That constant drain. without return. reduced her population in a single generation from eight millions to four millions. and those who remained. to beggary and want. So much so that she became an object of charity to mankind. and we sent a national ship laden with corn for her relief. Her people swarmed away from her shores in emigration. many of them coming here and furnishing the strong arms of our labor. Nay. this drain was equally destructive to the absentee landholders themselves. for a little later nearly all the estates of Ireland have gone into insolvency through the "incumbered estates court." a sort of realestate bankrupt court. The cause being thus partially removed.
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