item: #1 of 9 id: 12486 author: Apess, William title: Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained date: None words: 52725 flesch: 67 summary: On the representation of the Overseers of the Indian Plantation of Marshpee, in the County of Barnstable, stating in behalf of said Indians, that it would be conducive to their interests, that a certain grant and allotment of lands therein described, _formerly owned by said Indians_, for the support of the gospel ministry among them, should be confirmed and rendered valid. Perhaps you have heard of the oppression of the Cherokees and lamented over them much, and thought the Georgians were hard and cruel creatures; but did you ever hear of the poor, oppressed and degraded Marshpee Indians in Massachusetts, and lament over them? keywords: act; apes; brethren; church; court; fish; good; government; governor; house; indians; land; laws; legislature; man; marshpee indians; meeting; men; minister; overseers; parsonage; people; petition; plantation; power; present; property; right; state; time; tribe; white; william; wood; years cache: 12486.txt plain text: 12486.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 14562 author: Godkin, James title: The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times date: None words: 154032 flesch: 62 summary: The presence of the lord deputy, the Earl of Ormond, and other great men at Armagh, with a select English army, would naturally have roused their attention, and when that army was encountered and vanquished in the open field by the Irish general, we should have expected that the details of such a glorious event would have been collected with the greatest care from the accounts of eye-witnesses. Having confiscated 2,500,000 acres of Irish land, they offered it as security to 'adventurers' who would advance money to meet the cost of the war. keywords: acres; act; agent; army; blood; case; castle; catholic; chief; children; church; city; commissioners; condition; country; course; day; death; deputy; derry; dublin; earl; effect; england; english; estates; fact; family; father; following; force; froude; general; god; good; government; great; half; head; henry; history; house; interest; ireland; irish; john; justice; king; kingdom; landlord; lands; late; law; left; life; london; lord; lord deputy; majesty; man; means; men; money; nation; new; number; o'neill; order; parliament; pay; people; persons; place; plantation; poor; population; power; present; property; protestant; public; queen; question; race; religion; rent; right; roman; shane; sir; small; society; soldiers; state; system; tenants; time; town; trench; tyrone; ulster; war; way; work; years cache: 14562.txt plain text: 14562.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 15450 author: None title: Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union date: None words: 109873 flesch: 54 summary: To the majority in Ireland Home Rule may seem to be a blessing, but to the minority it appears as an intolerable curse. As the West of Ireland is the nearest point in these islands to America, it is probable that cargoes destined for English ports will reach them _via_ Ireland to avoid the longer sea-transit. keywords: act; acts; agriculture; authority; bill; board; britain; british; case; catholic; cent; church; conditions; control; country; day; development; dublin; economic; england; english; exchequer; executive; fact; footnote; government; home rule; increase; interest; ireland; irish; kingdom; law; lord; money; national; nationalist; new; order; parliament; party; people; policy; poor; population; position; power; present; prosperity; public; purchase; question; reform; revenue; roman; rule bill; scheme; schools; scotland; state; system; time; trade; ulster; union; unionist; united; united irish; united kingdom; war; work; years cache: 15450.txt plain text: 15450.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 17148 author: Royce, Charles C. title: Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States: Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 247-262 date: None words: 7172 flesch: 62 summary: An alphabetic list of all rivers, lakes, mountains, villages, and other objects or places mentioned in such treaties, together with their location and the names by which they are at present known. That body passed an act providing for the negotiation of a treaty or treaties, and making an appropriation for the purchase and extinguishment of the Indian claim to certain lands. keywords: cession; east; indian; lines; map; north; october; states; treaty; united cache: 17148.txt plain text: 17148.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 30606 author: Trollope, Anthony title: The Landleaguers date: None words: 153536 flesch: 87 summary: He was poor Mr. Jones, who had lost his son, and, worse still, his eighty acres of grass, and he was also that fellow Jones, that enemy to the Landleague, whom it behoved all patriotic Irishmen to get the better of and to conquer. Mr. Jones had expended over £30,000 in purchasing the property, and was congratulated by all men on having done well with his money. keywords: ada; away; boy; captain; carroll; castlewell; clayton; country; course; daly; day; doubt; edith; father; florian; frank; galway; girl; going; good; hand; house; ireland; jones; know; lax; left; life; like; look; lord; love; man; matter; men; mind; moment; money; morony; moss; o'mahony; pat; people; peter; poor; present; rachel; tell; things; thought; time; truth; want; way; woman; word; young cache: 30606.txt plain text: 30606.