There are no less than thirty seven rebellions recorded in English history between the time of William the Conqueror, A.D. 1069, and the Irish outbreak in 1802. Several others have since occurred. The British foreign wars have been incessant, and their expenses enormous. That of the American revolution was six hundred and thirty millions of dollars, and the contest with the first Napoleon cost five thousand seven hundred and ninety-five millions.
The sympathy shown to the Confederates by England may thus in part be naturally accounted for, though considerable inconsistency is nevertheless yet to be explained in the want of it for the natives of India and the disenchanted population beyond the Irish Channel, who have been very anxious to possess and govern their own countries in their own way.
– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Friday, April 18, 1862 & in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862
The sympathy shown to the Confederates by England may thus in part be naturally accounted for, though considerable inconsistency is nevertheless yet to be explained in the want of it for the natives of India and the disenchanted population beyond the Irish Channel, who have been very anxious to possess and govern their own countries in their own way.
– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Friday, April 18, 1862 & in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862
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