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te, for the ills of Ireland ave so complex, and ibs disesses . 1048.
% decidedly chronic, that ne single remedy could possibly Zin #4
“Te them. Indeed, if we were to spply a thousand remeties,
 the existing generation could hardly hope to live to
“%® any great change in the condition of the Irish people;
“ad thig ig probably one reason why politicians and ministers
of the day do not commit their fortunes to the cause of
Mshice to Ireland.
“Ihave but one plan, but I don’t know how to enforce i,
Cut up the land into small properties. Let there be mo
States so large as to favour absenteeism, even from the
Yaish, How is this to be done, with fendslism still
M the ascendant in Parliament and in the Cabinet?
Pima 5 quite right when he draws the distinction be.
"Ween the cage of Ireland, where the conquerors have not
WMalgamated with the conguered, sud that of other
“Ountries, where the victors and vanquished have been in.
Yariably blended. For we are all conquered nations—some
ug have been so repeatedly-—but all, with the exception
of Ireland, have absorbed their CONgUercrs.
“ Almost every crime and outrage in Ireland is connected
With the occupation or ownership of land; and yet the
igh are uot naturally an agricultural people, for they alone,
Fall the Furopean emigrants who arrive in the United
States, linger about the towns, and hesitate to avail them.
*elves of the tempting advantages of the rural districts in
the interior, But in Ireland, at least the south and west,
there is no property but the soil, and no labour but
pon the land, and you cannot reach the population in their
Material or moral condition but through the proprietorship
of the land. Therefore, if I had the power, I would always
Dake the proprietors of the scil resideut, by breaking up
the large properties, In other words, I would give Ireland
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