discnslon. t earn nt him hIso sympathy with every race and every form of oppression. No matter who was the sufierftr, or what tbe form of the injustice, starving Yorkshire peassiit, imprisons! Chartist, persecuted Protestant, or negro slave, no matter of what rljihr, personal or civil, the victim had been robbed ; no matter what complexion' incoinpa'ihle witb freedom an African or an Indian sun had burnt upon'him; no mstrer vhat roliifious pretext or political juggle piloted "necessity" ss an excuse lor his oppres.-ion ; no matter with what solemnities he la1 been devoted on the altar oi slavery the moment 0Cont!elI saw him. the altär ui d tne God. .sank tether in the dust the victim was acknowledged man and a brother equal in all ri2his cad entitled to all the aid the great Irishman could give him. I have no time to soe-ttk oi.j his marvelous success at . the bar; ol t hat profound skill in tbe law which enabled him to conduct such an Rgitati-n,: always oo the verge of illegality and violence, without I once subjecting himself or his followers toi leal penalty; an agitation under a code ot which Brougham said "no Catholic could lift his ban. I under it without, breaking tb law." I have no time to speak of his stil! more remarkable Buccess in tbe H ussa of Commons. Of Flood's failure there Graf an had said: "II was sn oak of the forest, too old and too great to le transplanted a. 50." Grattan's own success there was but modreate. The power O'Connell wielded against varied, bitter and . CNSCRCrCLOCS OPPOSITION, ' was marvelous. I have no time to speak ol bis personal independence, " bis delilerate courage, moral and phyti'al, 1 la rv pitted private character, his "untailing hop, tbe versatility of bis talent, his power of tiro-, less work, bis ingenuity acd boundless re source, bis matchless self-nosoession ia every e rer-ieocy,bbrealy nl neths- s ihle wit. But sny reference to uutoce i mat . a . 1 . . 1 .3 : - . I omiTiea nis eioqu-.co wuiu w painiiiiK .Wellington in th House of Lords without rae-tion of Torres vedras or Waterlio. Broadlv considered, bis eloqueuce hs Dever heen equalled lo modem time, certainly not In English speech. Do you think I am partial? I will vouch J bn Randolph, et Roanoke, the Vlridniai slav holder, who bated an Irishman almost as much an he hated a Yankee bim-eif ao ratorofno mean level. Hearing O'Cou-, nell be exclaimed, "This is the man. t?.e?e are tho lips, the most elcquert that spsk English in my daj'!" I think ho was ritrht I remember tbe solemnity of Wehst?r, tKe grace ot Everett, the rhetoric of Choat'; I know the eloquarcs that lay hid in the iron Ionic ol Calh uu; I have melled beneath t he man tism of Henry Clay. Prfctia ,V-f Mississippi, wielded a power few me;; ev r bad. It has ben my fortune to sit at Ibe t--etofthe great speakers of t'.o Er.g'.i-h tongue on the other sldo of the ocean. But I thinK all of thorn together never surpassed. and no one of them equalled O'Connell." Natuie intendei him tor our Demrstheues. Nevfr since tbe ttreat Gro;-k has she baa t-cnt for h ary ore so lavishly gifted for Ms wrrlt a a tribune of the people. In the first plsce he had a ' mannifleent presence, impressive in bearing nnsssive like, that of Jupiter Weheter himself hardly outdid him in tbe inspsty o' his proportions. Tob sore, be bud not Webst er'a crap gv fceand pecipie of bro; nor his eyes flowing likeanthrac'.te coal. Nor tiad he the lion roar of Mirabeau. But hi prtsenco filled tbeeje. A small O Connell would hardly bavo been an O'Connell at all. These physical advantages srs bslf the battle. T remember Russel Lowell telling ns that Mr. WEB3TER CAVE HOME from Washington at the time tho whig party tin ught of dissolution ä year or two before his death, and went down t Fan-ail U 11 to protest; drawing bim-eli tip to his iottiet propertionbis brow clothed with tundr, before the listenirg thou-ands, he said: "Well, ' gentlemen, I am a whig, a Massachutts . whLr,' a Faneui! HsM whiir, a rev dutioary whig. a cont tutlonal whig. If yon break the whig party, air. where am I to go?" And snys Lowell, ' We held our breath. tMokin here he coull go" Ir be had been five teet three we should have fiid, Who cares where