Book-bot.com - The Cross and the Shamrock - Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Ent by Quigley, Hugh, 1819-1883

The Cross and the Shamrock - Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Ent by Hugh Quigley
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DEDICATION.

To the faithful Irish-American Catholic citizens
of the whole Union, and especially to the working
portion of them, on account of their piety,
their liberality, their patriotism, and their steady
loyalty to the virtues symbolized by the "Cross
and the Shamrock,"--on account of their attachment
to the land of St. Patrick, and to the
religion of her patriot princes and martyrs,--this
work, written for their encouragement and instruction,
is respectfully inscribed by

Their humble servant,
And devoted friend and fellow-citizen,
THE AUTHOR.

September, 1853.

PREFACE.

"There are moments when every citizen who feels that he can say
something promotive of the welfare of his countrymen and of advantage to
his country is authorized to give _public_ utterance to his sentiments,