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Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)

CHAPTER VI
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Leave them to Tener and his Emergency gang.

The following are a few of the greatest traitors and meanest creatures that ever walked--John Whyte, of Dooras; Fahey (of the hill) of Dooras; big Anthony Hackett, of Rossmore; Tom Moran, of Rossmore! Your Country calls on you to treat them as they deserve.

Bravo Woodford! Remember Tom Larkin!--'GOD SAVE IRELAND!'" [4] Appendix, Note A.
[5] Appendix, Note B.
[6] Appendix, Note C.
[7] Appendix, Note D.
[8] Since this was written fifteen Catholic bishops in England, headed by the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, have united (April 12, 1888) in a public protest against the Optional Oaths Bill, in which they say: "To efface the recognition of God in our public legislature is an act which will surely bring evil consequences." Yet how can the recognition of God be more effectually "effaced" than by the unqualified assertion that the will of the people, or of a majority, is the one legitimate source of political authority?
[9] Mr.Blair was then a member of the Lincoln Cabinet, and its "fighting member." [10] Mr.Quill stated that the Savings-Banks deposits increased in Ireland during 1887 eight per cent.

more than in thrifty Scotland, and _forty per cent._ more than in England and Wales! [11] This was the Provost's last appearance in public.

He died rather suddenly a few weeks afterwards.
[12] In the Census of 1880 it appears that of 255,741 farms in Illinois, 59,624 were held on the metayer system, pronounced by Toubeau the worst of systems, and 20,620 on a money rental.
[13] I have since learned that Father M'Fadden sold another holding, rental 6s.8d., for L80.


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