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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
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nest in-terest in machinery. It is characteristic of themodesty and, at the same time, scornfulnes^ of hisnature, that all through the many attacks madeupon him by gentlemen who wear their heartsupon their sleeves, he has never once made allusionto his own strong love of animals; but to hisfriends he often expressed his disgust for theoutrages that, during a portion of the agitation inIreland, were occasionally committed upon them.He did not express these sentiments in public,for the good reason that he regarded the outcryraised by some of the Radicals as part of thegospel of cant for which that section of theLiberal party is especially distinguished. Tohear a man like Mr. Forster refusing a word ofsympathy, in one breath, for whole housefuls ofhuman beings turned out by a felonious landlordto die by the roadside, and, in the next, demandingthe suppression of the liberties of a nation be-cause half-a-dozen of cattle had their tails cut off;to see the same men who howled in delight be-
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EVICTED-iiOMELESS. Q2 CHARLES STEWART PARNELL. cause the apostle of a great humane movement,like Mr. Davitt, had been sent to the horrors ofpenal servitude, shuddering over the ill-usage ofa horse, was quite enough to rnake even the mosthumane man regard this professed love of an-imals as but another item in the grand total oftheir hypocrisy; Mr. Parnell regards the lives ofhuman beings as more sacred than even those ofanimals, and he is consistent in his hatred of op-pression and cruelty wherever they may be found.His sympathies are with the fights of freedomeverywhere, and he often spoke in the strongestterms of his disgust for the butcheries in theSoudan, which the Liberals, who wept over Irishhorses, and Irish cows, received with such Olym-pian calm. In 1867 the ideas that had been sownin his mind in childhood first began to mature;His mother was then, as probably throughout herlife, a strong Nationalist, and so was at least one)of his sisters. Thus Mr. Parnell, in entering uponpo

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