Identifier: uncrownedkinglif00mcwa (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: McWade, Robert M. (Robert Malachi), b. 1857
Subjects: Parnell, Charles Stewart, 1846-1891
Publisher: (Philadelphia) : Edgewood Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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s, 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, witha fair prospect of the workhouse and the gaol,which were the only rewards of the faithful servantof the Irish people. Isaac Butt himself was asignal and terrible example, of what Irish patriot-ism entails. We have already described howhard he had to ^york in his closing days to meetthe strain of professional and political dutiesWhen he was wrestling with the growing diseasethat ultimately killed him, he was beset by dunsand .bailiffs, and his mincj/was overshadowed withthe dread thought that he had left his childrenunjprovided for. And to-day, in poverty—perhapsin misery—-they are paying the penalty of havingbeeTi begotten by a great and a true Irishman.Any man of political experience or reading willknow how easy it is for a government to rule a
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