We may yet see Galway the Yarmouth, Achill the Grimsby, and Killybegs the Wick of the West.
Modern society in Ireland, as everywhere else, can only be transformed through the agency of labour, industry, and commerce--inspired by the spirit of work, and maintained by the accumulations of capital.

The first end of all labour is security,--security to person, possession, and property, so that all may enjoy in peace the fruits of their industry.

For no liberty, no freedom, can really exist which does not include the first liberty of all--the right of public and private safety.
To show what energy and industry can do in Ireland, it is only necessary to point to Belfast, one of the most prosperous and enterprising towns in the British Islands.

The land is the same, the climate is the same, and the laws are the same, as those which prevail in other parts of Ireland.

Belfast is the great centre of Irish manufactures and commerce, and what she has been able to do might be done elsewhere, with the same amount of energy and enterprise.