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 CHAPTER IX

STRUGGLE WITH LORD CLARENDON FOR LIFE AND LIBERTY

the last of the State prisoners; the others had been snatched away one after another like the companions of Ulysses, and my turn was at hand. The situation was aggravated by the policy of the Government officials and the Government Press. I was greatly moved by the brutality of the Solicitor-General at Clonmel, and the official Press assailed me every week, and many times in the week, misrepresenting my character and policy with deliberate malice. A single paragraph from a letter of "The Irish Priest" will help the reader to understand what I had to endure. Speaking of the Evening Post, the organ of the Irish Government, he said:—

"Three times a week these foul and fetid jaws were opened to vomit forth such abominable slanders as modest men could sometimes hardly read without a blush, and timid men

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