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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 4 2 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 11: (search)
Irish Catholics, having indeed no formal representative authority, yet professing to speak not for themselves only, but for all their fellow Roman Catholic Irish subjects, had addressed the English secretary in Ireland, in proof of their grateful attachment to the best of kings, and their just abhorrence of the unnatural American rebellion, and had made a tender of two millions of faithful and affectionate hearts and hands in defence of his person and government in any part of the world. Froude's The English in Ireland, II. 176. Vergennes learned from his agent as well as from other sources, that the Irish association aimed only Chap. XI.} 1779. to extort the concession of free trade, and was combined with readiness to oppose foreign invasion. The movements of the Irish, wrote Vergennes towards the close of the year, are those of a people who wish to profit by circumstances to redeem themselves from oppressions; but there is no design of separating from the crown of Englan
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 27: (search)
their independence. The success of America brought emancipation to Ireland, which had suffered even more than the United States from colonial monopoly. Its volunteer army, commanded by officers of its own choice, having increased to nearly fifty thousand well-armed men, united under one generalin-chief, the viceroy reported that, unless it was determined that the knot which bound the two countries should be severed for ever, the points required by the Irish parliament must be conceded. Froude's Ireland, II. 337. Fox would rather have seen Ireland totally separated than kept in obedience by force. Eden, one of Lord North's commissioners in America in 1778, and lately his secretary for Ireland, was the first in a moment of ill-humor to propose the repeal of the act of George the First, which asserted the right of the parliament of Great Britain to make laws to bind the people and the kingdom of Ireland; and after reflection the ministry of Rockingham adopted and carried the measur