Mr. Healy certainly has the courage—shall we say, the bad
courage P.—of his opinions. At the meeting of the National League held in Dublin on Tuesday, he told his audience that he remained, " in the face of the Papal circular, a wholly un- regenerate and unrepentant sinner." He should adhere to the " Plan of Campaign," and recommend the boycotting of all who took farms cleared by eviction. " There was no obliga- tion to salute such men in the streets, or to fetch or early for them, to associate with them in their houses, or to show them any kind of aid or comfort. Every honest man, as he passed them by, should pass them by with a scowl and with contempt, and their children, and their children's children, should be re- membered as the children and grandchildren of land-grabbers." And then we are told that the National League has nothing to do with boycotting, and that its penalties never fall upon the innocent. The very children of a man who takes a farm and pays rent for it are, because of their father's honesty, to be persecuted for ever.
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