almost vanishing quantities. On the same supposition as before, therefore, there are further 788,761
persons to emigrate; total, 1,709,532. And as I'appétit vient en mangeant, Rentroll's eyes will soon discover
that Ireland, with 3 1/2 millions, is still always miserable, and miserable because she is over-populated.
Therefore her depopulation must go yet further, that thus she may fulfil her true destiny, that of an English
sheep-walk and cattle-pasture."139
Like all good things in this bad world, this profitable method has its drawbacks. With the accumulation of
rents in Ireland, the accumulation of the Irish in America keeps pace. The Irishman, banished by sheep
and ox, re-appears on the other side of the ocean as a Fenian, and face to face with the old queen
of the seas rises, threatening and more threatening, the young giant Republic:
Acerba fata Romanos
agunt
Scelusque fraternae necis.
