It was a rare sight to see him dressed in "Repeal cloth" in one of his Repeal meetings.

We were in Dublin in the midst of that excitement, when the hopes of new liberties for that oppressed people all centered on O'Connell.

The enthusiasm of the people for the Repeal of the Union was then at white-heat.

Dining one day with the "Great Liberator," as he was called, I asked him if he hoped to carry that measure.
"No," he said, "but it is always good policy to claim the uttermost and then you will be sure to get something." Could he have looked forward fifty years and have seen the present condition of his unhappy country, he would have known that English greed and selfishness could defeat any policy, however wise and far-seeing.
The successive steps by which Irish commerce was ruined and religious feuds between her people continually fanned into life, and the nation subjugated, form the darkest page in the history of England.

But the people are awakening at last to their duty, and, for the first time, organizing English public sentiment in favor of "Home Rule." I attended several large, enthusiastic meetings when last in England, in which the most radical utterances of Irish patriots were received with prolonged cheers.