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.
From a biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage defines the specific nature of agrarian outrages in Ireland, distinguishing them from political insurrections.
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