Excerpt from Daniel O'connell: A Lecture Mr. Froude tells us that the wickedness Of a nation was certain to be punished, no matter how long Providence delayed. He said that the wickedness of one generation would assuredly be met by the weak ness of another, if there were a half a dozen between them. Great Britain has held the poisoned chalice to the lips of her sister island for seven hundred years - poisoned by religious hate by the contempt Of the Saxon race by the injustice Of the most heartless government that ever disgraced civilized Europe - and to-day, in the Providence Of God, Ireland holds back that chalice to her own lips, and in the weakness she cannot deny, and which her scholars come to us to explain as some thing inevitable, and what they could not have avoided. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.