Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...that this violence is practised. "Why not petition Parliament to have a law passed bind ing tenants to vote according to the wishes of their respective landlords? The Act thus disfranchising the former might have some such preamble as this: --"' Whereas the freeholders of Ireland have been hitherto soinsensiblc to their own happiness, and so ungrateful to the good landlords under whom they lived, as to unite against the further exercise of the freehold for and on behalf of the aforesaid tenantry (Laughter); "' And, whereas they have not sufficiently progressed in political knowledge so as to appreciate the vast advantage of living like wards in chancery, under such kind and considerate guardians, who are laboring to reclaim them from Popery (Renewed laughter); "'And, whereas this Celtic people grows to such an extent as to endanger by this fecundity the spread of the Protestant religion in Ireland, tltey still remaining ungrateful and untraceable under that best of mothers, the Protestant Establishment (Shouts of laughter); '"And, whereas it is desirable that the surplus population of this Celtic and Popish race should be continually draughted away to feed our colonies, and to have the fields of Ireland let out for pasture objects which cannot be accomplished without giving the good landlords their vast Parliamentary influence;--"' Be it therefore enacted that henceforward all Popish freemen who know not 'how-to vote as they ought' shall be disfranchised, etc., (Immense laughter). This was putting the truth in an attractive and telling manner. It was a departure from the Archbishop's usual stately style of address. But the occasion justified it. The-Tories were in power, and their traditional policy was to...
