A Brief Account Of The Authors Interview With His Countrymen And Of The Parts Of The Emerald Isle Whence They Emigrated Together With A Direct Ref

Excerpt from A Brief Account of the Author's Interview With His Countrymen, and of the Parts of the Emerald Isle Whence They Emigrated: Together With a Direct Reference to Their Present Location in the Land of Their Adoption, During His Travels Through Various States of the Union in 1854 and 1855 Millions, not thousands, of my countrymen were either starved, hanged, or decapitated by remorse less villains who were sent across the channel by the most repacious, unfeeling, ungodly and cruel government that has been established in any civilized or savage country under the canopy of Heaven, and such of my countrymai as escaped from the meshes of their ferocious enemies were driven like wolves into the wilderness, and kept there, remote from science and society, until they thought them beyond the reach of future improve ment, and irrecoverably plunged in barbarity and unspeakable ignorance; and were it not for the indigenous quality of my countrymen and their religious training, they would become savages, but their faith and practice, even in seclusion, rendered them inaccessible to such an odious comparison. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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