Excerpt from The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald Reform, the refusal of which was the sole cause of the conspiracy here recorded, one has already been granted, and with that free grace which adds luster even to justice, While the other is now in triumphant progress towards the same {noble and conciliatory result. That in the condition of Ireland there still remain grievances to be redressed and anomalies to be got rid of is too manifest to be questioned. But, instead of having to contend, as in former times, with rulers pledged against her interests by a system tradi tionally hostile to all liberal principles, my country now sees in the seats of authority men whose whole lives and Opinions are a sufficient security that, under their influence, better counsels will prevail and though the traces still left among us of our blind time of servitude* are unfortunately too many and too deep to be all at once obliterated, the honest in {enlion will not be wanting, on the part of our pre sent rulers, and a generous confidence in them will go far towards giving the power. 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.