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Helen Eliza Garrison (search for this): chapter 29
that ranks him, not with founders of States, like Alexander, Caesar, Bismarck, Napoleon, and William the Silent, but with men who, without arms, by force of reason, have revolutionized their times,--with Luther, Jefferson, Mazzini, Samuel Adams, Garrison, and Franklin. I know some men will sneer at this claim,--those who have never looked at him except through the spectacles of English critics, who despised him as an Irishman and a Catholic, until they came to hate him as a conqueror. As Gratt almost omnipotent landholders of England, and broke the Tory party forever. They only haunt upper air now in the stolen garments of the Whigs. The English administration recognizes this new partner in the government, and waits to be moved on. Garrison brought the new weapon to our shores. The only wholly useful and thoroughly defensible war Christendom has seen in this century, the greatest civil and social change the English race ever saw, are the result. This great servant and weapon, p
Lushington (search for this): chapter 29
ples, I asked Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, a Tory, Is O'Connell an honest man? As honest a man as ever breathed, said he, and then told me this story: When, in 1830, O'Connell entered Parliament, the Antislavery cause was so weak that it had only Lushington and myself to speak for it; and we agreed that when he spoke I should cheer him, and when I spoke he should cheer me; and these were the only cheers we ever got. O'Connell came, with one Irish member to support him. A large number of members [In, God knows I speak for the saddest people the sun sees; but may my right hand forget its cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if to save Ireland, even Ireland, I forget the negro one single hour! From that day, said Buxton, Lushington and I never went into the lobby that O'Connell did not follow us. Some years afterwards I went into Conciliation Hall where O'Connell was arguing for repeal. He lifted from the table a thousand-pound note sent them from New Orleans, and sai
Alexander (search for this): chapter 29
her terms. This is the proper standpoint from which to look at O'Connell's work. This is the consideration that ranks him, not with founders of States, like Alexander, Caesar, Bismarck, Napoleon, and William the Silent, but with men who, without arms, by force of reason, have revolutionized their times,--with Luther, Jefferson laurels they have hitherto won in that field are rooted in ideas which Grattan and O'Connell urged on reluctant hearers for half a century. Why do Bismarck and Alexander look with such contemptuous indifference on every attempt of England to mingle in European affairs? Because they know they have but to lift a finger, and Irelan. Premising that it would be folly to find fault with a man struggling for life because his attitudes were ungraceful, remembering the Scythian king's answer to Alexander, criticising his strange weapon,--If you knew how precious freedom was, you would defend it even with axes, --we must see that O'Connell's own explanation is evi
Maurice O'Connell (search for this): chapter 29
is letter to the London Times; whereupon Maurice O'Connell sent the Jew a message that there was an in which success could ever be achieved. O'Connell achieved it. Out of this darkness, he calledgogue! What must they, the subjects, be, if O'Connell, their king, be only a bigot and a demagoguewith Tory hate, misconstrued every action of O'Connell, and invented a bad motive for each one. Buthat period will easily perceive how grandly O'Connell's figure dominated in politics, how completeonstitutional government is more indebted to O'Connell than to any other political leader of the laarn this method? Practically speaking, from O'Connell. It was he who planted its corner-stone,--aised waiting till the tyrant grew merciful. O'Connell, left alone, said, I will forge these four mnt as if we did. With magnanimous frankness O'Connell once said, I never could have held those mon and these were the only cheers we ever got. O'Connell came, with one Irish member to support him. [32 more...]
Henry Grattan (search for this): chapter 29
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...]
