Excerpt from The Whiteboy, Vol. 2 of 2: A Story of Ireland, in 1822 The government had suffered the disturbances to proceed without much effort to suppress them. Famine had rendered the people more than usually careless of consequences and those who would have restrained them from personal violence, now discovered how dif ficult it was to confine them to one great idea, or to lead those who had nothing to sacrifice, and whose own wild wills goaded them on to their own destruo tion, and the destruction of others. At last, ...
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Excerpt from The Whiteboy, Vol. 2 of 2: A Story of Ireland, in 1822 The government had suffered the disturbances to proceed without much effort to suppress them. Famine had rendered the people more than usually careless of consequences and those who would have restrained them from personal violence, now discovered how dif ficult it was to confine them to one great idea, or to lead those who had nothing to sacrifice, and whose own wild wills goaded them on to their own destruo tion, and the destruction of others. At last, the higher members of the community, the magistrates and the castle, conceived it necessary to do something, and thus originated the meetings at Macroom, Kenmare, and various towns throughout the country; and the something done in 1822, was just the something done during the whole period of English rule over Ire land previous to that year; namely, placing the country under martial law, burning, and hanging, and shooting those whom fever and starvation had spared. And, doubtless, when the hunt was closed, and the dogs of war were whistled back; when the judges were wearied with passing sentence, and the ships heavy with convicts; when there were many widows and orphans in the disturbed districts - then the troubles, as in former days, would be pompously announced as over the country reported as tranquillised; no effort made to employ and pay those who were growing up to manhood with no other occupation than the memory of their sires' wrongs; no hope beyond hunger, revolt, and death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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