greatly promotes Disrespect of Superiors. 301 



better opinions in direct opposition to those on 

 which they have so long acted, though to their 

 manifest disgrace and sometimes punishment. 

 It would be extremely desirable, indeed, that 

 they should immediately be induced to believe, 

 that from a due obedience to the laws, they 

 would obtain more satisfactory redress than by 

 the indulgence of their private revenge in their 

 personal quarrels. 



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Insubordination, it is greatly to be feared, 

 has been much promoted by the mal-adminis- 

 tration of justice. If men of honor and human- 

 ity, can from habit, or want of consideration, 

 or the absence of other proper feeling, treat in- 

 feriors contemptuously, what may not be appre- 

 hended when the magisterial power is confided 

 to individuals uneducated in the principles of 

 distributive justice, and uninfluenced by the 

 sacred obligations of religion and nature. 



The just and impartial investigator would, I 

 much fear, discover that every seditious or ille- 

 gal association which has so frequently agitated 

 Ireland, has been bottomed on causes of sub- 

 stantial complaint, arising out of the want of 

 legal protection or redress, the tyranny and 

 oppression of others, and of poverty and despair 

 in themselves. The unfortunate manner, how- 



