FATE  OF  THE  CONFBDB&ATES.  775

He  beciimt'  a.  journalist  in  New  Tork,  and  after-
wards in  Boston  i  but  liis  life  was  wasted  in  barnm
controversy :  first  with  Archbishop  Hughes,  who  took
liim  to  task  for  charging  the  failure  in  'IS  on  the  Irish
priesthood,  and  afterwards  witli  a  fierce  and  truculent
coterie,  of  which  his  old  enemy  Ueilly  was  the  mouth-
piece. It  seems  the  eternal  fate  of  nnsucces^ful  revolu-
tionists to  fly  at  each  others'  throate.  The  followers
of  X^dru  Rollin  and  Louis  Diane  were  fighting  duels
in  their  Englisli  exile ;  the  Hungarians  in  Paris  were
flinging  dirt  on  Kossuth ;  the  Constitutionalists  ot
Italy  disparaging  Mazzini ;  but  this  Irish  quarrel  was
the  fiercest  of  all  these  unseemly  stjiuibblee.*

He  found  his  true  work  later.  In  Cauada  be
became  the  leader  of  the  Irish  immigrants,  a  great
]);irliaiiii'nt;iry  orator,  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the
Xew  Dnniinion.  As  the  minister  of  a  free  state,  he
ih'vili.jiid  unt'\|)i.'ctod  powers,  and  was  universally
riTni,'ni><  d  as  a  gifted  and  ori«jinal  statesman.  Success
(lid  not  uf;iii  him  from  his  early  labours.  "While  he
was  a  C';in;idian  politician,  he  produced  a  careful  and
synipathclic  liistury  of  Ireland,  and  constantly  wrote
vtrses  as  r;ii-y  of  the  Irish  soil  as  while  iie  was  a  con-
trihutur  1o  the  .y->/i<,/i.
Xi>  man  ever  had  distiiiguished  services  more  grudg-
iiii,'Iy  :idiiHtt>  d.  He  had  gifts  which  placed  him  on  a
li'M'l  with  tlif  best  of  his  associates,  and  for  years  he

•  Sn,ii.>  ..f  R.illv's  nriirl.-s  sbmit    McGpo  were  a  diBjrrwp  to  Irish-
Aiiii'rii'iiri  Jiiiin.;ill-.iii  liy  ihi'ir  fniilri'  s«  anil  iiii'iiclacily.    Oiio  ruiiimeacod  :.
■■Tli.r.'  nn-  iiirii  hIid  iv.iiiltl  lU-tih-  tlii'ir  iiwllitTS  grave  for  g»i:i,  sdiI  Boeh


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776  FOUR   YEARS  OF  IRISH  HISTORY.
