BRITISH TORTURE OF SMITH O'BRIEN
... Smith O'Brien is in the hands of his enemies, and mercilessly do his tormentors abuse their privilege. It is a sad reflection to think that a man of Smith O'Brien's educated mind and heart,, with deep memories and high- toned feelings, should be compelled to dwell in so- litude, and amid privations of the harshest character; . and all this, not from any necessity of the case, but from a desire ...