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... " I say, whatever part I may have taken in the struggle for my country's independence, whatever part I may have acted in my short career, I stand before you, my lords, with a free heart and a light conscience, to abide the issue of your sentence.

And now, my lords, this is, perhaps, the fittest time to put a sentence upon record, which is this-that standing in this dock, and called to ascend the scaffold-it may be to-morrow-it may be now-it may be never-whatever the result may be, I wish to put this on record, that in the part I have taken I was not actuated by enmity towards Englishmen-for among them I have passed some of the happiest days of my life, and the most prosperous ; and in no part which I have taken was I actuated by enmity towards Englishmen individually, whatever I may have felt of the injustice of English rule in this island ; I therefore say, that it is not because I loved England less, but because I loved Ireland more, that I now stand before you ".