O'Connell's Choice

At the time, the British Colonial Office's secrecy could not be called poor; it was practically nonexistent. So it was no difficult matter for Franz to let O'Connell stumble upon the British plot.

Of course, the officials at the British Colonial Office did not consider it a plot at all, but a project that would benefit many parties, with only a tiny bit of immorality about it.

Still, different perspectives naturally led to different conclusions.

The worst part was that the girls O'Connell had rescued were not grateful to him. On the contrary, they thought he had ruined their happiness for the sake of his own reputation.

O'Connell was not angry, but he knew full well that although he had stopped this particular scheme, as long as the refugees who could not support themselves remained in Britain, it was only a matter of time before they were exploited as fuel for the British people's prosperous lives.

He began to reconsider the Austrians' proposal: a land where a day's work could fill one's belly, a land without religious discrimination, a new land where people were free to stay or leave.

The Irish people's Catholic identity made them suffer intense discrimination, so they attached great importance to this matter at the time.

And so Daniel O'Connell began contacting everyone he could reach. Emigration might not have been the best choice, but it was the only one he could think of at that moment.

At the time, America was still a vast, sparsely populated country, and it desperately needed more people to fill its lands.

In fact, this had become one of the major obstacles holding back America's development. To address it, the country spared no expense in luring people from North Germany.

America promised not only high wages, but also land, freedom,