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of sympathy : be the motive, however, what it 

 may, it does honor to a people who, with a 

 never-ceasing demand on the stream of their 

 benevolence, feel no diminution of its current. 



The policy of James the First towards Ireland 

 does him great honor, and in justice and in 

 wisdom far exceeded that of his predecessors. 



It is impossible to reflect on the conduct of 

 Elizabeth towards this country, without feelings 

 of horror and detestation. The cruelties inflict- 

 ed on the people, during the rebellion of Hugh 

 Earl of Tyrone, in the last year of her reign, 

 are scarcely to be paralleled. 



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Moryson, when speaking of it in the province 

 of Leinster, says, " It seemed incredible that 

 so barbarous inhabitants, the ground be so ma- 

 nured, the fields so orderly fenced, the towns so 

 frequently inhabited, and the highways and 

 paths so well beaten, as the Lord Deputy here 

 found them/' 



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This was the state in which Lord Mountjoy 

 found the country ; but the picture drawn by 

 the same author of the condition in which it 

 was left at the conclusion of the war, is so hor- 

 rible and offensive to our nature, that we can 



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