Second Manifesto
This is an unofficial translation of Louis-Joseph Papineau's Deuxième manifeste, as published in xxx on xxx.
Nothing would be more compromising for an honest man than to be often and highly praised by rascals. Nothing would tend to ruin more quickly the reputation of political integrity, of devotion to the cause of justice, freedom and the rights of the people, than to deserve a word of praise, to get a second compliment from the Transcript, or any other section of the Tory press of Lower Canada, such as it has been in the whole, since the first page of Mercury to the last lucubration of the Courier. It is to thwart such a perfidious tactic, it is to push back such an offencive praise, as the one which the slanderous sheet, the Transcript, gives me by publishing that I said to a delegation of Irish fellow-citizens, that understood that the object of their meeting were for foreign countries alone, and not Canada, I did not want to take any part in it, that I decided to give an account of the interview which I had with them.