text:  The houses were also all of his own erection; the thatch and timber of the roof carried away by the landlord was Pat Ring's own property; _and all was taken away and the whole place wrecked without any warrant whatever for so doing; without any right whatever save the right which by the laxity of the law and the dominancy of a faction a landlord belonging to that dominant faction may create for himself; without any authority whatever save the power of his own high hand against which the law is powerless_