The Standard, of Thursday, in defending Mr. Garth for the
second time, published a much grosser libel on Mr. Bright than Mr. Garth himself. It said that Mr. Bright "deliberately suggests to the Fenians that all Irish landlords ought to be assassinated." Of course it may say that ' suggestifig ' is not advising, and that any man who talks of another's possible death may be " suggest- ing " his murder. But if the words convey anything, they convey an accusation of instigating to assassination, and a more monstrous and wicked libel was never published. Of course the reference is to a letter in which Mr. Bright said that were not England so close, were Ireland away in the Atlantic, the landlords would be obliged to yield a tenant-right for fear of their lives. But in a speech almost contemporaneous Mr. Bright spoke with strong condemna- tion of the Irish method of agitation, and we are sure that he never suggested to any human being that any other human being "ought to be assassinated." That the Standard should make so flagrant and false a charge in the very article in which it justly condemns. Mr. Bright's occasional recklessness of vituperation, at least shows a very great confidence in Mr. Bright's forbearance under the calumnies of the press.