you go?" So it wa with O'Connell. There - was something mMjAs'ic in bis presence beI .re be spoke, and be added t it what WV6 ster bftd riot what Clay might have lent grace. Lithe ss a a boy at 70, every atti- ude a picture, every esture grace, he was still all nature; nothing but nature seemed to speak al) over him. Then e had voice that covered the gamut. Tbe majesty of hi loo U nation fitly ottered in tones ot super bum i v wr made him able to "indict ' a nstion, spite of Burke's pro est. I beard bim once say, "I send my vlcs acrr-ss the Atlantic, career in like the thunder st roi agaiostthe breeze, to tell the slave holder of tho Carolinas that "God's thunderbolts are hot, and t remind the bondman tha tbe dawn of bis redemption is - al; ready breaking. You seemed to har the tones come echoing ' hack to Ln don from the R cky Mountains Ti-.en with the slightest popsibia Irish i brogue he would tell a story, while all Exeter Hall shook with laughter. Toe rext aiimm1, tears In his voice like a S v.tch song, fi thousand men wept. A d all the while eflrt. He seemed only breathing. Wo u-ed to sv of Webster, "This 1 a ureaefJirt;" of Everett, "Iiis a beautifal eff ';" but you never used the word efl i"iu speaking of O'Connell. It provoked you tbat he would not make an effrt. An this wonderful oower, it was not a thunder storm; he flanked you witb bis wit, be surprised you but of "yourself, you were conquered before you knew it. We'wter could

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cheat a jrny; Ciay emu magnetize Ihe million and Corwin KU thorn ,.a;.:iye. oCjut-ell was Clay, (-rAic, Choalo, Everea and Webster in o.o. Rsf ,re the ,-our's logic; at 'be bar of rb-senate ucanswerable snd dignilied. on tho platform grace, wit aud p-thos; b.,re tbe masses a whole man. Carly )e sa ys : He is God's own aauoiated kiac, who. v.ord m!t.a ail wtlls into hi " T( - " scribes O'Counell. Emerson says: 'r.isre , Vi1? eITJ"1' unless there is a niUn bthlnd the speech." O'Connell wa- . ed to because every Irisnmau end ever. i;uliähman knew there was a man bei, nd the speech olo who could te n- t er oougbt, bullied nor cheated. He h"l-' the masses, free but willing subjects r i)i hand. He owed this power to the courisge that mc: every new question lri.LK. .?d concealed nonn of hi, onviciinf,; toku entlreuesaof devo:iou tbat made the pee.nle :cel he was all their own; to a masterly i .-iin that made tbem sure they were alviuf. ffe in his hands. Bebind them were A of Uoousbed-every rising had ended a- the ecatTold even Gra tan brought them to I79t?f O'Connell said; "Follow me, put your leecwhero mine have tr.Ki and a sheriff shall Jiever lay hand on your shoulder." And the ijreat lawyer kepi his pledge. : uia unmatched, long-continued power aim. st passc-s belief. You can only appreciate it bv comparison. L-t Vn crry yon back to tbe 'mob ver of 18dj, In ibis couLtry, when ti.e ab:..'. ,t.;su were hunted, wen the streets roreil .its ' riot; wbeu from Bjbton to BJtiuiore. .niaSi. Louis to Philadelphia, a mcb loL possessian m every city; when prirate l.. i-ca were invaded and public LalK v ere bur mid press aiter press was thrown into the iiVer! and Ljvejoy baptized freed em :t.blood you remember it. Re-pectab!-uals warned tne mob that they were iWy-' ing into the bands of the abolif; ... Webter and Clay and tfca stafi of -.'istaternen told the people that the liuill floated further on tls'houls of the mcb tl.an" the rxest, eloquent lips could carry P. But' law-abiding, Protestant, educated America emiLD NOT BK HELD BaCK. Nc-Itlrer Whig chiefi nor respectable jr.ur-'' pals could keep these peop.'e quirt. e,o to England. Wh. n the reform bill of '31 was thrown out cf tbe Hor.se ot Lords, ih-j people were tumultuous, and Melbourne and ' Gory, Russell and Brouzbam, Lansdome, Holland and Mscaulay, the whig tbieis. cried out, " Don'i. vio.ate the law, you h? lp ' tbe Tories! Riot puts b3ck the bill." But quiet, sober John Ball, law-abidiDg. c -uld not do without in Birmingham was three" days in the hands of a mob. Castles wr burnt. Wellington ordered tbe Scotch Greys to rouah.griud their swords as at ' Waterloo. This was the Whig aristocracy of