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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SeekTheFairLand" data-source="post: 135053" data-attributes="member: 223">With regard to the raising of the property qualification. Its hardly O'Connell's fault that the British acted with such vengeance.However O'Connell did rather pick a fight with the Protestant population in Ireland on the matter. Particularly in the election of the Emancipationist Villers Stuart in Waterford in 1826. Villers Stuart was Protestant of course, but he was stood against Beresford, the sitting MP. It was no co-incidence that Beresford was brother to incumbent Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, Lord John Beresford. Still with what other tactic would you rally the troops but tilt at the head of the hydra?Still, i dont know if it was entirely a religious motivation for raising the 40 shilling freehold. There was some considerable concern amongst the Establishment that voters voted against their landlord. Waterford put the fear in them that the social order was being overturned, that a tenant would vote against his landlord's candidate. I see it as much as attempt to hold back the rise of 'working class' self awareness as religious.O'Connell's connection of the religion to political action did set in motion the Tithe Campaign of the early 1830s and even though it would be 1869 before Dis-Establishment happened, some victories on this matter were scored before the 1830s were out.</blockquote>

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