Excerpt from The Irish People and the Irish Land: A Letter to Lord Lifford; With Comments on the Publications of Lord Dufferin and Lord Rosse And lastly, I deny that it is either intended or adapted to deprive the Protestant proprietors of all influence over the people. On the contrary, it is intended and adapted to strengthen, or rather create, their legitimate influence, by removing the bitter sources Of heart-burning, hatred, and discontent. I admit that it is intended - it is a total failure if it be not adapted - to deprive a proprietary whom your Lordship correctly designates as Protestant, of a power of dominion and coercion. It is intended to deprive the landlord, whether Protestant or Catholic, Of that dominion over his tenant which the odious power Of arbitrary eviction enables him to enforce. I suspect very much that this subject of influence or personal dominion over the people, lies at the very root of the question we are discussing, and that resistance to tenant right is far Oftener a struggle to maintain a system of vassalage than an effort to preserve any right Of property in land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.