i've never heard one as great as daniel o'connell and at the end of the speech frederick has been at the back of the hall and was moved slowly to the front and john o'connell danielson said meet my father and so frederick met his great hero daniel o'connell and at that point o'connell invited douglas to get on stage and speak and frederick douglass was such a great speaker, but he was also very modest and he started off in his usual self-deprecating wasting. i'm not good enough for you. you are all so great and i'm not worthy and then went on to make and most amazing speech but his speech was important for a number of reasons. is he praised the great liberator the great champion of of irish civil rights, but initi also said and made this is very important. he said what my people need is a black o'connell who will come and liberate us and that i do that we ourselves need to liberate ourselves. i think is really really significant and then he finished his speech by saying three words which became associated with him agitate agitate agitate. and i have to say it was a phrase. he stole fr

lasting, constructive, and that was the tradition of constitutional nationalism as espoused by daniel o'connell in the 1820's through the 1840's in the famine era. it was revised in the 1870's and then in the 1880's. this tradition found irish-american supporters in the late 1870's partly as a result of the fiascoes in canada and they were using politics effectively in the british parliament to extract concessions. they were people whose work and activity was totally at with what the american conception of irish were. here we have another contemporary cartoon that kind of suggests that all these immigrants are poor and again are going to threaten the stability of the workforce and country here in the united states. this is a sketch that came from the late 1870's and was published in a new york newspaper, basically saying that ireland was sending all of its poor from the poorhouses over to the united states. the hostility against the immigrants lasted a long time. here is another famous one room that time where irish immigrants would bring rum, romanism, and rebellion. notice the facial features