Memoir of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from Memoir of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet, Vol. 2: With Their Ancestors and Immediate Family Every attempt to govern Ireland has been made from an English standpoint and as if for the benefit of Englishmen alone. Unknown. Law in Ireland was the friend neither of the people nor of justice, but the impartial persecutor of both. Aubrey de Vere. Had Ireland desired to submit she could not have done so. England did not leave her the choice. Risings, revolutions and civil wars were forced upon the country from century to century. They were provoked by massacres, plantations and persecutions; by the oppressions of landlords, by the injustice of the laws. It was England herself, it was the English in Ireland that made the Irish rebels. But how comes it, one may ask, that after so long an agony Ireland still survives, that the name of her people has not been obliterated from the pages of history? The reason is, that down to the eighteenth century, so vigorous was her race, so powerful the influence of her climate and of her pleasant nature, so great the charm of her soul on the souls of the newcomers, that Ireland always assimilated her invaders. "Lord!" said the poet Spenser, "how quickly doth that country alter men´s natures." England, on the other hand, was lacking in the first duty of a conqueror, which is to legitimatize his conquest by the spread of civilization and by works of reparation. This is a truth that none can fail to recognize. L´Irlande cotemporaire, by L. Paul Dubois, Tr. Kettle. It is an irksome and painful task to pursue the details of that penal code; but the penal code it the history of Ireland. John Mitchel. 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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