The daily gazette., 1880-03-25
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James Redpatch INN Y. Tribune.
Before left Dublin to attend the in
dignation meeting at Ballybrophy, l
read letter from q Roman Catholic
priest in a neigbboring county, Cavan.
It was dated February 10. However
sad may be the stories may have to tell
of famine in the West, cannot believe
that there will be any greater illustra-
tion to depict Of mans cruelty to
man.
sIn the midst of cries of distress
around me-" writes the Rev. Joseph
Flood, the parish priest, "in the Cavan
portion of my parish, while Protestants
and Catholics here as elsewhere are
struggling to keep together the body and
soul of the victims Of this years vista
tion, was hurried Off TO the Meade
portion, no less distressed, to witness a
scene--the first In my life--a heartless
eviction of five whole families, thirty
souls in all, of ages varying from eighty
TO two years.
sat II O'Clock to day, in the midst of
drizzling rain, when every mans lips
are busy discussing how relief can be
carried on TO this home and that, an i'm
posing spectacle presented itself through
quiet part of the parish of Kings
Court. A carriage containing Mr. Hus-
sey, Jr., son of the agent of the estate
Of Lord Gormanston. Behind and be-
fore the carriage came.about dozen of
outside ears, with resident Magistrate,
an Inspector Of Police, about forty OF
her Majesty's force, the Sheriff and some
dozen of as rapacious-looking drivers
and grippers as ever 1 laid my eyes
upon.
"There is dead silence at the halt be-
fore the first doomed door. That silence
was broken by myself addressing the
agent, craving to let the poor people in
again after the vindication Of the law,
when, to my disgust, but not my dismay
one of the crowd is observed by me TAX
ing notes.
"Tbe Sheriff formally asks: Have
you the rent?'
"The trembling answer is: my
God how could l have the whole rent
and such a rent, on such a soil, in
such year as this p
"'Get out 7 is the word, and right
heartily the grippers set to work. On
the dung-hill is flung the scanty furn-
iture, bed and bedding; search is
made for pig or goat, and forthwith
they share the fate of the evicted mas
ter; the door is nailed and the impos-
ing army marches on to the next hold
ing, till every house has been visited
and every soul set forth.
cat this moment there is a down.
pour of rain on that miserable furni-
ture, on that poor bed and bedding;
and an old man, whose generations
have passed their simple lives in that
house, is sitting on Q stove outside.
with his head buried in his hands,
thinking of the eighty-three years
gone by. And are those tenants to
blameP No +! 1t is on the records of
this parish that they were the most
simple minded, hard-working, honest
and virtuous. Their only guilt is
this, that an agreement with my
Lord Gormanston, some five years
ago, disfranchising them Of any claim
under the land act, and involving an
intolerable rise of rent, together with
the common misfortunes of the coun-
try these few years past, and this in
particular, has left them unable to
pay the entire rent of this year. Yes,
the entire rent-the half, the nine
tenths of the rent would not be ac-
cepted. Priests Joined the poor ten
antry in petitioning again and again.
No answer was given but Have you
the whole rent? Have you the law
expenses? If not, out you co."
hundreds of such cases occur in Ire
land. They explain the apparently
vindictiye feeling of the peasantry and
their leaders, like Mr.. Parnell, for ex-
ample, and Mr.. Davitt, to the land
lords as class. The two classes are
hostile at every point, and the exist
ing famine has intensified their mutual
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