text:  That we are justified in attributing the poverty the misery and the crimes of the Roman Catholic peasantry to the constant state of agitation and excitement in which they are kept by their leaders and the bad example set them by their religious instructors and not to any pecuniary burdens (legislative or local) imposed upon them we can easily prove by a reference to the condition of that portion of the Irish people who are not subject to their control or corrupted by their influence