"England," he said, "might inspire confidence by restoring it.

She could bestow confidence by immediately arming and equipping the Irish Volunteers.

The Volunteers, properly armed and equipped, could preserve Ireland from invasion, and England would be free to utilize her 'army of occupation' for the defence of her own shores." Redmond could not have seen either of these letters, but those two trains of thought were blended in his speech--which was less a speech than a supreme action.

It was the utterance of a man who has a vision and who, acting in the light of it, seeks to embody the vision in a living reality.
Mr.Bonar Law followed Sir Edward Grey with a few brief sentences of whole-hearted support.

Then Redmond rose, and a hush of expectation went over the house.