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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], Official Dispatch from Knoxville . (search)
The Irish, Poles, Germans, &c.
When come English diplomatist — we do not recollect who it was — after the suppression of the Polish rebellion in 1831, endeavored to intercede with the Emperor Nicholas in favor of that unhappy people, whom he was dragging from their homes by thousands, to people his frightful deserts in Siberia, he was cut short by the despot, and told to turn his attention to the Irish if he wished to ameliorate the condition of an oppressed nation. "The Poles," added the autocrat, " aremyIrish. " He spoke the truth.
Since the world began there never was, so far as we can recollect, such long.
continued oppression as that under which the Poles have labored.
The Turks established their dominion over the Byzantine empire only about four hundred years ago — the descendants of Tamerlane had occupied the throne of India only about two hundred and fifty years, when the Empire of the Great Mogul was broken to pieces by the agent of an English trading company--the Mo<