As  it  was,  his  downright  honesty  and  hatred  of  double-
dealing  proved  his  undoing.  He  stood  out  as  a  menace
to  too  many  vested  interests,  and,  between  the  Ulster
settlers  in  the  north  and  the  Confederate  Catholics  in
the  south,  he  was  crushed.
