By James Fagan, Esq., M.P. for the Co. Wexford."
Dublin: James McGlashan, 1847. Halliday Pamphlets, vol. 1991.
[255] Letters to Lord John Russell, p. 9.
[256] _Ib._, p. 12.
[257] Commissariat Correspondence, p. 452. G.P. Scrope's letters to Lord
John Russell, p. 58.
[258] Ireland: Historical and Statistical. By George Lewis Smyth, vol.
2, p. 452.
[259] "In the neighbourhood of Mullinahone I witnessed the daily painful
sight of the perversion of the labour of this country to the most
profitless ends. Roads, which are now more than ever necessary to be
kept in order, are in the course of obstruction, whilst waterlogged
lands, reclaimable bottoms, and mountain slopes stand out in damning
evidence of the indolence, neglect, and folly of man."--_Letter of
Lieut.-Colonel Douglas to Sir S. Routh, dated Clonmel, 28th January,
1847. Commissariat Series, part 2._ Strong language from a Government
official.
"Some persons recommend emigration as a panacea for the distress in
Ireland--that is, in plain English, to send the bone and sinew of our
country to cultivate foreign lands, when countless acres are at their
doors untilled, undrained, and therefore unremunerative.
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