His wisdom was questioned and condemned.
It was urged upon him that he should not intermeddle with foreign institutions or with the political predilections of individuals.

Enough for Ireland, he was told, to find that Frenchmen and Americans were ready to do battle in her cause, and it ill became her to spurn their advances with indignity and a sneer.

The argument failed, his hatred of slavery and republicanism out-weighed all other considerations.
I have fixed upon the State Trials as an epoch in this history, marking a distinct phase in the character of the Repeal Association.

The proceedings of that extraordinary inquest are familiar to most men.

It is not my intention to refer to them, except as a sort of pivot upon which public sentiment veered.