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 upon Mr.
Taylor, the replies made by himself and his friends, and the comments made upon those replies by the journal which assailed him.

They all tell their own story.
(_UNITED IRELAND_, JUNE 16.) Mr.John F.Taylor owes everything he has or is to the Irish National Party; nor is he slow to confess it where the acknowledgment will serve his personal interests.

His sneers are all anonymous, and, like Mr.Fagg, the grateful and deferential valet in _The Rivals_, "it hurts his conscience to be found out." There is no honesty or sincerity in the man.

His covert gibes are the spiteful emanation of personal disappointment; his lofty morality is a cloak for unscrupulous self-seeking.