Excerpt from The State of Ireland: To Which Are Added, His Addresses to the Electors of the County of Antrim
Convinced that such a System should not, and cannot be longer continued; convinced that Murderers must capitulate, and lay down their arms at the feet of the Nation they have outraged, I have hastened to give a State of our Country, that Irishmen might be furnished with an account of those wrongs they have to redress, and of those rights they have to regain, before their Liberties can be secured.
I have given you this Statement with all its imperfections on its head, rather than wait to abridge its redundancies, or to correct the numerous faults with which it abounds. If I have shewn you the truth, it is of trivial consideration in what garb I have dressed her; the crisis is too momentous, her presence too necessary, her charms too lovely, to need decoration. The inviolable fidelity with which my beloved Countrymen have kept their engagements one to the other, and that spirit which has risen in proportion as dangers and difficulties have multiplied, augur that Liberty will exalt the fame of Irishmen as high in the future history of nations, as rapine and tyranny have depressed it in the centuries that have passed. What I have said has flowed warm from a heart unsubdued by persecution; and my utmost wish will be accomplished if it finds as warm a reception in the unbroken hearts of my United Countrymen.
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