This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ... Both juries were composed exclusively of those "colonists" in whose exclusive interests the appeal was made; for what trade there was, or had been, in the country was almost wholly in their hands. Yet this appeal made specially to them and for them was answered in one case by a neutral, and in the other two cases by a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ... Both juries were composed exclusively of those "colonists" in whose exclusive interests the appeal was made; for what trade there was, or had been, in the country was almost wholly in their hands. Yet this appeal made specially to them and for them was answered in one case by a neutral, and in the other two cases by a damnatory verdict. The most deadly consequence of slavery ia the servility it breeds, till backs long bowed beneath its load cannot be straightened. That is a fine comparison of Campanella's of a people habituated to servitude to an animal habituated to domestication; and the truth with which it closes--that such a people on a summons to shake off the yoke, turns to rend, not the oppressor, but the liberator--is exemplified in every history, and by the lives of many liberators from Moses to Swift: "The people is a beast of muddy brain That knows not its own strength, and therefore stands Loaded with wood and stone; the powerless hands Of a mere child guide it with bit and rein; One kick would be enough to break the chain; But the beast fears, and what the child demands It does; nor its own terror understands, Confused and stupefied by bugbears vain. Most wonderful! With its own hand it ties And gags itself--gives itself death and war For pence doled out by kings from its own store. Its own are all things between earth and heaven; But this it knows not; and, if one arise To tell this truth, it kills him unforgiven." But the most abject and inveterate servility is bred, not of slavery alone, but of tyranny and slavery wedded together; for at heart there is no such cringeing slave as a slave-driver. Hence, in Ireland the class represented by the Grand Juries of the city and of the county of Dublin, was as abject towards Engla...
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