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Tipperary on the 1111th of January, in 11ls14
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ame of the party Murdere was Mr. Samuel., gatb,
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de was discovered lying upon the road with his head fractured,'
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fallen from hti-whaos hrtsee,and that his etitielact
•oold not have been ascribed to any effects of such an aceidene.
the oily reason that could be aesigeed ter the commission «ef
etch an a t of atrocity, was that it was understood that he was
,bout to discharge two of his tenants. He would allude to
county Clare. On the filo of October last, Mr. Pe, et Clerk was
toot at by two men, while riding roiled a domain which he had
let purchased.
Now it was considered by Hen. Members o
essite. and in thet opinion he ( Sir James Grab tin) fudy emp-
n-
-ided, that absenteeism, was a great evil. They wished to encoue
age resident landlords, but how could they exp•-ct in suer a
-tate of things that any gentleman would go dowinn to reside
upon such an estate, or expene hi. money labour
in improving his estates. '1 his gen-lemon was. it appears
4oing to. settle some disturbances among the tenants
on his
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ea fatally eswihorau:lnLdn)eoidtc leftv
b,y tit titan-. -;.mo i:HeLse
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ld
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ahat he was a midd'e man, and for some offence which he had
at yen to his tenants, he al-o, in the month of January, 1546,
sas fired at and killed. In the county of Clare. on the 7th of
'etnuary, 1845, seven men, disguised as usual, entered the
ouses of James Alallony and others, and fractured the skull
-f one of the inmates, and also inflicted very severe wounds
,nd injuries upon others of the party. It am-eared is all these
rutraoes that not one of the ordinary feelings of eocial life
teemed to have the least influence upon the conduct of these
uffians. The only reason assi tried for this outrage was that
n the year 1843 Some lands were divided by an
rder of the Court of Chancery, upon which there
-.ere upwards of three hundred tenauts. and that one or
wo of that number were deprived of their land. He would
mad another case, which occurred in the counts of Limerick.
even men in the usual disguise, and armed, entered the house
,1 anima of the name of Lawrence I.ee ; tney rushed at him
,nd beat bias down. This was a ease of cruel barbarity.
Nhen the man was upon the ground, his wife threw herself
-pen him, in order to protect him from their violence. One
.1 the fellows placed the gun close to his legs, while his wife
tttempted to shelter him. Regardless, however, of the position
if the wife, they discharged the gun, the shot of which narrowly
seeped the wow-aim, and shattered the head of the unfortunate
nan. The murderers then retired. The only reason for this
irutal outrage was because he had paid his rent, contrary to
he wishes of these parties. On Jan. 21, 1841, Mr. Walker
vas also fired at and otherwise brutally attacked, the only
complaint, it appears, being that he held about three acres of
land, known by the !rime of Coobrah, the name of which was
•everal times repeated by the assasens while on their mar-
e-roils occupation, He would now call the attention of the
louse to an then class of outrage—that of magistrates in the
xecution of their duty. Mr. Al‘Cleod had been selected by
he Government to suppress some disturbances on the borders
af Leitram. He was teturniug home, and when in the act of
desiring the driver of his ear to get down and open the gate,
.ie was fired at by an assassin, whe had concealed himself for
:hat purpose, and expired immediately. There must be in
these cases some horrible confederacy. for it. appeared, with re•
ference to the latter case, that notice of this murder was
ssosted at the town of Enniskillin two days before
Abe murder was committed.—( Hoar.) There was also
ems case of Mr. Boothe, who, when returning home
o e fompany with some portion of his family. were fired at by
,me' person` ; anti altheugh he was within two hundred yards
f the village, and num ors of persons were passing by the spotn
-
journey from divine service, not one of them offered
ien their'
de,
the least assistance, either to the wounded man, or in
s„0„
t,,) secure the murderer, notwithstanding the offer
of money by the weunded gentlemari if they
trte a milaitrigne g
• ould capture the assassin. There was another ca-e tii which
, would call the'
.attero len of the House. Not only were these
rocities commit;m ls
in eases ofpeesessioa of land ; they
e
•
era cegniz ince, awl interfered with the meet minute vie.
