The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-08-01
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We received, yesterday, copy Of
the Dover (England) Standard of tho
9TH instant. In II we find lengthy
extract from tho speech Of Prime Min
lister Disracll on the motion offered by
Mr.. Butt, In the house of commons, to
allow Ireland to have u parliament OF
her own and to govern herself. The
motion was defeated by vote Of four
hundred and 6fty-eight to sixty
one, or u majority of three hundred
and niuety-seven. The speech OF this
eminent statesman, which we append,
shows how conclusively tyranny can
demonstrate that all its acts are for the
good of its victims. Poor Ireland We
fear we can never call her free Ireland
In our day and generation:
II want to know" said Mr.. Disraeli,
"supposing that to happen, which 1t Is
not Improbable may happen, and
which, perhaps, may say, may GER
tainly happen in the generation which
Is now, we will say, commencing sup
pose there was great movement III
Europe, the object of which was to re-
store the head of the Roman Catholic
faith to the capital which he has lost
aud the provinces of which he has been
deprived-and suppose we were assem-
bled in parliament to take counsel up.
on some of the circumstances and
events which such combinations might
produce, would Irish members be
satisfied by coming to the Imperial
council and availing themselves oftheir
imperial position to express their SEN
timents and give their votes? And If
their counsels were disregarded, If
their votes were Outnumbered, can we
believe that Roman Catholic parlia-
ment in Ireland would be indifferent
to events which they must class
amongst the highest and most inter-
esting to them, and in which their feel
ings are the most deeply engaged? Sir,
/ can not for O moment myself resist
the conviction that in such state of
affairs the parliament of Ireland
would not hesitate in believing that it
was an exclusively Irish affair to con-
slider the condition of the head OF the
Roman Catholic faith. Well, believe
that that would lead to great dangers.
and possibly to great disasters, and
that If we found the two countries pur-
suing different policy that might
happen, which none can contemplate
without feeling of terror--we might
be called upon to interfere between a
portion of the Irish people who did not
sympathize with the majority of the
Irish parliament and perhaps to inter-
fere with force. Nor can we sup
nose from the experience that we
have had that the majority OF
The Irish people, with majority In
their parliament which had declared
its opinions clearly and decidedly upon
this question, would easily be daunted,
either by the threats of the protestant
population of Ireland, or even by the
interference of England. We might be
approaching one of those crises i'll hu-
man affairs that fill the largest pages
of history. Civil war might even DE a
lesser evil than the calamities when
might impend over both countries.
There might be sympathy with ma
tions which have not been subjugated.
We have been told even in the course
of this debate, by an honorable MEM
Der, that there Is great sympathy be-
tween Ireland and foreign nation
a nation once a great power anu pro-
badly one to whom there are future
destinies of authority yet remaining.
Sir, these are considerations which
greatly influence me in the considera-
tiop of this question. ! cannot view
it as question whether we ought 20
establish a great vestry in Dublin.
/ cannot stop merely at the cohsidera-
ton whether it might or might not
involve our administrative system i'll
infinite difficulties and inconsistencies.
These are light matters compared with
the question which / have submitted
to myself and which to my eye assumes
much greater magnitude. am oppos-
ed, therefore, to this motion, because
/ think involved i'm it are the highest
and nearest interests of our country. l
am opposed to it for the sake OF the
Irish people as much as for the sake OF
the English and the Scotch. am OPP
posed to it because / wish to see at the
important crisis of the world, that per-
haps is nearer arriving than some OF
us suppose. q united people welded IN
one great nationality, and because l
feel that if we sanction this policy, II
we do not cleanse the parliamentary
bosom of this perilous stuff, we shall
bring about the disintegration OF the
kingdom and the destruction ofthe
empire"