text:  Therefore it is that we rejoice to hear of attention in the right quarter at length drawn to the _radix_ of all this evil; of efforts seriously made to grapple with the mischief; not by mere accumulation of troops for _that_ is a spasmodic effort--sure to relax on the return of tranquillity; but by those appliances of military art to the system of attack and defence as connected with the soil and buildings of Ireland which will hereafter make it possible for even a diminished army to become all potent over disaffection by means of permanent preparations and through systematic links of concert