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1819 June 25
To Evelyn Lett.7
S 4. Po
"This contact" (p.196)" the satisfaction that sat on every face, and,
"I may add, the moral improvement, that formed one of the purist p196 or 7
Hardy 196, Morality
improved, never did
crime find less countenance,
laws more
reverence
"sources of that satisfaction cannot be effaced from the memory. Let
"those who sneer at the volunteer institution, point out the days, not
"scarcely in the Irish, but any history, when decorous manners kept
"more even pace with the best charities of life, when crime found
"less countenance, and law more reverence."
"Private property (p.198) private peace, was every where or 8
Hardy 198 Peace
watched over by the
Volunteers with the
most anxious care.
"watched over by the volunteers, with a filial and pious care, Ministry
"is rather than who wish to render themselves acceptable to any
"ministry, by that mean subserviency, could not have styled the volunteers
"associations, as most fatially they styled the Americans, a
"bandittz; or had they been silly enough to have attempted to proceed
"against them as such, they would have transformed themselves
" into the most intemperate, imbecile bandittz, that history
"could contemplate"
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