84 The papers inclosed, which give an account of the killing of two men in the county of Londonderry; if they prove to be Tories, 'tis very well they are gone.--I think it will not only be necessary to grant those a pardon who killed them, but also that they have some reward for their own and others' encouragement.--ESSEX, Letters, 10, 10th January 1675. The author of this happened to be present. There was a meeting of some honest people in the city, upon the occasion of the discovery of some attempt to stifle the evidence of the witnesses.--Bedloe said he had letters from Ireland, that there were some Tories to be brought over hither, who were privately to murder Dr. Oates and the said Bedloe. The doctor, whose zeal was very hot, could never after this hear any man talk against the plot, or against the witnesses, but he thought he was one of these Tories, and called almost every man a Tory that opposed him in discourse; till at last the word Tory became popular.--DEFOE, Edinburgh Review, l. 403 #85 La Espana sera el primer pueblo en donde se encendera esta guerra patriotica que solo puede libertar a Europa.--Hemos oido esto en Inglaterra a varios de los que estaban alli presentes. Muchas veces ha oido lo mismo al duque de Wellington el general Don Miguel de Alava, y dicho duque refirio el suceso en una comida diplomatica que dio en Paris el duque de Richelieu en 1816.--TORENO, Historia del Levantamiento de Espana, 1838, i.508. #86 Nunquam propter auctoritatem illorum, quamvis magni sint nominis (supponimus scilicet semper nos cum eo agere qui scientiam historicam vult consequi), sententias quas secuti sunt ipse tamquam certas admittet, sed solummodo ob vim testimoniorum et argumentorum quibus eas confirmarunt.--DE SMEDT, Introductio ad historiam critice tractandam, 1866, i. 5. #87 Hundert schwere Verbrechen wiegen nieht so schwer in der Schale der Unsittlichkeit, als ein unsittliches Princip.--Hallische Jahrbucher, 1839, 308. Il faut fletrir les crimes; mais il faut aussi, et surtout, fletrir les doctrines et les systemes qui tendent a les justifier.--MORTIMER TERNAUX, Histoire de la Terreur. #88 We see how good and evil mingle in the best of men and in the best of causes; we learn to see with patience the men whom we like best often in the wrong, and the repulsive men often in the right; we learn to bear with patience the knowledge that the cause which we love best has suffered, from the awkwardness of its defenders, so great disparagement, as in strict equity to justify the men who were assaulting it.--STUBBS, Seventeen Lectures, 97.