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Ireland.
for having presumed , forsooth , to exercise its right of ' copying' a current and authenticated statement from the periodical in question , in which there could be no personal motive or possible advantage on our parts , —while we ever hold ourselves responsible for any matter our paper contains , ancl never refuse the medium of our columns to those who may have cause to complain of our strictures . AVe shall , for the
present , refrain from more strict reference to the pamphlet in question , in order that we may observe ' passing events / and how far those gentlemen ( many of whom we believe to be as honourable and highminded as any in society , ) whose cause the author advocates , may identify themselves with such a disgraceful publication . The cause which would require such support—even admitting the truth of the
gross statements—could not be sound , while such low verbiage proves nothing for the maintenance of the principle involved , and only exhibits the incapacity of the writer to meet the author of the ' Few Words / ( whose tract was written in a fair and manly style , ancl duly authenticated , ) with reason and argument . If we are to take this as evidence on one side of 'the differences '—which we deprecate at both sides—we may well exclaim , ' Oh , wretched client . '—unhappy advocate !'" * We have reason to believe that this detestable act of Verax so
disgusted the Duke of Leinster , and the respectable portion of the Council of Rites , that its withdrawal was insisted on—not soon enough however for a very extensive circulation of the poison—although the antidote " Truth " has traversed far ancl near to correct the evil . It is with feelings of no ordinary nature that we have now to announce that the late differences have ended , and that the spirit of good-will
has succeeded . The first announcement of these gladsome tidings appear in the following correspondence of Bro . Henry O'Connor to the Leinster Express : — To the Editor ofthe Leinster Express . 41 , Upper Dorset-street , Dublin . SIR—In a late number of the Leinster ExpressI observe that you
, , have acknowledged the receipt of " a very scurrilous pamphlet , entitled a Brief History , & c , by Verax ; purporting to be a reply to the publication , issued about eig hteen months since in Dublin , entitled a Fern Words , & c . " After having declared your indisposition " under existing circumstances . " to admit into your columns any discussion upon the subjects to which these tracts relate , ancl having commented upon the anonymous
production of Verax , iu terms of which each and every page of that pamphlet proves it to be deserving , —you proceed to announce , that for the present you intend to refrain from further reference to the subjects of that veracious production , until you shall have had the opportunity of
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Ireland.
for having presumed , forsooth , to exercise its right of ' copying' a current and authenticated statement from the periodical in question , in which there could be no personal motive or possible advantage on our parts , —while we ever hold ourselves responsible for any matter our paper contains , ancl never refuse the medium of our columns to those who may have cause to complain of our strictures . AVe shall , for the
present , refrain from more strict reference to the pamphlet in question , in order that we may observe ' passing events / and how far those gentlemen ( many of whom we believe to be as honourable and highminded as any in society , ) whose cause the author advocates , may identify themselves with such a disgraceful publication . The cause which would require such support—even admitting the truth of the
gross statements—could not be sound , while such low verbiage proves nothing for the maintenance of the principle involved , and only exhibits the incapacity of the writer to meet the author of the ' Few Words / ( whose tract was written in a fair and manly style , ancl duly authenticated , ) with reason and argument . If we are to take this as evidence on one side of 'the differences '—which we deprecate at both sides—we may well exclaim , ' Oh , wretched client . '—unhappy advocate !'" * We have reason to believe that this detestable act of Verax so
disgusted the Duke of Leinster , and the respectable portion of the Council of Rites , that its withdrawal was insisted on—not soon enough however for a very extensive circulation of the poison—although the antidote " Truth " has traversed far ancl near to correct the evil . It is with feelings of no ordinary nature that we have now to announce that the late differences have ended , and that the spirit of good-will
has succeeded . The first announcement of these gladsome tidings appear in the following correspondence of Bro . Henry O'Connor to the Leinster Express : — To the Editor ofthe Leinster Express . 41 , Upper Dorset-street , Dublin . SIR—In a late number of the Leinster ExpressI observe that you
, , have acknowledged the receipt of " a very scurrilous pamphlet , entitled a Brief History , & c , by Verax ; purporting to be a reply to the publication , issued about eig hteen months since in Dublin , entitled a Fern Words , & c . " After having declared your indisposition " under existing circumstances . " to admit into your columns any discussion upon the subjects to which these tracts relate , ancl having commented upon the anonymous
production of Verax , iu terms of which each and every page of that pamphlet proves it to be deserving , —you proceed to announce , that for the present you intend to refrain from further reference to the subjects of that veracious production , until you shall have had the opportunity of