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A Report of the Proceedings on an Indictment for a Conspiracy
A Report of the Proceedings on an Indictment for a Conspiracy Author:Daniel O'Connell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Have the people improved in their habits in consequence of the temperance movement? Very much so; I think there is a great improvement in point of drunkenness. ... more » Describe how the hands came from Carlow and Kilkenny ; I suppose they were in great joy ? They appeared to be very wild. They drove all before them. They were led by persons who appeared to station them in different parts of the field. Were you one of the persons who were driven before the people ? I got a little crushing. There was nothing had in it though ? No. Did they injure anybody ? Not that I could learn, except knocking down a gingerbread stand. They were selling them for profit. They were not giving them for nothing amongst thepeople. Therewere many persons selling gingerbread, grog, coffee, and things of that description. I do not know any of the persons who were selling those things. I did not observe a single one of the hallads given for nothing. In large assemblages I have frequently seen persons hawking about and selling hallads, and I suppose they took advantage of this large assemblage to do so. 1 saw the persons at the meeting every place where they could make sale of these hallads. Have you not even seen persons selling such hallads at the Assizes, when the Judges were sitting in the Crown Court and in the Civil Court? I have seen persons going about at the Assizes singing hallads. Now, with respect to those men who had papers in their hats with " O'Connell's Police" on them, did not you see them preserving peace and good order at the meeting? I saw them exerting themselves, but not in the way police would. Did not you see them keep the platform clear and preserve order ? I believe that was their intention. Heard instructions given to them by a person named Walsh, to keep order and qui...« less