Let a commission of the best and wisest amongst Irishmen, with some of our highest English judges added, sit solemnly to hear all complaints, and then let us honestly legislate, not for the punishment of the discontented, but to remove the causes of the discontent.

It is not the Fenians who have depopulated Ireland's strength and increased her misery.

It is not the Fenians who have evicted tenants by the score.

It is not the Fenians who have checked cultivation.

Those who have caused the wrong at least should frame the remedy." In December, 1867, I sailed out of the safe harbour of my happy and peaceful girlhood on to the wide sea of life, and the waves broke roughly as soon as the bar was crossed.