fiendish work of eviction is still pursued; BUT FROM THE BLOOD OF THE BRAVE CONNEMARA WOMEN WHO RESISTED THE HOME DESTROYERS, SHALL SPRING UP A POWER WHICH WILL SWEEP AWAY NOT ONLY THE LAND SYSTEM, BUT THE INFAMOUS GOVERNMENT THAT MAINTAINS IT.' (Cheers.) "

And on February 23, at Cincinnati, Mr. Parnell declared in the same strain:

"I feel confident we shall kill the Irish Landlord system. (Applause.) And when we have given Ireland to the People of Ireland, we shall have laid the foundation upon which to build up our Irish Nation. (Loud applause.) The feudal tenure and the rule of the minority have been the corner-stone of English misrule. Pull out that corner-stone, break it up, destroy it, and you undermine English misgovernment. (Applause.) When we have undermined English misgovernment, we have paved the way for Ireland to take her place among the nations of the earth. (Applause.) And let us not forget that that is the ultimate goal at which all we Irishmen aim. NONE OF US—WHETHER WE BE IN AMERICA OR IN IRELAND, OR

WHEREVER WE MAY BE WILL BE SATISFIED UNTIL WE HAVE DESTROYED THE LAST LINK WHICH KEEPS IRELAND BOUND TO ENGLAND. (Applause.)"

With such language in his mouth it is hard to believe that Mr. Parnell had not at his fingers' ends

the whole scheme of revolution so ably drawn out by James Fintan Lalor, although it might not suit him to disclose to every assembly the true meaning of the agitation which he had been leading in Ireland in 1879. But it was necessary to satisfy all classes of Irish in America-the respectable lawyer, the affluent merchant, the local politician, and the dynamiteloving ex-Fenian soldier. It was Mr. Parnell's business to unite all platforms, and to link an errand of charity with the sterner business of Irish politics; to be received by the most respectable and thriving Irishmen in every large city, and yet to become also the very incarnation of the impossible aspirations of the various Irish Nationalist societies. In this there can be no doubt Mr. Parnell was eminently successful. He not only collected money for charitable purposes, but he also laid the foundation of the Land League organization in America, from which during the past year has been received so vast a sum of money for political purposes. How he was received, and in what character he was regarded by the Fenian element, is best appreciated by the following extract from the Irish World of February 21, 1880, immediately after Mr. Parnell's landing :

"CHARLES STEWART PARNELL is the apostle who to-day, as he ascends into the altitude of his opportunity, heralds aloud to the world the dawn of that

universal brotherhood in landed rights which time is as certain of crowning with success as patriots, warriors, and men are to overthrow the oppressors of the earth.

"There is nothing we hope so much as his successful nationalization of Landed Reform. No man could ever have wakened so widely, so deeply, and so generally the heart of any people as he has wakened. the hearts, the wills, and the patriotism of Irishmen and Americans, but by being accepted as the leader of a great thought, and as the concentrated embodiment of a great Reform. The great cities have welcomed him with ovations such as no man has received since Lafayette was welcomed as the child of the Revolution he battled into victory, and as the patriot hero of two hemispheres. The smaller cities, villages, towns, and the people from every palatial home, and from every cottage fireside, have sent him greeting, sympathy, money, to aid—what? Not Landlordism, not Monopolies in Land, not tyrannies in Government, not England. No! Not one of these. BUT IRELAND IN HER MARTYRDOM; IRELAND TO BREAK THE BONDS OF LANDLORD RULE; IRELAND TO PROCLAIM EQUALITY OF RIGHT IN IRISHMEN TO THE LAND OF IRELAND, and mankind in defiant demand that all Monopoly in Land shall cease for ever.

"The great mass of the English people demand it, and they will not be silent.

"The great mass of the American people demand it, and they will never cease agitating and agitating until they have broken up and broken down every barrier to the universal right of the universal people to their inheritance to God's soil, the earth and the fruits thereof."

The dissolution of Parliament interrupted Mr. Parnell's career in America, and he returned to Ireland to find himself the leader of a powerful Irish party. The Liberal majority in the new House of Commons owed a considerable portion of its members to the Irish vote in England and Scotland, and accordingly the outlook for the coming session seemed hopeful. All now depended upon the energy and audacity of the revolutionists; and the history of the following year proves how true they were to their policy of exasperation and disturbance.

CHAPTER IX.

THE REIGN OF TERROR.

On the 31st of March, 1880, Mr. Gladstone, in his speech to the constituency of Midlothian, described the condition of Ireland as one of peculiar prosperity. "There was an absence of crime and outrage,” he said, "and a general sense of comfort and satisfaction, such as had been unknown in the previous history of the country." As corollaries to this opinion Mr. Gladstone omitted, in framing the Queen's speech, to make any allusion to the existence of a land question in Ireland, and in the month of July allowed the Acts for the preservation of the peace in Ireland to drop. Mr. Forster declared, in spite of the warning voice of the Duke of Marlborough, the late Lord Lieutenant, in the House of Lords, that he could govern Ireland by the ordinary appliances of the common law.

On June 18th the celebrated bill, known as the "Disturbance Bill," was brought in by Mr. Forster,