text:  Why has not the history of this man and of his day been written? Why has not some generous spirit impelled alike by a sense of justice and a sense of patriotism adopted this argument for the intellectual opulence and moral energy which may still exist in the Irish mind? Is there no descendant to claim the performance of a duty which would reflect a lustre on himself from the light which his filial piety planted on the sepulchre? Or why are the recollections of rebels to be taken down from the gibbet and embalmed in history while the name of him who smote the rebellion is suffered to moulder away? I am not writing a panegyric