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Once at least in every generation the question, What is to be done with I reland? rises again to perplex the councils and trouble the conscience of theB ritish nation. It has now risen more formidable than ever, and with the further aggravation, that it was unexpected. I rish disaffection, assuredly, is a familiar fact; and there have always been those among us who liked to explain it by a special... More

Once at least in every generation the question, What is to be done with I reland? rises again to perplex the councils and trouble the conscience of theB ritish nation. It has now risen more formidable than ever, and with the further aggravation, that it was unexpected. I rish disaffection, assuredly, is a familiar fact; and there have always been those among us who liked to explain it by a special taint or infirmity in the I rish character. But Liberal Englishmen had always attributed it to the multitude of unredressed wrongs. England had for ages, from motives of different degrees of unworthiness, made her yoke heavy upon I reland. According to a well known computation, the whole land of the island had been confiscated three times over. Part hact been taken to enrich powerful Englishmen and their I rish adherents ;part to form the endowment of a hostile hierarchy; the rest had been given away toE nglish andS cbtch colonists, who held, and were mtended to hold it, as a garrison against the I rish. TbL-jaajiufactures of I reland, except the linen manufacture, which was chiefly carried on by these colonists, were deliberately rnighedfor the avowed purpose of making more room forthogeof England.
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