The agent easily excuses himself to the landlord; but the unfortunate man who had presumed to lift up his voice, is henceforth a marked object of vengeance; and he is made an example to his fellows, that they may not dare to imitate him.

The truth is, that the real state of Ireland, and the real feelings of the Irish people, can only be known by personal intercourse with the lower orders.
Gentlemen making a hurried tour through the country, may see a good deal of misery, if they have not come for the purpose of not seeing it; but they can never know the real wretchedness of the Irish poor unless they remain stationary in some district long enough to win the confidence of the people, and to let them feel that they can tell their sorrows and their wrongs without fear that they shall be increased by the disclosure.
Third, one brief word of how this injustice recoils upon the heads of the perpetrators, and I shall have ended.

It recoils upon them indirectly, by causing a feeling of hostility between the governors and the governed.

A man cannot be expected to revere and love his landlord, when he finds that his only object is to get all he can from him--when he finds him utterly reckless of his misery, and still more indifferent to his feelings.

A gentleman considers himself a model of humanity if he pays the emigration expenses of the family whom he wishes to eject from the holding which their ancestors have possessed for centuries.