text:  While in the south and west from whence the loudest complaints against the landowners proceed; where the peasant exists in rags and the gentlemen in a state of semi-starvation; where the people are idle and their ground untilled; where squalid misery offends the eye and merciless murders shock the feelings; where the terror of the assassin supersedes the power of the landlord and protects the tenant against all law; there in the counties so overwhelmed with poverty and debased by crime the lands are held on terms (the relative value being taken into consideration) by _the half easier_ than in the prosperous and peaceable province of Ulster