text:  To disconnect the peasantry from the landlords who could not be induced to join in the senseless and mischievous cry for Repeal now became the object of the agitators: the most unjust charges were made against the gentry; and even their exertions to promote the growth of turnips or to teach the people the proper mode of cultivation were turned into ridicule and treated with contempt in the public speeches of some of the Roman Catholic bishops