text:  The Duke of Wellington it is that by using the occasion advantageously for the perfecting of the military organization in Ireland has made police do the work of war; and by making resistance maniacal in making it hopeless has eventually consulted even for the feelings of the rebellious sparing to them the penalties of insurrection in defeating its earliest symptoms; and for the land itself has been the chief of benefactors by removing systematically that inheritance of desolation attached to all civil wars in cutting away from below the feet of conspirators the very ground on which they could take their earliest stand