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.
From a biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage comments on the challenges of prosecuting agrarian crimes in Ireland.
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Such a tenet would sully and impugn the doctrine that is the corner-stone of our faith and hope.
They baffle the forethought of statesmen, and control even the apparently inflexible laws of national development and decay.
But though a chief landlord, or a stipendiary magistrate, may occasionally be sacrificed, the great majority of victims are furnished by the humblest class.
These outrages were never insurrectionary: they were not directed against existing authorities; they were stimulated by no public cause or clamour; it was the private individual who was attacked, and for a private reason.
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