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not been so unlimited as elsewhere, there will be 

 attempts at compromise, just as there were at 

 Limerick the open management in the hands of the 

 Fenian Eepealers and secret conditions with the 

 priests. But this will not do generally. It would 

 soon issue in the loss of most of their personal power 

 by the priests. They will not give up this power. 



What the result will be no one can foretell ; but 

 it is clear this Fenian principle of non-submission to 

 the priests will bring about a state of parties in 

 Ireland such as has never before existed. The priests 

 cannot follow into Fenian Kepeal such of their 

 people as join it, except by giving up most of their 

 power. They have never been placed in such a 

 dilemma before. 



