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sin of a most outrageous murder. From that time the system has 

 gone on ; outrage after outrage has been perpetrated, and I fear it 

 is not even now culminated. This movement, in short, is most 

 un-Irish and most contrary to the nature of ever^'- true Irishman. 

 We know every man has his good nature and his bad nature, and we 

 know that the promoters of this wicked agitation know the bad parts 

 of men and they know their good ones too ; but it is only the bad 

 parts that this agitation is working upon and developing. (Hear, 

 hear.) They know all their weaknesses and all their failings, and to 

 make their weaknesses and their failings the more apparent is what 

 they are trying to do. (Hear, hear.) They think it was a great 

 victory for them to be able to draw out the minimum of their vice, 

 to make them attack the poor unfortunate and unoffending hounds, 

 and to make them insult the man who had done more good for them 

 and shown more kindness towards them than any other in this 

 country. (Applause.) We deeply regret, my lord, the decision to 

 which you have come — (hear, hear) — but I for one must admit you 

 have judged rightly. But so far as hunting is concerned, and much 

 as I love the hunt, there is another consideration which we regret 

 far more than the breaking up of it, and which will be far more 

 lamented with a great number of men, and, my lord, I would appeal 

 to you to consider that there is another and far greater honour, a far 

 higher duty for you than even to be Master of the Curraghmore 

 Hounds. Hitherto, as the representative of a noble house, and as 

 Lord of Curraghmore, you have done your duty well— (hear, hear, 

 and loud applause)— and I would not, for any insult of the kind that 

 has been offered, for any obstruction such as this, or for two, or three^ 

 or four events of the kind, be driven from the grand position you 

 have taken. (Applause.) Consider, my lord, that your being in 

 Curraghmore and fulfilling your duty there as you have done, has 

 been a great obstruction to the system of agrarian outrage that is 

 now passing over the country. (Hear, hear.) My lord, it is to get you 

 out of it that they have done all this. (Hear, hear.) I beg of you and 

 again beg of you, not to do otherwise than remain where you are. 

 (Loud applause.) Go to hunt where you like, but return sometimes 

 to Curraghmore. (Hear, and applause.) To encourage those among 

 whom you have always been recognised as the leader and mainstay 

 of the Constitutional party with which you have been allied is your 

 first duty. (Cheers.) I beg now to move this resolution. 



"Mr. Bloomfield seconded the resolution. He denounced in strong 

 terms the gross and cowardly insult that had been offered to Lord 

 Waterford, and the attack which had been made on his hounds on 

 Thursday last. Sir Robert Paul had well said it would be a triumph 

 to the party to see the man who had been every man's neighbour and 

 every man's best friend driven out of this country. He sincerely 

 trusted, with Sir Robert Paul, that his lordship would not allow any 

 such proceeding to drive him from the country. He had lived long 



