5. "That we arraign in the strongest terms, consistent with
personal respect to ourselves, the culpable conduct of the present
administration, as well in refusing to take any efficacious measure
for alleviating the existing calamity with all its approaching
hideous and necessary consequences; as also for the positive and
unequivocal crime of keeping the ports closed against the
importation of foreign provisions, thus either abdicating their
duty to the people or their sovereign, whose servants they are, or
involving themselves in the enormous guilt of aggravating
starvation and famine, by unnaturally keeping up the price of
provisions, and doing this for the benefit of a selfish class who
derive at the present awful crisis pecuniary advantages to
themselves by the maintenance of the oppressive Corn Laws.
6. "That the people of Ireland, in their bitter hours of
misfortune, have the strongest right to impeach the criminality of
the ministers of the crown, inasmuch as it has pleased a merciful
Providence to favour Ireland in the present season with a most
abundant crop of oats.
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