Sir Spencer Walpole:The Life Of Lord John Russell (volume 2)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII. IRISH WRONG. DURING the short fortnight''s holiday of Easter 1847, in which he was busying himself with the arrangements for occupying his new home, Lord John must have felt the satisfaction of the good man who is conscious of having done his duty, and of the wise man who has not suffered his head to be misled by his heart. In a crisis of unprecedented difficulty, he had refused to sacrifice principle for the sake of securing a temporary advantage; and in all his proposals had endeavoured, while battling with the distress of the moment, to promote the prosperity of the future. Some of his measures, no doubt, were attended with consequences which he did not foresee. The extension of the Poor Law furnished Irish landlords with a new reason for evicting their tenantry, and the sale of encumbered estates gave the wretched cottier, in many cases, a solvent landlord, who would not--in exchange for the insolvent proprietor who could not--do anything for his property. But Lord John''s policy should be remembered not for what he did, but for what he refused to do. When men on every side of him were asking the Government to undertake the operations of the trader, and to embark on a great speculation by the construction of railways, he refused to surrender his common sense. He insisted, against the advice of his closest friends, that local distress must, in the long run, be met by local effort; and, though forced by the severity of the crisis to encourage local contributions by imperial subsidy, he clung throughout to his principle. To his firmness in doing so may be traced the fact that the famine, which decimated, raised, instead of lowering, the condition of the Irish people. His chief agent had necessarily been the Viceroy; and Lord Bessborough, even... Sir Spencer Walpole, Books, History, The Life Of Lord John Russell (volume 2) Books>History, General Books LLC<
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Sir Spencer Walpole:The Life Of Lord John Russell (volume 2)
- new book ISBN: 9781235627675
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII. IRISH WRONG. DURING the short fortnight''s holiday of Easter 1847, in which he was busying himself with the arrangements for occupying his new home, Lord John must have felt the satisfaction of the good man who is conscious of having done his duty, and of the wise man who has not suffered his head to be misled by his heart. In a crisis of unprecedented difficulty, he had refused to sacrifice principle for the sake of securing a temporary advantage; and in all his proposals had endeavoured, while battling with the distress of the moment, to promote the prosperity of the future. Some of his measures, no doubt, were attended with consequences which he did not foresee. The extension of the Poor Law furnished Irish landlords with a new reason for evicting their tenantry, and the sale of encumbered estates gave the wretched cottier, in many cases, a solvent landlord, who would not--in exchange for the insolvent proprietor who could not--do anything for his property. But Lord John''s policy should be remembered not for what he did, but for what he refused to do. When men on every side of him were asking the Government to undertake the operations of the trader, and to embark on a great speculation by the construction of railways, he refused to surrender his common sense. He insisted, against the advice of his closest friends, that local distress must, in the long run, be met by local effort; and, though forced by the severity of the crisis to encourage local contributions by imperial subsidy, he clung throughout to his principle. To his firmness in doing so may be traced the fact that the famine, which decimated, raised, instead of lowering, the condition of the Irish people. His chief agent had necessarily been the Viceroy; and Lord Bessborough, even... Sir Spencer Walpole, Books, History, The Life Of Lord John Russell (volume 2) Books>History <
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