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Excerpt from Historical Sketches of O'connell and His Friends: Including Rt. Rev. Drs. Doyle and Milner, Thomas Moore, John Lawless, Thomas Furlong, Richard Lalor Shiel, Thomas Steele, Counsellor Bric, Thomas Addis, Emmet, William Cobbett, Sir Michael O'loghlen, Etc., With a Glance at the Future Destiny of Ireland
The name of my immortal subject has been familiar to the civilized world for nearly forty years. The free of the earth venerate it - the tyrants and task-masters of men hate its utterance, so ominous of the annihilation of their unhal lowed caste. Were those who have been benefited by the labors of his life, to assemble in congress, at the call of gratitude, an assembly would be formed without a parallel in all past history. The Asiatic of the Indian Peninsula would leave his rice crops by the banks of the sacred Ganges; Africa would send forth her dusky deputies; the West Indies their emancipated dark men; Canada her grateful reformers, and Europe the noblest of her free and of her fallen races. The voice of Kosciusko, from the tomb, would command some son worthy of Poland, to join the great chorus of humanity, in singing praises to the com mon benefactor. It would be a testimonial equal to its cause, if all the world were represented, and not otherwise.
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