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one of the highest crimes , and the " gentlemen" who let themselves out for wages to wear a livery , and to perform legalized murder , will infallibly visit it with the most unsparing ferocity ; for the very fact of evincing humanity , is a tacit reproach to themselves . Martial law , and all its brutal accompaniments , is about to be proclaimed in Ireland , and if the people of England calmly look on , and permit the working
of atrocity , they will ere long be made to reap the penalty of their supineness , in their own persons . The true object in suspending all law , is not the putting down of illegal , by legal , outrage , but the resolution of the Whigs to maintain , under the show of a sham reform , the Irish Church establishment , and the mischievous impost of tithes , in all which the oligarchy , and themselves as a portion of the oligarl
chy , are so deepy interested , as a provision for the " scions of their noble stocks . " They know that if the Irish Church should fall , it will infallibly drag down the English Church in its ruins , and they would rather brutalize the people after the recipe of Mr . Stanley , than give up their prey . They go cautiously to work in the matter , and take advantage of some remaining prejudices amongst the English people , to call the Irish hard names , and begin the struggle oa their soil as an
outpost . They will if they can , destroy the Irish leaders . Remorse will scarcely prevent them , if fear does not , and if the English people look calmly on , what shall prevent them from suffering in turn under a yoke like that they will have permitted to be placed around the necks of their brethren ? The Humes and the Attwoods will scarcely escape the fate of the O'Connells and Shiels , when once the dogs of war are slipped , with the unsparing aristocracy on the vantage ground . The days of Manchester , and worse than Manchester , will have returned . 4
With regard to Ireland , the fact of disturbances existing on her soil is nothing new ; they have existed ever since the period of its conquest , and will continue to exist so long as misrule shall continue , and it requires no ghost from the grave to prophesy , that misrule will not cease so long as the Whig Ministry shall hold the reins of power . The proximate source of Irish turbulence , is the pressure of population against the means of subsistence , to a greater extent than in almost
any other country ; the immediate source , is the misrule which prevents that education , which would remove the causes of over-population . There are numerous persons who reason in a most absurd strain , that absenteeism is the sole cause of Irish misery , as if the people at large would get a jot more of the produce of the land , as if they would pay less rent , with a resident than with an absentee proprietary . These reasoners say , u Let the produce of the soil be consumed on the soil .
Instead of exporting it , let it be paid away in Poor $ Rates . " They seem to forget altogether , that much of the produce sent away , is repaid by necessaries of English manufacture , and that their proposition is saying , in other words , " Sell all your clothes and buy food with the money / ' And as for the rent which the landlords get from their property , their understanding will not let them imagine , that whether
the landlord resides upon his estate or in England , he would purchase with his money just the same articles of foreign production , and whether he consumed the produce of his estate in Irish provisions on the spot , or exported it for his consumption in England , could make no difference . The only difference which Could possibly occur by land *
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On the Conduct of Ministers sinoe the Meeting of Parliament 249
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No . 76 . T
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/33/
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