The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times: With Numerous Original Poetraits, and Additional Authentic Documents; The Whole Matter Newly Arranged and Revised (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times: With Numerous Original Poetraits, and Additional Authentic Documents; The Whole Matter Newly Arranged and RevisedMy Lord,When I commenced this work many years ago, and was only known to your Lordship as a man who had rendered some slight services to a cause, of which you had been the consistent and strenuous advocate from the outset of your career in public life, I was indebted to you for an introduction to an eminent French historian, and a request that I might have access to the archives of the public departments in Paris, with a view to the use of documents that might have any bearing on the subject of my intended work, in which undertaking your Lordship was pleased to express an interest, and an opinion of its utility. I am, then, indebted for that generous aid of your Lordship, to my humble efforts against slavery and the slave trade; not in the quiet closets of philanthropy at home, or the great arena for the advocacy of that cause, in the British press or parliament, but on the battle-ground itself of the struggle with the taskmasters and dealers and chapmen of their fellow-men, - in the Spanish Colonics and on the coast of Africa.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.