Excerpt from The United Irishmen: Their Lives and Times; With Several Additional Memoirs, and Authentic Documents, Heretofore Unpublished, the Whole Matter Newly Arranged and Revised To conciliate you, I do not think it 13 necessary to pretend to be unconscious of the inevitable control exercised over national character in such circumstances as yours. That kind of control has been very prejudicial to English interests in Ireland - terribly injurious to the interests there of humanity, justice, and religion. I attribute to the force of circumstances what others attribute to the antagonism of races differing from each other. There are so many plausible pretexts for setting neighbouring nationalities by the ears, or keeping them in hostility, exciting mutual jealousy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.