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subsequent period of excitement. Nearly fifty years ago, Dr White, disgusted with the state of public affairs in
Ireland, abandoned his professional prospects here, and emigrated to America, then in the early enjoyment of freedom, where he enjoyed a long career of prosperity and happiness, and with better fortune than many of his compatriots, survived the recognition of Great Britain, of those great measures of civil and religious liberty for which he had, in early life, unsuccessfully contended.
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223:, proposed to his friends "a benevolent conspiracy—a plot for the people", the "Rights of Man and the Greatest Happiness of the Greater Number its end—its general end Real Independence to Ireland, and Republicanism its particular purpose." White gathered with Drennan's friends in Belfast in October 1791. Moved by an address from
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toasts following White's re-election a president in 1804: "Our Native Land", ‘Our
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As an ardent philanthropist and sincere patriot, whose aspirations were always directed to the best interests of mankind and the promotion of the freedom of his native land, his name is intimately associated with the political history of
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314:(White's minister in the city's Second Presbyterian Church). White practiced medicine (on the corner of East and Holliday Streets), He was naturalised as a U.S. citizen in 1801 (albeit as "John Campbell", a clerical error corrected in 1839); was an officer of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of
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Irishman. After a "useless run of Irish country schools", Dickson credited the Rev. White with teaching him "to think". It is possible with other Presbyterian ministers of his generation the elder White, either at an academy in
337:) as "a young country where civil, religious and political liberty are enjoyed to the fullest extent, and where no more taxes are levied on the Citizens than are barely necessary … to the interests and security of the state", White positioned himself as an anti-
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