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 37853 author: Morris, William O'Connor title: Present Irish Questions date: None words: 156571 flesch: 48 summary: This arrangement, in conception, was simply monstrous; it gave Ireland powers to which she had no pretence to a claim; it really subjected Great Britain to her; it formed a Federation in which a weak and small State was to have immense authority over another tenfold as strong; it might be described as one-sided Federalism run mad. Contents PAGES CHAPTER I IRELAND IN 1901 Ireland has passed through a revolution in the Victorian age--Material progress--Dublin--Belfast--Improvement in Catholic places of worship and in the habitations of the people--State of the Irish community--Symptoms of retrogression--Decline of agriculture--The progress of Ireland Ireland much less than that of England and Scotland, and why--State of the Irish land system--Recent legislation has done some good, but it has been unjust, and has had pernicious effects--Ireland divided into three peoples--Notwithstanding great reforms Catholic Ireland is still, in the main, disaffected--Presbyterian Ireland--Cry for the confiscation of the Irish land--Protestant Ireland--Fall of its old ascendency--Discontent among the landed gentry--Nature of the government of Ireland by the Imperial Parliament--Its merits and defects--Attitude of the greater part of Ireland towards it--The administration of Irish affairs--The bureaucracy of the Castle--The Anglican, Presbyterian, and Catholic Irish Churches--The administration of justice in Ireland--Irish literature and public opinion--General survey of the present state of Ireland--Irish policy of Lord Salisbury's Ministry--'Present Irish Questions' to be discussed in this work 1-38 CHAPTER II THE QUESTION OF HOME RULE The question of Home Rule not extinct--The reasons--Butt's scheme of Home Rule--It is denounced and ridiculed by Mr. Gladstone, and defeated in the House of Commons--Death of Butt--The Home Rule movement becomes allied with a foreign conspiracy--Davitt and Parnell--The Land League--Mr. Gladstone's surrender to it--The movement makes no progress in the Parliament of 1880-85--The General Election of 1885--Mr. keywords: account; act; bill; body; britain; british; case; catholic ireland; class; commissioners; commons; country; day; education; england; english; evidence; exchequer; fair; fund; general; gladstone; government; history; home; house; interest; ireland; irish; irish league; kind; kingdom; land act; land commission; land league; land purchase; land system; land tenure; landlords; lands; law; legislation; legislature; local; majesty; means; measure; members; national; order; parliament; parnell; policy; power; present; question; rent; report; respect; right; rule; state; subject; tenant; time; union; united irish; university; years cache: 37853.txt plain text: 37853.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 3799 author: Fisher, Joseph, F.R.H.S. title: Landholding in England date: None words: 34589 flesch: 63 summary: In other lands where military tenure existed, it was beginning to be held that he who plighted his faith to a lord, who was the man of the king, was the man of that lord only, and did not become the man of the king himself. The king shall not hold them as forfeit in such case, but will and grant from henceforth of such lands and tenements so aliened, there shall be reasonable fine taken in chancery by due process. keywords: acres; act; cap; crown; edward; england; fee; feudal; freemen; henry; houses; increase; king; land; laws; lord; man; men; nation; nobles; norman; people; persons; possession; power; reign; rent; right; service; sovereign; state; system; tillage; time; viii; william; years cache: 3799.txt plain text: 3799.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 4917 author: Trollope, Anthony title: The Kellys and the O'Kellys date: None words: 186717 flesch: 79 summary: Why, he'd even himself to Lord Ballindine av' he could! Mr Barry Lynch Makes a Morning Call VIII. keywords: abbey; anty; armstrong; barry; bed; blake; brother; colligan; come; course; daly; day; dear; doctor; door; dunmore; earl; family; fanny; father; frank; friend; going; good; grey; half; hand; house; kelly; know; lady; life; like; little; look; lord; lord ballindine; lord cashel; lord kilcullen; love; lynch; man; martin; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; parson; people; place; poor; present; property; rate; right; room; selina; sister; son; tell; thing; thought; time; want; way; widow; wish; word; wyndham; young cache: 4917.txt plain text: 4917.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 59654 author: Hill, Octavia title: Our Common Land (and Other Short Essays) date: None words: 35427 flesch: 65 summary: The same kind of far-sighted policy might be adopted with all smaller gifts, making them either radically beneficial in themselves, as when they train an orphan for service-work in life, or give rest to an invalid whose savings are exhausted; or they may be gifts of things which no one is bound to provide for himself, but which give joy--as if you helped to put coloured decoration outside our schools or houses in dingy streets, or invited a company of poor people whom you know to tea in your garden during the fair June weather, or even sent some shells from your home by the sea to small children in one of our few London playgrounds. Can we wonder if the eyes of poor men are often fixed rather on the immediate money value to themselves than on the effect of changes for their descendants? keywords: charity; children; common; district; family; gifts; good; ground; help; land; life; london; man; men; money; need; open; people; poor; public; right; society; thought; time; visitors; way; work cache: 59654.txt plain text: 59654.txt