The Irish Roman Catholics were permitted to live, to be fruitful, to replenish the earth; but they were doomed to be what the Helots were in Sparta, what the Greeks were under the Ottoman, what the blacks now are at New York.
Hoar draws a parallel between the plight of Irish Roman Catholics and other historically oppressed groups.
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