THOMAS DARCY M'GEE,

AUTHOR OF “A HISTORY OF IRISH SETTLERS IN NORTH AMERICA;
OF THE IRISH WRITERS; LIFE OF ART. M'MURROGH;"
"HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF O'CONNELL AND HIS
FRIENDS," ETC., ETC., ETC.

"For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues:
"And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings, for my sake, for a testi-
mony to them and to the Gentiles."- ST. MATTHEW: Chap. x. Verses 17, 18.

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1853.

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