text:  The exact relation in which Lord John had hitherto stood to Mr O'Connell was that of a land-owner paying black-mail to the cateran who guaranteed his flocks from molestation: how naturally must the grazier turn with fury on the man who by suppressing his guardian has made it hopeless for the future to gain private ease by trafficking in public wrongs! The real grievance was the lopping Dagon of all power to stand erect and thus laying the Whig-radical under the necessity of "walking in the light of the constitution" without aid from Irish crutches