uld I think fit
to use it.

As the most important support given by the Irish in America to the
Nationalists is solicited by their agents on the express ground that
they are really labouring to establish an Irish Republic, this outspoken
declaration of Mr. O'Leary, that he does not believe they "expect or
desire" the establishment of an Irish Republic, will be of interest on
my side of the water:--

"DUBLIN, _Sept._ 9, '88.

"My Dear Sir,--I am giving more bother about what you make me say
in your book than the thing is probably worth, especially seeing
that what you say about me and my present attitude towards men and
things here is almost entirely correct.

"It is proverbially hard to prove a negative, and my main reason
for believing I did not say the thing about figs and grapes is that
I never could remember the whole of any proverb in conversation;
but I am absolutely certain I never said that 'some of them (the
National Leaguers) expect to found an Irish republic on robbery,
and to administer it by falsehood. We don't.' Most certainly I do
not expect to found anything on robbery, or administer anything by
falsehood, but I do not in the least believe that the National
League either expects or desires to found an Irish republic at all!
Neither do I believe that the Leaguers will long retain the
administration of such small measure of Home Rule, as I now (since
the late utterances of Mr. Parnell and Mr. Gladstone) believe we
are going to get. My fault with the present people is not that they
are looking, or mean to look, for too much, but that they may be
induced, by pressure from their English Radical allies, to be
content with too little. It is only a large and liberal measure of
Home Rule which will ever satisfy the Irish people, and I fear
that, if the smaller fry of Radical M.P.'s are allowed to have a
strong voice in a matter of which they know next to nothing, the
settlement of the Irish question will be indefinitely postponed.--I
remain, faithfully yours,

"JOHN O'LEARY."

NOTE N

BOYCOTTING PRIVATE OPINION.

(Vol. ii. p. 293.)

This case of Mr. Taylor is worth preserving _in extenso_ as an
illustration of that spirit in the Irish journalism of the day, against
which Mr. Rolleston and his friends protest as fatal to independence,
manliness, and truth. I simply cite the original attack made