Excerpt from An Ulsterman for Ireland: Being Letters to the Protestant Farmers, Labourers, and Artisans of the North of Ireland Ohn mitchel, an Ulster Protestant, J wrote these letters to the Ulster Protestant democracy in April and May of 1848. The disgraceful treason-felony Act had just been enacted, enabling the Government to treat Irish political offences on a level with the vilest crimes. Ireland had just passed through three years of famine and famine-fever, the unchecked consequences of' her ruthless Government, and had paid the toll of a million Irish lives; and to remedy her condi tion the Imperial Parliament enacted the treason-felony Act. An indictment for the newly invented crime was awaiting Mitchel, to his knowledge, at the time when he wrote these letters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.