Mr.Parnell and the National League are really nothing but the mask of Mr.Davitt and the Land League.

Mr.
Forster knew what he was about when he proclaimed the Land League in October 1881, six months or more after he had arrested and locked up Mr.
Davitt in Portland prison.

This was shown by the foolish No-Rent manifesto which Mr.Parnell and his associates issued from Kilmainham shortly after their incarceration, and without the counsel or consent at that time of Mr.Davitt--a manifesto which the Archbishop of Cashel, despite his early sympathies and connection with the agrarian agitation of 1848, found it expedient promptly to disavow.

It would have been still more clearly shown had not Mr.Gladstone and Mr.Forster parted company under the restiveness of Mr.Gladstone's Radical followers, and the pressure of the United States Government in the spring of 1882.

But after the withdrawal of Mr.Forster, and the release of Mr.Davitt, the English lawyers and politicians who led Lord Spencer and Sir George Trevelyan into allowing the Land League to be revived under the transparent alias of the National League, gave Mr.Davitt an opportunity, of which he promptly availed himself, to regain the ground lost by the blundering of the men of Kilmainham.