The following is worth attention from the genuineness of the
hatred it expresses. It is a resolution passed unanimously by the Oola Branch (Limerick) of the National League, and the draftsman is so furious that he forgets policy, and tells the whole truth :—" That we, the members of the Oola Branch of the Irish National League, do protest, in the strongest manner in our power, against the barbarous and brutal action of the Tory Government of Salisbury, and his brutal accomplice Balfour, in imprisoning, after a mock-trial, the patriot priest and philanthropist, the benefactor of his countrymen, Rev. Father Matt. Ryan; and we tell this Government of butcher Belfoar that their infamous policy of coercion will not deter the Nationalists of this persecuted and plundered country from pursuing their course of legitimate endeavour to regain their lawful rights, no matter at what risk or loss ; and we declare this priest•hnnting policy of a detested alien Government will but arouse the intelligent manhood of the people to combine and confederate more strenuously and determinedly to uproot Saxon rule from our land, and to overthrow, in one grand united effort, Irish landlordism, that garrison of English mis- rule, and with it the persecuting Government of the stranger, the tyrant, and the robber." It is not Tories the League hates, but "the Saxon."
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