[Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert]@TWC D-Link bookIreland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) CHAPTER XI 26/26
all round, on payment of a year's rent and costs. Under no circumstance will I forego payment of costs, as they must be paid in full. If this money be paid forthwith, I will arrange with my brother, the purchaser, to restore the four holdings purchased by him at sheriff's sale to the late tenants. After this offer I disclaim any responsibility for the result of the evictions, and the loss attendant thereon, as it now remains with you to avert same. All the evictions have since been carried out, and the Land Corporation men are at work upon the estate! Whom has all this advantaged? The tenants ?--Certainly not.
The O'Grady ?--Certainly not.
The peace and order of Ireland ?--Certainly not.
But it has given the National League another appeal to the intelligent "sympathies" of England and America. It has strengthened the revolutionary element in Irish society.
It has "driven another nail into the coffin" of Irish landlordism and of the private ownership of land throughout Great Britain. Such at least is the opinion of Mr.Kavanagh.If I were an Englishman or a Scotchman, I should be strongly inclined to take very serious account of this opinion in forecasting the future of landed property in England or Scotland..
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