. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. n-dition of affairs in that country, when the discussion of the Habeas CorpusActs was on, in 1S66, had declared that if the captain of a shi]) or the mas-ter of a school had been under the constant necessity for a long time ofhaving recourse to violent measures, we should assume without waitingfor further evidence that ther
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. n-dition of affairs in that country, when the discussion of the Habeas CorpusActs was on, in 1S66, had declared that if the captain of a shi]) or the mas-ter of a school had been under the constant necessity for a long time ofhaving recourse to violent measures, we should assume without waitingfor further evidence that there was something wrone in his system of trov-ernment. Indeed there was something wrong. Almost everything was wrong. DISESTABLISHNFEXT OF THE IRISH CHURCH. 413 The Fenian society, having its bifurcations in America and Ireland, did notspring up without adequate cause. That great pohtical organization, whichhas been the subject ot so much animadversion, and the very memory ofwhich is so profoundly detested in England, had true cause of its of its acts, no doubt, were lawless, and some were criminal. But it isin the character of Great Britain to pursue toward her subject peoples along course of oppression and spoliation, and then, when her subjects, thus. VISIT OF TITHE PROlTclR IN IRTLAND. wronged, turn upon her, she calls them rebels, revolutionists, incendiaries,and assassins. Ireland at the epoch of which we speak was not suffering in all herparts with equal anguish. The scourge of England was laid most harshlyand unjustly on the southern quarter of the kingdom. There the old Celticpopulation was oppressed to the last degree. There the potatoes weretithed, and the hay was tithed, and the flax. Indeed nothing was free fromthe ravening landlords, who saw the starving peasants, with little compunc-tion, scratching the poor earth with spade and hoe, in the hope of keepinglife and paying rent. In the larger part of Ireland the tithes were notexacted with equal severi
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