A Story of Daniel O'Connell.
In the course of Dr Guinness Rogers's reminiscences in the Puritan for March, the following story is'lold of Daniel Q'Connell. At some meeting in London someone of the party made a bitter attack upon him, which roused the great Irishman. In his reply he first awakened in the audience a storm of passionate fervour by eloquent declamation on the beauties and glories of Ireland and an impasDloned declaration of his own love to his country. lie then suddenly changed his key, aijd, amid the frantic cheers of the assembly, he exclaimed in his own inimitabls brogue: "And this miserable spalpeen dares to accuse me of disloyalty to Ireland !" The effect was electric, and yet not a singl*argument had been advanced. "This is what I often felt," says Dr Rogers, "on review of his -speeches; btit afcoul the magnetic power of his oratory there could be no qixestion, and to me it was an educa-' tion more valuable than many lectures on rhetoric."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2413, 31 May 1900, Page 61
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167A Story of Daniel O'Connell. Otago Witness, Issue 2413, 31 May 1900, Page 61
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