{"id":535,"date":"2006-10-05T20:24:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T01:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/535"},"modified":"2006-10-05T20:24:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T01:24:55","slug":"famine-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/famine-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Famine in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>January 1, 1847<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A letter to Garrison, from Edward Search, in London.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Our English government and the Irish people are both at this time reaping the bad fruit arising from the love of rule in our aristocracy in times past, their incapacity to exercise it for the general good, and the little progress people make when not allowed to govern themselves, and gather wisdom from their own mistakes.\u00a0 Our aristocracy have managed the Irish and their affairs, that they have for ages reduced the people to semi-starvation upon inferior potatoes, and 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