[Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert]@TWC D-Link bookIreland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) CHAPTER XVI 26/98
The true model for us would be a constitution like yours in the United States, with an Executive responsible to the nation at large, and irremoveable for a term of years.
But this we shall never get from England.
Shall we make use of Home Rule to take it for ourselves? "Many earnest and active Irish Unionists now say that if any bill resembling Mr.Gladstone's passes, they will make separation, their definite policy.
If Home Rule comes without the landlords having been bought out on reasonable terms, a class will be created in Ireland full of bitter and most just hatred of England--a class which may very likely one day play the part here which the persecuted Irish Presbyterians who fled from the tyranny of the English Church in Ireland played in your own Revolution beyond the Atlantic." /> APPENDIX. NOTE F. THE "MOONLIGHTERS" AND "HOME RULE." (Vol.ii.p.
38.) On Monday, the 1st of February 1886, the _Irish Times_ published the following story from Tralee, near the scene of the "boycotting," temporal and spiritual, of the unfortunate daughters of Mr.Jeremiah Curtin, murdered in his own house by "moonlighters":-- "TRALEE, _Sunday_. "It was stated that the bishop had ordered Mass to be celebrated for them--the Curtins--but this did not take place.
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