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Excerpt from The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine
A tale or irish famine, published in a season of such unparalleled scarcity and destitution as the present, when our countrymen are perishin g in thousands for want of food, ought, one would imagine, to excite a strong interest in the breasts of all those who can sympathize with them under snfierings so desolating and frightful. That the perusal of the present narrative may excite such an interest is not only the paramount wish of the author's heart, but constituted one of the purposes for which it was written. As it must, in this terrible crisis, be admitted that such a subject is one which involves the heart-reading consideration of life and death to an extent beyond all historic pre cedent, the author deems it necessary to state, at some what greater length, the motives which prompted him to select it. Having witnessed, last season, the partial, and in this the general failure of the potato crop, he anticipated, as every man must, the fearful visitation which is now almost decimating our wretched population; and it occurred to him that a narrative founded upon it, or, at all events, exhibiting, through the medium of fiction.
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