BELFAST NEWS-LETTER

(The News Letter)


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The greatest event in human history. 26 million of our fellow creatures … bursting their chains and throwing off in an instant, the degrading yoke of slavery—it is a scene so new, interesting and sublime, that the heart which cannot participate in the triumph, must either have been vitiated by illiberal politics, or be naturally depraved.
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Ireland, a part of the British Empire, and ruled by the English monarch, had many who celebrated the French Revolution, even as the English Royalists, looked upon France in horror. What is interesting is that the Irish newspaper could actually publish opinions like this which could be argued were treasonous.

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The News Letter is one of Northern Ireland's main daily newspapers, published from Monday to Saturday. It is the world's oldest English language general daily newspaper still in publication, having first been printed in 1737.