But all this is trifling compared to the numberless murders that are hourly committed by our people without any process or examination whatever. The yeomanry are in the style of the loyalists in America, only much more numerous and powerful, and a thousand... Irish History and Irish Character - Page 169by Goldwin Smith - 1861 - 197 pagesFull view - About this book
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1859 - 584 pages
...it ; judge then how it must be conducted by Irishmen heated with passion and revenge. But all this is trifling compared to the numberless murders that...and a thousand times more ferocious. These men have saved the country, but they now take the lead in rapine and murder. The Irish militia, with few officers,... | |
| Charles Cornwallis Marquis Cornwallis - Great Britain - 1859 - 602 pages
...of it, judge then how it must be conducted by Irishmen heated with passion and revenge. But all this is trifling compared to the numberless murders that...and a thousand times more ferocious. These men have saved the country, but they now take the lead in rapine and murder. The Irish militia, with few officers,... | |
| Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1863 - 608 pages
...the inhabitants, and in the utter destruction of the country." — Ibid., 358. Again, he deplores " the numberless murders that are hourly committed by...without any process or examination whatever." " The conversation of the principal persons of the country tends to encourage this system of blood ; and... | |
| Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Electronic books - 1864 - 552 pages
...of it. Judge then how it must be conducted by Irishmen heated with passion and revenge. But all this is trifling compared to the numberless murders that...and a thousand times more ferocious. These men have saved the country, but they now take the lead in rapine and murders. The Irish militia, with few officers,... | |
| Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1865 - 672 pages
...the inhabitants, and in the utter destruction of the country." — Ibid., 308. Again, he deplores " the numberless murders that are hourly committed by...without any process or examination whatever." "The conversation of the principal persona of the country tends to encourage this system of blood ; and... | |
| William J. O'Neill Daunt - Home rule - 1867 - 342 pages
...Lord Cornwallis writes to General Ross on the 24th July, 1798: " But all this" (namely, martial-law) " is trifling compared to the numberless murders that...and a thousand times more ferocious. These men have saved the country, but they now take the lead in rapine and murder. The conversation of the principal... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1867 - 584 pages
...the country of which he was the chief ruler, and which yet he was unable to prevent or punish. All is trifling compared to the numberless murders that...process or examination whatever. The yeomanry are in Ihe style of Ihe Loyalists in America, only much more numerous and powerful, and a thousand times more... | |
| Ireland - 1869 - 592 pages
...it. Judje, then, how it must be conducted by Irishmen, heated with passion and revenge. But all this is trifling compared to the numberless murders that...loyalists in America, only much more numerous and jwwerful, and a thousand times more ferocious. These men have saved the country; but they now take... | |
| Ireland - 1869 - 590 pages
...it. Jndfje, then, how it must be conducted by Irishmen, heated with passion and revenge. But all this is trifling compared to the numberless murders that...any process or examination whatever. The yeomanry arc in the style of the loyalists in America, only much more numerous and powerful, anil a thousand... | |
| Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1910 - 548 pages
...Cornwallis, the Commander-inChief and Lord Lieutenant, writes to Major-General Ross (July 24, 1798): — " The Yeomanry are in the style of the loyalists in...and a thousand times more ferocious. These men have saved the country, but they now take the lead in rapine and murder. The Irish Militia .... follows... | |
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