But the connexion with England prevented it: therefore England was logically in the active position of being the cause of all the misery of Ireland.
What, then, was the duty of an English minister?
To effect by policy all the changes which a revolution would do by force." If these words had been acted upon in 1848, we should not have had a Fenian insurrection in 1867.

If a peaceful revolution is to be accomplished a few persons must suffer, though, in truth, it is difficult to see what Irish landlords could lose by a fair land law, except the power to exercise a tyrannical control over their tenants.

I believe, if many English absentee landlords had even the slightest idea of the evil deeds done in their names by their agents, that they would not tolerate it for a day.

If a complaint is made to the landlord, he refers it to his agent.

It is pretty much as if you required the man who inflicted the injury to be the judge of his own conduct.