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for a legal protection from the sentence of death which his landlord passes on him and his children when he ejects them from their little holding !'—( Quarterly Review , p . 146 . ) Was the Reviewer forgetful of all his cunning when he wrote such palpable sophistry ? In telling us that it is the landlord who passes' a sentence of death on the cottier and on his children .
namely , when he ejects them from their little holding / does he not plainly point out the person from whom alone reparation of the wrong and injury he alone has done and committed ought to be expected ? Ay , and exacted too . But the parting boon Tory English landlords propose to bestow on Ireland , viz . poor laws , is that every rated householder shall pay for the wrong done , and for the injustice committed by every subletting Protestant Irish landlord . The parochial system which
has degraded the English peasant into a pensioner , and aggravated him into a rebel , which has exhibited the wisdom of English statesmen , viz . as offering a bonus for a population for which they cannot find employment , and has evinced their justice , in making the English householder pay the landholder ' s labourers ; this wasting parochial system is to be fastened , a growing evil , upon Ireland for ever , in order to give her stimulus for an hour to bear those other evils , for which not the householder but the landowner
has been criminal , but not answerable , for ages . The last boon , we repeat , which the English Protestant Tory landlord would bestow on Ireland is—poor laws !! doubtless recommended to him by their known effects in England . These effects have been thus summed up by a writer of the latest and one of the most comprehensive summaries of the evils and cure of our parochial system .
* So injurious has it been , as to have actually changed the face of society in England . The cheerful countenance has well nigh disappeared from the rustic dwelling of the husbandman ; the manufacturingclasses are worn down with the anxieties of life ; and the middle orders , upon whom the expense of maintaining the poor is made to fall , have already so much to struggle with in the altered condition of the
times , the heavy pressure of the public taxes , the depression of trade , and other causes , that they are themselves , the greatest part of them , fast sinking into that class which require relief , instead of being able , as formerly , to impart it . ' * Yet the Quarterly Reviewer , in his attack upon Miss Martineau and Mr . Mai thus , has something to say in behalf even of the poor laws ; videlicet :
In another story , " Cousin Marshall , " Miss Martineau follows up her grand " principle " to its legitimate inference , the grievous abomina-* See a Letter to the Rate Payen of Great Britain on the Repeal of the Poor Laws ; to which in subjoined , the Outline of a Plan for the Abolition of the Poor Hates at the end of Three Years . By J . Sedgwicl ^ Barr iater-at-Law , late Chairman of the Bvvrd of Stamp * . Pajro 167 .
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Miss Martineau and the Quarterly Review . 321
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 321, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/33/
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