[The Felon’s Track by Michael Doheny]@TWC D-Link bookThe Felon’s Track CHAPTER III 4/48
"It [the rescript] announces the undoubted truth that the main duty of a Christian priest is to care for the souls of his flock, and both by precept and example to teach mildness, piety and peace.
It does not denounce a Catholic clergyman for aiding the Repeal movement in all ways becoming a minister of peace.
Nowhere in the rescript is the agitation as a system, or repeal as a demand, censured; but some reported violence of speech is disapproved." The coincidence seems a strange one, that in the same paper, which thus disposes of the rescript, the same paper wherein appear the letters of Doctor Crolly, Doctor Cantwell, and Mr.O'Connell, the same paper in which is published the official denial of a Concordat with the Pope, under the viceregal seal, are also published the proceedings of the Repeal Association, which consisted, to a great extent, of a violent attack on the exploded Concordat.
At the meeting held on the 13th of January, it was denounced especially by two of Mr.O'Connell's friends, Mr.O'Neill Daunt and Mr.John Reilly, in terms the most vehement and indignant.
Mr.Daunt used these words.
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