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'There is no name in our literary or political annals more accentuated by fame than that of Daniel Henry Deniehy. He was, essentially, one of those brief, brilliant, luckless lives which furnish more promise than fulfillment, produce more flowers than fruit, and which, with every potentiality of greatness, must be estimated less by what was actually accomplished than by what remained unachieved...'