"Yes," was the reply, "and it was this fact which had broken his hold on the people when he tried to bring them to abandon their attitude under the Plan.

His letter was really nothing more nor less than an appeal to the landlord, and that landlord a Protestant, to help him to get out of the hole into which he had put himself." Of the tenants and their relation to the village despots who administer the Plan of Campaign, this gentleman had many stories also to tell of the same tenor with all that I have hitherto heard on this subject.
Everywhere it is the same thing.

The well-to-do and well-disposed tenants are coerced by the thriftless and shiftless.

"I have the agencies of several properties," he said, "and in some of the best parts of Ireland.

I have had little or no trouble on any of them, for I have one uniform method.