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Show REBELS WHO BECAME LOYAL History May Repeat Itself In the Case of Col. Lynch. Tho Now York correspondent of the Times characterizes as a "curious suggestion" sug-gestion" tho statoment of tho Now York World that "Col. Lynch, llko somo of tho Irish rebels ot 1818, may live to becomo a high and honored British official." Why curious? It is a cqmmonplaco ot history. Tho rebels of ono generation aro tho loyalists of tho next. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, Duf-fy, tho leader of tho '48 rebellion, was subsequently Prime Minister ot Victoria Vic-toria and Speaker of Its Parliament. Dr. O'Doherty, a colleague of bis In Ireland, who was convicted and transported trans-ported for treason, has sat in both houses of the Queensland Parliament and Is now a high official of tho colony. col-ony. Tho Hon. Charles D'Arcy McQco; another rebel of '48, became a fervent fer-vent loyalist Minister In Canada. Another, An-other, tho late P. J. Smyth, M. P., finished fin-ished up an official In Dublin Castle. Tho Hon. S. D. Ireland, Attorney General Gen-eral of Vlcorla; Judgo Blndon of tho samo colony; tho Hon. Edward Butler, But-ler, Attornoy General of New South Wales, and several other '48 mon who roso to distinction In Great Britain might bo cited. Prof. J. K. Ingraham who wroto that treasonable lyric, "Who fears to speak of '98?" becamo a pillar of loyalty In Trinity college, Dublin. London Chronicle. |