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only much philanthropy and some courtesy to 

 be steadily directed, on the part of those who 

 endeavor to effect such a change ; but also the 

 inspiration of a full confidence in the sincerity 

 and fairness of their dealings, with honest efforts 

 on the parts of those by whom it is to be adopt- 

 ed. It is objected that were the cabins of the 

 lower Irish made ever so comfortable, they 

 would not long be kept so. I am fearful this 

 would be the case, were such an attempt to be 

 limited to the habitation only : it must embrace 

 more to produce any material alteration. The 

 first object of attention is, to enable the cottier 

 to keep his cabin in a comfortable state after it 

 is so made for him, which cannot be expected 

 while dire necessity so bows him to the ground 

 as to exclude all his prospects, and render him 

 indifferent to the concerns of life, by engrossing 

 the full amount of his faculties to provide for 

 the absolute wants of the moment. 



To give a due elevation of mind to the Irish 

 peasantry, and place them on a level with their 

 English and Scottish neighbours, would require 

 not only one feature of their present treatment 

 to be altered, but possibly an entire correction 

 of the whole assemblage. 



The upper classes must become willing to 



