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as it were, giving away their very birth-right, 

 and then stirring up one another by noisy 

 declamation and clamorous complaint against 

 the laws of the United Kingdom, the whole 

 terminating in tumult and agrarian outrage. 

 That something must be radically wrong in 

 the management of such a people is unques- 

 tionable. 



An appeal to Ireland to the Highlands 

 of Scotland to the princely residences of 

 landlords, gentlemen farmers, commercial and 

 manufacturing capitalists, and others of the 

 higher grades, of every Christian denomination, 

 and of every extraction, in contrast with the 

 miserable cabins of the peasantry, will satisfy 

 the most obtuse observer, that something is 

 wrong about the very foundation of the fabric 

 of social affairs something inherently wrong 

 in the whole industrial machinery of those 

 countries a something not confined to any 

 one class of society, but extending to all 

 classes. This something is a fatal misconcep- 

 tion of the covenant and science of labour. 

 In short, Ireland and the Highlands of Scot- 

 land have overlooked the essential elements of 

 industry. 



