6 PREFACE. 



book was compiled, the Predominant Partner, 

 notwithstanding his detestation of pinpricks, 

 unfriendly acts and closed doors, and in spite 

 of liis delicate " conscience, nonconformist" and 

 otherwise, pursued this policy towards the 

 Irish race in the United Kingdom, the United 

 States and everywhere. While plundering 

 Irishmen of millions of money as his own 

 Financial Relations' Report testifies, he treated 

 them " with studied depreciation, derision, 

 contempt, gross and wholesale insult ; " and, as 

 De Lasteyrie wrote in the Revue des Deux 

 Blondes* "his tone towards the Irish was 

 execrable." 



Through love of making money, or of winning 

 applause, by trading on his ignorant and in- 

 nocent self-conceit, or through hatred or fear 

 of the Irish, his serious and comic Press, his 

 popular writers, playactors, orators, and carica- 

 turists conspired to gorge him with misre- 

 presentations of Irishmen, knowing or believing 

 that he liked it. It was not for mere wanton- 

 ness or fun that the cartoonists of Punch 

 11 invariably represented the Irishman as of a 



* December 15, 1854. 



