O,Cenpeli,s Misiory of HreIand.
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The following extract from the History OF Ire
land by DANIEL O'CoNNELL, which has created
so powerful an excitement in Great Britain which
will be published tomorrow morning. clearly
and strongly expresses the aim the great Liberia
tor and the general purpose which actuaied him in
writing the work. IL is given arg the summary of
his hook and may be regarded as affording fair
specimen Of the force with which the whole is
wri,ten


THESE pages contain faint outline of the sad
story of the woes and miseries OF Ireland. The
features of that story are characterized by the
most odious crimes committed by the English
rulers on the Irish people. Rapine, coniscation,
murder, massacre, treachery, sacrlege,-whole-
sale devastation, and injustice of every kind,
continued IN many of its odious forms to the
present hour.


The form OF persecution is altered-the spirit
remains the same Those who heretofore would
have used the dagger, or the knife of the assassin
employ now only. the tongue, or the pen Of the
calumniator-and lnstead OF numbering bodies
exhaust their energies In asSassinating reputation
Calurnny has been substituted for murder. and
the faction which has so long rioted in Irish blood
consoles Its virulene and malignant passions BY
induIgsng IN ever varying. never dying false
hood and truculent slander.


What is the present condition of the Irish mind
what ought to be the designs of the patriots OF
Ireland.


We feel and understand that, If the Union was
not in existencc-if Ireland had her own Parlia-
ment, the popular majority would have long since
carried every measure of saluta1y and useful re-
forn,. Instead Of being nd-hand with Eng
land and Scotland, we should have taken the
lead and achieved for ourselves all and more than
we have contributed to achieve for them.