sed--for their
protection; but the police are very anxious about their safety!

"I send you also a _pencil_ copy taken from a more _perfect_ placard
which the police preserve. John White or Whyte is the tenant whose
name I already have given you. He is the tall dark man whom you saw
(with an ex-bailiff) at Portumna. He was then an "Evicted Tenant."
He has since been, on payment of his rent, restored to his farm by
me. And now, as you see in the placard, he is held up to the
vengeance of the "League of Hell," as P.J. Smyth called it.--Yours,
etc.

"ED. TENER.

"_P.S._--The evictions were finished on the 1st of September, and on
the 9th (_after_ it became known that the men whose names are in the
placard had paid) the placard was issued."

_(Placard.)_

"IRISHMEN!--Need we say in the face of the desperate Battle the
People are making for their Hearths and Homes that the time has come
for every HONEST MAN, trader and otherwise, to extend a helping hand
to the MEN in the GAP. You may ask, How will that be done? The
answer is plain.

"Let those who have become traitors to their neighbours and their
Country be shunned as if they were possessed by a devil. Let no man
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 tha