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Excerpt from Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland: With Introductory Notes [When the melancholy intelligence of the death of General Meagher, by drowning in the waters of the Missouri, on the night of the 1st of July, 1867, was confirmed, the officers of his old Brigade organized and carried out a series of funeral ceremonies, commencing with the solemn High Mass of Requiems in the Church of St. Francis Xavier, New york. on the 16th of August, 1867, and terminating with the following oration, which was delivered by Richard O'Gorman, in the Cooper Institute, on the evening of the same day]. The funeral rites have all been duly performed. The bell has tolled. The solemn Mass for the Dead has been sung. The melancholy strains of the 'Dies Irae, ' saddest of all utterances of human woe, still linger in the hearts of all that sorrowing throng who this morning knelt before the altar, where, with all the pomp of its time-honored ceremonies, with sacrifice and prayer, the Church of Christ consigned the soul of its departed child to the forgiveness and mercy of Him who promised that He would be the resurrection and the life, and that every one that lived and believed in Him should not die for ever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."