It is in the power of an Irish landlord to eject his tenant if he does not vote according to his wishes.

A man who has no conscience, has no moral right to vote; a man who tyrannizes over the conscience of another, should have no legal right.

But there is yet a deeper depth.

I believe you will be lost in amazement at what is yet to come, and will say, as Mr.Young said of penal laws in the last century, that they were more "fitted for the meridian of Barbary." You have heard, no doubt, of wholesale evictions; they are of frequent occurrence in Ireland--sometimes from political motives, because the poor man will not vote with his landlord; sometimes from religious motives, because the poor man will not worship God according to his landlord's conscience; sometimes from selfish motives, because his landlord wishes to enlarge his domain, or to graze more cattle.

The motive does not matter much to the poor victim.