. The uncrowned king : the life and public services of Hon. Charles Stewart Parnell ; comprising a graphic story of his ancestry; also family reminiscences, related by his aged mother, Delia Tudor Stewart Parnell ... ; also, a bilgraphical sketch of his great co-laborer, Rt. Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . babesdid to endanger the physical or mental peace ofthe old lady no man could find out, and no otherreason could be assigned than that Lloyd wishedto strike terrorism into the hearts of the were proceeded against for daringto mention these villainies. The prisons werecrowded, evict
. The uncrowned king : the life and public services of Hon. Charles Stewart Parnell ; comprising a graphic story of his ancestry; also family reminiscences, related by his aged mother, Delia Tudor Stewart Parnell ... ; also, a bilgraphical sketch of his great co-laborer, Rt. Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . babesdid to endanger the physical or mental peace ofthe old lady no man could find out, and no otherreason could be assigned than that Lloyd wishedto strike terrorism into the hearts of the were proceeded against for daringto mention these villainies. The prisons werecrowded, evictions were ruthlessly carried on inalmost every quarter of the island, and the das-tardly work of the evicting bailiffs was protectedby a force of 13,000 policemen, armed with riflesand swords or bayonets, supplemented by footsoldiers, cavalry, artillery and blue jackets. Allof these were on hand to assist the landlords, non-resident and otherwise, in driving starving tenantsfrom their homes. The Irish people, driven todesperation, were at last at bay. The BritishGovernment capped the climax of their audacityby the arrest on the morning of Thursday, Octo-ber 13, 1881, of Charles Stewart Parnell, underthe Coercion Act. John Dillon, Thomas Sexton,J. J. OKelly and William O^Brien, the fearless. THE OBNOXIOUS PROCESS-SERVER. l62 CHARLES STEWART PARNELL. editor of United Ireland, and about 600 prominentLand Leaguers, were also placed in prison, as suspects. The Irish Land League, which hadbeen organized in Dublin, on October 21, 1879,with Mr. Parnell as its President, was suppressed,and the famous * No Rent manifesto was issuedby its leaders in retaliation. The manifesto andthe antecedent events, fraught as they were withso much of suffering and misery among the Irishpeasantry, that elicited the indignation not alone ofthis country, but also that of the civilized world,require separate chapters to themselves. THE FAMINE OF 1879. In my boyhood days, I read, with the hot tearsblinding
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