me, for I will not believe it, that a bad law, dishonestly
and partially administered, is not to be resisted by every legal means."

"Do you call noon-day murder, midnight assassination, and incendiarism,
legal? Do you call schooling the people into rebellion, and
familiarizing them with crime, legal? All this may be allegiance to your
pope, but it deserves a halter from the king and laws, of England."

"The king and laws of England, sir, have ever been more liberal of
halters to the Irish Catholics, than they have been of either common
justice or fair play. What do the Catholic people get, or have ever
got, from you and such as you, in return for the luxury which you draw,
without thanks, from their sweat and labor, but gaols, and chains, and
scourges, and halters. Hanging, and transportations, triangles, and
drumhead verdicts, are admirable means to conciliate the Catholic people
of Ireland."

"The Catholic people of Ireland may thank you, and such red hot
intemperate men as you, for the hangings, and transportations which the
violated laws of the country justly awarded them."

"And have you, sir, who wring the blood and sweat out of them, the
audacity to use such language to me? Did not your English kings and your
English laws make education a crime, and did you not then most
inhumanly and cruelly punish us for the offences which want of education
occasioned?"

"Yes; because you made such knowledge as you then acquired, the vehicle,
as you are doing now, of spreading abroad disaffection against Church
and State, and of disturbing the peace of the country."

"Because, proud parson, when the people become enlightened by education,
they insist, and will insist upon their rights, and refuse to be pressed
to death by such a bloated and blood-sucking incubus as your Established
Church."

"If this be true, then, upon your own showing, you ought to be favorable
to education among the people; but that, we know you are not. You have
no schools; and you will not suffer us, who are willing, to educate them
for you."

"Certainly not, we have no notion to sit tamely by and see you, and such
as you, instil your own principles into our flocks. But in talking of
education, in what state, let me ask you, is your own church in this
blessed year of 1804, with all her wealth and splendor at her back? I
tell you, sir, in every district where the population is equal, we can
show two Catholic schools for your one. When you impute o