fancied, for a moment, that she was laying the foundation stone of
her own ultimate destruction, and gradually forming an Irish Brigade
on this continent, which should, one day, with a terrible rebound,
repay all the cruelties and wrongs to which she had subjected them
from generation to generation. She little fancied, that in each
individual Irishman that she had driven from his native shores to
seek an asylum beyond the seas, she had sent forth an agent of her
own destruction, that would colonize, in common with his exiled
brethren, the whole world with a sense of her infamy, and build up,
on this free continent, an opposition so tremendous to her interests
in every connection, that it should command the attention of every
civilized people under the sun, and shake her institutions and
existence to their very centre. As is invariable in such cases, she
administered the antidote with the poison; and transformed the
victims of her wrongs and cruelties into enemies and soldiers; and
now that, in the aggregate, they assume the proportions of a powerful
and antagonistic nation outside her borders, they only await the hour
when they shall descend upon her to the hoarse music of their ancient
war cry, and, on the banks of the Shannon, and by the Blackwater,
smite her hip and thigh, as of old; but this time without generously
escorting her broken and disabled ranks to the borders of the Pale,
or permitting them, in the hour of defeat, to recruit their exhausted
forces, so that the fight may become more equal.

From the landing of Strongbow, in 1171, at Port Largi, then on
subsequently called also the Harbor of the Sun, near Waterford, down
to the sacking and burning of Magdala, the capital of King Theodoras,
in the present year of grace 1808, the history of English rule and
conquests has been one of bloodshed, perjury and crime. Look where
you may, and you encounter continuous atrocities similar to the