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O'Connell, Daniel - Irish M.P.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
O'Connell, Daniel - Irish M.P.
<Our item number 121322><B>O&#39;Connell, Daniel.</B> &#40;1775-1847&#41; Irish nationalist leader; called &#34;the Liberator&#34;; he was elected M.P. in 1828 but could take his seat only after the passage of the Catholic Emancipation Act &#40;1829&#41;. ALS, 2½pp, 9&#34; x 7¼&#34;, 1832 June 10. To Lord Ebington, regarding a derogatory opinion of Benjamin Disraeli expressed by O&#39;Connell. In part: &#34;…<I>when I wrote to Mr. Bulwer expressing the opinion I entertain of Mr. Disraeli, I had no recollection…that so excellent a friend of civil and religious liberty as Mr. Smith was Sir Jno Baring&#39;s colleague at Wycombe. It was far from my mind that…the letter of so humble an individual as myself could be deemed of importance at Wycombe when I am not personally known to any one human being</I>….&#34; <BR><BR>There was no love lost between O&#39;Connell and Disraeli. In 1835 they would quarrell publicly, to the point of almost fighting a duel, over reports that Disraeli had called O&#39;Conn ell a &#34;traitor and incendiary.&#34; During a heated exchange in Parliament, O&#39;Connell disparaged Disraeli&#39;s Jewish ancestry, to which Disraeli responded: &#34;Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.&#34; <BR>Estimated Value &#36;400-600. <BR><BR>Our item number 121322<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/43jpegs/121322.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>