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MR PARNELL AND VICTOR HUGO.

Mr Parnell has addressed the following lefeto Yiotor Hugo,: nrTbi-, nojbility of heart, the meek sympathy with human suffering, Jin'fewtuj of oppressed nationalities,' which' tinguißhed you throughont life, encouage ,me to invoke yourpowerM advocacy in defence of the suffering' Irish people. The Irish question is not, a seotarian question, In, its .present sjpM'.it, is a, purelysdcial'question'i of five .millions skafrK.yos gling for;justicei and the right a by labor on their own land, against ft.small ' br]ghi,:"fdreign;;ti;thp;aßßq

tyranny By tlie" arined force of a foreign nation. What have been the results of the domination of this olass ? They are written in the history af recurring famines, decimating generation afterXgeneration. No human words can paid.' and suffering' evenby^e-jou^ge,B('a^p^t.' i ufl'.. i ' , Miji lions have been 'driven from their.' lio'm'es in despair. Hundreds of thousands .have perished miserably of hunger in a- land teeming, with 'food; .Half of ..our pppula-. tion exist constantly on. a verge of famine) while ten thousand landlords, -•manyj of j whomhave'riever seen Ireland,"live"in extravagance and luxury'on the confisca-. ted productions : of people's ; - labor. 1: "It" ! i's' against, the system which'has produced, these eyite that we; struggle. 11 It is'to'put an endali.otice'a'rid for ever to. this.detestable statejof things' that we appeal faille, conscience of all, go'od'ineh,, withoutidistinotion or party pr nationality, to aid us in shaming the Government of England to do justice to our people. To you, honored Sir, who have known how to arraign the ByTpthp6f - manKind - f6r" ii ;Les' Miserables, J ' we feel that weshallnot'ap-" peal in vain when*we ask that your voice shall be raised on behalf -of-a brave but unfortunate nation;' ■"■"■■ •"" . ;.;c>t ■:<,;:

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 782, 1 June 1881, Page 2

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MR PARNELL AND VICTOR HUGO. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 782, 1 June 1881, Page 2

MR PARNELL AND VICTOR HUGO. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 782, 1 June 1881, Page 2

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