The profit to England from Irish peonage cannot be assessed in terms of trade, or finance, or taxation.

It far transcends Lord MacDonnell's recent estimate at Belfast of L320,000,000--"an Empire's ransom," as he bluntly put it.
Not an Empire's ransom but the sum of an Empire's achievement, the cost of an Empire's founding, and to-day the chief bond of an Empire's existence.

Detach Ireland from the map of the British Empire and restore it to the map of Europe and that day England resumes her native proportions and Europe assumes its rightful stature in the empire of the world.

Ireland can only be restored to the current of European life, from which she has so long been purposely withheld by the act of Europe.

What Napoleon perceived too late may yet be the purpose and achievement of a congress of nations.