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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