New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-08
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THE EARL OF LEITRIM AS A LANDLORD.
STRANGE EXAMPLES or THE MEMORABLE JUS
TICE" WITH WHICH HE HAS BEEN CREDITED

THE Earl. OF LEITRIM AS A LANDLORD.
STRANGE EXAMPLES or THE MEMORABLE JUS
TICE" WITH WHICH HE HAS BEEN CREDITED
To the Edftor OF The Tribune.
SR When the Donegal tragedy startled
the British Islands and called attention the conduct
and record of its victim the Earl OF Letrm London AZ
once took up the solution that the memorable justice
Of really good landlord had led to his murder by this
mpracticable Irish people, just as the "inexorabie
Justice of English rule in ireland is supposed TO e1-
plain the discomfort of Its people. This solution was
teegraphed at once across the ocean, II reappeafs in
paragraph OF your paper OF this date, when seems 10
have been clipped from some London paper We sha!i
probably hear 1t repeated o hundred times, unth tue
nine days wonder Permit me TO aybet0re your
readers specimens Of this mans lneAoraDe JUS
tlce:"
a. Mr. John Lawns OF Milford was encouraged by
the Earls agent to build fine house, at the cost OF sew
eral hundred pounds and to improve town lots when nc
held from the estate. AS he had done this, he
was evlcted, in 1857, the charge that he IA
vOred tenant right and without compensation. His
father was warned that he and his spoke TO each
other the father also would be turned out The Ears
agent was so dspeased with this sort OF justice that he
threw up his Office.
o. The Rev Robert White, n Presbyterian minister
was similarly elected in the dead of Winter, from the
house he had built, aud without offer Of COM
pensatiOn.
90 The people OF Milford, most of them Presbyte-
rians were encouraged by the Office" to improve the
value Of their holdings by drainage by better buildings
and otherwise Their then raised by adding
the full yearly value Of the improvements made by
themselves.
a. Two tenants in Rosgu turned out OF houses
they had but, simply because his Lordship wanted
their farms particular purpose. They received
compensation Naboth's vineyard over again.
o. Mrs. Aigoe, the Presbyterian widow. near whose
a bush her farm. She offered the choice Of a
heavy fine or eviction, and she chose the latter
(GJ widow woman Fame elected when her
crop was the ground but with the understanding that
she would be allowed reapit His LOrdshp, however.
carried off her and potatoes for bis own use This
case and that have given No. 4, were too much
for even The Derry Sentinel the organ of the Orange
party the champion OF the landlord, and the enemy OF
tenant right. II said: "Justice and humanity alike
compel to record unqualified protest against LORD
Lcir1ms arbitrary conduct" To do them justice, the
EaT's class in the county and the province eA-
cuded him from their society. My next statement VIII
~ A widowed mother was elected from the estate be-
she refused To send her pretty daughter to the
Earl's establishment, which presided over by wo,
man Of Ue worst character 10 DE taught
Other parents less aware y the purpose o the demand
their shame be Il said. less staunch III the defence
or their cmldtWs nohor Iad nor reuseG, anu tIe IOu
consequences WIRE known to every one IN the county
Al tncse occurred before the passage OF me lsh
Land Law which Is said to have created the ilfeelng
When tins representative OF lneX0raDIe justice ~
went to Che b " an exact Justice he had 100 tenants
under notice OF eviction. lie had already swept out
five tOwnlauGs COR townships OF tenants at one blow
lie adding waste 70 waste, for 40 one would take
TINS lnSt andlOius ltDs ~ iousu uG aDse'cc VI
uiactur,s drives the whole lri-h people 70 agriculture
They were tenants in whom ne was driving
out few of them owed nm penny, ald great propOr-
ton OF them proving tenants OF the sort tlat
landlords like the DuifeTns are glad To get.
A,ruge not yourselves " Is Just good lesson in
Ulster any where. But tue "dcep damnatlon or MS
taxing oil cannot the blackncss from the life
Of one oil the worst Of Aud that the Christian
world has many worse than the Earl OF Leitrim
WAS should De sorry believe He makes credible 10
NJ those horrible stories medieval dndOrdisIu, which
Collin dc Paucy has collected in his Memoirs dun
NIilcn."
As native Of Ireland though Of part OF il very dis
taut from Donegal, VIZ, the County Down. ask that
you let the other side have hearing. yours, etc,
ROBERT ELLIS THOMSON.
IAiladcLghia, April 80. 1873.