Note 17 — IRISH PUBLICISTS.
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It was the late Dr. England, Catholic Bishop of Charleston, S. C., who then resided near Cork, who pointed out to O'Connell the conjoint sin and folly of duelling, and induced him to promise that he would never again appeal to arms. It was reported, at the time, that O'Connell had lingered in London, when Peel expected him at Calais, awaiting news of his wife's health (he had left her ill in Dublin), and that another public character had declined a challenge on the plea of his daughter's illness. The late Chief Justice Burke thus commemorated the double event:
"Two heroes of Erin, abhorrent of slaughter, Improved on the Hebrew command; One honored his wife, and the other his daughter, That 'their days might be long on the land.'"