tailieunhanh - THE CAUSES OF THE REBELLION IN IRELAND DISCLOSED

It is always a bold undertaking in a private individual to become the advocate of a suffering people. It is peculiarly difficult at the present moment to be the advocate of the people of Ireland, because there are among them men who have taken the power of redress into their own hands, and committed acts of outrage and rebellion which no sufferings could justify, and which can only tend to aggravate ten-fold the other calamities of their country. Deeply impressed, however, as I am with a conviction that these difficulties stand in my way, I shall yet venture to. | THE CAUSES OF THE REBELLION IN IRELAND DISCLOSED IN AN Address to the People of England. IN WHICH IT IS PROVED BY INCONTROVERTIBLE FACTS THAT THE System for some Years pursued in that Country HAS DRIVEN IT INTO ITS PRESENT DREADFUL SITUATION. BY AN IRISH EMIGRANT. Insita mortalibus natura violently resistere. TACITUS. LONDON Printed for J. S. JORDAN No. 166 Fleet Street. PRICE ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE. CAUSES OF THE REBELLION c. c. FELLOW SUBJECTS It is always a bold undertaking in a private individual to become the advocate of a suffering people. It is peculiarly difficult at the present moment to be the advocate of the people of Ireland because there are among them men who have taken the power of redress into their own hands and committed acts of outrage and rebellion which no sufferings could justify and which can only tend to aggravate ten-fold the other calamities of their country. Deeply impressed however as I am with a conviction that these difficulties stand in my way I shall yet venture to state to Englishmen the case of Ireland. In doing so I rest not on a vain confidence in my own strength but on the nature of the cause I plead for I am convinced that when the train of measures which have led that miserable country into its present situation Pg 6 shall be fully disclosed it will be but little difficult to rouze the people of England not merely to commiserate a distressed country but excite them to exert their constitutional endeavours as head of the British empire to avert the destruction of its principal member. There is another circumstance which gives me hope. The people of England at this hour feel themselves much more interested in what concerns Irishmen than they have ever done at any former period. Whatever mischiefs may have resulted to human society from that kind of philosophic illumination by which modern times are distinguished one certain good at least has been produced by it men have become better acquainted the bond of a common nature has