The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-11-04

Justice has not been done to the immense SER
vices this party has done for Ireland in the
House of Commons. But the fact OF it is that
the Irish people view that House Of Commons
as the very focus and hotbed of enmity towards
their country. What has it done but heaped
chains upon their country, and now and again
taken one off But when : Not in obedience
to conciliatory action, not in obedience at all
to argument or logic, but In obedience to the
combined action of pnblic peril and conscien-
tious conviction. Now l tell you that the man
who goes to the Irish people and tells them
that obstruction. or threats, or gunpowder ex-
plosions. or civil war, without conviction, will
move England, does not know the English
people. England will Are her last gun and will
fight to her knees before she will give way to
Ireland from mere threats of violence. But, on
the other hsud, England will wait thousand
years to give you any substantial measure of
National benefit 30 long az you depend merely
upon conciliation and argument. Bat when
you have convinced the English mind by arRu-
ment and by reason, when there comes Q con-
currepce of public peril TO the empire. England
knocks under as she did before In 1893 aud In
1863 1 therefore invoke from the leaders OF
this party, as q result of thie meeting, what
would call o oombative action in the House of
Commons-demonstrat to these people that
you have gone across there as the ambassadors
of a people whom you have rescued from the
results of civil war-show them that you are
not like any other sixty men that come there
from Durham. or Glasgow, or Lancashire, for q
represen natives Of millions, whom you have
implored to cease from oonvulsing society by
the resorts of civil war in order that You may
try ont the middle course for them in the House
of Commons. hope we will pass these reso-
lutions and that the words "epergy" and
activity" contained in them, will not be mere
sounding phrases but realities. mean by
realities that the English Government shall
not be allowed to vote down your University
Bill, and in the next breath to force votes of
money from Ireland for the support of q uni-
versity system che detests. deny their
right to do that. AN for policy of resist
apce, ] will not say of obstruction and IL any
one comes to tell me that in dividing until six
O'Clock in the morning on motion for ad-
journment l am abusing the forms of the
House, / tell him-"Who taught me that 7
Lord Harrington Sir William Harcourt, and
the front Opposition bench taught it TO me
when, upon one clause in the Euglish Educa-
tion Bill to protect poor Catholic children, o
handful of them III tnat House obstructed pnb-
lie business, aud moved obstructive amend
ments from half past nine O'Clock at night
until half past SIX O'Clock in the morning."
warned Lord Harrington at the time (and my
warning ia on record in "Hansard") that he
was tesohing lesson to the Irish members
which they would Der, and that perhaps
they themselves would be reproached after
wards for following his teaching. This 10 what
mean in secopdng the motion OF my respect
ed friend, MIR. Shaw. / want Mr.. Butt not TO
allow his good nature to be overreached by
insidious Liberals in England. There are
mons some fifteen or twenty noble men whose
conduct we can never forget and the best siRn
of all that we see is that these are the men
who essentially represent the people and the
popular element in England; buG can never
forget this-you, sir (Mr. Butt), blamed the
action of my friends over the way for stripping
EDglish votes from you on the university
division. Let me Rrapple now with this ques-
tion, which has not been dealt with even by
those gentlemen themselves. No, sir, il was
not the action of Messrs. Biggsr and PArnell
that stripped those votes from yon. ~ was
proceeding which for cowaroIiness l have
never seen equalled in political warfare. The
cowardice OF the WhiR- liberals of England
folio wing upon the Stafford election. noticed
after that election was lost could not help
hearing it in the House of Commons, though !
was no eavesdropper-a generSl drawing of OF
the Wings from Home RuIe. They have come
to Mr.. Butt aud they have come TO me In my
place-Euglish leaders of the English Liberal
party-snd begged of him and begged of me
from time TO time to go here, there and else
where, but after gaining three seats by the
Irish vote they Loot one, and the unRrateful
party Immediately lent ear to the bo wi raised
in the English press, and said I'VE must have
no sssociRtion with those vulgar 1rsh.' 1t
was that struck away their votes. 1t was the
want of courage on the part of the English
Liberals when they thought they were sconeed
Of making an alliance with us but Danish
from your breast the idea that even what you
may call the indiscretion or want Of cooinehs
on the part of some Of your followers was the
real cause of that falling away.
After speeches from Capt. Nolan aud MI
Gray and others, Mr.. Bait briefly addressed the
favoring the adoption ofthe resolutions
but pledging himself to the adoption of no spe-
cial limo of obstruction or non-obstruction. AS
each emergency arises during the session he
will consult the party and be guided by its
Mr.. Parneu followed Mr.. Butt in support Of
IL ~ Fat
tho party" bo said, 81 believe that Mr.. Butt
IL capsule of carrying out any policy better
than any other man in our party. I am per- |
FeetIy convinced Of that"
The resolutions were then unOniuousiy