However, in Carrick it seems to have prevailed.

Other arguments, no doubt, were urged, such as want of provisions, want of arms and want of ammunition.

The moment of indecision is the harvest of evil passions--avarice, selfishness, cowardice cloud the intellect, and blast the destiny of man.

There is some doubt as to who principally superinduced this indecision and the judgment which here ranks it with a faulty weakness and a fearful fatality refuses to question the motives upon which it was based.
One singular fact, attested by all, deserves particular notice.

It is this: The other Roman Catholic clergymen of Carrick did not then interfere.