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to the cause of abolition. In his presidential address, he told the banqueting members that they had convened for the same purpose that assembled "good men of all nations and creeds" to give "their voices against the enslavement of the
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255:, as well as state papers, memoirs and letters relevant to the history of the United Irishmen. Its publication, according to MacNeven, was necessitated by "abusive misrepresentation" by "hirelings" of the British crown, and by prominent
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Catholics in Ireland. This Baron MacNeven was William O'Kelly MacNeven, an Irish exile physician, who for his medical skill in her service had been created an Austrian noble by the
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to advance, in the cause of a national and representative government for
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