text:  But let a tenant who has been profligate dishonest and reduced to poverty by his own misconduct be dispossessed of the smallest portion of ground on which he eked out a wretched existence and which if he had it in fee would not be sufficient to support his family--let such an one be but dispossessed and even though he be afforded the means of emigrating to countries where land is plenty and wages remunerative the "Liberal press" will teem with "the horrors and the cruelties" of "the Irish system!" Doubtless it would be most desirable that every man should be possessed of a sufficiency of land and that he should (if you will) have it in fee; but how is this to be accomplished? The Irish population is too dense to be comfortably supported on the extent of soil which the country possesses _without_ the assistance of manufactures; and the conduct of the people under the guidance of their leaders effectually prevents their establishment