Nobody can have a higher appreciation than I of the great part played by the American-Irish once they have assimilated the full spirit of American institutions.
[13] _Poems of Egan O'Rahilly._ Edited, with translation, by the Rev.
P.S.Dinneen, M.A., for the Irish Texts Society, p.11.

O'Rahilly's charge against Cromwell is that he "gave plenty to the man with the flail," but beggared the great lords, p.

167.
[14] _Prose Writings of Thomas Davis_, p.284.

'The writers of _The Nation_,' wrote Davis in another place, 'have never concealed the defects or flattered the good qualities of their countrymen.

They have told them in good faith that they wanted many an attribute of a free people, _and that the true way to command happiness and liberty was by learning the arts and practising the culture that fitted men for their enjoyment'_ (p.