His voice was good,
but his intonation unmusical, and he invariably ended his sentences on
too high a note; but his fiery rhetoric carried the audience almost
completely with him, and he was cheered again and again to the echo.
[107] Many a fine, stalwart peasant said to me, during the great era of
the Monster Meetings, "I'm afraid, sir, we'll never get the union
without fighting for it." I know for a fact, that wives and daughters
and sisters endeavoured to dissuade fathers and husbands and brothers
from going to the great Tara Meeting--suspecting, as they said, that
"bad work would come out of it," _i.e._, fighting.
[108] _Daily and Weekly Press. Census of Ireland, 1851._
[109] _Correspondence relating to the measures adopted for the relief of
the distress in Ireland (Commissariat Series), p. 3._
[110] This estimate is said to have been compiled from the best
available sources for Thom's Almanac and Directory for 1847. The
quantity of potatoes in each of the four Provinces, and their probable
value were:
Ulster, 352.665 acres, valued at L4,457,562
Munster, 460,630 " " 6,030,739 10s.
Leinster, 217,854 " " 2,814,150
Connaught, 206,292 " " 2,645,468
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1,237,441 L15,947,919 10s.
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