There is much more at stake than the estimate of private character--the highest interests of truth.

They require that it should be made known and incontestably established that every word of the above--fact and inference--is unfounded.

As to the statement that Mr.
Duffy was made the victim of others' intemperance, its converse could be much more easily sustained.

But it satisfies every requirement of truth simply to state that, morally speaking, Mr.Duffy was equally responsible for the late outbreak, with those who perilled their lives and lost their liberty forever in the struggle.
The _United Irishman_ started under auspices more flattering than ever cheered the birth of a similar enterprise.

The man in Dublin, who did not read the first number, might indeed be pronounced a bigot or a fool.