whom, if we are to take him as the exponent of his heartless class,
every one of them was strictly true.

He was found guilty, for instance, of taking--often beforehand, or
in reversion--several small farms over the heads of poor but solvent
tenants; turning them adrift on the world, and consolidating their
holdings into one large stock farm for grazing; there by adding to the
number of the destitute, and diminishing the supply of food for the
people.

He was found guilty of paying to his laborers the wretched sum of only
eightpence a day; which he paid by the vile truck system--that is to say
by forcing them to take potatoes, milk, meal, &c, at nearly twice what
the same commodities brought in the open market.

His sons were found guilty of insolence and cruelty, against such poor
and distressed persons as had occasion to go to the proctor's office,
for the purpose of asking indulgence, or time to meet their engagements.
Their insolence and cruelty consisted in giving abusive language to,
and horsewhipping them as if they were not men, or possessed of the same
rights, privileges, and feelings, as themselves. These were only a
few of the charges, involving petty tyranny, oppression, and rapacity,
against Purcel and his sons; but the last, and greatest, and most odious
of them all, was the ruin he had brought, upon so many, by his tithe
exactions, and the expenses he had heaped on them by processes of
law, in recovering that blood-stained impost, as it was not improperly
called.

Those were all proved by witnesses, and although we must admit, that the
great body of the evidence was true, in point of fact, yet there was not
a word said, of the insolence, threatening language, falsehood, evasion,
and defiance, which Purcel and his sons had in general experienced from
the people, before they had been forced to have recourse, in matters of
tithe, to such harsh proceedings against them. When the case for Captain
Right was about to close, there was a slight stir, and a low indistinct
murmur ran through those who thronged the ruin.

"There is another charge still to come," said the young man who conducted
the prosecution; "we pass by the three massacres, and all the blood that
was shed in them; and all the sorrow and misery, and affliction that
they occasioned--we pass them by, I say, and to show all here present
that we are not like Purcel and his sons, resolved to avail ourselves of
any advantage against those we prose