All further attempts to conciliate the upper classes, he regarded as foolish, feeble and cowardly.

He continued to reassert the substance of his lectures in another form, in the pages of the _Nation_, of which he was at the time editor-in-chief--that is, of which he wrote the greatest portion, especially of its leading articles.

Some of these articles gave rise to a difference of opinion between him and Mr.Duffy, who, as responsible owner and editor, had the sole control of the _Nation_.

There were not wanting men to take advantage of the difference and fan the flame.
Charles Duffy had messages conveyed to him, to the effect that a rumour was abroad charging him with treachery; and to John Mitchel, perhaps by the same agents of dissension, it was stated that he, too, was suspected.

It is unfortunately characteristic of Irishmen to be suspicious; and it was the object of one of Mr.O'Connell's eternal lessons to perpetuate and extend this degrading national vice.