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Excerpt from Historical Sketches of the Ancient Native Irish and Their Descendants
Now and then these people have excited sympathy in the bosom of individuals; but it is only thirty years since, in reference to them, the public mind became at all alive to the golden rule, and some progress has happily been made. In this preface, it may help its application, if we brie?y trace the origin of our sad neglect. This is full of warning to any g'overnment, but especially to that of Britain, and (at the present crisis. Indeed it cannot be too distinctly marked.
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