Identifier: liberatorhislife00cusa (find matches)
Title: The liberator : his life and times, political and social
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Cusack, Mary Francis, 1829-1899
Subjects: O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847 Revolutionaries
Publisher: (Kenmare, Kerry) : Kenmare Publications
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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d interfere to have your Grace andDr. Murray understand each other-—I mean, agree together onthe proper securities against anti-Catholicism in the plan ofgeneral education. This wish is, I fear, an idle one, but if yourGrace were in Dublin I do think something might be done tosatisfy your just apprehensions. The scheme of giving Govern-ment dominion over Catholic education is failing on the Conti-nent, as the Catholic people grow alarmed at its tendency,. Chapter cififtccnth. AGITATION FOR REPEAL.1839-1843. The Repeal Movement Projected: Correspondence,Explaining Ideas and Plans with Dr. MacHale:Repeal Association Formed: Discouraging Start:Repeal Meetings in the South and North:General Election, OConnell Unseated: ElectedLord Mayor of Dublin: Attacked by Shrews-bury: The Repeal Year, par excellence: TheAssociation, Terms of Membership and Card:Peel and Repeal: Monster Meetings at Ennisand Mullaghmast: European Fame: OConnelland the Society of Friends: Letters to Dr.Mac Hale. MAR XV
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Christmas Eve 1839,OConnell wrote aetter to the Arch-3 of Tuam, of whicha fragment remains ; yetfragment is all-impor-;elf almost an epitome ofthe life of this illustrious Irishman,now drawing to its close. In this frag-ment we find the following words : We have ourselves to fight the battle ofIreland and Catholicity against the Orange andTory faction. I am tremblingly alive to the partvon will take. Your co-operation would in mymind, be quite decisive of success. Of course, Iwill not take, or allow to be taken, any step in-consistent with law; nor would I ask that your Grace shouldcommit vourself one inch beyond your own inclination but I The Repeal Movement Projected. do want your countenance—your something more than mereacquiescence—the larger that more is the better. Indeed, I dobelieve the fate of Catholic Ireland is now in your hands. Ifwe had you going with us in the strength of your judgment,there would arise a combination more powerful than the oldCatholic Association. OC

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