The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-05-07
From the Buffalo Express.
Irish Landlordship.

In no part Of Ireland has the brutality OF
Landlordism SO fully developed itself as in
the Barony of Farney, county of Monaghan.
Ii is an etensive tract containing some
thirty thousand acres of arabic laud, which
was given by Elizabeth to her paramour Es-
sex, in consideration of his services in aid
ing to extirpate the McMahons, who were
then the most powerful chieitains in Ulster
The system of determination commenced BY
Essex has been faithfully followed up by his
successors: but never in the annals Of Land
lordism has anything been recorded so inhu-
man and go utterly devoid OF christian prin-
ciples as the system practiced by It's present
owners, the Marquis Of Bath and L. P.
Shirley, Esq.
Passing over such scenes as whole fami-
lies laboring under typhus fever being hurled
1 from their miserable novels, and thrown on
the way side to die unheeded and unatten-
ded, shall proceed 10 relate an incident
which came under my own observation in
the town of COrrickmacross, in June. l848.
was aroused from sleep al a o'clock, A. NJ,
by the cries Of some hundred and forty per-
sons, and on opening my window TO ascer-
4 tain the cause thereof, heheld some 30 OF
40 cars laden with human freight, but SC
unlike anything human, that to any other
than an Irish eye they would appear as ami.
mails of different creation. In front Of the
cars role one of Shirley's bailiffs, and The
rear was brought up BY onp of that remarka
be staff, known in Ireland as the "crow-baI
brigade" On either side Of the cars huns
ragged little children. whose ages varied
from six TO twelve years, struggling will
death-like efforts to sei5e the tattered gar
ments of their wretched parents, and cryin!
out piteously "Oh, nanny dear, won't yol
bring me with you." "Oh, daddy dear, don
go 10 Ameriky," &C., &C., while from th
cars proceeded the deep toned mournings 0
a heart-broken mothers accompanied wit
such expressions as "0h, Jenny dear, hov
, can ! leave me little ones behind-no II
!, not go-rll bsg through the world with then
first.b .I
' was perfectly amazed at the scene befor
me, and approaching bysiander, what
s said /, 'in the name Of wonder does all thi
2 mean p Hereplied by stating that those be
y fore me were persons who occupied farm
!, on the Shirley estate, but that their Lant
!, lord, with the humane intention of riddin
3 his property of its surplus population. cor
: ttracted with Shirley's company to bring
d certain number to America for a certai
l. sum; and that some Of them having tamillt
: too large Gin the Landlords eyes) were obi
/ ged TO leave portion ofthem behind or 10
! felt the privilege Of a free passage. AN
!. what said /, 'in the name Of Heaven is
: ! become of those poor deserted childreng !.
suppose, said lie, tthe relieving officer wi
be obliged to give them tickets TO the worl
! house, there to add another thirty to u
: two thousand paupers Of Bath. and Shirle
8 creation already immured within lis walls
Our conversation was interrupted by the s.
norous voice Of man in front, who erie
!, out, drive on ami the next moment sa
parents torn from their children, and chi
dren from their parents, amidst the mo ,
q doleful lamentations that ever reached u
0. ears of mortal. .5,ss . d sq j. I.
5. shut down my window, and on retlrll
ID involun,arily exclaimed alas poor Farnsry