Excerpt from History of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 The diabolical character of this law, which presumed the non-existence of five-sixths of the people subject to it, cannot be adequately understood from these generalities. To do justice to the hateful thing, we must track it, step by step, through the various stages of its growth, as it was gradually matured by the inventive malice - the refined, cold-blooded, lawyer-like atrocity - of many successive parliaments, premising that it had its origin in a deliberate breach of faith. The whole thing together was a violation, laboriously prolonged and aggravated through three-quarters of a century, both of the letter and the spirit of a public treaty. 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.