Excerpt from Ireland Contrasted With Scotland: Being the Substance of an Address Delivered Before the Belfast History Society Let us hope, then, that the regeneration of Ireland will no longer be retarded by efforts, hopeless as they must ever be, to induce the co-operation of this party in the good work. Let him who wishes to live in the hearts of the Irish people, as their benefactor and friend, look to the results of its tyranny - to the denunciations of every measure of wise and liberal policy - to the assumption of ...
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Excerpt from Ireland Contrasted With Scotland: Being the Substance of an Address Delivered Before the Belfast History Society Let us hope, then, that the regeneration of Ireland will no longer be retarded by efforts, hopeless as they must ever be, to induce the co-operation of this party in the good work. Let him who wishes to live in the hearts of the Irish people, as their benefactor and friend, look to the results of its tyranny - to the denunciations of every measure of wise and liberal policy - to the assumption of exclusive loyalty, and the most unmeasured abuse of all that loyalty teaches us to reapect, in the same breath. Let him observe the avidity with which, on every occasion, the oppression of the people is sought for; let him look to these, and all the other consequences of the usurpa tion of a faction over the executive, and determine his choice. The friend to Ireland must be the foe to party; if he cling to the one, he must at once and for ever cast off the other. The blow which, in a great degree, destroyed the open and avowed ascendancy of the Orange party was the more a icting in this, that it was in some measure suicidal. This, to them, irreparable calamity was the restoration of civil and religious liberty to the Catholics of Ireland, by the very men, too, whose pride exulted in the consistency of a long and vigorous opposition to the measure which the voice of a united people compelled them reluctantly to concede. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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