Year: 1878

I oan oome down to this House 90 oonoede In IN


hour of alarm what you had refuseo IN


tion true or falsef Am I. or au l not,
! recitipg facts known TO you ALI What dc


those facts showf That by some maligu
| fatality, some cslamitous coincidence, 1T notn-
| ing more, you scoff at men like my colleagues
and myself, who beseech you to be 1nst In
| time. You resist concession in time OF calm;
and yield it only in the face of real or fancieo
| peril. II 1t be not so, let some one get up TO-
night, and name for us any great national con-
cession made to Ireland under any other oir-


oumstanoes. AS it has been, perhaps 1t


you will say do not warn but threaten; and
you will prefer to believe those who tell yon
the Irish masses ore contended and well


affected, as enthusiastically ready as English
Defence But I dare oil risk of temporary mis-
represent ntation and blame. look into the
future. and can await my vindication u"
not affect to mistake our position in this


vocates of this or that bill. We are the ma
tional representation of Ireland, here IN
overwhelming majority to demand the restors
tion of Parliamentary rule and constitutional
government. We ars projecting no new pro-
possl, like the friends of this or that great re-
form amelioration. We are here to call tor
sessed, but which yon wrung from us by means
held to vitiate and render illegal every public
transaction between man and man, between
nation and nation. We want our own. POS





runs against q claim asserted and renewed, as
ours had been, from generation to generation
Legally stand too day where we stood
seventy years ago. Restore to lrolaSd the
reign of law! 1t IL all she asks as tho price of
her friendship; price cheap indeed, for it
takes nothing from you that belongs TO yon.
The price of her friendship! You are Low, in
view of terrible emergency. possibly at
hand, sesrchng Europe through for allies.
Here We are to night empowered to offer you
one worth the best you could else where find
the alliance, the hearty friendship, the en-
deep reason to wish this question settled, and
To cordial feeling established between
the two countries before dark clouds giow
darker, and while yet the reconciliation can
be free and generous and effioacous The
peace, the happiness, the tranquility of Ireland
are most dear to me and do not wish to See
my country desolstod and destroyed by being
made perhaps battlefield of the coming
struggle. do not want the ghastly episode
of sone Continental despot making what We
would call diversion in Ireland. wasting the
blood and blasting the hopes of my country n
q mere stroke of tactics to serve his own ends.
shudder when think Of such possibility
and 1 appeal to you-yes, unchilled by the
foregone conclusion of your Inwise refusal
nevertheless raise and record ny appeal to you
and the English nation to night, to let us clasp
hands in friendship on the only terms on which
we can be either allies or friends. Be simply
just. That you will do SO yet, despite your
am of my own existence. 1t 10 the time
which, with your customary unwisdom, You
may select for suoh step, that alone disquieto
me. Austria tried your present policy to-
wards Hungary, and changed it after Sadowa.
hope and pray you will wait for no suoh
hour to accept the proffered hand and secure
the ready aid of the brave and gallant Irish
nation.