But the vices which a long and unrelenting slavery had burned into the character of the country, remained.

The lie of law, which assumed the non-existence of the Catholic had infused itself into his nature, and while it was erased from the statute book, it was legible on his heart.

That terrible necessity of denying his feelings, his property, his religion and his very being, had stamped its degrading influence on his nature.

In a moral sense the law had become a truth--there was no people.

The Catholic gentry, giddy by their recent elevation, had only changed for that semblance of liberty their old stern spirit of resistance and revenge.