The Letters of Sgo a Series of Letters On Public Affairs Written By the Rev
The Letters of Sgo a Series of Letters On Public Affairs Written By the Rev
Sidney Godolphin Osborne
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The state of famine in Ireland was met at once with general sympathy ; the English Government and the English people came forward nobly to offer money and food. God forbid that I should for one moment be thought to depreciate the value of what was sent to Ireland, or the motive which sent it on its errand of mercy. But, Sir, whilst I admit with gratitude it directly saved thousands of lives, I am forced to own that in the method of its distribution, it sowed the seed of a state of things which ...I fear has been indirectly the cause of almost as much de- structive destitution as that which, for the time, was arrested. A great proportion of Ireland has, with sorrow- be it said, been as yet, to a great degree, most unfortunately possessed. Very man)' 208 THE LETTERS OF S. G. O. July 5 possessors of large estates have ever been absentees ; of those who do reside, very many have paid little attention to the social evils around them ; the gentry, it is notorious, have not pulled to- gether. A peasantry who scarce ever cared to labour further than was necessary to raise the food they shared in common with their pig were placed in a position which brought them but little in any useful contact with those above them, with whom a closer intercourse might have tended to a greater community of in- terest ; their minds had received little enlargement from any broad system of education ; the religion professed by the majo- rity of them in the exercise of its duties called for no great mental development.
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