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pool for instance, to 50 per cent, shows only a miserable 

 increase of 11 per cent, which is made up of Irish and 

 other races. That country, which is existing upon the 

 prestige of her name earned for her by the unfortunate, 

 crushed Irish, is now ready to topple over herself. She 

 has no more Irish to fall back on in case of emergenc \ : 

 in the last decade they gloated in the extermination of 

 millions of that generous people ; she, through her 

 blinded bigotry, insulted the suffering remnant by malig 

 nant penal laws to deprive the people s clergy, not of 

 their titles only, but of the power to ordain further any 

 clergy at all she dare not put that act into execution. 

 Let her now meet the enemy in the field, and she will 

 find that she has dried up her resources, that she has by 

 her injustice and cruelty, scorpion-like, turned her own 

 sting on herself and I believe the remnant of the Irish 

 yet in Ireland and in England, and descendants of Irish, 

 would be found to equal the whole number of that Saxon 

 race that is now working in the world so fearful an amount 

 of wrongs, and that the Celtic race all over the world, 

 is as two to one of the Saxon but more of this at another 

 time. 



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If merchants will consider China in her greatness, and 

 cast away all that prejudice arising from the misrepre 

 sentations of English writers whose policy is ever to 

 blacken the characters of those they oppress. If a mur 

 der be committed in Ireland by an unfortunate, outraged 

 tenant, who, with his wife and family, is driven from 

 house and home into the ditch at the road-side ; if that 

 unfortunate man, maddened to see all that is dear to his 

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