For they even now show to those who have been at the pains to examine them, and they may show one day to all the world, that these rebellions were not produced by toleration, but by persecution,--that they arose not from just and mild government, but from the most unparalleled oppression.
Burke argues that the rebellions in Ireland stemmed from oppression rather than tolerance, challenging common misconceptions.
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