Note 6 — Chapter VI · —TRUTH AND LOVE.
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'The scenes exhibited far exceeded in horror anything yet recorded in European history.' (Alison.) America, in her own fulness, sent succor to famished Ireland, in 1847, and when her own day of travail came near, in 1861, England volunteered no helping hand to her kindred.
[7] See 'History of the Bank of England,' p. 851.