Benjamin Disraeli: “The Irish peasant had to choose between starving and assassination.”

Those who have treated of the agrarian crimes of Ireland have remarked, that the facility with which these outrages have been committed has only been equalled by the difficulty of punishing them.

Nature had clothed this vehement spirit with a material form which was in perfect harmony with its noble and commanding character.

He wished to see our society founded on a broad basis of civil and religious liberty.

If, in deference to an anonymous mandate, he relinquished his holding, he and those who depended on him were outcasts and wanderers; if he retained or accepted it, his life might be the forfeit, but subsistence was secured; and in poor and…