uld have been. He expressed neither regret
nor repentance for having voted as he did; but on the contrary asserted
with a good deal of warmth, that if the same course lay open to him he
would again pursue it.

"I will never vote for a scoundrel," said he, "and I don't think that
there is anything in my religion that makes it a duty on me to do so. If
my religion is to be supported by scoundrels, the sooner it is forced
to depend on itself the better. Major Vanston is a good landlord, and
supports the rights of his tenantry, Catholic as well as Protestant; he
saved me from ruin when my own landlord refused to interfere for me,
an' Major Vanston, if he's conscientiously opposed to my religion, is an
honest man at all events, and an honest man I'll ever support against
a rogue, and let their politics go where they generally do, go to the
devil."

Party is a blind, selfish, infatuated monster, brutal and vehement, that
knows not what is meant by reason, justice, liberty, or truth. M'Mahon,
merely because he gave utterance with proper spirit to sentiments of
plain common sense, was assailed by every description of abuse, until he
knew not where to take refuge from that cowardly and ferocious tyranny
which in a hundred shapes proceeded from the public mob. On the
Sunday after the election, his parish priest, one of those political
fire-brands, who whether under a mitre or a white band, are equally
disgraceful and detrimental to religion and the peaceful interests
of mankind--this man, we say, openly denounced him from the altar, in
language which must have argued but little reverence for the sacred
place from which it was uttered, and which came with a very bad grace
from one who affected to be an advocate for liberty of conscience and a
minister of peace.

"Ay," he proceeded, standing on the altar, "it is well known to our
disgrace and shame how the election was lost. Oh, well may I say to our
disgrace and shame. Little did I think that any one, bearing the once
respectable name of M'Mahon upon him, should turn from the interests of
his holy church, spurn all truth, violate all principle, and enter into
a league of hell with the devil and the enemies of his church. Yes, you
apostate," he proceeded, "you have entered into a league with him, and
ever since there is devil within you. You sold yourself to his agent and
representative, Vanston, You got him to interfere for you with the
Board of Excise, and the fine that was ju