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Excerpt from Jail Journal, Commenced on Board the Shearwater Steamer, in Dublin Bay, Continued at Spike Island on Board the Scourge War Steamer on Board the Dromedary Hulk, Bermuda on Board the Neptune Convict Ship at Pernambuco at the Cape of Good Hope (During
Thirty years later, Mitchel's policy, interpreted and applied in a stronger generation by the man whose career Mitchel's writings moulded - Charles Stewart Pamell - brought the stoutest bulwark of English power in Ireland to the ground. When Parnell bade the farmers of Ireland Keep a firm grip on their holdings, he crystallised into a phrase the policy Mitchel urged unsuccessfully in 1848. Mitchel's generation failed him, his sacrifice seemed vain - but, sixty years after, we can look back to the Ireland of slavish resignation - the land of carcases and ruins - the Finis Hibernia of the cheering auditors to a British Minister and the Ieaderwriters of the English press, and, seeing out of that degradation and misery and ruin new forces grow to encounter and defeat English policy in Ireland, realise that the haughty spirit of a great Irishman though baf?ed in its own generation may set the feet of our country in the way of triumph in the next. Fifty years passed ere the voice of Swift in the Drapier's Letters spoke winningly to England through the cannon of the Volunteers. Thirty years after Mitchel was borne a shackled prisoner from a cowed country, two strong fortresses of England's power in Ireland perished in the fires of resistance to oppression he had rekindled in an abject land.
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