"The distress is universal" -- "Blest by God, and cursed by man" -- "The year of decision" -- "I was
... born to a higher purpose" -- "Remember, dearest wife, the trouble and misery of that last year" -- "The calamities of Ireland . . . have touched all American hearts" -- "I beseech you-what you do, do quickly" -- "Europe stretches her hand to America for aid" -- "We can make the bounty national" -- "The living envy the dead" -- "Thousands have disappeared" -- "The greater part of them are anxious to go" -- "What hope is there for a nation which lives on potatoes?" -- "Are you going to abandon us?" -- "It is not an everyday matter to see a nation starving" -- "Contributions . . . on a scale unparalleled in history" -- "Thousands desirous to . . . greet the illustrious stranger" -- "I saw enough in five minutes to horrify me" -- "Not so much soup for the poor as poor soup" -- "I became enlisted in behalf of this good cause" -- "The food should be distributed as soon as possible" -- "Young America opens a new page in its destiny" -- "Our deliverer in the hour of bitter calamity" -- "The happiest event of my life" -- "Good came instead of evil" -- "Cannot but sow seeds of hatred" -- "The magnitude . . . of these supplies is really astonishing" -- "An Irishman looks on America as the refuge of his race" -- "My mission among you closes today" -- "Haul up! Haul up!" -- "The greatest social calamity . . . that Ireland has ever experienced" -- "To their friends and kindred beyond the sea." Read More