The Liberator

Mr. O'Connell was received with great eclat in Waterford on the 18th of August, and addressed the populace as follows:

Fellow countrymen: (huzza) you seem as merry as if you were going to beat the Beresfords again. (Cheers and laughter.) It is a fine thing to toil for so brave and honest a people as the Irish. (Cheers.) They beat us, however, on the tithe question this time, but with the blessing of God, and the assistance of the people, I will beat them the next time. (Cheers, and cries of 'You will.') We will also have a rap at the rotten corporations, and grind some of the fat ones belonging to them. ('Grind them, grind them.') I suppose you know them all? ('We do, well.')

You have all heard something of Repeal too? (Deafening cheers.) Well I have only to tell you, that from all I have heard and seen, I am as thorough going a repealer now, as when I left Ireland. (Tremendous cheers.) Go on quietly and peaceably, and don't mind noticing such traitors as John Matthew Galway. (Groans, and a cry of 'Henry Winston Barron.') Oh, ay! he's not as bad as Galway. What a Luttrell that Galway is!—but he's bad enough. By the law, Harry's no great things (laughter); there might easily be got a better boy; so at the next election we must send him to the right about, and small blame to us. (Cheers.) You must not expect me to make a long speech to-night. I have been tossed about to-day for several hours on the seas, in some sort of a vessel with a chimney and a kettle of boiling water to set her a-going, and as I feel somewhat fatigued, and in want of sleep, I am sure you will excuse me. (Cheers.)