ersal
claims of the Anglo-Saxon to dominancy, and every social and national
virtue, thereby creating a feeling of resentment in all countries where
these articles were reprinted. The chief invidiousness, however, was
to the Celt, and among Celts to the Irishman. This circumstance made
repealers of numbers of Irishmen who were neither Celtic in race nor
Roman in creed.

MR. JOHN O'CONNELL ASSUMES THE PRESIDENCY OF THE REPEAL
ASSOCIATION--INFLUENCE OF THE REPEAL AGITATION UPON THE GENERAL
ELECTIONS IN IRELAND.

The death of Mr. O'Connell, it was generally supposed in England, would
allow agitation in Ireland to die of itself. Others supposed that it
would now assume a worse form, in consequence of the absence of those
restraints which the superior sagacity of the arch agitator laid upon
the more fiery and imprudent ringleaders. The latter opinion was the
correct one, and the people of England were astonished to find that Mr.
O'Connell's son John not only became the chairman at Conciliation Hall,
but the recognised leader of the agitation. The priests gave him their
confidence, and, at first, the people very generally; but he was not
possessed of those qualities which enabled him to hold the reins of
power. As Richard Cromwell to the deceased Oliver, so John O'Connell
exhibited a contrast to his father, which soon caused the people to fall
off from his leadership: his name, and the influence of the priests,
were the means of retaining it for him for a time. After the death
of his father, the temporary inheritor of his position indicated
much energy and activity, although, even in this respect, none of the
agitators approached their late chief: O'Connell's powers of physical
endurance and toil had been prodigious.

A general election, the policy of which will be noticed on another
page, called out the leadership of John O'Connell, and the action of the
committee at Conciliation Hall, in a manner to test whether the people
were disposed to follow them. The general impression in England was,
that the popular fervour had ebbed, and that the repeal members would
not generally be returned: the English press made confident predictions
to that effect. John O'Connell and the clique at Conciliation Hall
accepted the ordeal, and were backed by priests and people in their
policy. An extraordinary meeting was convened, and an address to the
electors of Ireland resolved upon. It was a document which ought to
be retained upon t