Not even the arrival of a brigade of Lewis's musketeers would have excited such resentment and shame as our ancestors felt when they saw armed columns of Papists, just arrived from Dublin, moving in military pomp along the high roads.

No man of English blood then regarded the aboriginal Irish as his countrymen.

They did not belong to our branch of the great human family.

They were distinguished from us by more than one moral and intellectual peculiarity, which the difference of situation and of education, great as that difference was, did not seem altogether to explain.

They had an aspect of their own, a mother tongue of their own.