And it would be well if we could stop here, but truth forces us onward.

The Irishman of the present day--the creature of agitation--is neither honest, nor candid, nor manly, nor generous, but a poor, skulking dupe, at once slavish and insolent, offensive and cowardly--who carries, as a necessary consequence, the principles of political dishonesty into the practices of private life, and is consequently disingenuous and fraudulent.
Let me not be misunderstood.

I love truth; and have never been either afraid or ashamed to speak it; and I trust I never shall.

I now allude to the principles of Conciliation Hall, and the system by which they were led.

I feel bound, however, to exempt the party called Young Irelanders from having had any participation in bringing about results so disastrous to the best moral interests of the country.