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	[[Image:Old-irish-parliament.jpg\|thumb\|Building hosting the Irish Parliament abolished by the 1800 Act of Union]]I was being invited to become the president of a public meeting to request the recall of the oppressive [[Wikipedia:Act of Union 1800\|~~act~~ of Union of Ireland]], and to express our sharp sympathies, for the heroism with which the French people destroyed a corrupting [[Wikipedia:monarchy\|monarchy]], made a bonfire out of a throne whose ashes, blowned over the world by a favourable breeze, with the Westward wind of America, with the wind of freedom, started the burning of so many other thrones; and for the sublime moderation with which this people forgives the vanquished tyrants. These truths, I had called them holy. I had been made their apostle; I had preached them. I was bound by the public, as by my conscience to make constant efforts to have them prevail, and I could have given an answer as wretched as the one which the ''Transcript'' charges on me! It is for that that I am praised! astute praise; atrocious lie, which proves the imbecility of the one who believed such a news report, or the corruption of heart, the perfidy and intriguing mind of the one or the ones who invented and accredited it.		[[Image:Old-irish-parliament.jpg\|thumb\|Building hosting the Irish Parliament abolished by the 1800 Act of Union]]I was being invited to become the president of a public meeting to request the recall of the oppressive [[Wikipedia:Act of Union 1800\|Act of Union of Ireland]], and to express our sharp sympathies, for the heroism with which the French people destroyed a corrupting [[Wikipedia:monarchy\|monarchy]], made a bonfire out of a throne whose ashes, blowned over the world by a favourable breeze, with the Westward wind of America, with the wind of freedom, started the burning of so many other thrones; and for the sublime moderation with which this people forgives the vanquished tyrants. These truths, I had called them holy. I had been made their apostle; I had preached them. I was bound by the public, as by my conscience to make constant efforts to have them prevail, and I could have given an answer as wretched as the one which the ''Transcript'' charges on me! It is for that that I am praised! astute praise; atrocious lie, which proves the imbecility of the one who believed such a news report, or the corruption of heart, the perfidy and intriguing mind of the one or the ones who invented and accredited it.

	If I were capable of such a contemptible selfishness, of such a disgusting servilism, I would be worthy of falling to what I consider the lowest degree of the social scale: worthy to return, not by need and to win my bread, something to which an honest but unfortunate man can be reduced, to become, says I, a ''garçon-typographe-volontaire'' (what the courtesy of the English language would call a "volunteer devil") in the printing works of ''The Transcript''.		If I were capable of such a contemptible selfishness, of such a disgusting servilism, I would be worthy of falling to what I consider the lowest degree of the social scale: worthy to return, not by need and to win my bread, something to which an honest but unfortunate man can be reduced, to become, says I, a ''garçon-typographe-volontaire'' (what the courtesy of the English language would call a "volunteer devil") in the printing works of ''The Transcript''.