The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-12-04

husband from the wife. the son from the
mother. and for we'll nigh three years over
$50 representatives of the manhood of Ire
land including every Irish member of par
lament except three. spent their hours
away in the nOisOme cells of Kilmainham.
Galway. Tulamore, Wexford and every
other prison scattered throughout the land,
and for what? Because they would not
stand by and witness the unhappy famine
scenes of '46 and ~ repeated in their
midst. when over two millions and a half
of their countrymen and countrywomen fell
by the rOadsdeS OF hunger. found a grave
with the emigrant ship at the bottom of the
ocean, or died like rotten sheep upon the
prairies OF British America; because they
would not see their kith and kin ground to
earth by an accursed system of landlOrdism
that for many centuries past has laid bare
the rooftree and sent the beasts of the field
to roam in glee over the habitations Of men,
system that has starved the nation that
the sin and debauchery of London and
Paris might live and grow fat, system be-
fore which honor honesty and virtue fell
wherever its footprints wandered, but a
system thank God. say it, that stands
trembling in the dock to-day condemned,
awaiting the stern sentence of annihilatiOn
beneath the iron heel of a peoples will
which is its inevitable doom. And by whom
was all this accomplished? By the self
same Liberal party who to-day ask the
Irish people to fling aside the man who in
fair or stormy weather has stood by them.
lifted them up and guided them by his sac
rifices and independent stand to within view
of that promised land of national independ-
ence with which they are now blessed.
And for what? iii tell you in a sentence
or fyDn I with Of
the bullet that sent the suicide. fOrger and
perjured Pigott to eternity almost ringing
in my ears, 1 have no doubt but you will
agree with me that the present attack on
Mr.. Parnell is but another scheme of his
enemies conceived in the womb of polite
ally laScviOuS wOmanhoOd, born in the
chamber never frightened by one ray of
virtue, and fed and fostered at the unclean
breast of an accursed British TOryism.
Within the present decade Mr.. Parnell be-
came betrOthed to one Miss Wood. sister of
the eStimable lady with whom his name is
now connected-Mrs O'Shea. At that
time Miss Wood lived with her sister, Mrs.
O'Shea, which caused Mr.. ParnelI to be a
constant visitor there About this time in
order to have his relative elect. Captain
O'Shea. assume for the first time the garb
of respectability, he had him elected Mem
ber of Parliament for an Irish constituency
Glare. A short time after this it will be
in the recollection of many. Mr.. Parnell re-
tired and his whereabouts for long time
was almost unknown. A deep aff1ictiOn
had Defallen him. Miss Wood to whom he
was devOtedly attached sickened and died,
and so great the wound inflicted upon his
big heart that for over twelve long months
his medical attendants were undecided as to
whether death or he would come out the
victor. With that sisterly affection which
had sprung up from the attachment which
had existed between her departed relative
and the stricken one Mrs. O'Shea attended
him throughout his illness, and from that
hour the same sisterly and brotherly love
springing from the same holy source-the
youthful grave of the departed loved one
has existed and nothing more. Captain
O'Sheas reputation in the land where he is
known is that of a shiftless. unprincipled.
depraved and cowardly vagabond. Parnell
had him elected to parliament he went
there and voted against the benefactor
whom he had sworn to support When
Parnell was dragged half dressed from
Morrison's hotel in Dublin and flung into
Kilmainham Jail and when on the same
memorable evening ten thousand British
throats sent up the maniac ''hurrah" from
the Guildhall in London upon the announce
ment of Mr.. Gladstone. this ''Grand old
man." that the "Arch dog of a conspirator.
Parnell. was no longer loose to bury his
poisonous fangs in the flesh of British soci-
ETY." it was O'Shea that masqueraded as
mediator between the imprisoned chieftain
and his oppressor Gladstone while at the
same time his only aim was to obtain some
statement from Parnell which could be used
as weapon against the efforts he was then
making on behalf of his struggling land.
O'Shea overfowed the cup of his iniquity
when few months ago he stood in the wit
ness box on behalf of the London Times in
it's infamous charges against Parnell and
others which resulted in the exposure of as
deep-rOOted and as villianous a scheme as