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The speeches and public letters of the liberator
The speeches and public letters of the liberator Author:Daniel O'Connell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ireland taxed in her Poverty, 31 Subject, The Poor Of Ireland; Date, March 11, 1830. The moral tone of the Irish peasantry suspicious. General Gascoigne ha... more »d proposed to imprison Irish immigrants. Mr. Brownlow complained of the ' - frightful reckless manner in which the Irish increased the population." Mr. O'Connell begged to notice an expression which had fallen from the hon. member for Shrewsbury. The expression was calumnious ; and although he was sure the hon. member had not so intended it, yet he felt it necessary to notice and to correct the expression. The hon. member had talked about raising the moral character of the Irish peasantry. Now he "begged leave to tell the hon. member, that, by the example of England, this could not be done- On the contrary, while crime was rapidly increasing in England, it was on the decrease in Ireland. With respect to the subject before the House, he -would not detain it by any observations of his upon it. He would only remind the House that the distress, which was on all hands admitted to exist in Ireland, prevailed among an industrious and numerous population, who were blest with a most fertile soil. Would it be said that no remedy could be applied to distress in such a country as that ? Subject, Coals And Taxation; Date, March 17, 1830. Ireland taxed in her poverty. Mr. O'Connell said the hon. member forgot one material -circumstance, which made a great difference between the two countries. Ireland paid from £4,000,000 to £7,000,000 in rents', which were spent out of Ireland and principally in England. If that sum were spent in Ireland, it would increase her capital, encourage her manufactures, and call forth some of those natural advantages which she possessed. Ireland could then be taxed in her own wealth, and the Irish wo...« less