Every word struck with the force and terror of lightning.

So great was the sale of the first number that the press was kept busy for three days and nights.

When the second was announced, a guard of police was necessary to keep order and peace among the newsvendors around the office door.

In every corner of the island the influence of the _United Irishman_ was instant and simultaneous.

The letters to the Ulster farmers caused a sensation as universal and profound as the letters to Lord Clarendon excited sentiments of wonder and alarm.