Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1880 — Ireland, 1596. [ARTICLE]

Ireland, 1596.

They say it is the fatal destiny cf that land that no purposes whatsoever which are meant for her good will prosper or take good effect; which, whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil, or influence of the stars, or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed tho time for her reformation, or that He ro3erveth her in this unquiet state for some secret scourgi which shall by her come unto England, it is hard to be known, but yet much to be feared.— Spencer.