We don't."[27] This is precisely the spirit in which Mr.Rolleston wrote to me not long before I left England this week.

"I have been slowly forced," he wrote, "to the conclusion that the National League is a body which deserves nothing but reprobation from all who wish well to Ireland.

It has plunged this country into a state of moral degradation, from which it will take us at least a generation to recover.

It is teaching the people that no law of justice, of candour, of honour, or of humanity can be allowed to interfere with the political ends of the moment.

It is, in fact, absolutely divorcing morality from politics.