The antipathy was as strong as the antipathy between the whites and the negroes in the West Indies and the United States.

Hence the remorseless spirit in which atrocities were perpetrated in 1798.

Mr.Daunt has shown that a large proportion of the Irish House of Lords consisted of men who were English to all intents and purposes--many of them by birth, and many by residence, and, no doubt, they always came over with reluctance to what Lord Chancellor Clare called 'our damnable country.' It may be that in some years after the abolition of the Establishment--after some experience of the _regime_ of religious equality--the two races in this island will learn to act together so harmoniously as to give a fair promise that they could be safely trusted with self-legislation.
But the '_self_' must be one body animated by one spirit; not two bodies, chained together, irritated by the contact, fiercely struggling against one another, eternally reproaching one another about the mutual wrongs of the past, and not unfrequently coming to blows, like implacable duellists shut up in a small room, each determined to kill or be killed.

If England were to let go her hold even now, something like this would be the Irish 'situation.' The abiding force of this antipathy, in the full light of Christianity, is awful.
In his 'Life, Letters, and Speeches of Lord Plunket,' the Hon.
David Plunket states that, when his grandfather entered the Irish parliament, 'the English Government had nearly abandoned the _sham_ of treating the Irish parliament as an independent legislature; the treasury benches were filled with placemen and pensioners.

All efforts tending to reform of parliament or concession to the Catholics had been given up as useless.