The question between them, he now loudly proclaimed, was one purely of law; and he referred to several barristers, by whose judgment he was ready to abide.

The question he was prepared to submit suggests the most mournful considerations.

If it were not painful, it would be amusing to see to what painful absurdities he was compelled to have recourse.

He would leave it to anyone at the bar, whether the "physical force principle" would not make the Association illegal; and then he would indulge in a hollow triumph over the certainty and security of his position.

But that was not the question in issue.