England. OTJonnetl had' neither office nor title. Behind him were 3,000,000 people steeped in u.ter wre.cueduess, sore with the oppression of centuries, ignored by stat ute. For thirty rest lee RUd, " t urbulent years he. tood iu fronted theui, -and said: "Remember, be that commits a , ciime helps the enemy." And da-i g :hai long and fcarlul struggle not oce Irishman z foroke the law. There is no such record in bur hiPtcry. Neither in classic nor in mod- 1 erntimesce.n ipe man be produce i who bell a milliou or peoplo io Ma ilgbt taud so passive. It was due to the eoufcU:r-ucv Slij -unity of character that had hardly a tti. . I do not forget your soldiers, orstrrs -or poets any of your ksd-rs. But , ?vhoa I consider Q'Cor.iieU's personal disinterestedness, 'bis rare,;, brsve fidelity to every cause bis principles " Covered, n matter bow unpopular or li iw euibarrassiag tu bis main purpose that . clear, far-reaching vh-iou and true heart which, on m st moral and political questions, set nim so much ahead of bis times; his eloqueuce, almost fqu-ally effective in. the courts, in the sena e acd before the masses; that sagurty, which set at naught T tne mahgnatd vidsnenf the whole im;erial bar, watcüli c thirty yearafor a nii ep;wben I remember tht he Laventd fciar toxdn, ard then roeosure fcis limited ineaos with his vust success, bearing iu m'r.d ::is I nature; when I see the sobiUty ai-d n-od r- T ation with which he used bla meKsur .3S power, and the Jofty, generous purpw cf j ..ia whole lile, I aua ready to alhrm tht he v.s, all things if.n idered, tbe greatest :jj:ithe Irish rsca ev-r produced. j A special telegram to the Chicago i iuaeaV Iren Bo.stou8ays: Gloucester is cdt biaiiig to-day and to-morrow its peculiar prtvaio centennial, that of tbe bombardment of tire. town by the British ship of war Falron ctk Aug. 8. 1775 The Falcou, Capi. Liez-ovr-"' tuauled two echoocers bound tor .Salem froint the West iLdles, cjptured one ot tbem and chased the other into Gloucester brh r, wt.er sbe was run asooro on ti elhnu fints. Capt. Licz5) ancho ed and snt to barge-s witb 15 gun?, a lltuienant, Dd eix ixen to. bring tte scho uer off. The towbV people rallied and captured tho whol- party.-. Though the other ecr ooner and an armed cu-ter were sent to assist them, the Gh-u " cesser bojs t-co :ped;in the whole fio'-iIl..:b IU ticho iners, tbe cutter, the two targes, aud the whale boat, with all who were in tbem. 1 wo CJlou Oester men were kilted and one slightly wonuded. Thiriy üveBnih adprfc were captured, of whom eleven bad iin impressed from Gloucester and neighborlrg bivns. Daring the aflair, which lasted, eeveial hours, Capt Lii fired several times into tbe tov-n, but without deine any. damage. One o' the shots, which trock ibe meeting hons , is etlll preserved. The' meeting ho.usa is appropriately decorated a-d a comuiemorativa sermon was pn ached to day. To-morrow there wiil be proces-j iou, ciam-bake, and the inevitable speaking, though Ben Bui: er, who used to bailiroiu Gloucester, wbeu in Corgrees, spp ars to have soured on tbe town as his name do9s. cot appear. A rich old widower la More nd, Mich., had a blooming and affectionate widow lor a near neighbor, and when he was taken, ick she very considerately mursed bim and supplied bis every want. Bat when be was convalescent she became aggresive, and hinted that be .-UKht to marry tier, aud that stie would fcueMaaif he refused. Then tb widower resorted to. strategy. One evening wheu she called he was in his sitting room without, lights, and the marrira;e subject aa revived. "Dut you know I tever premised to marry you," whiued tne wily tdower. "Thai's very true," answered tha iniuspetUif.j? widow, "but I can g: big damages from ou all i1ikhilc." Thea itiie was a chuck. ii:g noise uil srout d ce r sr ns fhe lamp was lighted, the widow &a.v ;.:ifcj. very rospeciauie old in :r- . ried l.idit-s sitting iu one corner ii-oenini; to the conversation. Tbe widow uow Bays she carried the j k r ber too tar. A census enumerator at Crown Point, in tbe courseoi his travels, has found a f ourteen vf ar old boy who weighs 2S0 p nd, and a French lady who i an inveterate em ok r, and declares she ia 13. jeans old.