Excerpt from Should Irishmen Be Conscripted? The Irish race in every British Colony, in the United States, and in every country the Wide world over have shown What Irish brains and Irish energy can do when fostered by free environment; and the Irish race in amity with the English race can do much. 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.