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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.
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