. 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 . vernor of a colony is twenty-fivethousand dollars, and there are chief-justiceships,and puisne judgeships, and lieutenant-governor-ships, and a thousand and one other things whichcan always be placed at the disposal of an obe*dient and useful friend of the administration. The difficulty of the Irish
. 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 . vernor of a colony is twenty-fivethousand dollars, and there are chief-justiceships,and puisne judgeships, and lieutenant-governor-ships, and a thousand and one other things whichcan always be placed at the disposal of an obe*dient and useful friend of the administration. The difficulty of the Irish struggle will beunderstood when it is recollected that, in. antago-nism to all this, the Irish people have nothing tooffer their faithful servants. In Ireland there are,.practically speaking, no offices in the gift of thepeople. From the judgeships down to a place inthe lowest rank of the police, everything is in thegift^of the British government. Nor is this Irish patriot has, you know, always ran therisk of collision with the authorities, and, in con-sequence, faced the chances of Parnell has been in prison; Mr. Dillon has beenthrice in prison ; Mr. OKelly has been in prison ;Mr. Sexton has been in prison; Mr. WilliamOBrien has been in prison ; Mr. Healy has been. K. ODOHERTY. 138 CHARLES STEWART PARNELL. in prison ; Mr. Timothy Harrington has beenthree times in prison; Mr. Edward Harringtonhas been in prison; Dr. ODoherty was sent topenal servitude in 48; Mr. J. F. X. OBrien wassent to penal servitude in 1867, having first beensentenced to be hanged, drawn, and of the eighty-six Irish membefs of the presentIrish party no less than twenty-five have been,on one excuse or other, and for longer or , imprisoned by the British authorities. Thechoice, then, of the Irish politician lay betweenwealth, dignity, honors, ease, which were offeredfor traitorous service by the British government,and the poverty and hardship and lowliness
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