Russell Lowell (search for this): chapter 29
row, nor his eyes glowing like anthracite coal; nor had he the lion roar of Mirabeau. But his presence filled the eye. A small O'Connell would hardly have been an O'Connell at all. These physical advantages are half the battle. I remember Russell Lowell telling us that Mr. Webster came home from Washington at the time the Whig party thought of dissolution a year or two before his death, and went down to Faneuil Hall to protest; drawing himself up to his loftiest proportion, his brow clothed with thunder, before the listening thousands, he said, Well, gentlemen, I am a Whig, a Massachusetts Whig, a Faneuil-hall Whig, a revolutionary Whig, a constitutional Whig. If you break the Whig party, sir, where am I to go? And says Lowell, We held our breath, thinking where he could go. If he had been five feet three, we should have said, Who cares where you go? So it was with O'Connell. There was something majestic in his presence before he spoke; and he added to it what Webster had not
Bulwer (search for this): chapter 29
or any. Should n't think you would, answered O'Connell; sit down here. So they shared his breakfast. Then he took Bull Run in his own carriage to the place of meeting, sent for a table and seated him by the platform, and asked him whether he had his pencils well sharpened and had plenty of paper, as he intended to make a long speech. Bull Run answered, Yes. And O'Connell stood up, and addressed the audience in Irish. His marvellous voice, its almost incredible power and sweetness, Bulwer has well described:--Once to my sight that giant form was given, Walled by wide air, and roofed by boundless heaven. Beneath his feet the human ocean lay, And wave on wave rolled into space away. Methought no clarion could have sent its sound Even to the centre of the hosts around; And, as I thought, rose the sonorous swell, As from some church-tower swings the silvery bell Aloft and clear, from airy tide to tide It glided, easy as a bird may glide; Even to the verge of that vast audience se
Abraham Lincoln (search for this): chapter 29
submission. The nobility repudiated him; they were either traitors or hopeless. Protestants had touched their Ultima Thule with Grattan, and seemed settling down in despair. English Catholics advised waiting till the tyrant grew merciful. O'Connell, left alone, said, I will forge these four millions of Irish hearts into a thunderbolt which shall suffice to dash this despotism to pieces. And he did it. Living under an aristocratic government, himself of the higher class, he anticipated Lincoln's wisdom, and framed his movements for the people, of the people, and by the people. It is a singular fact, that the freer a nation becomes, the more utterly democratic the form of its institutions, this outside agitation, this pressure of public opinion to direct political action, becomes more and more necessary. The general judgment is, that the freest possible government produces the freest possible men and women,--the most individual, the least servile to the judgment of others. Bu
Burrowes (search for this): chapter 29
methods,--which made Ireland a nation; he gave her British citizenship, and a place in the imperial Parliament; he gave her a press and a public: with these tools her destiny is in her own hands. When the Abolitionists got for the negro schools and the vote, they settled the slave question; for they planted the sure seeds of civil equality. O'Connell did this for Ireland,--this which no Irishman before had ever dreamed of attempting. Swift and Molyneux were able. Grattan, Bushe, Saurin, Burrowes, Plunket, Curran, Burke, were eloquent. Throughout the Island courage was a drug. They gained now one point, and now another; but, after all, they left the helm of Ireland's destiny in foreign and hostile hands. O'Connell was brave, sagacious, eloquent; but, more than all, he was a statesman, for he gave to Ireland's own keeping the key of her future. As Lord Bacon marches down the centuries, he may lay one hand on the telegraph, and the other on the steam-engine, and say, These are min
Mazzini (search for this): chapter 29
rey, Ireland sank back, plundered and helpless. O'Connell lifted her to a fixed and permanent place in English affairs,--no suppliant, but a conqueror dictating her terms. This is the proper standpoint from which to look at O'Connell's work. This is the consideration that ranks him, not with founders of States, like Alexander, Caesar, Bismarck, Napoleon, and William the Silent, but with men who, without arms, by force of reason, have revolutionized their times,--with Luther, Jefferson, Mazzini, Samuel Adams, Garrison, and Franklin. I know some men will sneer at this claim,--those who have never looked at him except through the spectacles of English critics, who despised him as an Irishman and a Catholic, until they came to hate him as a conqueror. As Grattan said of Kirwan, The curse of Swift was upon him, to have been born an Irishman and a man of genius, and to have used his gifts for his country's good. Mark what measure of success attended the able men who preceded him, in
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