He said it might be prudent to obey a bad law, cruelly administered,
because disobedience might entail inconvenient consequences; but there
was no moral obligation impelling a man to obey a law which outraged
decency, and against which every righteous and generous instinct
revolted. Human laws should be the reflection of divine laws; but the
landlord-made laws of Ireland had neither the approval of honest men
nor the sanction of divine justice.
Hugh's sixth and last negative proposition was: