“I also told him that this boycotting of the police was by no means new, since on the 13th March 1887, at a meeting of the Miltown-Malbay branch of the League at which you are reported to have presided, in United Ireland of 19/3/87, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:—­

“’That from this day any person who supplies the police while engaged in work which is opposed to the wishes of the people with drink, food, or cars, be censured by this branch, and that no further intercourse be held with them.’

    “I regret that through inadvertence I have had to trouble you with a
    second letter.—­I am, Rev. Sir, yours faithfully,

    “ALFRED E. TURNER.

    “Rev. P. White, P.P.”

[1] Vol. ii. p. 376.

[2] Vol. ii. p. 364-370.

[3] The exasperation of the local agitators under the cool and determined treatment of Mr. Tener may be measured by the facts stated in the following communication received by me from Mr. Tener on the 20th of September.  I leave them to speak for themselves:—­

    “POLICE BARRACKS, WOODFORD, 17th Sept. 1888.

“DEAR MR. HURLBERT,—­I enclose you a printed placard found posted up in Woodford district on Sunday morning the 9th inst.  It alludes to tenants who had paid me their rent,—­and broken the ’unwritten law of the League.’  All the men named are now in great danger.  The police force of the district has been increased—­for their protection; but the police are very anxious about their safety!

“I send you also a pencil copy taken from a more perfect placard which the police preserve.  John White or Whyte is the tenant whose name I already have given you.  He is the tall dark man whom you saw (with an ex-bailiff) at Portumna.  He was then an “Evicted Tenant.”  He has since been, on payment of his rent, restored to his farm by me.  And now, as you see in the placard, he is held up to the vengeance of the “League of Hell,” as P.J.  Smyth called it.—­Yours, etc.

    “ED. TENER.

    “P.S.—­The evictions were finished on the 1st of September, and on
    the 9th (after it became known that the men whose names are in the
    placard had paid) the placard was issued.”

    (Placard.)

“IRISHMEN!—­Need we say in the face of the desperate Battle the People are making for their Hearths and Homes that the time has come for every HONEST MAN, trader and otherwise, to extend a helping hand to the MEN in the GAP.  You may ask, How will that be done?  The answer is plain.

“Let those who have become traitors to their neighbours and their Country be shunned as if they were possessed by a devil.  Let no man