To prevent it was, in fact, one of my leading motives for writing the address: but I had also three others that are expressed on the piece or pieces of paper, which made part of the writing, but which, tho' laid all together in the same desk, have disappeared. The three objects alluded to are these, the protection of property, preventing the indulgence of _revenge_, and the strict forbiddal of injuring any person for religious differences. I know it is said that I call on the people to take _vengeance_ on their oppressors, and enumerate some of their oppressions. But this is the very thing that enables me to point out the difference between _private revenge_ and _public vengeance_. The former has only a retrospective and malignant propensity, while the latter, though animated by the recollection of the past, has ever only in view the removal of the evil and of the possibility of occurrence. Thus the assassin _revenges_ himself; but the patriot avenges his country of it's enemies, by overthrowing them, and depriving them of all power again to hurt it: In the struggle some of their lives may fall, but these were not the objects of his vengeance. In short, even the Deity is said in this sense to be an _avenging_ Being; but who deems him _revengeful_? Adieu, my dear sir. Let me entreat you, whenever an opportunity shall occur, that you will justify my principles on these points. Believe me your sincere friend, JOHN SHEARES. Newgate: 12 o'clock at night, July 13.[706] The Proclamation which brought John Sheares to the scaffold (Henry had no part in it, and died, so far, innocent) ended with these words:-- Vengeance, Irishmen, vengeance on your oppressors! Remember that thousands of your dearest friends have perished by their merciless orders! Remember their burnings--their rackings--their torturings--their military massacres, and their legal murders. Remember Orr! These declamatory words of a young barrister and amateur tragedian, who probably had no serious design of going red-handed into revolution, were by no means confined to _his_ mouth. In the Appendix will be found some account of William Orr. Meanwhile, the late Henry Grattan, son of the greater Grattan, writes:-- 'Remember Orr!' were words written everywhere--pronounced everywhere. I recollect, when a child, to have read them on the walls--to have heard them spoken by the people. Fortunately I did not comprehend their meaning. The conduct of the Irish Government was so reprobated, that at a public dinner in London, given in honor of Mr. Fox's birthday, in one of the rooms where the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Oxford, Mr. Erskine, Sir Francis Burdett, and Horne Tooke sat, two of the toasts were,--'The memory of Orr--basely M--D--D. May the execution of Orr provide places for the Cabinet of St. James's at the Castle!'