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Mr. O'Connell arrived. at Bandon on Thursday the 5th instant and was escorted into the town by a cavalcade and an immense crowd on foot. Ile addressed the multitude from the balcony of Williams's hotel, in a speech of exuberant loyalty." purpose in coming here to-doy is, not 50 numb to aceept the honour of mm pubhe entertainment, as to inlist your services, and to ton,0 your voices for Ireland. The struggle is not yet over. With the aid of u Libel Government mid a Liberal Douse of ConlInnips, thtre is room to anti( :p..to that the Tory Orangeism of England will he crushed. We must be—we are—ho■ al to our — _0_ e_ess _ter . fqi.i ch,cling.) W must young and lovely queen G d hl ( .he—we are—attached to the Throne, and to the lovely being by whom it is tilled. She is going to be married! (Tremendous, !arcs from over thirty thou- sand persons, congregated in the great area, tad tearing handkerchiefs by hundreds of elepantlp-dressed ladies, by whom the hotel and other buildings were crowded.") 1 wish she may have as many children as my grandmother had- * The parenthetical descriptions are eopiedfrom the Irish report in its native richness.
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Viyosanitisftwenty 1 (Imiucais cheering. and laughter.) God bless the Queen I Veniatfather, and a grandfather; and, in the face of Heaven, I pray withes mjndsholseptsiand fervency for Queen 'Victoria, as I do for any one of my own pro- gdny. -.The moment I heard of the daring and audacious menaces of the Tories towards the Sovereign, I promulgated, through the press, my feelings of de testation and My determination on the matter. Oh! if I be not greatly mis- taken, I'd get, in one day, five hundred thousand brave Irishmen to defend the life; the honour, and the person of the beloved young lady by whom England's throne is now tilled. (Exulting and protracted cheers.) Let every man in the vast and multitudinous assembly stretched out before me, who is loyal to the Queen, and would defend her to•the last, lift up his right hand. alte entire assembly responded to the appeal.) There are hearts in those hands. I tell you, that it necessity required, there would be swords in them! (Awful cheering.) Do they think that the Throne is in danger? There was a descent, the other day, upon Newport, of five thousand of those misguided people, called Chartists. Their leaders ran away ; and that Bladder-em-slate of a fellow- Feargus O'Connor—came to Ireland, indeed, to see his 'poor relations.' (Laughter.) He did right to run ; Newport was too hot for him ; and he came to Dunmauway to make a speech, while the fight was going on at the other side of the Channel. (Laughter and cheers.) Before how many of the soldiers did these five thousand Chartists quail and run ? Cries of" Thirty.") You have it ; but who were these thirty brave fellows ? "Irishmen.") Yes, they were Irishmen—they were all Pathreen boys ; and t se name of the Ser- geant who so distinguished himself was Daly— O'Dawley, as we term it in Ire- land; and the officer in command of the little party, what is he, think ye ? (Cries of" A Kerryman.") Oh, yes ; a Kerryman, and a member of a most respectable family. Have I not got thirty of as good fellows amongst you, who would put the Chartists to rout, and trample them under foot ? (Cheers, and" Yes.") Give me, my countrymen, one enthusiastic shout for the Queen." ( Vehement and deli:ming cheers.) Mr. O'Connell dined with a party of about two hundred, and, of course, made a speech ; but there was nothing in it so rich as the extract from the balcony harangue. He declared that he would have, please Heaven, a " demonstration " which should " extend from Cape Clear to the Giants' Causeway, from Connemara to the Hill of Howth." . " If the Government do not discountenance the plan—for I avow myself the firm supporter of the Government, so long as its leading principle is justice to Ireland—when I reach Dublin, I shall make arrangements Jim a simultaneous meeting of the inhabitants of Ireland, on a Sunday, after Divine service : and we shall adopt a memorial, calling not only for justice to Ireland, but plainly declaring to the Tories, that it is impossible they can ever again hold the reins of government in this empire. For my own part, I acknowledge my convic- tion, that there is but one measure that can remedy the wrongs and secure the liberties of this country. I am, in short, a Repealer. I never yet saw the man who left his business to others, that had it as well taken care of as if he looked after it himself; and I am not at all disposed to trouble our English neighbours nail legislating for us on our local business. (Loud cheering.) I am glad and proud to be the leader of such a people as Bandon now presents to my view. I would not obtain the mightiest and noblest object that huma- nity could aspire to at the expense of a single drop of human blood—ex- cept, indeed, the sacrifice of my own life could produce the desired result ! But our principles require no such means for their development : peace- truth—reason—justice—these are our only and all-powerful weapons ; and, with these, by the blessing of Heaven, we shell be enabled to achieve our every object. Were there ever an inclination on the part of any portion of the Irish people to have recourse to violence for the attainment of our views, the glorious regeneration which temperance is working in our countrymen, has, by rationalizing and moralizing the peasantry, driven every such desire from amongst us. It was at Clare that the first seeds of this great reforma- tion were sown—just ten years ago—where a hundred thousand men resolved to abstain from the use of intoxicating drink, and nobly and faithfully adhered to their resolution. It is now pervading all classes, taking a new impetus from another quarter, and affords to the world a glorious monument of Irish fidelity aud morality. It is said that this is a transitory fit—a mere whim of momentary enthusiasm : but I tell the sneerers and scoffers, that, having once embraced the virtue of temperance as a national cause, the people of Ireland will adhere to it as faithfully and as truly as they have adhered to every thing they have once seriously taken up."
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