ennstaneee of life—+`hs' case of matters and servants If sit:, tl.ing
should transpire • •w,%rich they considered demanded their
nterference, immediedely threateeing notices were sent;
and unless these none:eel weee at ended to, summary yen-
ereatice would be takon by those secret and organised
,ands. As tetelmg t s iLneatrate the interference in the case of
-taster and servant, he weittlil instance the case ot a person
n Tipperary, who was aboi..t to be superseded in a situatioh
'y another party. His maet,el„ or' the 4-h of May, 1545, was
fired at and died in a few days from the effeet• of his wouteb.
there was no other offence all aged against him. Arlo her
-age of a similar kind was that of a disehate-ed steward of
.he Hee. Mr. Halsor., who less shot through the lungs in Con-
sequence of not obesing the order of these tyrannical mereue-
ere to leave his employment. He would not have referred to
case alluded to by the Noble Lord the Men.ber for Lynn, •
mad he not made special allusion to it. It. was a meat alio.
ions case. It was an outrage committed en a wiiman who Was
regnant, and who was •hot at in open day in the county 'of
r,rone. She was the wife of a wood, anger who m -de hinesiilf
•dinoxious to these assiseitis. On going along the read
sith her child, she was ,fired at. The Child was seriouily
sounded in the brain, and the mother died a. f-w'days after-
yards in consequence of the injuries= she ?fee, ived. (An Hdn.
Member on the Opposition benches here asked the Right
Baronet if this occurred in the day t;me.) Yes, it.was
-te the day time. Here was another case which occurred in
Tipperary on the 17th of January. l'e4B. It was that of a man
•f the name of Murphy, who was fired at in a most barbardus
manner. , The Noble Lord, the Member for Lynn, also
alluded to another case. These tyrants, it appeared, wish'ed
the mistress of an establishment to dismiss her servant. and in
consequence, of her not complying with their desires the ser-
vant was barbarously attacked, and bis lire %fru placed in the
most imminent peril. He now begged to refer to the effect that
this organised system of outrage had upon the social condition
of the people of Ireland. In November 26th, 1845, the
secretary of a company called the Mining Company of Ireland
save notice in the county of Tipperary that the works would
be suspended in conseqoence of the outrages which had been
coa.mitted, and in con .equence of the threatening notices which
lad been served upon the workmen. Now the tendency
if capital was to flow into Ireland, and it was his
opinion that the real remedy for the grievances of
that country was the applie eion of capital, and
yet unless those crimes were put down no capital would flow
there, no increase would take place in the means of employ-
,nent, and crime, murder, and rapine would continue to per.
vade the land. He would not apologise to the House for going
Into those details, for circumstances Trade it imperative on
tin to do so, and it was evident that the state of crime was
•uch as to require extraordinary means to be adopted for its
.uppressien. He would now give a few epecimet s of crime
bleb had been committed on parties wishing to give evidence
o" bring parties to juit.ice. In December, 15.15, a man,
tamed John Ryan, was subjected to the most barbarous usage
from this cause, and shortly after died in consequence of the
.wounds he had received, So great, however, was the reign
ef terror, and such fear pree;ailed for the safety of his friends,
: hat he .fared not disclose the names of those who he well know
were concerned in the outrage. No v, here was a man struck
lewn by assassins. Two persons were taken into custod charged
with the crime ,but in consequence of the terrorism which existed
the injured man would not give evidence against them,- and
.ireterted to die before he would disclose their names. —(Mr.
aleb Powell asked how Sir James Graham could know what
his thoughts were. )—The dying tarn gave that explanation at
ha time. He (Sir James Graham) did not, however, believe
that in these five counties the great body of the people were
tainted. He believed that the conspiracy extended but to a
,mall portion of the community ; liut that portion, though
small, was well organised, and the rest of the etimmunity were
rept in a state of terrorism by them. In Galway, a 'person
--sine there to give evidence in a civil hill case, and in noose-
piettee of some expressions made us, of by him, the relative
,f defendant maltreated him in a most shameful manner. An.
eller case occurred in Tipperary on the 26th of June,
when a man was murdered. The friends of the murdered
:nan prosecuted the supposed murderer, and in consequence
party of 12 tar - 5 men grievously asaauted them, and a man
if the name of Egan, who was cognizant of this circumstance,
lenied that he had any knowledge of the parties when the
entice came to investigate the case. He would trouble the
llause with only one more case of this description. It was im-
possible to deny that fear of giving evidence existed to a very
treat extent. On the 12th of February last a man of the name
I
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After
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and
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outrage
subsequently
wfie five
sl
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(man:
forced
cstrao,chsreiiwdtochauhesst
ywha attacked
over had
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..ountry, not one informed the police of the circumstance ;
ins if this had been done, there is but little doubt
hat the criminals would have been brought to justice.
