Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-30
IRELAND AND SCOTLAND, STILL.

IRELAND AND SCOTLAND, STILL.
 What have the Irish to complain of any more than the Scotch? We of Scotland accepted the Union of the countries in good faith and conf dence Your Irish friends were irreconcilable and intractable. Led on by agitators Ireland has kept alive all the old grudges of and religion; had it been otherwise the combination, Great Britain and Ireland, would be to-day bonded entity instead of being reduced to the unhappy condition Great Britain or Ireland. send you copy of The Forum of August last, | in which Lord Bramwell, an ex-judge of the Eng fish High Court of Judiciary, demolshes the idea | that even as it is Ireland has any grievance to complain of The Scotch in the interests or ln- ternational justice, are with the Irish, but they l draw the line at romantic demands for nation ality.
 l Another correspondent, with the sigma ture "Bailee Nicol Jarvie," send us long letter on our appeal to the Burns Club, of which this extract is the material portion. 1 We'll, yes; the phrase was happily chosen. Great Britain, or Ireland, is certainly the policy as illustrated by the brutal Balfouf we accept the alternative ''or," and are content to stand by Ireland in it's singular l ity We are thankful to our courteous friend for The Forum with Lord Bram- wells paper. We had read it before, but simply regarded it as a piece of special pleading by an old English lawyer; but as our local correspondent would in sort make the eminent jurist's argument his own in discussion arising out of 8 local l topic we take glance at it again. The ar ticle of The Forum, 'Has Ireland griev
 ance 2" furnishes the strongest persuasive evidence that the writer is still the lawyer;
 and not the judge; for it much less resem- bles the impartial ruling of the Bench than
 it does defendants Brief.
 This resemblance to arguments made on
 behalf of party on the defensive is height
 ened by feature not uncommon in those intended to evade the effect of want of proof, the device of insisting on false ana logies; and assuming as facts matters which in truth have no foundation. Lord Bramwell ikens the connection of Ireland with Great
 Britain to that of Scotland and this isthe part
 marked by our correspondent for special attention. In another part his lordship draws parallel between the relations of Ireland and Great Britain and those exist
 ing between the States of the American Union Our friend ''Bailee Nicol Jarvie
 evidently adopts the arguments as his own;
 and all we have to say is that the way ill
 which his English guide philosopher and
 prophet puts the matter is as heterogeneous
 as it is deceptive. No lawyer is presumed l %o 1T,lr ic Tod upon to take judicial notice of, the laws of any country other than his own; and as , regards the United States Lord Bramwel]
 may justly plead unfamiliarity or lack ot information; but no such excuse exists fol
 his averments as to the connection of Scot
 land with the rest of Great Britain, which
 is matter of general historic knowledge
 and not of mere legal learning.
 It is the boast of Scotland that she was never conquered. She united with Eng
 laud because a Scottish king came to the throne of Elizabeth; and for fifty years
 and more it was the chronic growl anc
 grumble of Englishmen that the union hac aided the prosperity of Scotland and pro
 noted the ambition of men from beyond the Tweed. But-will 'Baillee Nicol Jarvie' and his co-nationalists in Waterbury take
 note-the union with Ireland began witl :. force, was gradually evolved through force
 and at last accomplished by bribery ane corruption, the evil effects of which con tinue to this day. The title of land hold CTS in Ireland rests upon confscation O. Q the property of Irishmen who defended their homes against alien invaders; ant every title deed is stained with blood O. the original owners of the soil. This on
 fact goes to the root of the matter ant proves that the unions of the countrie r, were based on different conditions. Q shows, too, why the Irish are irreconcilabl Q and intractable; while the Scotch wer , enabled to accept their bondage-for it wa
 bondage after all-in good faith and con , 6dence.
 This brief reply must content our Scot | tish correspondent for the present. An : ; other day, and soon, we shall take up tha " part of Lord Bramwells paper-als ' marked-which makes an attempted par allel with the United States