To this letter Mr. Dillon rejoined by another violent speech
at Clonmel on Tuesday, where he was presented with the freedom of the borough. He assailed the unfortunate tenants who had been so anxious to throw off the tyranny of the League and to obtain Bishop O'Dwyer's protection, as deserters who were always ruining the Irish cause ; passed another panegyric on " Boycotting " and the " Plan of Campaign ; " and declared that if the Irish race were going to turn back from the cause of their country, and to "bow their necks under the hated yoke which we have nearly broken into fragments,"—this is the Dillonese paraphrase for paying reasonable rents not sanctioned by the National League,'—" John Dillon" would vanish from Irish politics and the Irish soil. Well, perhaps John Dillon might do worse. Irish politics might become all the saner for his disappearance, and the Irish soil would certainly be more likely to yield a good produce under more industrious hands than those. which the National League, as guided by John Dillon, so often warns to abstain from the necessary tillage.
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