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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 36 0 Browse Search
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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Irish sympathy with the abolition movement. (search)
devoted earnestness, with what unfaltering zeal, Ireland has carried on so many years the struggle for her own freedom. It is from such men, whose hearts lost no jot of their faith in the grave of Emmett; over whose zeal the loss of Curran and Grattan could throw no damp; who are now turning the trophies of one field into weapons for new conquest; whom a hireling press and prejudiced public could never sever a moment from O'Connell's side,--it is from the sympathy of such men that we have a ry. Shall his countrymen trust that hand with political power which O'Connell deemed it pollution to touch? [Cheers.] We remember, Mr. Chairman, that when a jealous disposition tore from the walls of the city hall of Dublin the picture of Henry Grattan, the act did but endear him the more to Ireland. The slavocracy of our land thinks to expel that old man eloquent, with the dignity of seventy winters on his brow [pointing to the picture of John Quincy Adams], from the halls of Congress. T
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Daniel O'Connell (1875.) (search)
til they came to hate him as a conqueror. As Grattan said of Kirwan, The curse of Swift was upon h her independence put beyond doubt or peril. Grattan and his predecessors could get no guaranties o won in that field are rooted in ideas which Grattan and O'Connell urged on reluctant hearers for ning of Molyneux, and the eloquence of Bushe, Grattan, and Burke, had been wasted. English leadersrough the streets of Dublin, as O'Connell and Grattan did more than once, hooted and mobbed becauseotestants had touched their Ultima Thule with Grattan, and seemed settling down in despair. Englisheir adviser, I should constantly repeat what Grattan said in 1810, The best advice, gentlemen, I ceckless, headlong enthusiasm. But, in truth, Grattan was the soberest leader of his day, holding sd and too great to be transplanted at fifty. Grattan's own success there was but moderate. The po every rising had ended at the scaffold; even Grattan brought them to 1798. O'Connell said, Follow[6 more...]