Excerpt from A Special Report of the Proceedings in the Case of the Queen Against Daniel O'connell, Esq., M. P. John O'connell, Esq., M. P., Thomas Steele, Esq., Thomas Matthew Ray, Esq.: In the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland, Michaelmas Term, 1843, and Hilary Term, 1844, on an Indictment for Conspiracy and Misdemeanour A greater than Caesar has said that there is in the Irish heart an intuitive love of the right, which corrects even the errors of their judgment. The Irish heart is always right; and heart as well as reason in that instance - the promptings of their. Natural right-mindedness, as well as the accumulated teaching of seven centuries - had convinced them that they could find no happiness in being English. But there was a large section of the community, respectable in every sense, to whom assimilation was a purpose to be accomplished by all feasible means. That section included some of the most intelligent of the Irish Liberals, and their doctrine of regeneration was urged with great earnestness, and with more than proportionate ability. Time, however, passed on, and no assimilation came. Some grew weary - others dis trustful; some disheartened, and not a few convinced that their paths were not those which inevitably led to the goal they contemplated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.