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Ireland: The People's History of Ireland, Volume 1 (of 2)

THAT famous English Republican, Thomas Painewhose political pamphlets have been admired quite as much as his theological works have been censureduttered in Common Sense, published in 1776, while he was serving under Washington in the Continental Army, this striking aphorism: Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. His object was to stimulate the patriotic pride of such American colonistsand they were manyas were not of English birth or descent, and to proclaim that the other great branches of the human race, settled in America, must, of necessity, have a vital interest in the successful issue of the War for Independence. No other great country of the world has a population made up of so many divers previous nationalities, all combined into one gigantic political whole, as the United States of America. Most of the notable nations of the Old World are here represented not by hundreds or thousands, but by millions of citizens, racy of the soil, and proud to call themselves Americans. A French patriot once said, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies: There is no French race. France is a grand political entity which all true Frenchmen, of whatever race, worship. This fine sentiment can be even more 4logically applied to America and Americans, for both are still in the formative period. Several centuries hence, perhaps, a race of people distinctively American in all respects may occupy this country, but while the great stream of European immigration continues to flow toward the setting sun there can not exist such a racial condition in this Republic, except in those remote districts in which the immigrant rarely seeks a home. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67845
Author: Finerty, John F. (John Frederick)
Release Date: Apr 15, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: The Cooperative Publication Society
Publication Date: 1904
Publisher Country: United States