Chapter III: Part 3

The right honorable gentleman, the member for Newcastle, and many another good friend beside him, have been over in Ireland this winter, and they can tell you that when the name of England is uttered now in an Irish crowd, it is no longer uttered with hatred, but with hope and with gratitude to those awakening British hearts which have never authorized this policy of the Government in Ireland. You are the Separatists. We are for peace and for happiness, and for the brotherhood of the two nations. You are for eternal repression and eternal discord and eternal misery for yourselves, as well as for us. We are for appeasing the dark passions of the past. You are for inflaming them, whether for purposes of a political character I do not know, but for purposes in the interests of that wretched class of Mamelukes whom you support in Ireland, who are neither good Englishmen nor good Irishmen, and who are being your evil genius in Ireland, just as they have been the scourge of our unhappy people.

That is the state of things; and in such a cause and between such forces, I believe the end is not far off, and to the God of justice and of liberty and of mercy, we leave the issue. So far as we ourselves are concerned, we shall be amply compensated, whatever we have suffered and may have to suffer in our grand old cause, if we can be sure that we are the last of that long and mournful line of men who have suffered for it. And, believe me, upon the day of our victory, we will grant an easy amnesty to the right honorable gentleman opposite for our little troubles in Tullamore, and we will bless his policy yet as one of the most powerful, though unconscious, instruments in the deliverance of Ireland. (_Loud Opposition cheers._)

Mr. FINLAY (_who arose amid loud cries of "Balfour" from the Opposition and Home Rule benches_) said that the honorable member who had just spoken had charged the Unionist party with inflaming passions and animosity in Ireland that were in a fair way of dying out. He was not aware of any section of the party against which that charge could be made. It had always been the mission of the Unionist party to see that equal justice should be done in Ireland, and to appease those animosities which were the relics of past misgovernment and past misfortunes. They believed that in a country so divided as Ireland was, equal justice might best be done in an Imperial Parliament, and not by handing over one part of the country to the domination of another. The honorable member had said that there was no bitterness on the part of the Irish members towards England. But the party had three voices. One was the voice that spoke in the House of Commons, the second the voice that spoke in Ireland; but to get at the real springs of the movement, they must hear it on an American platform. (_Ministerial cheers._) He objected to that House being turned into a court of appeal from judicial sentences in Ireland, and he regretted to have heard the cheers which came from the Opposition side of the House when the honorable member for West Cork had said that he recommended the tenants at Mitchelstown to resist the law by force. (_Mr. Gladstone expressed dissent._)

Errata

The first line indicates the original, the second how it should read:

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notwithstanding a similiar observation
notwithstanding a similar observation

think it right hriefly
think it right briefly

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bound to make kown
bound to make known

Lord Sailsbury continued
Lord Salisbury continued

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He declared that "if Parliament passed ant act for granting
He declared that "if Parliament passed an act for granting

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comments on tne
comments on the

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beyond the the Channel
beyond the Channel

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narrowly than almost anywhere else), I will find their way
narrowly than almost anywhere else), will find their way

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the purpose on this occsion
the purpose on this occasion

in a proportionate diminution of derelect farms.
in a proportionate diminution of derelict farms.

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we have read with increased satisfacfaction
we have read with increased satisfaction

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I think, the symathetic silence
I think, the sympathetic silence

exhibit the tase of the Prime Minister
exhibit the taste of the Prime Minister

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in process of accomplisment
in process of accomplishment

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I argued that the Land League, as i operated at that time
I argued that the Land League, as it operated at that time

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at this moment from the slighest shadow
at this moment from the slightest shadow

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has been resorted to to mislead
has been resorted to mislead

Their vicissitudes would furnish a theme for an epic (_rewewed
laughter_)
Their vicissitudes would furnish a theme for an epic (_renewed
laughter_)

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Three days ago my honorable friend and collegue
Three days ago my honorable friend and colleague

they had the cowardice to abandou
they had the cowardice to abandon

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the plank bed, or bread-and-water diet-solitary chnfinement
the plank bed, or bread-and-water diet, solitary confinement

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the most terrible Coercion Act ever passsd
the most terrible Coercion Act ever passed

the other side of the House when I ventnred
the other side of the House when I ventured

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has only made it more secure and more irrestible,
has only made it more secure and more irresistible,

by any land commissioner or judical tribunal
by any land commissioner or judicial tribunal

over and over again in most portentious accents
over and over again in most portentous accents

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Is the Leage gone
Is the League gone

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the Chief Secretary,--public speakers and public newspapers Public
speeches are the merest appendages of our organization.

the Chief Secretary,--public speakers and public newspapers. Public
speeches are the merest appendages of our organization.

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what they will condone in a Misister of England.
what they will condone in a Minister of England.

and as many precations against betrayal
and as many precautions against betrayal

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were a mere back of broken men and reckless boys
were a mere pack of broken men and reckless boys