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wetted through by the engines at a fire , one Monday , exclaim , I must go home , and put on my dirty shi ^ t . ' But poor Pat knows no such luxury ; he may say by his shirt , as is said of the lady in the song , 1 I know no change in thee . ' What a condition of life must it be , where two shirts are held to be a luxury !
10 . The military officer is bound to challenge any one who may speak ill of his regiment ; but the Whitefoot will do yet more . If unable to punish the maligner in his own person , he will seek out his brother to bring it about , and omit no opportunity of wiping away the disgrace . I do not advocate the wisdom of the thing . I merely wish to show that the Whitefeet are not behind the officers of the army in their chivalrous notions of honour , and that their principle may be a
good one , though a mistaken one . 11 . This seems to be their rule of military service ; and when it is considered that they serve without pay , and that , unlike the feudal retainers of old , who Each at his back , a scanty store , His forty days' provision bore /
they are unhappily a provisionless race , at best living only upon potatoes , which Mr . Cobbett says are but a so-so field provision to eat cold ; the distance they are willing to go from home , would seem to a feather-bed ( or feather-head ) volunteer , quite sufficient at any rate for a night march . They have also another disadvantage : they are volunteers , who not only fight without pay , but also with a rope around their necks .
12 . By this clause it would seem that the priests , who have been so much abused as the abettors of the Whitefeet , have in reality but little influence over them ; and that the holy friars only are considered orthodox . It is much to be regretted that the Government does not see the very great utility there would be in acknowledging by law that the Catholic priests are gentlemen , and thus making them so ;
giving them salaries , and making it incumbent on them to attend to the moral training of the people , and to instruct them in the very great evil resulting from putting twelve people to live on a potatoe patch , only calculated to support eight in comfort . If the tithe were applied to such a purpose , to support schoolmasters , there would be no clamours for its suppression .
Having gone through the oath of the Whitefeet , I will now give the military oath of allegiance , also copied from the * leading journal , ' in order that the reader may compare them together . ' Oath to be taken by a recruit , enlisting for unlimited or limited
ser . 1 I do also make oath , that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty , his heirs , and successors , and that I will , as in duty bound , honestly and faithfully defend His Majesty , his heirs , and successors , in person , crown , and dignity , against all enemies , and will observe arid obey all orders of His Majesty , his heirs , and successors , and of the generals and officers set over me . * So help me God . 4 Witness my hand , ( Signature of Recruit . )'
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358 The Wliitefoot Oath .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/70/
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