The fact is, he said,
the House has done too much for the landlord and too little for the
tenant. He enumerated the principal laws conferring power on the
landlords, adding that he did not believe there was a more fertile
source of murder and outrage than those powers. "_Thus_," said he, "_the
source of crime is directly traceable to the legislation of this
House_." The repeal of those Land Laws was one of the remedies which he
called for, but not the only one. He wanted the House to determine at
once to do justice to Ireland politically as well as in relation to the
law of landlord and tenant. In the first place, he said Ireland had not
an adequate number of members to represent her in the House, next she
wanted an extension of the franchise, thirdly, corporate reform, and,
lastly, a satisfactory arrangement of the temporalities of the church.
These four general remedies he demanded from the House, as a mode of
coercing the people of Ireland, by their affections and their interests,
into a desire to continue the Union with England. "I want," he said,
"the House to determine at once to do justice to Ireland politically as
well as in relation to the law of landlord and tenant.
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