The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society . people wasproscribed and their priests were hunted like wolves, the faithof Patrick did not die among them, but, sheltering and disguisingtheir priests, they held the sacred jewel of their belief glowingwithin their hearts. When every effort at the destruction andobliteration of the Irish people had been expended, when hun-dreds of thousands had been sold into slavery or driven to emi-gration because of the awful conditions of their homeland, theliving mass of the Irish still remained in their land. When we see the degraded, oppressed, per
The Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society . people wasproscribed and their priests were hunted like wolves, the faithof Patrick did not die among them, but, sheltering and disguisingtheir priests, they held the sacred jewel of their belief glowingwithin their hearts. When every effort at the destruction andobliteration of the Irish people had been expended, when hun-dreds of thousands had been sold into slavery or driven to emi-gration because of the awful conditions of their homeland, theliving mass of the Irish still remained in their land. When we see the degraded, oppressed, persecuted, illiterate,starved and subjugated but unconquered peasantry of Irelandrising from their rags and hovels to continue the age-long strugglewith their oppressor; when we see them, gaunt with famine,reduced by pestilence, exile, slavery and brutal murders, beaten,repulsed, proscribed, hunted and homeless, returning again andagain with inexorable determination to the battle for home andfor natural human rights; when we see them, step by step, ad-. JOHN P. HOPKINS, of the Society for Illinois. J. P. OBRIEN, ESQ.,Vice-President of the Society for Oregon.
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