Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-06-02


10 not stand here to say that even could
give you the exact details of that measure
do not say that ever took time to examine
men, but say that am in favor of anv bill
that shall take the first step towards riehtiny
thls wrong and of handing over the govern.
meht 10 ireland. As to a precisonal state
ment regarding parliamentary power in Great
nritsln am admonished to be modest, be-
cause well remember that Lord Palmerston,
ourihg our war. on very grave occasion in
formed the House of Commons that the
PRESIDENT OF tine United States could not
aione declare war, that it required the assent
oi tne senate. when every school boy knowns
that II Is the Congress of the United States
" "hoh tne war power is given in this
country. Laughter But that was not so
oad as another member of Parliament who
assured the House, or a certain association.
mat no law in the United States was perfect
until 1t had received the assent of two-tbirds
OF the legislatures of the several States.
laughter and fellow member corrected
him and said, "You are wrong, Congress can
NOT take up any law to discuss until
two-thlrds of the legislatures of
the States consent" [Great laughter I
LORD Nc Cauley on a given occasion, on a
motion made by Lord John Russell in the
House of Commons in 1874 to inquire into
the condition OF Ireland, said: "You admit
that you govern Ireland not as you govern
England, not as you govern Scotland, but as
you govern your new conquests in India, not
oy means of respect which the people feel
for the laws but BY means of bayonets, artil.
lery and entrenched camps" Now if that
were true in 1874. am very sure l do not
exaggerate when say that the long period
of 40 years which has interviewed had served
to strengthen the truth of McCauley's words
rather than diminish then. Applause !
Lord Salisbury gives remedy; first, he says,
If the Irish do not wish to be governed by
the British they sould leave, but the Irish
have been in Ireland quite as long as Lord
Saulsbury's ancestors have been in England.
Laughter Very likely, for aught know,
tor have not examined his lordship's lineaque
in Burke's peerage; very likely his ancestry
were Danish pirates or peasants in Nor
mandy who came over with William the
conqueror centuries after the Irish people
were known in Ireland. [Applause] There.
rore we need not be surprised, we who re-
member Saulsburys course in the civil war
Therefore we have to say Lord Salisbury
may be called imprudent. We would not trans
gress courtesy if we call him insoent; we
would not transgress truth if we call him
brutal; we know him in this country. He
was the bitterest foe that the government of
the United States had in the British parlia.
ment during the civil war and he has trans
ferred all the hatred which he Kissed forth
in the parliament of Great Britain during our
struggle. Another object comes and it
comes from source upon which
am anxious to comment, an objec-
ton from the Presbyterians Of Ulster
m tbo ohvto Of tha Init fol
States against granting this bill. Now was
educated under Presbyterian influences and
have connections with that church by kindred
blood and affinity that begins with my life and
shall not cease until my life ends, and
would be ashamed of the Presbyterian church
of America if it responded to an appeal of
that kind, which asks that five millions of
Irish people shall be kept from free govern
ment because of the remote danger, as they
fancy that Dublin parliament would inter-
fere with their liberties rs Presbvterans
Great applause. Now, Mr.. Chairman, if
the home rule bill shall pass and Dublin
parliament be granted, there never was an asso-
citation of men since human government
was instituted who would assume power with
greater responsibilities to the public opinion
of the world than the men who would com
pose thst parliament, because if they are
allowed to form it, they form it by reason of
the pressure of the public opinion of the
world [Applause]. know that the Catholics
Of Ireland and the Presbyterians of Ireland
cannot live and do just as the Catholics of the
United States and the Presbyterians of the
United States live. Citizens of one country
each giving to the other the perfect right of
conscience. each declining to interfere in the
remotest manner with the perfect liberty Of
the other. Applause
After referring to the resources of Ireland
and the taxes imposed upon her, Mr.. Blaine
said, alluding to the Irish peasant: II be-
lieve the day hath dawned for his deliverance.
| Applause. From the experience of Ire
lands past, it is not wise to be too sanguine of
a speedy result. | therefore, for one, shall
not be disappointed to see Mr.. Gladstone's
bills defeated in this parliament. The Eng
lish members can do it, but there is one thing
the English members cannot do-they cannot
defeat the public opinion of the civilized
world; and Lord Harrington made a very re-
markable admission when, in a complaining
tone, he accused Gladstone of having con-
ceded so much that the Irish would never
take less. Applause Well, l do not know
the day, whether this year or next year or the
year after that that the final settlement shall
be made, but have entire and absolute con.
tidence that it will not ever be made on as
easy terms "a Mr.. Gladstone now offers, if
his bills are defeated. Applause. They
complain sometimes in England of just such
meeurgs as this. They say we are trans
ce nding the just and proper duties of friend
" ton That is bold talk for US who re-
member 1868 4-5. They should have longer
memories than that and yet Iquite well know
that their misconduct during our war would
by no means justify ill conduct on our part
nov. | do not mention that as any justifica-
ton, for as a matter of fact there has been
nothing done in America that is not strictly
within the lines of justice and strictly
within the limits of the international
law. Now if l had anv word
of advice to give or was in position that
would authorize me to give advice it would
that will probably try the patience and the
mettle of Irish people more severely than in
snv other age in the progress of their long
struggle, and my advice is that by all means
and with every moral influence that can be
used and all acts of violence be withheld.
TApplause1 You have earned the consolidat-
ed opinion of the christian world that believes
in free government. Let no act of imprud-
euce produce a reaction. Never has cause
been conducted with cooler head or with
better judg ment in its parliamentary rela-
tiops than that which has been conducted by
Parpell. | believe there never has been the
instance in which the final victory for en-
franchisement has not been on the side OF
who demanded it of the imperial power.
| have only one word more to say, and that
ia that the Irishmen of this country should