The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-06-28

cause the owners of the ground have not
money to pay them and the dread of unde-
fined taxation and uncertainty as to the
future prevent others from taking the land
on lease
This is an appalling picture, and 1t
comes from an authority altogether unques-
toned and unquestionable. The distress
moves onward day by day, and, unless
checked in time, threatens to involve both
England and Ireland in one common Ca
lamlty. With regard to the remedy, the
committee hold this emphatic language:
We have long felt that the chief ground
of hope-the main source of imp ement
lis the improved cultivation OF the soil,
and that the suresi means of effecting this
object is by afiording security to the cult
vator.-That this security does not gener-
ally exist in Ireland is admitted. On this
point there IS scarcely second opinion
among thinking men in this country. The
laws which regulate the title to and the
conyeyance of land require to be changed,
SO as to give the utmost freedom to its sale
and transIer-so as to pass those estates
whose proprietors are irretriveably ruined
into other hands, and to enable those who
are partially incumbered to free themselves
from their difficulties, by disposing of part
OF their landed property Until tins be
effected-until the soil of Ireland be held
by clear and marketable tltle-untll the
owners be enabled to sell the whole Or
any part OF their property without the ru-
inous delays and the heavy costs which
now prevent them-un.n the creditors of
landowner have those facilities for en-
forcing payment of their debts by the sale
of his property to which justice entities
them-We are convinced, and we feel our
selves bound thus publicly 10 state our de-
clded conviction, that ii is vain to hope
that Ireland can raise itself from state of
poverty and degradation. The potato
may grow again, and by It's assistance our
country may be enabled to escape from
the immediate pressure of its difficulties;
bat, without those changes in the laws re-
lating to the tenure and conveyance of land
VIII III shall open a free scope for the en-
/ Iploym of It's capital and its industry,
and give ample security to the culuvatocs
OF the soil, we cannot hope forgeneral and
lpermanent improvement.
''An enormous expenditure of money
! has failed TO relieve US. Ii could moi do
50 unless free scope were opened to the
energies Of the country. The partial rem
edies which have served but to tighten the
net which trammels the exertions of the
great mass of our population. Measures
of much more decided character are ne
cessary to produce any permanently use
ful effect. The situation OF the country Is
daily. becoming worse. There is no time
I 10 lnSo If thnsa now sufferis,rr are tn he
saved. Money must still be advanced foi
Temporary purposes during the interval
which viii elapse before efficient mea-
sures can be brought into general and ac-
tive operation. But our paramount wan
/ is not money; il is the removal of those le-
lgal difficulties which prevent the capital oI
Ireland from being applied to the improved
cultivation of its soil, and thus supporting
its poor by the wages OF honest and usetu
labor"