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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 51: (search)
re, and sought to allay discontent by concessions in favor of her commerce and manufactures. The consent of the Irish house of commons was requested to sending four thousand of the troops on the Irish establishment to America, and receiving in their stead four thousand German Protestants. If we give our consent, objected Ponsonby, in the debate on the twenty fifth of November, we shall take part against America, contrary to justice, to prudence, and to humanity. The war is unjust, said Fitzgibbons, and Ireland has no reason to be a party therein. Sir Edward Newenham could not agree to send more Chap. LI.} 1775. Nov. troops to butcher men who were fighting for their liberty; and he reprobated the introduction of foreign mercenaries as equally militating against true reason and sound policy. If men must be sent to America, cried George Ogle, send there foreign mercenaries, not the brave sons of Ireland. Hussey Burg condemned the American war as a violation of the law of nations,