Excerpt from The Rights of Ireland, And, the Faith of a Felon For these and other still more important reasons, needless to be stated as yet, I certainly could have wished that this journal had been established on a subscribed capital, and the effective owner ship vested in a joint stock company of, say eight hundred or a thousand proprietors. What is there to hinder that this arrange ment should be made even now? It would contain securities, and create powers, which no other could offer or pretend to. There are, indeed, some practical difficulties in the way, but they might easily, I think, be overcome. \1vhether any such arrangement be adopted or not, I believe, however, that I am fully warranted in d-esirin-g - and I think that our own true interest and honour concur in demanding - that the Felon othee shall not be a commercial establishment, but organised and animated as a great political association. And, for my part, I enter it with the hope and determination to make it an armed post, a fortress for freedom to be, perhaps, taken and retak-en again, and yet again but never to surrender, nor stoop its flag, till that flag shall hoat above a liberated nation. 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.