to the scaffold.
Nobody who had not learned from the speeches made in England, and the cable despatches sent to America, that freedom of speech and of the press has been brutally trampled under foot in Ireland by a "Coercion" Government would ever suspect it from reading the Dublin papers which I this morning bought.
As a Democratic journalist I had some practical knowledge of a true "Coercion" government in America a quarter of a century ago.

The American editor who had ventured in 1862 to publish in a New York or Philadelphia newspaper a letter from Washington, speaking of the Unionist Government by President Lincoln, as the letter from London published to-day in the _Freeman's Journal_ speaks of the Unionist Government of Lord Salisbury, would have found himself in one of the casemates of Fort Lafayette within twenty-four hours.

Our Republican rulers acted upon the maxim laid down by Mr.Tilden's friend, Montgomery Blair,[9] that "to await the results of slow judicial prosecution is to allow crime to be consummated, with the expectation of subsequent punishment, instead of preventing its accomplishment by prompt and direct interference." Perhaps Americans take their Government more seriously than Englishmen do.

Certainly we stand by it more sternly in bad weather.

Even so good a Constitutionalist as Professor Parsons at Harvard, I remember, when a student asked him if he would not suspend the _Habeas Corpus_ in the case of a man caught hauling down the American flag, promptly replied, "I would not suspend the _Habeas Corpus_; I would suspend the _Corpus_." We found no "hansoms" at the Dublin Station, only "outside cars," and cabs much neater than the London four-wheelers.