"This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it."

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Historians from EnglandLiberal Party (UK) politiciansPeople from BirminghamUniversity of Oxford facultyUniversity of Oxford alumni
Original Language: English

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Letter to F. H. Dickinson during his visit to the United States (4 December 1881), quoted in W. R. W. Stephens, The Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman, Volume II (1895), p. 242