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Excerpt from The Irish Crisis of 1879-80: Proceedings of the Dublin Mansion House, Relief Committee, 1880 Long before the Mansion House Committee was formed, most Of the men who afterwards contributed to establish it foresaw that such a movement was famed Why? Inevitable. It was for three reasons deferred to the last moment to which it could be safely deferred. In the first place, the landlords having remitted (as is calculated) at least Of rents, and the traders having almost nowhere attempted to exact their accounts by force of law, the potato harvest, such as it was, might be trusted to keep the people alive until about the opening Of the new year, while a few weeks providential dry warmth in October turned a considerable portion of the sodden peat into fuel, and so to a great extent dissolved anxiety on that score. In the second place, the persistence with which in some quarters the harvest was still asserted to be an average' one, and the distress decried as. Partly or even wholly an imposture, as well as perhaps the exaggerations into which the sense that their danger was ignored or made light Of threw the panic-stricken people, disposed many to wait until the course Of events should reveal the precise character of the crisis in a way that would put all further controversy on the subject to silence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.