I repeat it, Canon Keller's tract is a tissue of fictions.
What nonsense it is to talk about the "traditional rack-renting" of a property held by the Ponsonbys for two hundred years, the tenants on which could welcome me when I came into it with the language of the address you have here seen! I never evicted tenants for less than three years' arrears, till what Canon Keller calls the "crowbar brigade," by which he means the officers of the law, had to be put into action to meet the "Plan of Campaign" in May last.

I did not proceed against the tenants because they could not pay.

I selected the tenants who could pay, and who were led, or, I believe in most cases, "coerced," into refusing to pay by agitators with Mr.Lane, M.P., to inspire them, and Canon Keller, P.P., to glorify them in a tract.
_Q_.

What were your personal relations with the tenants when you were at Inchiquin?
_A_.

Always most friendly; and even the other day when I was there, while none of them would speak to me when they were all together, those I met individually touched their hats, and were as civil as ever.