buy from them or sell to them, let no man work for them.  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.  He has three more holdings from Captain Hill, at 15s., 6s. 8d., and 11s. 2d., for which he was in arrears for two years in April 1887, when ejectment decrees were obtained against him.  For his house holding he pays 2s. a year!  So he was really fighting his own battle as a tenant in the Plan of Campaign.

[14] Yet of Connemara, Cardinal Manning, in his letter to the Archbishop of Armagh, August 31, 1873, cites the “trust-worthy” evidence of “an Englishman who had raised himself from the plough’s tail,” and who had gone “to see with his own eyes the material condition of the peasantry in Ireland.”  It was to the effect that in abundance and quality of food, in rate of wages, and even if the comfort of their dwellings, the working men of Connemara were better off than the agricultural labourers of certain English counties.

[15] For this holding, of 10 Irish acres, I have since learned the widow O’Donnell pays 10s. a year.  She is in the receipt of outdoor relief, there being fever in the house (May 1888).