Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Apology for the British Government in Ireland
Nevertheless the writer showed that he laboured under the delusion - too prevalent both amongst our interceding friends abroad, and our complaining agitators at home - that those terrible plagues which afiiict Ireland, and make her name a scandal amongst mankind - might, could, or should be cured or alleviated, by means of a reform here and there, in the London Parliament, under the imperial legislation of the United Kingdom.
If the case were so, English statesmen would, indeed, be liable to heavy censure and condemnation. Common justice, however, requires that they be heard before being condemned. If it can be made to appear in their behalf that not only the prosperity and progress, but the very existence of the British Empire as a Power in the world imperatively demands a continuation of every one of those plagues and scandals in Ireland, and that no British minister dares, on peril of his head, propose the abatement of any single one of them - then it will be clear that whoever may be the guilty party, tlzey are acquitted.
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