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Smith O'Brien.
--Wm. Smith O'Brien has settled down in his pretty country seat at Cahermoyle, where he discusses, for his own amusement, the affairs of the world.
Mr. O'Brien is an "estated gentleman," his income from landed property amounting to $45,000 annually.
Smith O'Brien.
--Wm. Smith O'Brien has settled down in his pretty country seat at Cahermoyle, where he discusses, for his own amusement, the affairs of the world.
Mr. O'Brien is an "estated gentleman," his income from landed property amounting to $45,000 annually.
Views of Wm. Smith O'Brien.
--Mr. Smith O'Brien has, through the columns of the Dublin Morning News, addressed a long letter, dated Dublin, Oct. 12, to Capt. Thomas Francis Meagher, on the American war. Mr. O'Brien deprecates the views taken by Mr. Meagher, who advocates the war against the South; and proceeds to show that, even supposing the Northerners were successful, they would not be able to keep the conquered States in subjection.
Mr. O'Brien offers his own services as a mediator between the belligerent parties, to assist in restoring peace.
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway.--twenty dollars reward. (search)
Smith O'Brien on a war with England.[from the Dublin Freeman, Dec. 5.
In a letter addressed by Mr. William Smith O'Brien to Mr. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, we find the following allusions to recent events: By the recent seizure of the Confederate Commissioners on board of a British mail steamer the Government of Mr. Lincoln has incurred a fearful responsibility.
I take for granted that this act will not be disavowed.
I take for granted that it was intended as a deliberate affront to the English nation.
I take for granted that it was designed as a bold and defiant answer to the insolence which has been directed against the American nation by every organ of British opinion ever since the civil war broke out in the United States.
However this may be, it is assuredly an act which is fraught with consequences that may hereafter become most disastrous to both parties who are now contending with each other.
Unless England consent to forego all claims to ma
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Running the blockade — the captured schooner Catalina — escape of the crew. (search)
Smith O'Brien on "Mediation."
--Wm. Smith O'Brien publishes, in the Cork (Ireland) Examiner, a letter addressed to Richard O'Gorman, of New York, suggesting to him that, inasmuch as Secession a now an accomplished fact, whether it is not advisable, with a view to the restoration of peace, to organize in New York a "Mediators Committee," and to call a man meeting there in favor of advocating an amicable adjustment of terms, the independence of the C. S. A. to be a sine que non.
The Daily Dispatch: August 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Smith O'Brien American War . (search)
Smith O'Brien on the American War.
The following letter, addressed by Wm. Smith O'Brien to Mr. Richard O'Gorman, appears in the Dublin Nation, of June 21:
Killiney, County Dublin, June 18, 1862. My Dear O'Gorman
--In common with all true friends of the American people, I continue to regard with horror the internecine war which is desolating the States of America.
The brutal and disgusting proclamation which has recently been promulgated by General Butler at New Orleans, realizes to our imaginations the worst features of this struggle.
Have you and your friends at New York calmly asked yourselves when and how this contention is to end?
I implore you, in the name of humanity, to cast aside the illusions with which an occasional triumph fills the minds of the Northerns, and to consider whether it is possible that you can subjugate the South, and whether, if it were possible, such subjugation ought to be desired by the lovers of free institutions.
You know that I am
Ireland and the War.
--Wm. Smith O'Brien, John Martin, and other prominent Irish patriots of the revolution of '48, have written strong and able letters on the American war, avowing themselves in favor of the South, and taking issue with Brig. Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, of the Yankee army, as to the right of coercion.