tie would next lead a report which he had received from a
esitient magistrate, who stated that he believed the system of
error to be so great iii that eisti•iet, that if even Old Gleeson
ad been murdered, not one of h.s tamily could be induced to
-tome forward and prosecute the murderers. lievrould not de-
aim the Hnuee by entering further into details, but there were
ere or two cases which he should mention as illustrative of
he system. By a report he had received on the Bth of De-
eember, it appeared that a party of police constables were out
-an patrol, and were fired at from an adjacent wood ; they re-
turned the fire, but one of them was badly wounded. This
took place at eleven o'clock in the evening. Now he stated
this ease in order to show that the most atrocious crimes were
committed without the least possible provocation. He would
next read a notice of rather a novel description, which had
been served upon a farmer in the county of Clare
upon the 24th of the present month. The notice was
to the effect, that unless the party on whom
it was served used his interest to procure for the party threat-
ening a farm, which had been record, held by certain parties
who bad been transported, it was presumed through the infor-
mation of him (the threatened), the forfeiture of his life would
be the consequence. The next case he would state was one of
a nature of interference with domestic arrangements. which
was really atrocious, and which showed that the tyranny exer-
cised was sufficient to beat down all the rules of social in.er-
,...ourse. It was tred at the lest Clare Assizes. It appeared
that the commander of a steamer on the Shannon, was In the
habit of purchasing milk from a woman who attended the ves-
sel. Ile complained to her on one or two oeca.ions that the
milk was bad, and he should discontinue it. He did so, and
!hereupon this woman told him that he would be sorry for it.
In a short time after, upon the arrival of the steamer at the
quay, after all the passengers had left, this man came ashore
and was seized upon by tour or five men, who beat him severely,
aid fractured his skull.
Mr. O'CONNELL—Was that by day?
Sir JAMES GRAHAM—It does not appear, by the re-
turn, at what period of the day it took place.
Air. O'CONNELL—But the parties were tried and con-
victed, were they not ?
Sir J. GRAHAM said they were, at the last Clare Assizes.
He then proceeded to state that he had already presented to
the House petitions from the high sheriff and a majority of
the grand jury of the county of Leitrim, praying for the sup-
pression ot this species of outrage. I,c would next wish to
refer to the addresses he had received from the five ceucties
lie
had been speaking of, all of which pra ed for the suppression of
crimes. He held in his hand an address from the magistrates
ef the county of Tipperary, which had been presented by the
Lord Lieutenant—by Lord Doariughmore. He had another
rout the county of Roscommon, and from several other
counties, to the same effect ; but he would not
weary the House by going into them all, but, amongst
them, was one from Limerick, containing resolutions adopted
at a meeting presided over by Lord Guillimore and presented
by Sir Lucius O'Brien. But now, having stated the unhappy
condition of these five coun' ics in ref, rence to the'amount of
crime committed in them, he would next proceed to state the
heads of the Bill which bad been sent dowp from the House of
Lords, as a measure intended to aid the Government in the
suppression of crime in Ireland. He did not mesa to enter
into any discussion of the merits of the clauses at present, but
when the second reading should come on, be would then be
prepared to defend each clause at length. The first:elan-at was
to the effect that the Lord-Lieutenant should 'hay& the power
to proclaim any district, and to send down' ant additional
stipendiary magistrate and police force at the expense of
that district, though in ordinary eases it was -intended that
the police force should be paid out of the public funds.
It might be said that the power given to the Lord Lieutenant
was arbitrary in levying the payment of the additional con-
stabulary force off the proclaimed district. Now, lams Con-
ight be
remembered that, under the previous of the ger
stabulary Act, the Lord Lieutenant h," the power-so increase
the ..alariea of the coustabies, amid hen also the unlimited 'ewer
to en-ate as many stipendiai y magistrates, M unlimited salaries,
as he deemed • ctually necessary. With respect to the clauses,
that emposered the arrest of persons found without theirs-
houses in proclaimed districts after the legal time, he weeo,We
refer them to the language of the Hon. and Learned Meteeee
for Cork (Mr. O'Connell) when a similar measure wee before
the House in le33.—(Hear, hear.) That Hou.eunVe•

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