General News.
If anybody wonders why the Irish should not love England, let him look at the comic papers just now. Hatred and contempt glisten in every line of these caricatures of the national type. It may be said that such things as these are trifles, and that Irishmen do not mind. It may be so, for anything that we know ; but, if. it is, then the Irish are more callous than any other people ever were before. As a matter of tact, it is pretty certain that they do mind, and that these ferocious satires, showered by a strong, dominant people on a very weak one, produced an angrier and adeeper resentment than would come of ever so many harsh laws. Nobody would be so stung as an Englishman by odious caricatures like those which he relishes without scruple when directed against Irishmen. Yet we profess to be amazed at Irish in« gratitude and antipathy towards U8. —Pall Mall Gazette.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3947, 23 August 1881, Page 2
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161General News. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3947, 23 August 1881, Page 2
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