[Rarebooks] FS: 1852 Ireland As I Saw It - Balch

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"Ireland, As I Saw It; the Character, Condition, and Prospects of The 
People”

By William S. Balch.
Published in New York by Henry Lyon in 1852. 3rd edition.

First published in 1849. A dramatic and entailed description of a rip 
through Ireland at the end of the Potato Famine by an American 
clergyman. The ‘Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography’ notes 
of the author- William Stevens Balch (1806-1887), a celebrated 
Universalist preacher, was also an evangelist, a denominational 
organizer, journalist, politician, teacher, and historian. Proud of his 
impartiality, he stood apart from Universalist factions. Having mentored 
many students for the ministry, he promoted formal theological education 
and was a founder of St. Lawrence University.”

Although Balch has written an anti-Catholic immigration screed, ‘Native 
American Citizens: Read and Take Warning!’, in 1842, he nonetheless 
expressed sympathy for the plight of the citizens on the unhappy isle 
once ho got there. “I gazed with astonishment and admiration on much I 
saw, and my heart yearned deeply over the wrongs, oppression, ignorance, 
and misery I beheld. I saw more to approve in the character of the 
people than I expected, more to lament in their condition, and more to 
condemn in the operation of aristocratic institutions”, he notes in his 
Preface, “But these were undergoing such rapid transformations- every 
thing was so agitated, so unsettled, that I could do little more than 
contemplate the past, and catch glimpses of the future through the 
auguries of the present”.

Hardcover.5”x8”, 432 pages. Publisher’s embossed light brown cloth with 
gilt spine title. Covers with moderate wear and some soil and fading. 
Stains on the rear endpapers and first and last blank pages which do not 
extend to the rest of the pages. Scattered minor internal soil and 
spotting. $350

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