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Chapter 3
THE O FARRELL AFFAIR
Fenian, or moonstruck miscreant - one or both - What matter? Grant him of that serpent brood, Pests of the Green Isle...
Judge Francis, God Speed the Galatea , April 18681
...as Irishmen and uncompromising Haters of British Misrule and oppression, we fling back with scorn the foul calumny that would connect us with the cowardly attempt to assassinate your English Prince.