. The history of Ireland : from the earliest period to the present time; derived from native annals, and from the researches of Dr. O'Donovan, Eugene Curry, C. P. Meehan, R. R. Madden, and other eminent scholars, and from all the resources of Irish history now available. treatment of these politi- cal prisoners was nothing short of barbarous, numbers of them being drivento insanity or death by the slow tortureto which they were subjected. Evenunder the pressure of remonstrancesfrom humane men and women in everycivilized nation, amnesty was tardilyand ungraciously extended by de-grees to the ci
. The history of Ireland : from the earliest period to the present time; derived from native annals, and from the researches of Dr. O'Donovan, Eugene Curry, C. P. Meehan, R. R. Madden, and other eminent scholars, and from all the resources of Irish history now available. treatment of these politi- cal prisoners was nothing short of barbarous, numbers of them being drivento insanity or death by the slow tortureto which they were subjected. Evenunder the pressure of remonstrancesfrom humane men and women in everycivilized nation, amnesty was tardilyand ungraciously extended by de-grees to the civilian prisoners; whileevery appeal in behalf of the incar-cerated soldiers—ex-members of theBritish army—was flatly and curtlyrepulsed. Of the latter, ghastly ex-amples must be made, to deter herMajestys troops from disloyalty in thefuture. The warning lost its force,however, when half a dozen of theseoffenders were carried off from Aus-tralia, in 1876, under the direction ofJ. J. Breslin, in the American brigCatalpa which was chartered for thepurpose by Irish-American sympathi-zers. Apprehending similar rescues athome, the British Government there-upon abruptly fell into a merciful moodand began to make arrangements forthe release of the remaining prisoners. Ihj^^jS- i i i^c&.Wi0iiOi7,jOi^k}i? i\i^-y£^y£^JjMLCkJs^^i>-^.O.^/^^,;\Cy(rC%^iXxm yJinnfiiSMAJiM U^JtL. ^Mteii\(j^ It CHARLES STEWART PARNELL, M. P. REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA. 833 CHAPTER LIII. DISESTABLISHMENT AND HOME EULE. Defeated but not Despondent—Lord Broughams Testimony—Ministers without a Policy—Efforts to Revive* anAlliance between English and Irish Liberalism — The Greatest Ecclesiastical Enormity in Europe —Disestablishment of the Irish Church Proposed—Difficulties in the Way—The First Bulwark Broken downin the Abolition of Obnoxious Oaths—Fuit Ilium—How Protestants regarded the Measure—Significant Electionsin Tipperary and Longford — The Federal Home-Rule Movement—Protesta
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