But I did not bring the writer
of it here on the table. Why? I knew that if I were to do so, it
would be only handing him over at the court-house doors to what one
of the witnesses has very properly called the fangs of the
Attorney-General. With respect to myself I have no fears. I trust I
will be enabled to bear my sentence with all the forbearance due to
what I believe to be the opinion of twelve conscientious enemies to
me, and I will bear with due patience the wrath of the government
whose mouthpiece they were; but I will never cease to deplore the
destiny that gave me birth in this unhappy country, and compelled me,
as an Irishman, to receive at your hands a felon's doom, for
discharging what I conceived--and what I still conceive to be my
duty. I shall only add, that the fact is, that instead of three Roman
Catholic jurors being set aside by the Attorney-General, there were
thirteen; I hold in my hand a list of their names, and out of the
twelve jurors he permitted to be sworn there was not one Roman
Catholic."
Mr. O'Doherty was sentenced to transportation for ten years. He sailed
for Van Dieman's Land in the same ship that bore John Martin into exile.
In the course of time he, like Martin and O'Brien, was set at liberty on
condition of his residing anywhere out of "the United Kingdom.
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