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sentation."
The Fathers of the Republic” freely expressed
their detestation of England’s hypocrisy. Thomas
Jefferson said; “In spite of treaties, England is
still our enemy.” That opinion might be impress-
ed on the minds of our school-boys and girls, with
much better result to the public welfare than the
bombastic nonsense about “our mother country,"
and the “incalculable advantages“ derived from her
(through the Alabama in the late war, I presume.
In “ Benjamin Franklin's Works,“ I find a let¬
ter from which I extract the following. His ex¬
pressions are so explicit and so emphatic that he
does not leave room for doubt as to just what he
means:
" Accounts upon oath have been taken in Ameri¬
ca by order of Congress, of the British barbarity
committed there. It is expected of me to make a
school-book of them, and to have thirty-five prints
designed by good artists and engraved, each ex-
pressing one or more of the different horrid facts,
to be inserted in the book in order to impress the
minds of children and posterity with a deep sense of
England’s bloody and insatiable malice and wicked-
ness. Every fresh instance of her devilism makes
me abominate the thought of a reunion with such
a people."
Such was the high opinion of “our mother coun-
try, and “our English cousins,” which was held
by the man who penned the immortal declaration
that “ all men are created equal.” such was the o-
pinion of Benjamin Franklin, the philospher, whose
lofty mind fully appreciated the depth and inten-
sity of English hypocrisy and malevolence.
Did he ever think that American manhood could
descend so low as to boast of "the ties of blood"
between us and the English nation, of whom he
indignantly says, “ every fresh instance of her
devilism makes me abominate the thought of a re-
union with such a people'?
Everywhere around us — in schools, in reading
rooms, in the utterances of public men — we see
but too plainly the evidence that that detestable re-
union is closing in upon us.
A. MORGAN DEELY.
TREACHEROUS EFFORTS TO SEIZE THE
O'DONNELL.
The following narrative of the measures adopt¬
ed by the government to get possession of the
young O'Donnell, prince of Tir Connell, and hi-
after adventures, taken from “The Four Masters,
are full of interest.—
"Red Hugh, the son of O'Donnell, was taken by
the English. His capture was first effected thus :
The English, with Justice and the Council in gen¬
eral, had contracted a great dislike to the Earl O'-
Neill, Hugh, the son of Ferdoragh (although he
was obedient to them), in consequence of the
accusations and complaints of Thurlough Luinea-
ch, the son of Niall Conallagh O'Neill, who was
always in opposition to him, and because Joan,
the daughter of O'Donnell, was married to the
Earl of Tir Owen. Moreover, the name and re-
nown of the above named youth, Red Hugh, the
son of Hugh, had spread throughout the five prov-
inces of Erin, even before he had arrived at the
age of manhood, for his wisdom, sagacity, goodly
growth, and noble deeds ; and the people in gen-
eral were used to say that he was really the pre-
phesied one ; and the English feared that if he
should be permitted to arrive at the age of ma-
turity, that the disturbance of all the island of
Erin wonld result through him and the Earl of
of Tir Owen ; and that, should they unite in their
exertions, they would win the goal, as they were
alied to each other, as we have before mentioned.
To deliberate on premises, a council was held by
the Lord Justice and the English of Dublin; and to
consider what manoeuvre they might adopt to pre¬
vent this thing which they feared ; and the resolu-
tion which they came to was, to prepare a ship at
Dublin, and send it, with its crew, laden with wine
and beer, north-eastwards, keeping Erin to the
left, until it should put into some harbor of the
harbors of Tir Connell, as if it had gone for the
purpose of traffic. The vessel sailed northward
to Benmor, in the Route, and then turned west-
wards, with a favorable breeze of wind, without
stopping or delaying, until it put in at the old
harbor of Swilly, opposite Rathmullan, a castle
erected on the margin of the sea, some time before,
by Mac Sweeney Fanad, a family, the chief of
which has been one of the generals of the lords of
Tir Connell from a remote period. The ship be-
ing stationed at anchor, a party of the crew came
on shore in a small boat, under the guise of mer-
chants, in the semblance of peace and friendship ;
and they began to spy and explore the country,
and to sell and bargain with those who came to
them; and they told them they had ale and wine
in their ship. When Mac Sweeney and his peo-
ple heard of this, they began to buy the wine, and
continued to drink of it until they were intoxicated
The Red Hugh before mentioned happened at this
time to be in the neighborhood, on an excursion
of thoughtless recreation, and youthful play and
sports ; and the vehement aud fool-hardy people
who were along with him requested him to go to
the place. It was easy for them to prevail on him
to do so, for at this time he was not quite fifteen
years of age ; and there were none of his advisers,
tutors, or ollavs, along with him, to direct him or
give him council. When the spies heard of his
arrival in the town, they immediately went back
to the ship. He was welcomed by Mac Sweeney
and the other chieftains; and they sent their wait-
ers and cup-bearers to the ship for wine for the
guest who had arrived- The merchants said that
they had no more wine unsold, except what the
crew required for their own use, and that they
were unwilling to give any more of it out for any
one ; but they added that if a small party of gen-
